Carrie Amelia Nation was an American activist who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet. She remained opposed to drinking and smoking throughout her life. Nation’s work paved the way for two amendments to the United States Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment , passed in 1919, prohibited the sale of alcohol, and the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, allowed women to vote. In 1933 Prohibition ended with another constitutional amendment.