For many years women were thought to be second class citizens. Without financial power women felt as if they had no influence on politics, it was not until women began to use their voice they understood how much power they can have. The early waves of feminism began with the temperance movement. The temperance movement spawned from the opposition of alcohol. It started as the idea that Americans should drink less but changed overtime. This was the first majority women ran movement. Women fought for the abolition of alcohol because they believed alcohol attributed to domestic violence and absentee fathers. The cause of the temperance movement was the second great awakening, industrial evolution, and immigration. All of these waves of evolution
