<span>The Temperance Movement stressed the reduction and banning of alcoholic beverages. This was done during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century because of the epidemic of alcoholism. Drinking was a contributing factor to spousal abuse, family neglect, and chronic unemployment. The movement sought temperance towards alcohol consumption rather than total abstinence. The movement’s activities eventually expanded to the observance of Sabbath and other moral issues. It had its major effect on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth century. <span>
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Erastus Dow Palmer
American relief sculptors drew inspiration from Italian works. During the first half of the 19th century, Americans began creating relief works on federal government buildings. Perhaps the best known U.S. bas-relief sculptor was Erastus Dow Palmer (1817–1904), from Albany, New York
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Texas Revolution, also called War of Texas Independence, War fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836–45). Although the Texas Revolution was bookended by the Battles of Gonzales and San Jacinto, armed conflict and political turmoil that pitted Texians (Anglo-American settlers of the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas) and Tejanos (Texans of mixed Mexican and Indian descent) against the forces of the Mexican government had occurred intermittently since at least 1826.
