The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or the WCTU, was formed in 1874, and it became the largest organization for women in the world. Its goal was to form an orderly, Christian society, and it saw alcohol as its primary hindrance. The WCTU saw that alcohol caused a lot of problems in society, so naturally, it wanted to ban it. Women were a huge part of the Temperance Movement as a whole, mainly because they saw the how it had a negative impact on their families and keeping their home safe. Although women were supposed to be homemakers, the WCTU encouraged women to go outside their homes to fight alcohol, thought they did not initially advocate equality or women's rights. The goal of venturing outside the home was for the sole purpose of protecting the home. Later on, the WCTU pushed for national Prohibition, and it was eventually successful with the addition of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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