The Temperance movement

Was the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol, was another offshoot of the influence of the churches and the women's right movement. As Mary C. Vaughan stated at a temperance meeting in 1852, "There is no reform in which women can act better or more appropriately then temperance... Its effects fall so crushingly upon her... She has so often seen its slow, insidious, but not the less surely fatal advances, gaining upon its victim...oh! The misery, the utter, hopeless misery of the drunkard's wife!"-quoted in Women's America: Refocusing the Past.