Question

1 point

True or False: Prohibition disproportionately affected lower-class poor
Americans because they could not afford to pay the gangster's high prices
for safe alcohol. Therefore, many people got sick and died from drinking
cheap, unregulated alcohol.*
True
False

Answer 1

False.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Prohibition period, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, was a moment in American history during which the consumption, manufacture, and marketing of alcoholic beverages was prohibited throughout the nation.

During this period, the legal sale of alcohol was cut, giving way to the illegal trade of these products by the gangsters of the time, who imported it from Canada or made it themselves. However, this practice did not have a significant impact on the low-income population, since this, due to high costs, could not access the beverages that were offered in the illegal market.