The Role Of The Temperance Movement In The 1930's

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By 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year, which is three times as much as we drink today. The Temperance Movement of the 1830s was the first serious movement that was anti-alcohol. The movement succeeded in its goal in 1919 with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, an amendment that took effect the following year. For nearly thirteen years, a period known as the Prohibition era, the creation, transport, and sale of alcohol was against the law.
Most major social reform movements bring substantial and lasting changes in the way people live, think, and behave. The temperance movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was an exception in many ways. "Temperance" refers to the moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages. However, in the context of the temperance movement, the term usually indicated complete abstinence, which means drinking no alcohol at all. The goal of the temperance movement in the United States was to make the production and sale of alcohol illegal. Supporters believed that prohibiting alcohol would solve a number of society's …show more content…
In a word, yes. Drinking was the way of life, at all hours and for any reason. It was more widespread than it is today. Generally speaking, men liked to drink— particularly whiskey, rum, and hard cider. They drank on all occasions—in the fields, at the shop or office, at a house raising, when socializing or debating at the tavern, at harvests, at elections, at commemorative celebrations. Women of refined classes tended not to drink in public, but many regularly took alcohol-based medicines. Both sexes enjoyed wine and fortified wines at all times of the day. Women from the lower classes sometimes paralleled male behavior in the consumption of hard liquors. Children also drank cider, both sweet and hard, wine, and medicinally prescribed dose of
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