In 1920 Linton Smith, also known as the Bishop of Hereford, wrote a controversial article on the Temperance Movement and Prohibition. Linton claimed that prohibition could possibly divide political parties on a, âSex basis," meaning that female prohibition proponents could vote as a block against male opponents of prohibition. Strong drink was very popular in the lives of men during the time. In...
In a letter to a temperance friend in the late 1800âs Francis Parkman, a Temperance supporter, called a woman who was part of the Womenâs Christian Temperance Union out on what he thought the Temperance Movement was about. He writes to the woman saying that temperance was nothing more than, âA wedge to universal woman suffrageâ.
In the late 1800âs people began to become concerned with the...
A little less than a month after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Convention that sparked the womanâs rights movement, a Womanâs Rights Convention was held on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York at the Unitarian Church to continue the work done at Seneca Falls. The Womanâs Rights Convention in Rochester was planned by Amy Post, Sarah Hallowell, Sarah Fish, and Sarah C. Owen because there was...