Abstract
This chapter details how New York outpaced all other states in both the number of societies and overall membership in terms of temperance societies that sprang up throughout the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. It talks about 3,000 temperance societies in the United States by 1831, wherein New York was home to 727 of them. The chapter focuses on the second annual report by the Cayuga County Temperance Society in 1833. It considers the second annual report as a celebration of the proliferation of temperance societies and the steady rise of membership in the county. It also explores how the annual report lamented the limited influence of their moral suasion campaign within Cayuga County, despite the growth of the temperance movement.
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