Woman's Christian Temperance Union

disaster was met by public outcry and triggered a number of reform movements led by women. An example of this is the temperance movement. Reformers sought to limit the consumption of alcohol by Americans and issue that resonated with many women because alcohol consumption often increased the frequency and severity of domestic violence and abuse. In 1874, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was…

The history of a woman’s role in American society has always been a dynamic and constantly changing one. The Cult of Domesticity and Republican Motherhood were prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women…

This was controversial because it turned the common hard working man or woman, who enjoyed a drink after a hard day's work, into a criminal in the law's eyes. In The History of Prohibiton, a web site by J. McGrew, it states that Prohibiton also gave criminals, such as Al Capone, the opportunity to feed off the illegal substance. The organized crime circuit ate up Prohibition and began to boot leg alcohol. Local pharmacies and basements near the border became hubs for the transactions. The "Big…

was enforced through the Volstead Act, which was actually so important because this failure revealed this fact that banning something can have the opposite effect which makes it more desirable. At first, The Anti-Saloon League and Woman's Christian Temperance Union began supporting the prohibition, which caused the rise of it, but as time passed, rising crimes showed that it was nothing but a failure. Since the prohibition didn’t really work, in early 1933 congress proposed the 21st Amendment…

Fight for women’s rights One of the significant movements in the US history in 1815-1850 was the fight for women's rights. Although, in 1776 Abigail Adams asked her husband John Adams, to “remember the ladies” and their rights in the Declaration of Independence. Surprisingly the main movement was provoked by the fight for the slave's rights, in which women took significant part. When they saw how former slaves gained more and more rights, women realized that they could get rights, too. The…

In the late 19th century there was a great impact on women’s rights, therefore it was very devastating for the women who lived in America around that time period. Not only did they not share the same rights or opportunities as men, but were also being treated as maids. Women struggled to achieve equal rights for themselves, and they knew, they had to do something about it. Even though this was a huge issue here in the United States, it was also an issue in other countries such as Canada, United…

I picked up the question where industrialization shaped economy and society of the western regions of the country. As we all know in the three decades following 1870, more land was settled than in all the previous history of the country. Hundreds of Americans with their families moved to West by hoping to find better life and finding gold. On the other hand, economy day by day was developing and during Civil War Congress developed an economic blue print. There are some examples that…

became a preacher. He and Carrie moved their family to Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Here, Carrie began a career of charity and religious work. She became known as “Mother Nation.” (Madison, 62-67). Carrie organized the chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The WCTU helped to get Kansas to pass a law against selling alcohol. Even though the law had passed, there were still bars, clubs, and drug stores selling and serving alcohol…

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in a speech in 1941 before Congress naming them as the “essential human freedoms”. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, founded during the first world war in 1917, sought to play a major role in protecting the liberties of Americans such as the right to privacy. The landmark case in 1925, the Scopes Trial was a case where the American Civil Liberties Union sought to defend the right to independent thought and individual self-expression. There are darker sides to the idea of…