The Temperance Movement

America’s Alcohol Problem

Created by Mr. Steve Hauprich for acceleration and remediation of US History students.

The United States was founded in part by rum merchants wine makers whiskey distillersbeer brewers ale brewers tavern owners snake oil hucksters…and people of great character!!!

Notice the bottle of port wine on the table in this picture of George Washington?

Note the differences in this picture…after the temperance movement called.

A “drunkard’s progress”

was a common theme…

drunkenness would lead

to moral vice…

and ultimately self destruction.

The opposite of temperance is …

Drunkenness … or … intemperance …

Men … Fathers in particular

were identified as susceptible to …

…falling off the wagon.

Drunken Dads

Were The

Great Threat

To American

Family

Stability.

Drunks

Were

Bad

Dancers

Shame!Shame!!Shame!!!

Women led thenoble crusade against alcohol abuse in America.

AA…mmenn.

These

Ladies…can’tthink ofa goodreason to drink…

…a verysoberingthought… eh….

American virtue and vice were

at issue in cultural war …

…eventually the 18th Amendment

would attempt to settle the issue with prohibition.

http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=SP&Minor=B&SlideNum=83.00

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