Which group in American society benefited most from prohibition?
a. The upper middle class benefited most because they were exempt from prohibition.
b. Those who benefited most were the ones who controlled the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
c. As the champions of this "noble experiment," conservatives were the ones who benefited most.
d. Churches and psychologists benefited due to the increased role they played in counseling alcoholics.
e. The judicial system benefited as its role in enforcement gave it more power in state and local government.
B
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On the Eastern Front,
a. at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000. b. in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok. c. German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944. d. Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. e. over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.
Most of the money the Allies collected in war reparations went to ________
A. France B. Great Britain C. the United States D. the Soviet Union
After 1830, southerners increasingly argued that
a. slavery was a positive good endorsed by the Bible and Aristotle. b. slavery was morally problematic but economically necessary. c. slavery could not be ended because emancipation would deepen racial conflict. d. poorer whites as well as blacks could be enslaved. e. leading European intellectuals accepted slavery on racial grounds.
The worst excesses of the colonial period were committed by
A) Leopold II of Belgium. B) the Firestone Rubber Company. C) Cecil Rhodes of Britain. D) Roman Catholic Church. E) French-owned companies.