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GCSE History · key term
A movement encouraging restraint in, or abstinence from, drinking alcohol; its supporters helped campaign for prohibition.
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Paper 1
Revise: Social Change: Women and ProhibitionTemperance campaigners had long sought to reduce drinking. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League campaigned for prohibition, blaming alcohol for poverty, crime and broken marriages. Many women supported the campaign because they associated drinking with harm to family life.
Paper 1
A campaign or belief encouraging people to limit or avoid drinking alcohol.
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In Oxford in 1832, notices cautioned people attending St Giles’ Fair against drinking, revelling and crowded gatherings. Such advice promoted temperance, but it did not identify the actual cause of cholera.