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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-early-republic/culture-and-reform/v/the-early-temperance-movement-part-1

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As revivalism spread throughout the northern US, people began to feel that alcoholism, as a social vice, was responsible for a majority of crime, disorder, and poverty. To save their souls, people started to fight against alcohol.

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To reform the growing problem found in alcohol and limit its distribution by taking legal and religious action.

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Lyman Beecher quite literally wrote the book on Temperance. The work, titled Six Sermons on... Intemperance, preached that inebriation was a “national sin” and called for legislation prohibiting the distribution of alcohol. He believed that people could only reform in the early stages of alcoholism, as if they drank too much for too long had damaged their morality and could not be saved.

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The temperance movement partially reached its goals in the short-term by getting Maine to restrict the sale of alcohol in 1851. They were much more successful in the long term, getting the US to enforce a nation-wide prohibition from 1920 to 1933. Even though the alcohol ban was short lived, it highly impacted American history because a lot of the organized crime that exists today was started back then to control the illegal sale of alcohol

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As a prominent preacher and founder of the Millerites, William Miller and his followers believed that the Second Coming would happen in 1843. Therefore, if you drank too much you would be unprepared for that event. After the Great Disappointment of 1843 however, Millers following died off.