Lecture 18 - Key Terms and Questions Flashcards
Who is this? What was the axe for?
- Carrie A. Nation
- radical member of the temperance movement
- hatchet for attacking alcoholic establishments
The famous economist Irving Fisher _____ prohibition because he thought it _____.
favored, would increase labor productivity
Economic historians have used ______ as a proxy for the consumption of
alcohol during prohibition.
deaths from cirrhosis of the liver
To judge from the proxy identified in the previous question, which of the following
statements about alcohol consumption during the 1920s and 1930s appears to be
true? “Alcohol consumption ___.”
declined before national prohibition, reached a low level after it was
imposed, and rose again after it was removed.
All of the following were cited in class as costs of prohibition except one. Which one does not belong?
Prohibition produced an increase in prostitution and other “substitute vices.”
The theme song of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign for the presidency in 1932 was ____.
“Happy days are here again”
What was behind the Prohibition movement?
- Women’s right to vote
- WWI shift from “wets” to “dries
- can’t be too drunk to work, for the need of food production.
W. C. Fields (American Film Star): “Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but ____, and _____.”
Food, water
