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  1. Societies dedicated to curtailing the
  2. consumption of alcohol by total prohibition,
  3. local restriction, or encouragement of
  4. declarations of personal abstinence (`the
  5. pledge'). They were first set up in the USA,
  6. Ireland, and Scotland, then in the N of
  7. England in the 1830s. The proponents of
  8. temperance were drawn from evangelical or
  9. nonconformist Christians, trade unionists,
  10. Chartists, members of cooperatives, the
  11. self-help movement, and the Church of
  12. England. After 1871 the movement supported
  13. the Liberal Party in its attempts to use the
  14. licensing laws to restrict the consumption of
  15. alcoholic beverages.
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