18th and 21st Amendments Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around 18th and 21st Amendments? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What is most significant about the 18th Amendment?
It's the first time a Constitutional Amendment removed a right rather than guaranteeing one.
It clarified the Founders' intentions when it came to alcohol.
It made it illegal to drink liquor.
It contained a long string of cursing, the consequences of being entirely dictated to an overly-literal secretary.
Q. What Amendment was vital to getting the 18th enacted and why?
The 16th. By establishing income tax, the government didn't need liquor taxes as a source of revenue.
The 17th. Public election of senators put undue pressure on politicians to obey the public's will.
The 15th. African Americans were overwhelmingly dry and their votes helped guarantee the passage of the 18th.
The 1st. People no longer worshiped whiskey as a god and thus could choose to make it illegal.
Q. What is significant about the 21st Amendment?
It was the first time a Constitutional Amendment was repealed.
It was the first Amendment enacted by popular vote.
It was the first Amendment voted on by a newly integrated Congress.
It was the first Amendment to include an impromptu slam poetry contest.
Q. What does the 21st Amendment show beyond any doubt?
That the Constitution can not only be changed, but changed back, and thus is a living document
That people are just making this up as they go
That lawmakers will knuckle under to public pressure
That the Constitution desperately needs an editor
Q. What political movement went hand in hand with temperance and why?
Women's suffrage, because women disproportionately suffered from alcohol's ill effects
Women's suffrage, because women were more enthusiastic drinkers by a two-to-one margin
The integration of public schools, because both were pushed by social reformers
Isolationism, because Americans just wanted to get drunk in peace.