1. By: Imani Renee Wiley

4.  Carrie Amelia Moore Nation was an American women who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.  Born: November 25, 1846  Born In Garrard County, KY  Died: June 9, 1911  Died in Leavensworth, KS

5.  Education: university of Central Missouri  Born : Carrie Amelia Moore in Garrard County, Kentucky  Parents: George and Mary Campbell Moore  She had a poor education and informal learning

6.  Was in this reform to help alcoholics and urge personal moderation in the consumption of alcoholic beverages  Received a teaching certificate  Was president of WCTU( Woman’s Christian Temperance Union)  She started a local branch or “union” of the WCTU

7.  She acted in a play called Hatchetation  She published a biweekly newsletter (The Smashing Mail)  She had a newspaper,The Hatchet  She wrote and autobiography  She was in the temperance movement

8.  She was successful in seeking reform.  Carrie A. Nation was the member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union best known for attacking saloons and other drinking establisments with a hatchet

9.  “ I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed fire saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.”  “I want all hellions to quit putting that hell fume in God’s clean air.”

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