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Alcohol: Friend or Foe? By Elenita, Raina, Emma, Cristina

Thesis: The Washington Temperance Society and the American Tmeperence Union though both fighting for temperence were fighting in very opposing ways. The Washington Temperence Society was made up of the rough who were trying to reform their ways--the enemy alcohol. The American temperence union was made up of the respectable trying to reform the rough--the enemy alcoholics.

I. Intro. Do you Drink? It is reported that 109 million people 12 years and older do ([]). What would the American Temperence Union (ATU) and the Washington Temperence Society say of our current drift into the unrespectable? Put thesis here.

II. History (Emma) A)Founding B)Important people (insert photos) C) Fragmentation of WTS

III. Ideology (Raina) A) Top down vs. Bottom up B) Enemy is who? C) how they view eachother D) type of reformer E) What other issues were they for

IV. Wheel of Respectability (together) A) Drawing with description This is the wheel of Respectability. The temperance movement was largely based not on medical reasons that alcohol was somehow bad for you but based on how honorable it is to drink alcohol. The respectable didn’t drink--it wasn’t respectable. And so they tried to make the society better by trying to abolish drink all together. Washington Temperance Society was supposed to help respectable people not drink alcohol--somewhat like modern alcoholics anonymous. The Temperance movement eventually grew to the point where alcohol was prohibited. The temperance movement has for the most part died down.

B) Intro C) Relate it to the two societies (ideology)

V. Methods (Elenita) A)What they did at their meetings B)How they reached people in the community C)Faces of society (John H. W. Hawkins and John B. Gough)

VI. Effectiveness (Cristina) A) Stats b) which one is more effective c) Where are they now?

VII. Conclusion