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The Antebellum Temperance Movement: Strategies for Social Change-U.S.

First Edition  ©2018 David Head Formats: E-book

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    David Head

Table of Contents

Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background 
Primary Sources       
Benjamin Rush, “A Moral and Physical Thermometer: Or, a Scale of the Progress of Temperance and Intemperance,” 1790    
Nathaniel Currier, Temperance Prints, c. 1835-1848    
Leonard Marsh, The Physiology of Intemperance: An Address before the Temperance Society of the University of Vermont, June 29, 1841, 1841   
Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, 1842     
“Come All Ye Teetotallers!” (temperance song), 1843   
James Root, The Horrors of Delirium Tremens, 1844   
Timothy Shay Arthur, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There, 1854
Project Questions
Additional Assignments
Additional Resources for Research 

Product Updates

This document collection introduces the early-ninetheenth-century campaign against alcohol consumption through a selection of primary sources created to convince Americans to stop drinking. By examining these sources, strategies of the temperance movement, students will discover how reformers hoped to change American society and learn to appreciate that the past is simultaneously familiar and foreign.

ISBN:9781319169800

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