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Connecticut Goes Dry: The Experience of the Temperance and Prohibition Movements in Connecticut, 1850-1933
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Identifier
Thesis
1864
Author
Brooks, Charles L.
Title
Connecticut
Goes
Dry
: The
Experience
of the
Temperance
and
Prohibition
Movements
in
Connecticut
,
1850-1933
Publisher
Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication
2006
Resource Type
Master's Thesis
Abstract
On
December
12
,
2005
, the
small
Connecticut
town
of
Eastford
held
a
referendum
for its
1,600
citizens
to
decide
if they would
allow
alcohol
sales
in their
town
. The
following
morning
, the
results
were
clear
.
Eastford
voters
decided
330
to
287
to
allow
the
sales
of
beer
and
wine
in
restaurants
with
seating
for
more
than
35
people
.
Thus
ended
Eastford's
130
year
experiment
with
prohibition
, and
leaving
the
equally
small
town
of
Bridgewater
as the
only
remaining
town
in
Connecticut
,
where
the
sale
of
alcohol
is
banned
.
Whether
it
is
Carry
Nation
chopping
a
barroom
into
kindling
in
Kansas
, or a
shoot
out
between
gangsters
and
police
in
Chicago
,
temperance
and
prohibition
have
left
indelible
marks
upon
society
. The
temperance
movement
was
one
of the
most
popular
social
movements
in the
history
of the
United
States
and
it
,
along
with the
Eighteenth
Amendment
, has
left
us with
some
very
vivid
imagery
. The
temperance
movement
itself
has
existed
since
the
beginning
of the
country
,
though
it
began
to
increase
its
activity
in the
mid-nineteenth
century
through
the
hard
work
of its
followers
, and
brought
about
one
of the
greatest
social
experiments
ever
,
social
control
through
legislation
and
Constitutional
Amendment
. From
1920
to
1933
, the
United
States
was
subject
to a
level
of
violence
that
it
had
never
before
witnessed
in
time
of
peace
. The
temperance
movement
and the
idea
of a
Constitutional
Amendment
prohibiting
the
use
of
liquor
were not
popular
everywhere
in the
country
,
especially
in the
numerous
cities
that had
developed
.
Opposition
to the
temperance
movement
was
centered
on the
eastern
seaboard
between
the
cities
of
Boston
and
Baltimore
. In the
middle
of the
area
lay
the
state
of
Connecticut
. The
concepts
of
temperance
and
prohibition
were not
very
popular
in
Connecticut
, as were
illustrated
by
Connecticut's
first
attempt
at the
prohibition
of
alcohol
. This
study
will
show
that the
majority
of the
citizens
, and to
some
degree
the
politicians
in the
state
,
cared
very
little
for the
ideas
of
temperance
and
prohibition
. In
addition
, this
study
will
attempt
to
explain
why
this was the
situation
in
Connecticut
.
Despite
the
volumes
that have been
written
on the
subject
of
prohibition
,
historians
have
neglected
to
study
the
experience
of
prohibition
in
Connecticut
. A
few
scholars
in their
discussions
of
prohibition
across
the
country
have
briefly
mentioned
Connecticut's
experience
, but
it
is
usually
limited
to a
mention
that
Connecticut
did
not
ratify
the
Eighteenth
Amendment
. This
can
hardly
been
seen
as
addressing
the
issue
of the
temperance
movement
and
prohibition
in
Connecticut
. This
study
will
begin
the
examination
of the
temperance
and
prohibition
movements
in
Connecticut
in the
1850's
. This
is
not
because
the
1850's
were the
beginning
of the
temperance
movement
in the
United
States
, not by any
means
.
Liquor
laws
in
various
forms
had
existed
since
1629
when
the
Virginia
Colonial
Assembly
ruled
that
ministers
should not
engage
in
excess
drinking
. The
1850's
do
not
mark
the
beginning
of the
temperance
movement
in
Connecticut
either
.
Temperance
in
Connecticut
can
be
traced
back
to the
late
eighteenth
century
when
a
group
of
Litchfield
farmers
agreed
to
promote
temperance
by
ceasing
the
habit
of
paying
their
farm
hands
with
distilled
spirits
. In the
early
nineteenth
century
,
churches
in the
western
district
of
Fairfield
expressed
alarm
at the
rise
of
intemperate
behavior
and as a
result
issued
a
pamphlet
entitled
"A
Calm
Dissuasive
against
Intemperance
".
Subject
Prohibition -- Connecticut
Temperance -- Connecticut
Department
Department of History
Advisor
Prescott, Heather Munro
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
OCLC number
713735042
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