The purpose behind the creation of Women's Christian Temperance Union was the banning of liquor and protecting their homes from the effect of liquor. It was basically a social reforms program that was undertaken by the women of that time.The WCTU was officially declared in the year 1874. I hope the answer helps you.
The territory was name after the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania, made famous by 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by thomas Campbell based on the battle of Wyoming in the American war of independence.the name ultimately from munsee word meaning "at the big river flat."