What was the goal of the temperance movement

The movement spread, leading to the formation of state women's temperance organisations and, in Cleveland in 1874, a national organisation: the American Woman's Christian Temperance Union ('WCTU-Our History'). Bands of women began to demonstrate to curb the activities of bars, protesting against the public drunkenness and fighting and the domestic violence that drinking alcohol often precipitated.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union had its origins in the American West of the early 1870s. The American WCTU offered leadership in progressive reform that had significant influence on the Unions in Australia, given their foundation by 'missionaries' who had worked in the United States. Its years of prominence would span the period from 1891 to the post-World War II reconstruction period, but it sustained a place in public debate and lobbying on a range of social issues throughout the 20th century. This was almost certainly the first interstate gathering of women's organisations held in Australia and the WCTU was the first national women's organisation in the country (Carey, 'NWCTUA', AWR). The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australasia (WCTUA), later renamed the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia (NWCTUA), and, since 2009, WCTU Australia Ltd, was formed in May 1891 at a meeting held in Melbourne for the purpose of federating the existing colonial unions.

What was the goal of the temperance movement