Which reform movement aimed to ban alcohol and prostitution?

Which reform movement aimed to ban alcohol and prostitution?

• A. Women's Christian Temperance Movement
• B. National Consumers League
• C. American Federation of Labor
• D. Industrial Workers of the World

Answer: (A)

The focus here is how Progressive Era reformers linked moral improvement to social policy. The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement was the leading force behind temperance activism, arguing that alcohol ruined families and communities. They pushed for laws to ban or restrict alcohol and extended their anti-vice stance to prostitution as part of their broader moral reform agenda. Their organized, faith-based network and lobbying helped popularize prohibition and shaped reform efforts that connected moral issues with public policy. The other groups had different aims: a labor-focused union movement, a group pushing for better conditions and protections for consumers, and radical labor organizers, none of which centered on banning alcohol or prostitution in the way the WCTU did.

The focus here is how Progressive Era reformers linked moral improvement to social policy. The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement was the leading force behind temperance activism, arguing that alcohol ruined families and communities. They pushed for laws to ban or restrict alcohol and extended their anti-vice stance to prostitution as part of their broader moral reform agenda. Their organized, faith-based network and lobbying helped popularize prohibition and shaped reform efforts that connected moral issues with public policy.

The other groups had different aims: a labor-focused union movement, a group pushing for better conditions and protections for consumers, and radical labor organizers, none of which centered on banning alcohol or prostitution in the way the WCTU did.