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The evils of alcohol are preached against by Reverend Lyman Beecher.
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The Temperance movement was a movement for the prohibition of alcohol. Americans at this time were immensely drunk.The consumption of liquor was over the ROOF, being 180 per capita liquor consumption which was 7 gallons per year more than usual(2x more than now) not including wine, beer, Zima, hard cider, pruno.
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Women were thought to be "property" of their dad or husband. Husbands held authority over the person, property, and choices of their wives. Women had little to no rights. The higher the social class, the higher the restriction on women. Women were allowed access to education so they could teach their children. Cult of domesticity decreed that a woman's place was in the home and to provide love, friendship, and mutual obligation to man. Most women wanted the right to vote for alcohol purposes.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton hold a women's convention after being denied entrance from a World Anti-Slavery Convention which was held in London.
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The first state law prohibiting the sale of alcohol is adopted by Maine.
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The first women's right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This convention led to the launching of the women's suffrage movement
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The New York State Women's Temperance Society was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Formed by Stanton and Anthony this organization covered suffrage for all regardless of gender or race.
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Full prohibition of alcohol so ZERO alcohol consumption becomes the goal due to the "fearful quarrels and brutal violence."
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The movement started to focus on blacks more than they did women.
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Women Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1873 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was seen as ladylike and a respectable way for women to be involved into the women's rights movement.
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The U.S. Congress is proposed a women suffrage amendment which is later taken on in the Senate and defeated.
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Reverend Howard Hyde founded the Anti-Saloon League in Oberlin, Ohio
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Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party support woman suffrage; it is being supported at the national level by a major political party for the first time.
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The WCTU and Anti-Saloon League march at Washington, DC demanding an addition of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
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The 19th amendment is ratified by three quarters of the state legislatures.
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