temperance movement

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political movement reform movement social movement

The temperance movement was a widespread social and political campaign, especially prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, that sought to reduce or prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages on moral and health grounds.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political movement → reform movement → social movement →
endTime	20th century →
hasGeographicScope	Australia → Canada → New Zealand → Scandinavia → United Kingdom NERFINISHED → United States →
hasKeyConcept	abstinence from alcohol → moderation in drinking → prohibitionism → teetotalism →
hasMainGoal	prohibition of alcoholic beverages → reduction of alcohol consumption →
hasMotivation	moral concerns about alcohol use → public health concerns → religious beliefs → social order concerns →
hasNotableFigure	Billy Sunday → Carry Nation → Frances Willard → John B. Gough NERFINISHED → Lyman Beecher → Mary Hunt → Neal Dow →
hasNotableOrganization	American Temperance Society → Anti-Saloon League → Band of Hope → Blue Ribbon Army → British and Foreign Temperance Society → Independent Order of Good Templars → Rechabites → Sons of Temperance → Woman's Christian Temperance Union →
hasOppositionFrom	brewing industry → distilling industry → saloon keepers → some immigrant communities →
hasRelatedIdeology	Victorian morality → progressivism → social gospel →
hasRelatedMovement	prohibition movement → public health movement → women's Christian reform movements →
hasSocialImpact	changes in drinking culture → closure of saloons → creation of dry counties → increased role of women in reform politics →
influenced	Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Prohibition in the United States → Volstead Act → licensing laws for alcohol → local option alcohol laws → social purity movement → women's suffrage movement in the United States →
influencedBy	Methodism → evangelical Protestantism → revivalism →
startTime	early 19th century →
usedMethod	advocacy for legislation → formation of temperance societies → moral suasion → pamphleteering → petition campaigns → pledge signing → political lobbying → public lectures →
wasMostActiveDuring	19th century → early 20th century →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
American Temperance Society → Catharine Beecher →	movement
Victorian morality →	associatedWith
Prohibition era in the United States ("temperance movement in the United States") →	cause
Six Sermons on Intemperance ("American temperance movement") →	influenced
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ("temperance movement in the United States") →	influencedBy
Antebellum period →	socialMovement