Was Prohibition a success or a failure?
What will be an ideal response?
This question gives students the opportunity to define what they mean by success or failure. If success is defined as making people stop drinking, then it failed. If success is defined by widespread compliance with the law, the expansion of organized crime points to its failure. But if success is defined merely in reducing the sale and use of alcohol, then it succeeded. The text points to the reduced incidents of drunkenness and deaths from alcoholism.
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In general, ____ tended to bind the West and South together, while ____ and ____ connected West to East
a. steamboats; canals; railroads b. railroads; canals; steamboats c. canals; steamboats; turnpikes d. turnpikes; steamboats; canals e. turnpikes; railroads; steamboats
The "lend-lease" plan
A. saw England allow the construction of American military bases in British territory. B. allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England, to be returned when the war was over. C. saw England agree to allow jobless Americans to enlist in the British military. D. was extremely controversial and barely passed the Senate. E. saw the U.S. lend funds to the Allies so they could lease war supplies from the U.S.
Following the convergence of Nat Turner's revolt and William Lloyd Garrison's publication of the abolitionist Liberator in 1831,
A) laws protecting slaves from overly severe treatment were repealed. B) the material conditions for slaves worsened. C) state laws prohibiting manumission were passed in the South. D) the slaves' expectations of freedom were heightened.
In which area of the British colonies was there the LEAST community life outside the plantation?
A) Lower South B) Chesapeake C) Middle Colonies D) New England