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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

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1.An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. It is also known as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and by its acronym WCTU or W.C.T.U.. It was one of the political forces leading to passage of the constitutional amendment, later repealed, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FRANCES WILLARD (1839-98) came to faith at a Methodist revival meeting and went on to become president of the 2-million-member Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which had an evangelistic outreach to laborers of many trades.
Under pressure from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, the number of dry states increased from three in 1903 to 32 in 1916.
He assumes, for example, in discussing efforts by members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in early twentieth-century Montreal (and Quebec Province more generally) to make smoking by minors unlawful, that their motivation was overwhelmingly moral--not allowing good boys and girls to go bad.
 
 
 
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