Temperance
By: Jacqueline Wright
The Reasons
What
We the American Temperance Society wants to outlaw the consumption of alcohol.
Why
Drinking alcohol affects your body and God will no longer bless this country of ours.
Famous Women
Josephine Bateman
Editor of the Ohio Cultivator's Ladies Department.
Amelia Bloomer
Amelia is a publisher for a temperance newspaper called The Lily.
Carry Nation
She is famous for using a hatchet to demolish barooms
Temperance Movement in Ohio
Woman and men gathered outside of Family Groceries in Waynesville, Ohio, protesting the sale of alcoholic beverages. On January 13, 1853 a women's temperance convention was held where they drafted a constitution and has created the Ohio Women's Temperance Society.
The Eighteenth Amendment
This amendment prevents the consumption of alcohol since August 1, 1917.