What factor contributed most to a shift from "wet" to "dry" states in the American West between 1904 and 1917?
A) growing problems with alcohol abuse by American Indians
B) women's acquisition of suffrage in the West before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
C) the rise in violent crime and prostitution in Western cities due to alcohol
D) the increase in domestic violence resulting from the use of alcohol
B
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