Temperance movement in the United States

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（原始内容存档于2019-04-28）.  The Temperance Issue in the Election of 1840: Massachusetts. Teachushistory.org. [2015-04-21]. （原始内容存档于2019-04-28）.  Packer, Barbara. The Transcendentalists

在1850年代以前酗酒已成為嚴重的社會問題，當時法律賦予丈夫完全掌控家庭及財務的權力，為此許多社會運動家認為禁酒運動（英语：Temperance movement in the United States）是攸關女性權利的議題。在當時由於法律並未保障婦女對酗酒丈夫的追訴權，使得丈夫即便因酗酒令家庭一貧如洗且對妻子