Noun
temperance movement (plural temperance movements)
A social movement which campaigned against the consumption of alcohol, and which spread to many countries in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
By the 1840s the temperance movement was actively encouraging individuals to reduce alcohol consumption. Source: Internet
History The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846. Source: Internet
The Fennomans aimed to include the common people in a nonpolitical role in order to reduce unrest due to social problems; the labor movement, youth associations and temperance movement were initially led "from above." Source: Internet
If Lalonde hadn't prevailed over the Sudbury temperance movement, that money would have gone somewhere else. Source: Internet
The OLCC is a vestige of the temperance movement. Source: Internet
The Women's Crusade of 1873 and the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), founded in 1874, "marked the formal entrance of women into the temperance movement." Source: Internet