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- Movement to curb the consumption of alcoholThe Temperance movement in the United States is a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol. It had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the unsuccessful prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from 1920 to 1933.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_United_States
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The Temperance movement in the United States is a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol. It had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the unsuccessful prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth
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See moreTemperance organizations of the United States played an essential role in bringing about ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment of the United
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