THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Many people were determined to break the laws.
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Insufficient funds were provided to pay for enforcement.
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Many law enforcement officials took bribes from smugglers and bootleggers.
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Prohibition banned only alcoholic beverages manufactured in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enforcing Prohibition proved to be extremely difficult. The illegal production and distribution of liquor, or bootlegging, became rampant, and the national government did not have the means or desire to try to enforce every border, lake, river, and speakeasy in America.
Detailed explanation-2: -1. Why were prohibition laws difficult to enforce? Because of the bootleggers that would bring alcohol into the US and sell to those who wanted it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of these was a DIRECT result of the Prohibition movement in the United States? 18th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Detailed explanation-4: -Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt “appropriate” legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment-most notably, the provisions of Section One.