Reformers had radical ways to draw attention to their movements. In the middle of the 1800s many of them blamed social problems such as family violence and criminal behaviour on a number of factors, including alcohol consumption. As a result, many groups took up the cause of temperance, or avoidance of alcohol. More than a thousand saloons were forced to shut down as a result of temperance supporters’ efforts. In continuity, in 1913 Alice Paul founded what would become the famous National Woman’s Party (NWP). The NWP used parades, public demonstrations, picketing, hunger strikes, and other means to draw attention to the suffrage cause.