Term commonly applied to organized efforts to moderate or eliminate the use of alcoholic beverages. In order to achieve their aims, most temperance organizations have, at one time or another, advocated the enactment of legislation prohibiting both the sale and the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The Temperance Movement attempted to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed within a community or society in general -- and even to prohibit its production and consumption entirely.
Temperance (virtue), the practice of moderation; Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed; Temperance bar, bars of the temperance movement opposed to ...
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