What Was One of the Factors That Contributed to the Passage

question 11

Multiple Choice

What was one of the factors that contributed to the passage of the Prohibition amendment?

• A) Beer consumption per capita was at an all-time low in the years before the amendment was passed, so the law finally seemed viable to politicians.
• B) An overabundance of crops in the United States during the war allowed Americans to end their dependency on alcoholic beverages.
• C) Many leaders of the Prohibition movement saw it as a way to draw greater numbers of immigrants to the United States and grow the workforce.
• D) The amendment would help police the activities of corrupt business leaders and, thus, turn policing efforts away from African Americans and the working poor.
• E) The majority of beer brewers were German, and a great deal of ethnic and social prejudice was directed toward them in the wake of the Great War.

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