Temperance by Ali Bhatti https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h ok en-us 2019-01-17 15:51:15 UTC 2023-04-09 03:09:03 UTC hello@padlet.com What was the Temperance Movement? jf345044963 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321747244 This movement was to prohibit alcohol and to limit it in anyway possible.]]> 2019-01-17 15:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321747244 Who led this movement? ab17802 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321785784 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.]]> 2019-01-17 16:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321785784 Disadvantages of alcohol jf345044963 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321786227 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.]]> 2019-01-17 16:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321786227 In 1842 Gough went to a temperance meeting where he signed a pledge where he promises to quit drinking. jf345044963 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321788759 2019-01-17 17:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321788759 Religious leaders were not the only people who were against drinking. ab17802 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321791743 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.]]> 2019-01-17 17:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321791743 the whiskey in 1869 jf345044963 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321794775 2019-01-17 17:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/321794775 Results of the movement ab17802 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/322220642 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.]]> 2019-01-18 17:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/322220642 Why were people drinking in the first place? ad345043667 https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/322226098 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.]]> 2019-01-18 17:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ab17802/s581r3g3zh0h/wish/322226098