All of the Following Contributed to the Repeal of Prohibition

question 22

Multiple Choice

All of the following contributed to the repeal of Prohibition except ​

• A)Americans began to view Prohibition as a restriction on their individual freedoms. 
• B)the brewing and liquor interests launched a campaign against the Eighteenth Amendment.
• C)​statistics showed that the average consumption of alcohol had increased under Prohibition. 
• D)​The spread of bootlegging and organized crime made Prohibition increasingly difficult to enforce.
• E)​The federal government recognized it was losing income from potential tax revenues from the sale of liquor.

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