EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/18

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In this story I continue to focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. During the First World War, Anna was instrumental in convincing President Woodrow Wilson to harden the federal government's policies agains the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, most notably by criminalising the use of foodstuffs to make alcohol. 

Later in 1919, temperance organisations scored a mjor victory with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which fully established prohibition in the United States. After this success, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union under Anna's guidance began to turn more towards temperance enforcement, and causes peripheral to the temperance movement, such as citizenship for immigrants, women's rights in the workplace and child protection. 

In November 1922, Anna was elected president of the World Women's Temperance Union, and she resigned her presidency of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union organisation.

Anna died in 1931.

Read Part Nineteen HERE