temperance

Examples of temperance in the following topics:

• The Temperance Movement

  • The movement advocated temperance, or levelness, rather than abstinence.
  • By 1839, 18 temperance journals were being published.
  • Simultaneously, some Protestant and Catholic church leaders were beginning to promote temperance.
  • Radicals and prohibitionists dominated many of the largest temperance organizations after the 1830s, and temperance eventually became synonymous with prohibition.
  • The issue of slavery crowded out the argument about temperance, and temperance groups largely fell by the wayside until they found new life in the 1870s.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
  • Willard became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years.
  • Willard and other temperance reformers were also accused of racism by anti-lynching activists for depicting alcohol as a substance that incited black criminality.
  • Summarize the origins and achievements of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

• The Prohibition Movement

  • 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.
  • Although popular opinion believes that Prohibition failed, it succeeded in cutting overall alcohol consumption in half during the 1920s, and consumption remained below pre-Prohibition levels until the 1940s, suggesting that Prohibition did socialize a significant proportion of the population in temperate habits, at least temporarily.

• 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.
  • Anthony joined with Stanton in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex, in 1851.

• 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.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • 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.

• The Second Great Awakening

  • Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery.
  • Interest in transforming the world was applied to political action, as temperance activists, antislavery advocates, and proponents of other variations of reform sought to implement their beliefs into national politics.

• The Age of Reforms

  • Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.

• The Sectional Crisis Deepens

  • Between 1854 and 1856 alone, an abundance of new political parties and organizations emerged, including the Republicans, the People's Party Men, Anti-Nebraskans, Fusionists, Know-Nothings, the Temperance Movement, Hard Shell Democrats, Rum Democrats, and Silver Gray Whigs.

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • Anti-immigration and temperance movements formed the platform of the emerging American ("Know-Nothing") Party, while those interested in the economic development of the West and Northern finance and business were attracted to the Republican Party.