Temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. Although an abstinence pledge had been introduced by churches as early as 1800, the earliest temperance organizations seem to have been …show more content…
Clavers gave many hints at how different Michigan was to New York, but exactly in a good way. She herself was an example of how primitive and wild Michigan seemed in comparison to New York. The snake encounter with Fanny in chapter sixteen shows how barbarian this place was to her. One way that Michigan was different to New York was in drinking. In many encounters she has with alcohol and its consumers, she makes her discomfort known to her reader through her thoughts. Since she comes from the state where the temperance movement was founded, New York, her dislike of alcohol and its effect have possibly stemmed from that foundation of her