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Who is Lyman Beecher? Presbyterian Minister Lived from October 12th,1775-January 10th,1863 Founded American Temperance Society (ATS) with other Boston Ministers Therefore a supporter of temperanceTRANSCRIPT
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Temperance Movement
Kieren Billig, Britney Coleman, Diego
Gualtieri, and Meghan Walsh
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What is Temperance?• Temperance is defined as abstinence from alcohol.
• The temperance movement began to take effect on government in the 1820s
• It was created in an effort to stop the sale and consumption of alcohol
• Resulted in bootlegging
• Bootlegging - smuggling of alcohol into the U.S.
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Who is Lyman Beecher?• Presbyterian Minister
• Lived from October 12th,1775-January 10th,1863
• Founded American Temperance Society (ATS) with other Boston Ministers
• Therefore a supporter of temperance
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American Temperance Society(ATS)
• Established February 13th, 1826 in Boston Massachusetts by ministers of Boston
• After 5 years it had spread throughout the U.S. with over 170,000 members and 2,200 chapters of support
• All supported by people who opposed the consumption of alcohol
• Pushed so much resulting in acts such as Massachusetts prohibiting sale of alcohol in amounts less than 15 gallons (1838)
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Temperance Legislation
• The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages
• The people ( mainly women) blamed all the problems on alcohol
• 1830-1840
• Movement was encouraged by the churches
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T.S Arthur • He was a famous author in the 19th
century
• His famous novel about temperance is Ten Nights in a Bar Room and What I Saw
(1854)
• His novel demonized alcohol and helped pushed the temperance movement in the right direction
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Neal Dow & the Maine Laws• Neal Dow was known as the “Father of Prohibition” and
“Napoleon of Temperance”
• Mayor of Portland, Maine
• Supported the Maine Law of 1851, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor
• The Maine Law was the first legislature to try and put prohibition into effect
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Washingtonians• Focused on the individual alcoholic rather than society's relationship with alcohol
• Founded by six alcoholics
• William Mitchell
• David Hoss
• Charles Andersen
• George Steer
• Bill M’Curdy
• Tom Campbell
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“Cold Water Army”• Expression used to describe the action of
taking the pledge to no longer drink alcohol
• Was a children's temperance group
• Many songs were sung to bring people over to
the cause, and to describe the roles males and
females had in the movement