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Developing American Identity (1820-1880) (Religion/Utopian Society (Brook…

- - - - 19th-century fellowship founded on April 2, 1840 by six alcoholics (William Mitchell, David Hoss, Charles Anderson, George Steer, Bill M'Curdy, and Tom Campbell) at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The idea was that by relying on each other, sharing their alcoholic experiences and creating an atmosphere of conviviality, they could keep each other sober.
    - - "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", Dow was born to a Quaker family in Portland, Maine. From a young age, he believed alcohol to be the cause of many of society's problems and sought to ban it through legislation.
    - - temperance groups increasingly pressed for the mandatory prohibition of alcohol rather than for voluntary abstinence.
    - - founder of the Prohibition Party. In 1872 Black was the first nominee of the Prohibition Party for President of the United States
    - - American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is particularly noteworthy for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet.
- - - - The best known transcendentalist who wrote essays and poems focused on individualism and opposed slavery in the 1850s.