Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Curl, Donald W.

Thesis/Dissertation Co-Chair

Rowe, Allan

Abstract

This thesis studies an important phase of American temperance reform in the early nineteenth century. For twenty two years preceding Civil War, temperance reforms attempted to gain political and legal sanction for their crusade. Such efforts resulted in varying degrees of success in different states. In researching this thesis many books, sermons, and journals from the period were used. These have led the author to conclude that temperance reformers successfully applied pressure tactics on politicians. They also perceived the necessity of gaining lasting public opinion formation to pass and sustain restrictive liquor laws. Their inability to maintain such favorable public opinion led to rapid decline in coercive temperance by 1860, bringing to an end the first stage in American legal temperance.

Extent

151 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13491

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