The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in Hillsboro, Ohio on December 23, 1873. The Women's Christian Temperance Union believed that the main cause of unemployment and diseases was alcohol and campaigned for the Prohibition of alcohol. the people that helped this group grow was Annie Wittenmyer and Frances Willard who were the first two presidents of the group. This group wanted other issues to be banned as well such as tobacco, prostitution, public health and many more issues. This group was pushing the ban of alcohol because they felt that it was no good, that it wasn't family's paycheques and that it broke up family's which caused them to split. This group thought that alcohol effected the society as well because they thought that alcohol caused more crime and drinking and driving. They wanted no alcohol because they thought that both crime and drinking and driving would go down. This group was established because they wanted there message to become a national issue. After five years of this union over 1000 more were established across the world.