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The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk. In fact, alcohol was blamed for many of society's demerits, among them severe health problems, destitution and crime. At first, they used moral suasion to address the problem.

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"In the United States, a pledge of abstinence had been promulgated by various preachers, notably John Bartholomew Gough, at the beginning of the 1800s. Temperance associations were established in New York (1808) and Massachusett" Attained by spreading the idea of alcohol abstinence through churches and associations. "The first statewide success for the temperance movement was in Maine, which passed a law on June 2, 1851, which served as model for other states." Laws were passed against alcohol to help achieve their goals. "These societies were typically religious groups that sponsored lectures and marches, sang songs, and published tracts that warned about the destructive consequences of alcohol" religious groups also sang songs and spread awareness. "The temperance movement’s first successes were on the local and state level, but their aspirations were national. A number of other groups built on the foundation laid by the WCTU. The Prohibition Party, founded in 1869, played an important role in the temperance movement’s push for a constitutional amendment banning the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” (the Eighteenth Amendment). The Prohibition Party remains the oldest existing third party in the U.S. Though women did not yet have the right to vote, the Prohibition Party became the first to accept women as party members. (Anderson, 2011)" Not only were their organizations to help stop increasing alchohol consumption, but there was political parties that accepted females as party members to help with the issue.

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Video of Reasoning of temperance movement 

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Video of Reasoning of temperance movement 

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https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-03-0120-the-word-of-wisdom-and-the-temperance-movement?lang=eng

The video loosely connects it to religion but it still talks about the temperance movement and the motivation to create the movement.

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"After 1898 the Anti-Saloon League (ASL), a men’s organization strongly supported by Protestant ministers and congregations, took over as the primary prohibition lobby in America. Led by Wayne Wheeler, the ASL pioneered the use of “pressure politics,” a strategy that uses media, publications, and behind-the-scenes influence to persuade politicians that the public demands an action." Wayne Wheeler is a large part of the temperance movement because, as stated above, he persuaded politicians that something had to be done.
"Born on a farm near Youngstown, Ohio, in 1869, he was effectively born anew in 1893, when he found himself in a Congregational church in Oberlin, Ohio, listening to a temperance lecture delivered by the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, a former lawyer who had recently founded an organization called the Anti-Saloon League (ASL). Wheeler had put himself through Oberlin College by working as a waiter, janitor, teacher and salesman. Now, after joining Russell in prayer, he signed on as one of the first full-time employees of the ASL, which he would turn into the most effective political pressure group the country had yet known." Due to the influence of his religion and exposure to Howard Hyde Russell. Wheeler became a part of ASL and had a major role in pressure politics from then on.

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"The 19th and early 20th centuries were time of demographic and economic change in America. Urbanization, industrialization, the rise of the women’s rights and woman suffrage movements, progressivism, immigration and World War I all contributed to the society that voted to go “dry.”  Feminists like Susan B. Anthony supported prohibition because the abuse of alcohol so often led to violence against women. (Hamilton, 2002).  Anti-immigration proponents associated alcohol with Irish and German immigrants. The Anti-Saloon League fought political opposition from brewers by connecting German beer with treason in the public imagination" Women's rights were starting to get noticed. Unfortunately, people started to associate immigrants with alcohol.
"The Eighteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in 1917, ratified in 1919, and went into effect at 12:01 am on January 17, 1920. The temperance movement had triumphed. Their victory was short-lived, however, as many Americans made and drank alcohol in violation of the law. Bootlegging and organized crime stepped in to profit from the market for spirits, while law enforcement lagged behind the rise in criminal behavior. Prohibition was unsustainable. In 1933 the Twenty-First Amendment repealed the Eighteenth, and manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol again became legal in the United States." The eighteenth Amendment was passed only to be repealed in later years. Alcohol became part of organized crime before it was repealed and available in stores again