During the 1820s, Americans' per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages
A) decreased dramatically with the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.
B) increased to the highest point ever in American experience.
C) decreased because of the high prices of corn and rye whiskey.
D) increased, but to a rate only half as high as that for present-day Americans.
B
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).