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Mar 27, 2015 · The thermometer, now on display in “Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History,” an exhibition at the National Archives through January 10, 2016, charts the medical conditions, criminal...
If most Americans loved their drink, many to excess, not everybody was so sure that immoderate alcohol consumption was a good idea. As early as 1622, the Virginia Company of London wrote to Governor Francis Wyatt at Jamestown complaining that colonist drinking hurt the colony.
Jun 29, 2015 · Colonial Americans Drank Roughly Three Times as Much as Americans Do Now. In 1784, the doctor Benjamin Rush described alcohol as a threat to morality—and a danger to the nascent republic. By ...
Colonials approved of drinking in moderation. But they condemned its abuse. They believed that “Drink is in itself a creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness.” 1 The colonists considered regular drinking healthful for everyone. So toddlers drank beer, wine, and hard cider with their parents. 2.
Oct 23, 2021 · Alcohol was very important to colonists and flowed freely in the English colonies. Adults and children drank all day, even at breakfast. People drank from sun up to sun down and any event was punctuated by a dram of drink. English colonists of both sexes drank beer and ale.
Feb 25, 2013 · According to visitors to the colonies, one of the favorite, alcohol-related pastimes that could seemingly go on without end was the raising of glasses in a toast. Toasting, or ‘drinking healths,’ was a longstanding tradition in English culture.
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Colonists turned against tea when their relationship with the British Empire soured in the 1760s, but colonists drank a lot more than tea. Alcohol, coffee and chocolate would also play critical roles in the American Revolution. There is a reason Americans are infatuated with alcohol, coffee and chocolate (and not tea) today.
