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Temperance organizations of the United States played an essential role in bringing about ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution establishing national prohibition of alcohol.
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Temperance societies and lyceums joined other reform movements and social organizations in prominence within the community.
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Willard was the secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, one of the most formidable women's organizations in the country, with branches in every state and a membership of over 200, 000.
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Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
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Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
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Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
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More regional or local cross-denominational or secular organizations are: Knights of Pythias ( which has Dean Drone as chaplain ), Sons of Temperance ( whose members sometimes stray ) and The Girls ’ Friendly Society ( since they are barred from the Pythians ).
In addition to the community members, tens of different nationwide organizations were controlled by the SKDL members, see for example the People's Temperance League.
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* 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals was especially prominent within the building .< ref >” The United Methodist Building.
Influenced by events in the United States, the government of Sir William Hearst introduced prohibition of alcoholic drinks in 1916 with the passing of the Ontario Temperance Act.
* December 5 – The Templars of Honor and Temperance is founded in the United States.
The concept soon spread to the United Kingdom, where it was encouraged by the Temperance Society as a morally acceptable alternative to the pub, and over 1, 000 milk bars had opened nationally by the end of 1936.
Public drinking fountains emerged throughout the United States following the Civil War and the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( NWCTU )' s organizing convention of 1874 strongly encouraged its attendees to erect the fountains in the places that they had come from.
Maryhill had the first Temperance Society in the United Kingdom after lawlessness filled the streets in the Victorian era.
He also began to associate with the Evangelical Union becoming a member of the Evangelical Union Church, Park Street, Hamilton-now the United Reformed Church, Hamilton ( which also incorporates St. James ' Congregational Church, attended by the young David Livingstone, the future famous missionary explorer ), and to participate in the Temperance movement.
Among Gillray's best satires on George III are: Farmer George and his Wife, two companion plates, in one of which the king is toasting muffins for breakfast, and in the other the queen is frying sprats ; The Anti-Saccharites, where the royal pair propose to dispense with sugar, to the great horror of the family ; A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper ; the paired plates A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion and Temperance enjoying a Frugal Meal, satirising the excesses of the Prince Regent ( later George IV of the United Kingdom ) and the miserliness of his father, George III of the United Kingdom respectively ; Royal Affability ; A Lesson in Apple Dumplings ; and The Pigs Possessed.
This 1902 illustration from the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper humorously illustrates the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's campaign against the producers and sellers of beers in HawaiiThe Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.
However, the temperance movement was equally strong, and Georgina King Lewis, a keen member of the Croydon United Temperance Council, took it upon herself to establish a dry centre for the labour movement.
Records of pressure groups and campaigning organisations such as the National United Temperance Council and the Royal Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising are also held.
The Temperance ( Scotland ) Act 1913 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under which voters in small local areas in Scotland were enabled to hold a poll to vote on whether their area remained " wet " or went " dry " ( that is, whether alcoholic drinks should be permitted or prohibited ).
Years later, while in the United States, Evelyne would be persuaded by Frances Willard, founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to adopt the name ' Evangeline ' as being more dignified and more befitting the commander of The Salvation Army in America.
Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
Category: Temperance organizations in the United States
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