Essay Prompt: In the twentieth century prohibition spread by
states' passing local option laws, which permitted a unit of local government, such as a county, to prohibit the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. After an
intensive campaign by the Anti-Saloon League and other.
prohibitionist organizations and reform groups, national
prohibition was achieved by the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution in 1919. Using your knowledge of this period, why did prohibition fail?

President nixon resigned from office in 1974 after he was informed that the senate would impeach him, as allowed in the constitution, for his actions in the watergate scandal. one of the key reasons that nixon’s actions became public was a) the freedom of press guaranteed by the first amendment. b) the right to confront witnesses as guaranteed by the sixth amendment. c) the limitation of judicial powers as defined in article 3 of the constitution. d) the prohibition against illegal search and seizure as guaranteed by the fourth amendment.