Question

How are temperance and womens rights related to one another

Answer 1

Both grew out of the Second Great Awakening as reform movements to improve the American society.

The revival of religion and an American spin on old faiths and new faiths being created led to a focus on reform. The new nation had fallen away from religion and women were especially empowered by the revival of religion. The temperance movement was an attempt to improve the morality of Americans. Drinking was seen as wasteful and destroyed American work ethic. The women's movement connected because so many women were concerned with reform movements. They began to realize that they would have more power if they were able to vote.