The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded

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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland to campaign for prohibition. To begin with the WCTU was primarily interested in a moral crusade against alcohol, but later it would become involved in wider social issues, including suffrage.

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