Although Billy Sunday and other religious leaders were optimistic about moral conformity that would occur as a result of prohibition, the reality was a large crime wave because
A) illegal liquor produced great profits.
B) criminals advanced to new levels of creativity and violence.
C) many average Americans were willing to disobey the law.
D) all of the above
Answer: D) all of the above
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a) Antietam b) Gettysburg c) Fredericksburg d) Bull Run
The Scots-Irish in South Carolina were
a. Catholics who moved from England to Scotland and then to North America. b. clannish, violent, heavy-drinking Indian-haters who dominated the back country. c. Quakers who set up Protestant missions to Christianize the Indians. d. the best educated and most dignified of the Anglican immigrants in the Middle Colonies. e. the governing elite.
Andrew Jackson's strongest supporters in the election of 1828 came from
a. New England. b. the Middle Atlantic states. c. the Southwest and Northeast. d. the West and the South. e. New England and the Middle Atlantic states.
The Columbian Exchange refers to transformations in what aspect of the Atlantic world?
A) scientific B) economic C) medical D) cultural E) biological