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Carrie Nation Was A Progressive During The 1900's

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Carrie Nation was a progressive during the 1900’s who made her renown by traveling to Kiowa, Kansas and smashing all the alcohol bottles in the local bar, where the men were so drunk they couldn't do anything to stop her, some even hid under tables in fear she would swing for them next, but she made it known was not there to hurt them; she was there to put an end to their operation. As she went on to other bars, she wasn't so lucky. The men in those bars weren’t at drunk and beat her up, threw her to the ground, pulled her hair, and had her arrested, all to save the bottles. Nevertheless, Carrie Nation would not stop. She traveled from Maine to California- across the nation- preaching against the viles of alcoholic beverages and its negative
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