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What was the most important effect of the prohibition of alcohol by the government in 1919

a. popularity of jazz bands
b. growth of organized crime
c. decrease in illegal gambling
d. reduction in wheat production

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B. Growth of Organized Crime.

You can’t really tell people what to not do; they tend to find ways around it and this was a major casualty of trying to get rid of something like alcohol.
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