PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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restoring better morals in America by urging people not to drink alcohol.
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improving living conditions in urban tenements.
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helping new immigrants adjust to life in America.
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improving working conditions and ending child labor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor (see alcohol consumption).
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, encouraged voluntary abstinence from alcohol, and influenced many successor organizations, which advocated mandatory prohibition on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages.
Detailed explanation-3: -Patterned after the first national temperance organization, the American Temperance Society, both preached total abstinence from alcohol. These reformers blamed poverty and immorality on drinking and argued that the solution lay in moral pressure on individuals and political pressure on legislators for regulation.