The Eighteenth Amendment:
a. prohibited the manufacture and sale of any German products.
b. was never ratified.
c. barred states from passing laws prohibiting alcohol manufacture or sale.
d. prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
e. protected the beer industry.
Answer: d. prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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When President Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961, he
A) was extremely unpopular with most Americans. B) had been unable to reduce the role of government in the economy at all. C) accepted the fundamental features of the welfare state. D) had managed to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority to private interests.
The author of The History of the Negro Race from 1619–1880 . . . As Slaves, As Soldiers, and As Citizens was __________
A) William Wells Brown B) Frederick Douglass C) George Washington Williams D) Anna Julia Cooper
By 1841 Frederick Douglass was working as an antislavery lecturer
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of these roughly doubled the size of the United States at the time it was added?
A) Mexican cessions of 1848 B) Louisiana Purchase C) Oregon Country D) Texas