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

The option that best describes why Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed is B.

Members were concerned about the impact of alcohol on their communities.

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

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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