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

The school encouraged people to cultivate virtues that included temperance, courage, justice and wisdom.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024

Anthony was an unmarried thirty-one-year-old headmistress and temperance worker; Stanton was now thirty-five and the mother of four boys, ages three months to nine years old.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling