The Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union advocated in favor of?

Answer 1

They both promoted a prohibition on making, selling and consuming Alcoholic Beverages.

The Anti-Saloon League, the leading organization for National Prohibition in the United States, was a non-partisan political pressure group established in 1893. It was a single-issue lobbying group that had branches across the United States to work with churches in marshaling resources for the prohibition fight. Its primary base of support was among Protestant churches in rural areas and the South.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) reports that "The WCTU was organized by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society. It elaborates that "In many towns in Ohio and New York in the fall of 1873 women concerned about the destructive power of alcohol met in churches to pray and then marched to the saloons to ask the owners to close their establishments." They then established the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In the belief that they needed to become organized nationally, the next summer they established the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Within the first five years, the WCTU established a network of over 1,000 local units or unions.

The WCTU is now considered the oldest voluntary, non-sectarian women's organization in continuous existence in the world. It was among the first organizations to keep a professional lobbyist in Washington, D. C. to promote its agenda. The organization is called the "Woman's" rather than "Women's" Christian Temperance Union because it is the individual woman who takes the temperance pledge.