The Temperance Movement

By elijahricks

  • Alcohol is preached as sinful

    Alcohol is preached as sinful
    John Wesley, founder of Methodism, preached that drinking alcohol was sinful.

  • ATS founded

    ATS founded
    Boston ministers founded the American Temperance Society.

  • ATU founded

    ATU founded
    American Temperance Union (ATU) founded, merging two existing national temperance organizations

  • WTS founded

    WTS founded
    Washington Temperance Society founded in Baltimore, named for the first U.S. president.

  • Massachusetts repeals

    Massachusetts repeals
    Massachusetts repealed its 1838 prohibition law but permitted local option.

  • Maine prohibits

    Maine prohibits
    Maine prohibited the sale or making of any alcoholic beverage.

  • WCTU founded

    WCTU founded
    Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) officially founded at its Cleveland national convention. Annie Wittenmyer elected president, and advocated focusing on the single issue of prohibition.

  • Anti-Saloon League

    Anti-Saloon League
    American Anti-Saloon League founded.

  • NPP new president

    NPP new president
    National Prohibition Party nominated Eugene W. Chapin (Illinois) for President; he received 252,821 votes.

  • The end to Prohibition

    The end to Prohibition
    21st Amendment passed, repealing the 18th Amendment and prohibition.