Many women were the victims of the alcohol abuse of their husbands.
They also saw themselves as the protectors of children who were also negatively impacted by the alcohol
<span>abuse of their fathers and bosses. Many temperance societies supported other causes that were important to women (e.g. suffrage, ending child labor, improving public education, promoting workplace safety.)
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D most African American wished to save their families from slavery, it was suggested by the Confederates however to use a slave army, this was scrapped because they where afraid that the slaves would rebel since they had weapons.
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle