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18th and 21st Amendments True or False

1. What is most significant about the 18th Amendment? -> It's the first time a Constitutional Amendment removed a right rather than guaranteeing one.
2. What Amendment was vital to getting the 18th enacted and why? -> The 16th. By establishing income tax, the government didn't need liquor taxes as a source of revenue.
3. What is significant about the 21st Amendment? -> It was the first Amendment to include an impromptu slam poetry contest.
4. What does the 21st Amendment show beyond any doubt? -> That the Constitution can not only be changed, but changed back, and thus is a living document
5. What political movement went hand in hand with temperance and why? -> Women's suffrage, because women were more enthusiastic drinkers by a two-to-one margin

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