The American Temperance Society was established in 1826. Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S. with 170,000 members who had taken a pledge to abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages. Within ten years there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,500,000 members who had taken the pledge. Alcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol, popularly called alcohol. ...
The society benefited from, and contributed to, a reform sentiment in much of the country promoting the abolition of slavery, expanding women’s rights, temperance, and the improvement of society. Possibly because of its association with the abolitionist movement, the Society was most successful in northern states.
With the passage of time temperance groups increasingly pressed for the mandatory prohibition of alcohol rather than for voluntary abstinence. Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...
The strong temperance movements of the early 20th century found most of their support in women who were opposed to the domestic violence alcohol frequently caused, and the large share of low-income household income it often took.
Temperancesocieties were established across the country except in Quebec.
Temperance writers viewed the WCTU's program of compulsory temperance education as a major factor leading to the establishment of National Prohibition with passage of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Other knowledgeable observers, including the U.S. Commissioner of Education, agreed.
Temperancesocieties were being formed from New England to the Midwest, even in Athens, GA. The people that comprised these societies came from all walks of life and for all different types of reasons.
The temperancesociety that was formed in Athens was a typical representation of temperancesocieties throughout the south.
While the initial results were promising for the spread of temperancesocieties throughout the south, it soon became apparent first that the number of sympathetic people to the temperance cause was far greater in the north and second that the amount of opposition to the cause was far greater in the south.
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