Thinking Like A Historian (2.10)

Frances Willard, pictured in the middle, was a major activist who helped introduce women's suffrage to the United States.

The documents that I read were all about Frances Willard. Frances Willard was a late-nineteenth-century temperance reformer who also fought for women's suffrage and temperance. She built the WCTU (Women's Christain Temperance Movement) which applied Christianity ideals to fighting for reform. During this time there was a large amount of alcohol abuse and women in WCTU fought against that. Frances wrote multiple guide books for WCTU members, one of the documents had some excerpts from Hints and Helps. There were rules on what to get involved in and who one should write letters to. From reading these different documents I got the sense that sometimes they mad their actions speak louder than their words. For example, Frances took s picture of here on a bicycle to show worries parents that riding a bike was safe and fun.