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199:. The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize massive and national support for a specific reform cause. Their objective was to become the national clearinghouse on the topic of temperance. Within three years of its organization, ATS had spread across the country.
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Preaching that drinking distilled liquor was both sinful and deleterious to the individual and to society, these temperance crusaders used moral suasion to convince people to sign a pledge promising total abstinence from spiritous liquors. The pledge adopted by one local affiliate of the
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331:"The evolution of prohibition in the United States of America; a chronological history of the liquor problem and the temperance reform in the United States from the earliest settlements to the consummation of national prohibition by Ernest H. Cherrington"
165:, though not including wine and beer; it permitted the medicinal use of alcohol as well. Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,250,000 members who had taken the pledge.
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