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The Temperance Crusade Spreads Across America
A historical survey traces temperance from 1651 Long Island ordinances to 19th century national activism. It covers Dr. Rush’s 1745 critique, the rise of societies after 1808, mass pledges, woman’s crusade beginnings, and the global temperance movement shaping law, education, and politics through to the late 1800s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Long Island
New York Sun
Virginia
Society of Friends
Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia
Anini
Litchfield County
Connecticut
Congress
Moreau
Saratoga County
Union Toparanes Society
Northumberland
SipAniSog
Greenfield
South Society of Hartford
Ition
Boston
American Temperance Society
National Philanthropist
New York State
Massetts
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Canada
de. J. B. Woodward
England
John 2. Gough
Code of Temperance
Pennsylvania
Order of Good Samaritans
Father Mathew
Ireland
Isml
Order of Good Templars
Hillshore
Woman's Christian Tomb
Pra
Puget Sound
Gulf of Mexico
Clement Leavitt
California
S.F. Chapin
South
F. Shields
Wyoming
Nice
Arizona
Temperance Society
Stearns
Brooklyn
Ilinois
Cortland County
Illinois
J. J. "Hickman
Kentucky
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas
Arkansas
Georgia
Missouri
Dingley
Maine
America
Socle
Preston
Dickey Turney
Troy
Joel Jewell
Hector
N. Y
U. P
Prohibition Party
Biuck
Smith
St. John
Veil