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Prohibition was imposed in 1919 by the Eighteenth Amendment. What is it said to have produced instead of its aim?
AA sharp fall in the making of grain
BA new federal tax on every saloon
CA rise in the number of saloons kept
DThousands of illicit drinking places
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Thousands of illicit drinking places
1. 1. The stated aim was to eliminate the saloon and the drunkard.
2. 2. The word instead marks what actually followed.
3. 3. What followed was thousands of illicit drinking places and a profitable criminal career for bootleggers.
4. 4. Legal saloons were the thing abolished, so an increase in them is the opposite of what is described.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section AMERICA IN THE 1920s_
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