temperance movement
Anti-alcohol social campaign
The temperance movement was a 19th- and early 20th-century social campaign to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption.
It began with calls for moderation but evolved toward total abstinence and prohibition.
The movement drew support from religious groups and women's organizations, culminating in the United States with the 18th Amendment (1920-1933).
Today it refers broadly to organized efforts against alcohol or other substances.
Constitutional alcohol ban
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
dry county · prohibitionist · repeal · Twenty-first Amendment · bathtub gin · smuggling · raid · local option
Total sobriety as principle
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- pledgeBinding promise given
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- refrainingChoosing not to act
abstainer · teetotaler · dry · white ribbon · blue ribbon · clean-living · nondrinking
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
amendment · lobbying · advocacy · social change · education · evangelical · Second Great Awakening · Victorian
Moral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- purityUncontaminated quality
- decencyMoral appropriateness in behavior
- respectabilityMoral and social worthiness
sin · vice · demon rum · degradation · salvation · redemption · moral suasion · conscience
Formal written appeal
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- crusadeZealous effort for change
campaign · leaflet · orator · lecturer · tent meeting · pledge drive · moral suasion
Eighteenth Amendment
Constitutional alcohol ban
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
moonshine · dry county · prohibitionist · repeal · Twenty-first Amendment · bathtub gin · smuggling · raid · local option · enforcement
teetotalism
Total sobriety as principle
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- pledgeBinding promise given
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
refraining · abstainer · teetotaler · dry · white ribbon · blue ribbon · clean-living · nondrinking
progressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
legislation · amendment · lobbying · advocacy · social change · education · evangelical · Second Great Awakening · Victorian · philanthropy
virtue
Moral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- purityUncontaminated quality
- decencyMoral appropriateness in behavior
respectability · sin · vice · demon rum · degradation · salvation · redemption · moral suasion · conscience · self-control
petition
Formal written appeal
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
crusade · campaign · leaflet · orator · lecturer · tent meeting · pledge drive · moral suasion
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- social historyeveryday life, social class, social movements, working class, middle class
- Brewing HistoryProhibition, India pale ale, Trappist monks, alewives, pale ale
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, 18th Amendment, 21st Amendment
- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
temperance movementbrewing industry
Commercial beer manufacturing sector
drinking culture · tavern culture · pub culture · wine industry · wine culture
temperance movementhedonism
Pursuit of gratification
libertinism · Epicureanism · debauchery · decadence · indulgence
movement, temperate, movers, temperance, intemperate, movingly, intemperance, distemper, intemperately