Prohibition And Crime
Prohibition in the United States was a constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages across the entire nation from 1920 to 1933. What can you tell us about prohibition and its effects?
- 1.How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?
- A.
By forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws
- B.
By making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity because policemen were to busy
- C.
By forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol
- D.
By strengthening respect for the law
- 2.In 1933, Congress repealed Prohibition with the
- A.
Eighteenth Amendment.
- B.
Nineteenth Amendment.
- C.
Twentieth Amendment.
- D.
Twenty First Amendment.
- 3.These people either were for or against prohibition
- A.
Modernists or Traditionalists
- B.
Drys or Wets
- C.
Facists or Communists
- 4.Prohibition led to
- A.
A nation full of alcoholics
- B.
A return to the Victorian Age
- C.
Organized crime
- 5.This act enforced the 18th Amendment
- A.
Dawes Act
- B.
Volstead Act
- C.
Riot Act
- D.
18th Amendment Act
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