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American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
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Temperance movement in the United States
Efforts to reduce or end the consumption of alcohol
In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Carrie Nation
American temperance advocate (1846–1911)
Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to as Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vandalism
Deliberate damage or defacement of an object or structure
Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Kiowa, Kansas
City in Kiowa County, Kansas
Kiowa is a city in Kiowa Township, Barber County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 902. It is located one mile north of the Kansas / Oklahoma state border.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)