Why did many women choose to join the temperance movement.

Temperance began in the early 1800's as a movement to limit drinking in the united states. Alcohol abuse was rampant, and temperance advocates argued that it led to poverty and domesticated violence.

Explanation:

c.) the country needed a stronger central government.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: