Question

Carrie A. Nation's main contribution to the Temperance Movement was:

• A. Her direct non-violent actions designed to shame drinkers and saloon owners
• B. Using her proximity and access to politicians to push for laws to stop drinking in towns and cities and states across the country
• C. Tying the anti-saloon movement to women's suffrage so that women could directly affect the political steps needed to ban alcohol
• D. Taking over the WCTU at the end of the century and leading it towards the ultimate success of the Eighteenth Amendment which put Prohibition in place for the country
• E. Engaging in violent actions against saloons and bars providing a more direct method of stopping drinking and a radical fringe to the WCTU's more mainstream methods.

Answer 1

The correct option is E Engaging in violent actions against saloons and bars providing a more direct method of stopping drinking and a radical fringe to the WCTU's more mainstream methods.

Carrie Amelia Nation was an American women who opposed the Alcohol consumption with dramatic measures like by using Hatchet to attack alcohol using establishments. She was a radical member of the Temperance movement which opposed Alcohol consumption.