PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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there were some radical and violent members
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they believed alcohol was responsible for unemployment, crime and broken homes
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they wanted alcohol outlawed
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they never achieved federal legislation
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Women’s Christian Temperance Union The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Vermont was founded to advocate against alcohol. They embraced the suffrage movement in the 1880s partially on the belief that most women would vote for further prohibition of intoxicating liquors.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Progressive Era (1896–1917) was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States focused on defeating corruption, monopoly, waste and inefficiency.
Detailed explanation-3: -Women of middle and upper classes created three groups that were most important to the women’s suffrage movement: the NAWSA, NWSA, AWSA and NWP.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three presidents of the Progressive Era-Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson-held office between 1901 and 1921. Although differing in many ways, they shared a commitment to reform.