Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Examples of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the following topics:

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. " The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
  • Willard became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years.
  • The WCTU was instrumental in organizing woman's suffrage leaders and in helping more women become involved in American politics.
  • Summarize the origins and achievements of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

• The Prohibition Movement

  • It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that, "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
  • The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and to create a, "sober and pure world" through abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity.
  • Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, who became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president for 19 years, was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
  • Although popular opinion is that Prohibition failed, it succeeded in cutting overall alcohol consumption in half during the 1920s, and consumption remained below pre-Prohibition levels until the 1940s, suggesting that Prohibition did socialize a significant proportion of the population in temperate habits, at least temporarily.

• Progressivism and Religion

  • Social Gospel held that Christians were called to combat social ills such as injustice and poverty.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union mobilized Protestant women for social crusades against liquor, pornography and prostitution, and sparked the demand for woman suffrage.
  • Mary Baker Eddy introduced Christian Science, which gained a national following.
  • By the 1840s, a new emphasis on holiness and Christian perfection had begun within American Methodism.
  • Rauschenbusch railed against the selfishness of capitalism and promoted a form of Christian Socialism that endorsed labor unions and cooperative economics.

• Women's Activism

  • Gage, of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), embodied the radicalism of much second-wave feminism.
  • Some activists belonged to conservative Christian groups (for example, Frances Willard belonged to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union).
  • The American woman had no legal recourse at that time against rape by her husband.
  • The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?"
  • During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army.

• The Populist Movement

  • It sometimes formed coalitions with labor unions, and in 1896, the Democrats endorsed the party's presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan.
  • The movement reached its peak in 1892 when the party held a convention chaired by Frances Willard (leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union) in Omaha, Nebraska, and nominated candidates for the national election.
  • The Populist movement coincided with the Third Great Awakening, characterized by pietistic Protestant denominations, and Bryan was a devout Presbyterian who was a strong supporter of temperance and opposed Darwinism.
  • His campaign kicked off in October 1921, when the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, invited Bryan to deliver the James Sprunt Lectures.

• Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age

  • Labor unions became important in the very rapidly growing industrial cities.
  • Unions crusaded for the eight-hour working day and the abolition of child labor; middle-class reformers demanded civil service reform, prohibition, and women's suffrage.
  • Reviving the temperance movement from the Second Great Awakening, many women joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in an attempt to bring morality back to America.
  • Anthony, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in order to secure the right of women to vote.

• Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • In the prosperous southern region of the Arabian Peninsula, for example, the religious edicts of Christianity and Judaism held sway among the Sabians and Himyarites.
  • As part of the agreement, the man's family might offer property such as camels or horses in exchange for the woman.
  • Upon marriage, the woman would leave her family and reside permanently in the tribe of her husband.
  • In some Islamic countries, such as Iran, a woman's husband may enter into temporary marriages in addition to permanent marriage.
  • A woman's male children could inherit property and increased the wealth of the tribe.

• The Social Gospel

  • The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early twentieth century United States and Canada.
  • The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  • From 1884 to 1894, Myron Reed of the First Congregational Church served as a spokesman for labor unions on issues such as worker's compensation.
  • By 1900, says historian Edward Ayers, the white Baptists, although they were the most conservative of all of the denominations in the South, became steadily more concerned with social issues, taking stands on, "temperance, gambling, illegal corruption, public morality, orphans, and the elderly."
  • In 1879, Mary Baker Eddy introduced Christian Science, which gained a national following.

• Women and the War

  • She also worked for the Union Army when the Civil War began.
  • In June 1863, Tubman became the first woman to plan and execute an armed expedition in U.S. history, leading 300 soldiers 25 miles into the interior of South Carolina to free approximately 800 slaves.
  • Barton, convinced by her father that it was her duty as a Christian to assist in the war effort, gained permission from Quartermaster Daniel Rucker to serve on the front lines, distributing stores, cleaning field hospitals, applying dressings, and serving food to wounded and ill soldiers.
  • Greenhow was discovered and captured by Union forces in August of 1861.
  • Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed assault during the Civil War.

• Defining a Successful Delivery

  • Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
  • Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
  • A good man (or woman), speaking well has to be "real", firstly you need to know and speak the truth; and secondly, you cannot be posing or acting when you speak.