Q 01/05

National Prohibition took effect on 17 January of which year?

A) 1917

B) 1918

C) 1919

D) 1920

Answer · why

D) 1920

The 18th Amendment was ratified a year earlier, on 16 January 1919, and by its own terms the country went dry exactly one year later.

Q 02/05

Which amendment to the US Constitution established Prohibition?

A) Sixteenth

B) Seventeenth

C) Eighteenth

D) Nineteenth

Answer · why

C) Eighteenth

It passed Congress with a 68 percent supermajority in the House and was ratified by 46 of the 48 states; only Connecticut and Rhode Island opted out.

Q 03/05

Prohibition's enforcement law was popularly named after which Minnesota congressman?

A) Andrew Volstead

B) Morris Sheppard

C) Wayne Wheeler

D) Frank Kellogg

Answer · why

A) Andrew Volstead

Congress passed the National Prohibition Act on 28 October 1919 over President Wilson's veto; it banned beer at home but let families make 200 gallons...

Q 04/05

Which president's veto of the Volstead Act did Congress override in October 1919?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) William Howard Taft

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Warren Harding

Answer · why

C) Woodrow Wilson

Wilson objected on technical grounds; the same Congress had already banned wartime beer production before the war even ended.

Q 05/05

Which pressure group, run by 'dry boss' Wayne Wheeler, did the most to push Prohibition through?

A) The Prohibition Party

B) The Salvation Army Corps

C) The National Grange

D) The Anti-Saloon League

Answer · why

D) The Anti-Saloon League

Wheeler, an Oberlin graduate from Ohio, perfected single-issue pressure politics: back any candidate, of any party, who voted dry.