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Question 1

Why did taxes cause leaders to be reluctant about prohibition?

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Income taxes were not created yet and the government depended on the liquor tax for funding.

Question 2

Which statement best describes the beliefs of those who were against Prohibition in the early 1900s?

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They thought Prohibition would take away people’s rights.

Question 3

What did the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution accomplish?

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It banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the US.

Question 4

How did Prohibition affect corruption in the early 1900s?

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Prohibition increased corruption because people ignored the law.

Question 5

As an African American prohibitionist, Frederick Douglass was in favor of the 18th Amendment because he

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witnessed enslavers trying to control enslaved people with alcohol.

Question 6

Why was the Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution necessary?

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to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment

Question 7

Why did Congress pass the Volstead Act to go along with the Eighteenth Amendment?

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The Volstead Act provided for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment.

Question 8

In the early 1900s, Al Capone was a

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bootlegger.

Question 9

The main purpose of the Anti-Saloon League in the early 1900s was

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to pass a constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol.

Question 10

Supporters of Prohibition expected that Prohibition would

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fix the problems of society.

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