Name: The early Temperance movement - 1
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- [Voiceover] Hi, this is
Becca from Khan Academy,

and today I'm going to be
talking about temperance.

about what temperance
was, what its causes were,

and how it started to
develop in the early-1800s.

Temperance was the idea
that Americans drank

way too much alcohol and needed
to temper their consumption.

that people should just
drink a little bit less,

they should drink less whiskey,
less rum, less hard alcohol.

So, again, it was the
idea that we just needed

And so, how did the
temperance movement take root?

The temperance movement
kinda has three main causes

So, the three main causes were
the Second Great Awakening,

and, frankly, racism that
started as new immigrants

were coming to America in the early-1800s.

So, this was all kinda
happening right around here,

about each of these causes
for the temperance movement

So, I'll start by talking about
the Second Great Awakening.

So, the Second Great
Awakening was this time period

in the early-1800s that
focused a lot of social reforms

around capturing moral
good or Christian ideals

so Christian ideals,
here's the little cross,

So, this happened in
education, in prisons,

And so, this was all going on in the 1800s

that we needed to be
good and moral people,

and we needed our social
institutions to reflect that.

was also intimately affected
by people being too drunk.

and this was tearing apart
lots of different institutions,

including the family, including education,

to talking about the
Industrial Revolution.

So, the Industrial
Revolution was also going on

and people could no longer
be drunk on the job, right?

They used to just kind
of sit in their home,

make their shoes or sew something by hand,

and they could be drunk while doing that.

But now, if you're kind
of in a factory setting,

people were getting their fingers cut off

in the Industrial Revolution
because they were drunk

workers could no longer
be drunk on the job.

that people were seeing with
new Catholic immigrants.

So, there were Catholic immigrants
coming into the country.

And lots of Protestants
were very anti-Catholic

They decided that the
Catholics were drunks.

but it was definitely this
kind of racist sentiment

that was percolating within
the Protestant community,

and this kind of aligned
itself with the Whig Party.

And the Catholics more aligned themselves

The sentiment towards
these immigrant populations

So, at this time, temperance
was starting to become

and different social groups
were taking this more seriously.

There were some state-level organizations.

It was just becoming more
of a social phenomenon.

In 1825, right over here,
this really famous preacher,

Lyman Beecher, did his six
sermons on the sins of alcohol.

solidified this idea in the American mind

that it was anti-Christian
to be a huge drinker,

This is becoming kind of
this larger social phenomenon

and there start to be
not just more state-level

or community-level
societies against drinking,

you see the first ever
national organization.

So, the first national
temperance society was in 1826,

down here, with the American
Temperance Society, so the ATS.

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