For other uses, see Collapsed lung (disambiguation). A pneumothorax is an abnormal collection of air in the pleural space that causes an uncoupling of the lung from the chest wall. Symptoms typically include sudden onset of sharp, one sided, chest pain and shortness of breath.
See also: Prohibition in the United States and List of Dry States. The Temperance movement in the United States was a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol and had a large influence on American politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.he last wave of temperance in the United States saw the rise of the Anti-Saloon League, which successfully pushed for National Prohibition from its enactment in 1920 to its repeal in 1933.
Beginning in the early 19th century in both England and the United States, the temperance movement spoke out against the power held by manufacturers of alcohol and the role that bars and pubs played in the lives of the working class.eaders of the Temperance Movement. The temperance movement was motivated by very strong beliefs that were often intolerant of oppositional or other points of view. Given that, it will probably come as no surprise that leaders of the movement had extreme perspectives on other areas of public life.