In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment, from 1920 to 1933. It was driven by the Second Great Awakening’s moral reforms, the Industrial Revolution’s workplace changes, and growing nativism. Influential preacher Lyman Beecher and the American Temperance Society played key roles in its rise.