WCTU
Anti-alcohol women's group
WCTU is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a Protestant organization founded in 1874 to advocate for alcohol prohibition.
The WCTU was instrumental in the campaign that led to the Eighteenth Amendment banning alcohol sales in the United States.
The organization still exists but has little influence today.
Habitual moderation in behavior
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- crusadeZealous effort for change
- pledgeBinding promise given
ribbon · convention · chapter · membership · national · local · union · federation
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- hatchetSmall one-handed chopper
barroom · drunkard · intemperance · demon rum · abolition · suffragette · women's movement · evangelical
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- petitionFormal written appeal
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
amendment · Eighteenth Amendment · rally · march · demonstration · lecture · pamphlet · education
temperance
Habitual moderation in behavior
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- crusadeZealous effort for change
pledge · ribbon · convention · chapter · membership · national · local · union · federation · agenda
Victorian
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
hatchet · barroom · drunkard · intemperance · demon rum · abolition · suffragette · women's movement · evangelical · Protestant
abstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- petitionFormal written appeal
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
legislation · amendment · Eighteenth Amendment · rally · march · demonstration · lecture · pamphlet · education · advocacy
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- sobrietysober, sobriety, abstinence, abstinent, abstainer
- Temperancetemperance movement, teetotalism, prohibition movement, alcohol abstinence, 18th Amendment
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment
WCTUsaloon
Drinking establishment, often frontier
distillers · wets · Anheuser-Busch · speakeasy · tavern
WCTUlibertines
Morally dissolute individuals
hedonists · decadence · flappers · vice · dissipation
WCTUlibertines
Morally dissolute individuals
Playboy · hedonism · permissiveness · bacchanalian · debauchery