Temperance
121Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) — U.S. temperance movement organization. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it used educational, social, and political means to promote legislation. Its president (1879–98) was Frances Willard (1839–1898), an effective speaker and lobbyist who… …
122Church Temperance Society — This Society was organized in 1881, and has for its object the promotion of temperance in its strict meaning. Its adult membership combines those who temperately use and those who totally abstain from intoxicating liquors as beverages. It… …
123American Temperance University — [cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000083|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] The university s main building, Temperance Hall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It… …
124Canada Temperance Act — The Canada Temperance Act was an Act of the Parliament of Canada in 1878, which provided for an option for municipalities to opt in by plebiscite to a prohibitionary scheme. It was often known as the Scott Act, on account of its sponsor Sir… …
125Woman's Christian Temperance Union — American organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer (Wittenmyer,… …
126(the) temperance movement — the temperance movement [the temperance movement] a movement involving organized campaigns by various groups in the US, Britain and other countries in the 19th century to persuade people to drink little or no alcohol. These groups believed that… …
127Women's Christian Temperance Union — An organization active in the cause of temperance and the strict control, if not outright prohibition, of traffic in intoxicating liquors …
128Apostle of Temperance — Theobold Mathew …
