Temperance movement in the United States
Efforts to reduce or end the consumption of alcohol / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: Prohibition in the United States and List of dry states
In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from 1920 to 1933. Today, there are organizations that continue to promote the cause of temperance.[1]