temperance

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"The lasting influences of the temperance movement went on for quite a long time," Ms Marshall says.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

Beloved in colonial America, hard cider lost favor in the mid-19th century as crisp lagers ascended; the temperance movement and Prohibition felled cider-apple trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

In Scotland, it was cooler, and in Wales, social forces were gathering against it, including the temperance movement.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2024

Stanton scaled back her work on temperance reform after 1842, when she gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Daniel Cady Stanton.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling