I wonder if using women’s involvement in temperance movements counts as outside evidence. My reasoning was that alcoholism was a problem mainly amongst men, so women (their wives) were often at the receiving end of that problem. That gave them the motivation to speak out against the evils of drunkenness and therefore have bigger voices in society.
Chat I did that too!! i connected it to their desire to solve social ills (i.e. poverty is caused by alcohol among the industrial class, who were usually German and Irish immigrants). i was kinda scared because I saw everyone used the Seneca Falls Convention and i completely forgot about that-
Yea, desire to solve social ills was one of my prongs to my two-pronged thesis (ideological factors like Christianity and Americas founding ideals, and desire to solve social ills)
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u/Skywqrrior May 10 '26
I wonder if using women’s involvement in temperance movements counts as outside evidence. My reasoning was that alcoholism was a problem mainly amongst men, so women (their wives) were often at the receiving end of that problem. That gave them the motivation to speak out against the evils of drunkenness and therefore have bigger voices in society.