The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Woman Voter in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

• In Event: Social Group Representation

Brief Overview

This paper explores whether a relationship exists between the presence of local WCTU chapters and the registration and voting of women in school elections in two states where the group was particularly well-organized, Massachusetts and Minnesota.

Authors

• Alixandra B. Yanus, Appalachian State University

• Adam Sander Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University