THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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to prevent injuries on the assembly line to increase profits.
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to stop domestic violence
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to give women an equal voice in the government.
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to have Americans live longer, healthier lives.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The WCTU advocated for temperance as a way to make home life safer for women and children. Their slogan “Every Land” (formerly “For God and Home and Native Land”) emphasized their goal of alcohol abstinence throughout the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society’s ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption.
Detailed explanation-3: -Believing that alcohol abuse was the cause of unemployment, disease, sex work, poverty, violence against women and children, and immorality, the WCTU campaigned for the legal prohibition of all alcoholic beverages.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.