American Temperance Movement

In countless historical periods, the desire to manage drinking or to claim temperament has always been the goal of humanity. Many countries, such as Australia, Canada, England, Denmark, Poland, and of course the United States of America, organize abstinence campaigns. The American drinking movement was the most common reform movement in the 19th century, and the law banning the sale of all alcoholic beverages was finally prohibited. The movement has grown from its humble local roots to millions of members and a national organization with great political power.

Polish Americans participated in the American Abstinence Campaign, and the first immigrants were influenced by the ban. The protagonist of the American abstinence movement was Colonel John Sobiski, a direct descendant of the Polish John 3 Sobieski who served general in the American Civil War. In 1879, he married Lydia Gertrude Lemen, an American who was born in Salem, Illinois, a famous abolitionist and an alcohol addict. Through his wife's affiliation, he became a major member of the Polish branch of the female Christian Control League and prohibited alcohol bans in Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois. Christian's abstinence group based on Sobieski and Protestant have never been raised in the Polish community. Catholic immigrants in Poland often listen to lectures and receive mention of alcohol from the Catholic Church. Polish newspapers occasionally report on abstinence topics in the United States.

Moderate and constrained - As sickness and alcoholism increase, movement is exercise against alcohol. After that, the abstinence movement was related to anti-Catholic immigrants. Americans believe that Catholic immigrants such as Irishers drink too much and confuse American society. During the Civil War with President Andrew Jackson, many Americans began trying to make a change in society. In the influence of "the age of ordinary people" and the second awakening, the United States was the era of change in every field of prewar society. Several reform campaigns such as education, rehabilitation and abolition campaigns that began from 1825 to 1850 attempted to expand the democratic principles of the state, but in reality others such as abstinence movement and utopia movement I tried reform. Role of citizen and government