Prohibition And Crime

1. Prohibition led to

A nation full of alcoholics

A return to the Victorian Age

Organized crime

About This Quiz

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?

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2. This act enforced the 18th Amendment

Dawes Act

Volstead Act

Riot Act

18th Amendment Act

3. How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

By forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws

By making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity because policemen were to busy

By forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

By strengthening respect for the law

4. These people either were for or against prohibition

Modernists or Traditionalists

Drys or Wets

Facists or Communists

5. In 1933, Congress repealed Prohibition with the

Eighteenth Amendment.

Nineteenth Amendment.

Twentieth Amendment.

Twenty First Amendment.