Prohibition quiz
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When did national Prohibition end in the US?
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Which amendment ended Prohibition?
Answer: 21st
Why: Its second section left alcohol laws to each state, so some states kept their own bans long after 1933.
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Where did an 1851 law ban alcohol statewide?
Answer: Maine
Why: Copies spread fast: by 1855, twelve more states had passed alcohol bans modeled on the Maine Law.
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What state cast the deciding vote to end Prohibition in 1933?
Answer: Utah
Why: Utah's convention approved repeal even though LDS Church president Heber J. Grant had urged members to oppose it.
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What nickname did the press give Al Capone?
Answer: Scarface
Why: His closest friends used a different nickname, Snorky, slang for a sharp dresser.
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Which department's agents enforced Prohibition until 1930?
Answer: Treasury
Why: Enforcement did not pass to the Justice Department until July 1930, a decade after Prohibition began.
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What did a 1925 bootlegging case let officers search without a warrant?
Answer: Cars
Why: The court reasoned that a car can be driven away before officers could get a warrant for it.
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