temperance
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He indicates how later generations took the Declaration as an inspiration for their own causes, from temperance to women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"Edinburgh was more the intellectual city in Scotland and the temperance movement went alongside the more industrial areas."
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
They recognized actual social change as extending beyond the idea of temperance, which they saw as a necessary but insufficient condition for improving the U.S. social order during the mid-19th century.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
The women involved may have wanted to support temperance and other reform movements, but ultimately men controlled the finances.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing temperance
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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