Praxis II World and US History

Answer: B - In 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment repealed Prohibition, which had been established by the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. Prohibition ultimately contributed to the rise of organized crime throughout the 1920s, as bootleggers made vast profits from the illegal sale of alcohol but had to employ violence to evade the police. The government also lost revenue it would have acquired through taxes on alcohol, which was a critical issue at the end of the '20s when the Great Depression crippled the nation.