Brazil had cheap/free land?
not sure about Argentina...but I don't think there was serious land reform in Brazil until the 1930's.
Well, that stands to reason as the population has quadrupled. But the temperance movement has a lot to do with the workplace rights that women were afforded, which were none.
Freedom would have meant jack if we didn't have about 4 million miles of natural resources to play on.
You were the one saying it was a moral age.
I was only pointing out that women, blacks, children, Indians, and wage workers might have a different opinion.