THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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Question
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Predestination
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Prohibition
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Proposition
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime.
Detailed explanation-2: -People typically got hooch or giggle water – alcohol– from a barrel house or gin mill, which were distribution places, and maybe kept it in their hipflask (which is pretty self-explanatory).
Detailed explanation-3: -On October 28, 1919, the National Prohibition Act, popularly known as the Volstead Act (after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead), was enacted, providing enforcement guidelines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-5: -Prohibition was a period from 1920 to 1933 during which there was a nationwide prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.