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The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize massive and national support for a specific reform cause. Their objective was to become the national clearinghouse on the topic of temperance. [6] Within three years of its organization, ATS had spread across the country.
A national temperance union called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in Boston in 1826. [1] Shortly thereafter, a second national temperance union was organized called the American Temperance Society, which grew to 2,200 known societies in several U.S. states, including 800 in New England, 917 in the Middle Atlantic states, 339 in the South, and 158 in the Northwest.
1826 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1826th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 826th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1826, the ...
Portrait photo from Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem (1926). Georgia May Jobson (1860–1924) was an American temperance reformer. She served as President of the Richmond-Henrico County Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) (1903–1910), [1] before becoming the first President of the Woman's Prohibition League of America (1910–1924).
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "August 1826" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
February 13 – The American Temperance Society is founded in Boston. March – Aged eight, future orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of Fell's Point, Baltimore. He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, for 12 years until he escapes. [1]
February 13, 1826 – The American Temperance Society is founded. March 16, 1827 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm. 1827 – Egypt: Cairo University School of Medicine is established as the first African medical school in the Middle ...