USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Distribution of illegal liquor became the foundation for
A
the KKK
B
repeal of the 18th Amendment
C
the Great Migration
D
vast criminal empires
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition practically created organized crime in America. It provided members of small-time street gangs with the greatest opportunity ever-feeding the need of Americans coast to coast to drink beer, wine and hard liquor on the sly.

Detailed explanation-2: -The amendment came as a result of roughly a century of reform movements. Early temperance advocates aimed to reduce alcohol consumption and prevent alcoholism, drunkenness, and the disorder and violence it could result in. Theses early efforts promoted temperate consumption with hopes for eventual prohibition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in December 1933, repealed Prohibition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays.

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