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The Temperance Movement
-Another result of the churches and women's rights
movements
-It was the effort to prohibit drinking alcohol
-Alcohol was used at first to wash down the taste of
salty meat and fish and doctors used it as
an antiseptic
-Americans realized drunkenness was a serious issue
-American Temperance Society founded in 1826
-There were about 6,000 societies across the country
by 1933