temperance society
Anti-alcohol advocacy group
A temperance society is an organization dedicated to reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption.
These groups flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries, advocating for personal abstinence pledges and eventually prohibition laws.
Members promoted moral reform and often linked alcohol to poverty, domestic violence, and social decay: The local temperance society held rallies outside saloons.
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- teetotalerComplete abstainer from liquor
- pledgeBinding promise given
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
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