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The Temperance Movement was a movement against the consumption of alcohol, because people believed alcohol was the cause for many of society's problems.

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Beginning in the early 1800s, people in the Temperance Movement tried to make people lessen their drinking habits, but by the 1820s, they advocated for the absence of all alcohol. This enforced people to stop drinking completely. The people who quit drinking completely joined what they called, the "Cold Water Army."

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A former drunkard who became anti-alcohol after losing his wife and child. He would later spend the rest of his life lecturing about temperance reform at temperance meetings.

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A social reformer born into a Quaker family. Also known for being an abolitionist and suffragette. She organized the Women's New York State Temperance Movement.

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A minister that delivered and published 6 sermons on temperance that were sent around the US. He declared drunkenness a "national sin".

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The primary supporters of the early Temperance Movement were women. This was because they depended completely on their husbands to take care of the finances, due to women having essentially no rights of their own. If their husbands were a drunkard, he wouldn't bring home the money they needed.

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19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15