Temperance Crusade Flashcards
the initiation of the temperance movement
source: Brinkley pg.327-8
definition: Evangelical Protestantism initiated the crusade against drunkenness in the early 1800s. Further catalyzing the Protestantism’s actions, women were particularly active in the temperance movement, who claimed that alcoholism placed a special burden on wives: men spent money on alcohol that their families needed for basic necessities.
significance: This was the first time that the question of temperance has come up in the American society and women’s voices were more outspoken due to this movement.
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
source: Brinkley pg 327
definition: formed in 1826, attempted to use many of the techniques of revivalism in preaching abstinence.
significance: Although it was a group formed to promote temperance, it didn’t gain much popularity.
Washington Temperance Society
source: Brinkley 327
definition: formed in 1840, by six reformed alcoholics in Baltimore, who were heavily represented to hear their impassioned confessions of past sins
significance: temperance advocates had grown dramatically in numbers, which was more than a million people who signed a formal pledge to pledge to forgo hard liquor and this was significant because it was one of the first groups to gain such large numbers of members, which further strengthened the movement
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
source: Brinkley pg 584
definition: formed in 1873 by Frances Willard and had a large number of members who tried to press for specific legislative solution: the legal abolition of saloons.
significance: This union was significant because it was led by women–who had little to no political voices during the 19th century. The women actually carried out the temperance movement by making decisions to enforce legislation toward this movement.
18th Amendment
source: http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/18thamendment.htm
defintion: The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol (i.e. the beginning of Prohibition). It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. In the over 200 years of the U.S. Constitution, the 18th Amendment remains the only Amendment to ever have been repealed.
significance: This Amendment was significant because it was the first time that the government took action to enforce temperance by establishing a legislation. This new additions to the Amendment also highlighted that the issue of alcoholism and temperance was crucial and serious.
Carrie Nation
source: Wikipedia
definition: Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. She is particularly noteworthy for promoting her viewpoint through vandalism.
significance: Carrie Nation facilitated the temperance movement even though she was a woman who had little power.
Susan B. Anthony
source: Wikipedia
definition: Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women’s rights movement to introduce women’s suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women’s Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.[1] She also co-founded the women’s rights journal, The Revolution.
significance: She co-founded the Women’s Temperance Movement and helped voice out the women’s opinions regarding the temperance movement which stimulated more attention to this movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
source: Wikipedia
definition: She was the president of the Women’s Temperance Movement and was a pivotal figure in carrying out temperance.
significant: Not only was she a important figure in woman’s suffrage but she was also a vital figure in the temperance movement as she led out the movement with the responsibilities of a president.
Charles Grandison Finney
source: Brinkley
definition: evangelistic Presbystrian minister who became the most influential revival leader of the 1820s and the 30s and he supported the temperance crusade, preaching about self-control and how the church “must take right ground on the subject of Temperance.”
significance: He was among the first ministers to actively support the early stage of the temperance movement and he was known for his particular success in mobilizing women.
