THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the high cost of enforcing it.
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the new President liked to drink.
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the women’s movement protested for a change in the law.
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soldiers returning from World War II wanted to be able to drink.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is A) The high cost of enforcing it. Prohibition refers to a period in American history when the sale, distribution, and manufacturing of alcohol was illegal.
Detailed explanation-2: -The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and organized crime led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cullen–Harrison Act, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933, authorized the sale of 3.2 percent beer (thought to be too low an alcohol concentration to be intoxicating) and wine, which allowed the first legal beer sales since the beginning of Prohibition on January 16, 1920.