Temperance+Movement



1. This political cartoon shows that the women were fighting against their husbands spending all of the money on alcohol instead of bringing it home to support the family. [|www.google.com/images] [|www.wikimedia/womans-holy-war.jpg] July 26, 2006; October 15, 2009

2. The temperance movement is an organized effort to prohibit or manage the consumption of alcohol. Men and women alike are expunging their money on alcohol. They are simply forgetting what their hard days work was all for, just so they may drown themselves in booze. Preachers are telling the people that consuming alcohol is a sin, and they should repent. Many housewives are getting fed up with the fact that they can’t provide enough money to support the family. The wives don’t want their husbands drinking their life away without a care in the world. Since the women were furious about this, they created the Anti- Saloon League in 1895 to prohibit alcohol worldwide. They stressed the fact about prohibition and emphasized it into the election process. President Woodrow Wilson also thought that prohibition was important and that it was a domestic law. Later down the road they put prohibition into effect because of how the women kept fighting for it and wouldn’t give up.

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Carrie Nation was born on November 25, 1846 in Gerrard County, Kentucky. Originally born Carrie Moore, she got her last name from her second husband, David Nation. She says her passion for fighting against liquor came from her failed first marriage to Dr. Charles Gloyd, a severe alcoholic. With him, she had her daughter, Charlien. When she began fighting liquor, she adopted the name Carry A. Nation because of its value as a slogan. Carrie began smashing up bars to promote temperance. Sometimes with other women, she would march into a bar, singing and praying, and begin to wreck it with a hatchet. She was arrested about 30 times between 1900 and 1910. To pay for bail, she would use money from lecture-tour fees and the sales of souvenir hatchets. She was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The Union dealt with issues ranging from health and hygiene to prison reform and world peace. On June 9, 1911, Nation died after being in the hospital for some time.

[|www.biographybase.com/biography/Nation_Carry.html] “Carry Nation Bibliography: Carrie Amelia Nation” used on October 15, 2009 No other information cited. Summer Bound Megan Cloud Annie Huttenlock