How Did the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Try to Protect

question 88

Multiple Choice

How did the Woman's Christian Temperance Union try to protect women and children from the abuse of fathers and husbands?

• A) It worked toward ending the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
• B) It argued that women should withhold sex to control and discipline their husbands.
• C) It tried to teach women how to be more understanding of men and keep their emotions in check.
• D) It built women's shelters and refuges all over the country, sometimes in the form of settlement houses.

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