Their organization, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), became a force to be reckoned with, their cause enhanced by alliance with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other ...

Rush’s ideas spurred a decades-long temperance movement, which began gaining steam ... of anti-alcohol activists from the 1830s and 1840s, who had created graphic road-to-ruin texts that ...

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Following the public disturbances in Wales during the 1830s and 1840s the government commissioned ... but in the meantime the forces of temperance were to enjoy a huge influence over the next ...

The 1840s were the city's greatest decade of ... 900 of Boston's 1500 liquor shops were run by Irishmen. The temperance movement was failing. Boston's health and safety reforms also lost major ...