4.5 Prohibition

Question 1

Why did taxes cause leaders to be reluctant about prohibition?

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Income taxes were not created yet and the government depended on the liquor tax for funding.

Question 2

Some proponents of Prohibition supported the policy on religious grounds because they

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viewed excessive drinking as immoral behavior.

Question 3

What affect did the Scopes trial have on the school curriculum in Tennessee?

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It did not change the curriculum because Scopes lost the case.

Question 4

During the 1925 Scopes trial, the prosecution’s main argument was that

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Darwin’s theory of evolution was not scientific.

Question 5

As an African American prohibitionist, Frederick Douglass was in favor of the 18th Amendment because he

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witnessed enslavers trying to control enslaved people with alcohol.

Question 6

Supporters of Prohibition expected that Prohibition would

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fix the problems of society.

Question 7

Clarence Darrow, defended Scopes in his trial by making the argument that

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evolution was scientific fact.

Question 8

An immediate effect of the Scopes trial on American society was that

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people learned the scientific evidence for the theory of evolution.

Question 9

How did Prohibition affect corruption in the early 1900s?

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Prohibition increased corruption because people ignored the law.

Question 10

What did the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution accomplish?

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It banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the US.

4.5 Prohibition Answers