What did Prohibition and the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan signify about America in the 1920s?
A. a prevailing sense of the acceptability of illegal behavior for desired goals
B. a moralistic attitude that extended to all forms of popular art and culture
C. a defeat of Progressivism and the ideas of feminists and racial reformers
D. a laissez-faire government that was largely hands-off in economic and social matters
Answer: A
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