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That is not to say that the temperance movement failed. All the badgering of heavy drinkers paid off. By one estimate, between the Revolution and the 1840s, Americans cut their alcohol consumption ...
By the mid-1800s, the temperance movement had been greatly successful. By one estimate, Americans managed to cut their liquor consumption by two-thirds in the years between the Revolution and the ...
By 1835 that number was five, by 1840 it was three, and by 1848 it was one gallon. ... The temperance movement is one reason for that. Unfermented Wine for Sacramental Occasions.
The WCTU resurrected the tactics of anti-alcohol activists from the 1830s and 1840s, ... As the temperance movement peaked in popularity in the early 20th century, ...
The Temperance movement began in the early 19th Century, ... Between 1830 and 1840 there was a massive influx of people from rural Suffolk into industrial Ipswich and into regular paid employment.
The “dry” movement gained more adherents in the 1840s, spearheaded by religious groups, especially the Methodists. In 1851, Maine imposed a ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor. The Maine ...
The temperance movement in Scotland began in earnest around 1830 inspired by the prohibition movement ... Coffeehouses too became popular amongst temperance folk. Glasgow had 20 by the 1840s, ...
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