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Why were people drinking in the first place?

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Why were people drinking in the first place?

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Mostly after the revolutionary war and the Panic of 1819, people started to drink to ease the pain of losing their houses, jobs, and farms, etc.

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The temperance movement was highly successful, and the results support this claim. The annual consumption dropped from 6 gallons per capita in 1830 all the way to around 1.5 gallons in 1840.

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This movement was to prohibit alcohol and to limit it in anyway possible.

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One of the leaders of the movement was John Bartholomew Gough. He led this movement to prohibit alcohol, and was a prominent religious figure that abstained from alcohol. He gave more than 9,600 lectures about the harms of alcohol before he died.

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In 1842 Gough went to a temperance meeting where he signed a pledge where he promises to quit drinking.  

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In 1842 Gough went to a temperance meeting where he signed a pledge where he promises to quit drinking.  

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 Religious leaders were not the only people who were against drinking.

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 Religious leaders were not the only people who were against drinking.

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Susan B. Anthony, a women's rights advocate, also was against alcohol. She believed that since men were in charge of a family's belongings at the time, they put the family's wellbeing in danger by being intoxicated.

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There were many reasons people did not want alcohol to be legal. One instance of this is that men would get drunk and beat their wives. Also as mentioned previously, men were in control of the household, and alcohol can blur their decisions with their family belongings. In addition, it could promote gambling problems.