Temperance Movement

Examples of Temperance Movement in the following topics:

• The Temperance Movement

  • The temperance movement of the early nineteenth century advocated for alcohol moderation or complete abstinence from alcohol.
  • The movement advocated temperance, or levelness, rather than abstinence.
  • The Civil War dealt the movement a crippling blow.
  • Lyman Beecher was a charismatic and influential preacher during the first half of the nineteenth century who championed, among other moral reforms, the temperance movement.
  • Summarize the central commitments of and factions within the nineteenth-century temperance movement

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. " The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
  • Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
  • As the movement grew in numbers and strength, members of the WCTU also focused on suffrage.
  • Summarize the origins and achievements of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

  • She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.
  • In the era before the American Civil War, Anthony took a prominent role in the New York anti-slavery and temperance movements.
  • In 1849, at age 29, she became secretary for the Daughters of Temperance, which gave her a forum to speak out against alcohol abuse, and served as the beginning of Anthony's movement towards the public limelight.
  • Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement.
  • Examine the key achievements of figures of the movement for women's suffrage, especially Susan B.

• The Know-Nothings and Democrats

  • Most anti-immigrant nativists saw foreign Catholics as the root of the liquor and alcohol problem that the temperance movement targeted.
  • Support for the Know-Nothings was also bolstered by the temperance movement, which sought to eradicate the evils associated with liquor (which was increasingly seen as an Irish Catholic immigrant problem).
  • For the temperance supporters, the Know-Nothing movement represented a return to Protestant morality and control of the political system to moral, native-born politicians.

• The Age of Reforms

  • The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
  • The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.
  • The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the anticipated Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
  • Thus, evangelical converts were leading figures in a variety of 19th century reform movements.
  • Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Grassroots movements championing women's rights, including women's suffrage, developed in the antebellum period.
  • Women's rights activists held opposing stances on many difficult issues: Should the movement include or exclude men?
  • Meanwhile, others had been honing their skills in the temperance (anti-alcohol) and abolitionist movements for years.
  • Anthony who, stung by discrimination against women in the temperance movement, gradually diverted her considerable energy to the cause of women's rights.
  • Describe the mid-19th-century campaigns for women's rights and the obstacles in the way of the movement

• The Prohibition Movement

  • Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s.
  • It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
  • The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
  • Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, who became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years, was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.

• The Second Great Awakening

  • The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early nineteenth century.
  • The movement began around 1790 and gained momentum by 1800; after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.
  • The thousands swept up in the movement believed in the possibility of creating a much better world.
  • Thus, evangelical converts were leading figures in a variety of nineteenth-century reform movements.
  • Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery.

• Progressivism and Religion

  • A major component was the Social Gospel Movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union mobilized Protestant women for social crusades against liquor, pornography and prostitution, and sparked the demand for woman suffrage.
  • The Social Gospel movement was the Protestant Christian intellectual movement most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
  • Social Gospel leaders were predominantly associated with the liberal wing of the Progressive Movement.
  • Analyze the rise of the Social Gospel Movement in the late nineteenth century

• The Progressive Era

  • The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government.
  • The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.
  • These two issues in the movement brought about constitutional change.
  • In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman.
  • List the primary causes championed by the Progressive Movement, and some of its major outcomes.