18th and 21st Amendments True or False
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What is most significant about the 18th Amendment? -> It's the first time a Constitutional Amendment removed a right rather than guaranteeing one.
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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.
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What is significant about the 21st Amendment? -> It was the first Amendment to include an impromptu slam poetry contest.
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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
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What political movement went hand in hand with temperance and why? -> Women's suffrage, because women were more enthusiastic drinkers by a two-to-one margin
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