temperance movements temperance movements, organized efforts to induce people to abstain-partially or completely-from alcoholic beverages. Such movements occurred in ancient times, but ceased until the wide use of distilled liquors in the modern period resulted in increasing drunkenness. The stirrings of temperance activity began in the 19th cent. in the United States, Great Britain, and the countries of N Europe, where drinking had greatly increased. Relying on personal appeal, such individuals as Father Theobald Mathew …showed first 75 words of 317 total…

…showed last 75 words of 317 total…Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan B. Anthony, and Carry Nation. Among the effects of temperance agitation were the stimulation of interest in the scientific study of alcoholism, general instruction in the schools on the effects of alcohol, and government regulation. Unlike later temperance movements, such as Alchoholics Anonymous, these earlier movements did not view alcoholism as a disease and relied on government re! gulation and suppression of the liquor business to control the problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**