Although the states have the authority to set the minimum drinking age, the United States has a national legal alcohol consumption age of twenty-one because ______
a. state compacts have led to a uniform drinking age
b. the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds from any state that didn’t have a drinking age of twenty-one
c. all states are now sensitive to the consequences of underage drinking
d. prohibition groups have lobbied successfully for a higher drinking age in all states
e. the international standard for the legal drinking age is twenty-one
b. the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds from any state that didn’t have a drinking age of twenty-one
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