temperance movement

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

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