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The '''American Temperance Society (ATS)''', also known as the '''American Society for the Promotion of Temperance''', was a society established on February 13, 1826, in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>John L. Merrill, "The Bible and the American temperance movement: text, context and pretext," Harvard Theological Review 81, no. 2 (1988): 147.</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/searchlm.php?function=find&exhibit=temperance&browse=temperance|title=Temperance Exhibit|website=Chnm.gmu.edu|access-date=8 August 2018))</ref> Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S. with 170,000 members who had taken a pledge to abstain from drinking [[distilled beverage]]s, though not including wine and beer; it permitted the medicinal use of alcohol as well.<ref>((cite book |last1=Jimerson |first1=Randall C. |last2=Blouin |first2=Francis X. |last3=Isetts |first3=Charles A. |title=Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers |date=1977 |page=2 |language=en |quote=Preaching that drinking distilled liquor was both sinful and deleterious to the individual and to society, these temperance crusaders used moral suasion to convince people to sign a pledge promising total abstinence from spiritous liquors. The pledge adopted by one local affiliate of the American Temperance Society, for example, declared that members "shall abstain wholly from the use and sale of distilled spirits, exclude them from their families, with-hold them from friends and visitors, and from their laborers and all persons in their employ except in such cases as render them necessary as a medicine." The pledge described total abstinence from distilled liquor but did not prohibit drinking wine or beer.))</ref>  Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,250,000 members who had taken the pledge.<ref>((cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionofprohi00cheruoft|title=The evolution of prohibition in the United States of America; a chronological history of the liquor problem and the temperance reform in the United States from the earliest settlements to the consummation of national prohibition by Ernest H. Cherrington|first=Ernest Hurst|last=Cherrington|date=8 August 2018|publisher=Westerville, Ohio American Issue Press|access-date=8 August 2018|via=Internet Archive))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/timeline/|title=God In America - Timeline|website=[[PBS]] |access-date=8 August 2018))</ref>

The society benefited from, and contributed to, a [[reform]] sentiment in much of the country promoting the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition of slavery]], expanding [[women's rights]], [[Temperance movement|temperance]], and the improvement of society. Possibly because of its association with the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist movement]], the society was most successful in northern states.

After a while, temperance groups increasingly pressed for the mandatory [[prohibition]] of alcohol rather than for voluntary [[abstinence]]. The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize massive and national support for a specific reform cause. Their objective was to become the national clearinghouse on the topic of temperance.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://facweb.furman.edu/~corth/shdb/mediawiki_1.3235.html |title=1826: American Temperance Society Founded - Bensonwiki |access-date=2009-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920110118/http://facweb.furman.edu/~corth/shdb/mediawiki_1.3235.html |archive-date=2008-09-20 |url-status=dead ))</ref> Within three years of its organization, ATS had spread across the country.

==Notable people==
* Dr. Justin Edwards, preacher and treasurer of ATS<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.wctusocal.com/pages/history.html |title=History |access-date=2009-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827202520/http://www.wctusocal.com/pages/history.html |archive-date=2008-08-27 |url-status=dead ))</ref>
* [[Reverend|Rev.]] [[Joshua Leavitt]], Lawyer, editor, writer, publisher, first secretary of ATS.
* [[John Wheeler Leavitt]]<ref>((Cite book|last=Cogswell|first=William|url=https://archive.org/details/christianphilant00cogs|title=The Christian philanthropist; or, Harbinger of the millennium|date=1839|publisher=Boston, Perkins & Marvin [etc.]|others=New York Public Library))</ref>

==See also==
*[[American Temperance Union]]
*[[Prohibition in the United States]]
*[[Temperance movement]]
*[[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]]
*[[Volstead Act]]
*[[Cold Water Army (temperance organization)]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Young, Michael P. (2007). ''Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement''. University of Chicago Press

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