The Antebellum Temperance Movement: Strategies for Social Change-U.S.

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Historical Background 
Primary Sources       
Benjamin Rush, “A Moral and Physical Thermometer: Or, a Scale of the Progress of Temperance and Intemperance,” 1790    
Nathaniel Currier, Temperance Prints, c. 1835-1848    
Leonard Marsh, The Physiology of Intemperance: An Address before the Temperance Society of the University of Vermont, June 29, 1841, 1841   
Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, 1842     
“Come All Ye Teetotallers!” (temperance song), 1843   
James Root, The Horrors of Delirium Tremens, 1844   
Timothy Shay Arthur, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There, 1854
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