The Temperance movement was a social campaign against the consumption of alcoholic drinks. People who joined this movement criticize alcohol exhilaration or promote total abstinence (teetotalism), with officers highlighting alcohol's adverse consequences on health, personality, and household life. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, this movement became more prominent in the English speaking and Scandinavian nations. This movement grew as led to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
Roman Religion Challenged. Judaism and Christianity, while posing separate threats to the empire, had one thing in common - they both refused to participate in the worship of the Roman gods and make sacrifices at their temples.