Question

Which of these social movements is depicted in the image

Answer 1

The right answer is B: Temperance. In this engraving, titled Woman's crusade against intemperance. Pleading with a saloonkeeper, various women are down on their knees, peacefully praying, in front of an urban barroom, while one of them, seemingly on behalf of the rest, is pleading their case, namely, to protest the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, and their harmful effect. This print, the work of Charles Stanley Reinhart, illustrates the so-called Women's Temperance Movement, which, starting in the late 1800s, aimed at promoting moderation, or temperance (which came to be known as the "woman's crusade," since women volunteers were actively involved in it) in the sale and consumption of alcohol, and, eventually, the total prohibition to sell it.