Temperance And Prohibitionism In The United States

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Term Paper Title	Temperance And Prohibitionism In The United States
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Temperance and Prohibitionism in the United States

Prohibition and Temperance played a major role in the growth of America.  As a nation, we learned  that Prohibition did not benefit society as we hoped it would.  We hoped that by extracting alcohol from society would, eliminate public drunkenness and better the family.  Instead it lead to a higher crime rate.  The smuggling or bootlegging of alcoholic beverages into the country provided great  opportunity since, people continued to consume alcoholic beverages even though it was against the law.
Temperance in the United States may be traced to the early 19th  century, when the first temperance societies were established in New York (1808), Massachusetts (1813), and Connecticut (1813).  The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was organized in Boston in 1826.  Working with evangelical fervor, the society's members had established thousands of local and state auxiliaries.  By 1835 temperance organizations across the country had recruited over 1 million members.  Following the lead of Maine, several states had passed laws prohibiting intoxicating beverages, by 1855.  General interest in temperance declined, however,  during the American Civil War.  Alcohol was used for medicinal purposes during the war which led to addictions of both, alcohol and other drugs, such as morphine.
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During the decade following the war (1865-75) interest in temperance and
prohibition revived nationwide.  This was largely a result of public concern over the tremendous growth of the liquor industry in the 1860s and the involvement of the industry in local and national politics.  Prominent in the temperance revival were the Prohibition Party, organized in 1869, and the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), organized in 1874.
     “It is impossible to stop liquor trickling through a dotted line”
A Prohibition agent

The Woman's Crusade of 1873-74, culminated in many years of women across the nation taking direct action against the saloon and the liquor traffic.  At that time, women in the United States, enjoyed no direct political power.  Direct action in the form of prayer vigils, petition campaigns, demonstrations, and hymn-sings were among the few means at their disposal for seeking change.  The crusade sought to persuade saloon-

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keepers to destroy their beverages, close their doors, and enter some other line of business.
Although the Prohibition Party never acquired much strength in numbers,...

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