Which best describes why women’s christian temperance union was formed? members were concerned about the impact of new ideas on their communities. members were concerned about the impact of alcohol on their communities. members wanted to organize distillery workers, who had few rights. members wanted more religious freedom for their families.

Option B, Members were concerned about the impact of alcohol on their communities is the right answer.

The temperance movement was a social campaign organized in response to the “Woman’s March". This organization was founded in the year 1874 in  in Cleveland, Ohio. The members of this movement were against the consumption of Alcoholic beverages. The main purpose of the WCTU was to defend the home from harmful impacts on family life and to promote complete abstention from alcohol.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed because members were concerned about the impact of alcohol on their communities.

Further Explanations:

19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guaranteed the Women with their right to vote and prohibited the State and Federal Government from refuting it. Several attempts to eradicate the women's suffrage were done before with little or no success. Many organizations were also established to stop the suffrage of Women.NWSA or National Woman Suffrage Association was established on 15th May 1869 in New York. Susan B. Anthony, as well as  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were its founders who opposed the Amendment until it granted Women's right to vote. AWSA or American Woman Suffrage Associationwas a single- matter National Organization of Boston City

Apart from this Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was an active international temperance organization formed for social reforms based on Christianity that came in prominence during the Progressive era. It came into effect on 23rd December 1873 in the national convention held in Cleveland, Ohio. It laid more emphasis on the ban of alcohol as according to them it was the main reason behind the suffrage of Women.

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Grade: HighSchool

Subject: US History

Chapter:Women Suffrage

Keywords:National, Woman Suffrage, Association, New York, United state's, constitution, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American, Woman Suffrage, Association,

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