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

Why was the Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution necessary?

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to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment

Question 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

John Scopes, the defendant in the 1925 Scopes trial, was

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a teacher.

Question 8

In the early 1900s, Al Capone was a

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bootlegger.

Question 9

Which statement best describes the beliefs of those who were against Prohibition in the early 1900s?

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They thought Prohibition would take away people’s rights.

Question 10

The main purpose of the Anti-Saloon League in the early 1900s was

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to pass a constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol.

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