USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these groups led the crusade against the sale of alcoholic beverages?
A
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
B
National Woman Suffrage Association
C
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
D
Society of American Indians
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The WCTU was a religious organization whose primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment. The Woman’s Christian Union (WCTU) was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in November of 1874.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Crusaders was an organization founded to promote the repeal of prohibition in the United States. The executive board consisted of fifty members, including Alfred Sloan, Jr., Sewell Avery, Cleveland Dodge, and Wallage Alexander. They wanted the government to create stronger laws regarding drunkenness.

Detailed explanation-3: -After her tenure as corresponding secretary, Frances Willard was elected president of the WCTU in 1879. She shifted the organization’s focus to political activism as well as moral education.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was one such group. The WCTU was founded in 1873, and it became a national social reform and lobbying organization the following year. Its second president, Frances Willard, helped to grow the WCTU into the largest women’s religious organization in the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Frances Willard Willard also started her own organization, called the World’s Women Christian Temperance Union, in 1883. After becoming WCTU’s president, Willard broadened the views of the group by including woman’s rights reforms, abstinence, and education.

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