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<u>Answer:</u> False
<u>Explanation:</u> The imposition of the 18th Amendment had more to do with social activism than with stereotypes.
Distilled and fermented liquors were brought from Europe for many reasons. Alcohol was considered healthy and medicinal, used for killing pain and soothing indigestion. It was also known as a curative and invigorating beverage. Some people even preferred drinking cider or beer instead of drinking water, since water in America was muddy and dirty.
However, drunkenness was condemned and punished, a signal of weakness. It was associated with domestic violence, family neglection, unemployment, and psychologic problems. In that scenario, a movement flourished defending moderation or temperance. Many leaders came up in different states, all of them influenced by Benjamin Rush’s tract of 1785. At first, those movements were small and segmented, but in 1825 the American Temperance Society was formed and unified many of those small groups. It had the support of both Catholic and Protestant churches and, as the years passed by, it split along two lines: radicals who defended total abstinence, and moderates who allowed some drinking. The Society continued pushing the states’ legislatures to enact statewide prohibition of alcohol, reasoning that such prohibition would decrease the number of unemployment and violence, at the same time that it would increase productivity. Because of this pressure, in 1919 the Eighteenth Amendment was established, declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors forbidden.
The 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933 mainly because of the profit that the government could have by taxing imported wines, gin, rum, and whiskey.
He did nothing, thinking the economic crisis would mend itself with time.
Hoover was a laissez-faire Republican who believed the government should not interfere with the economy.
Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to do nothing initially. He believed it was a normal part of the boom-bust economic cycle. As the Depression moved on, Hoover used a method of volunteerism. Volunteerism asked those with money to give to others and to invest their money back into the banks and job creation.
Assuming your question is in reference to the Vietnam War, the United States got involved because of
<h2>domino theory and the policy of containment.</h2>
"Domino theory" was applied in justifying US involvement in the Vietnam War. Domino theory said that the spread of communism in Vietnam would result in other countries in the region falling like dominoes to the influence of communism.
Domino theory was a corollary to the overall policy of containment that developed as the United States' policy regarding communism after the end of World War II. George F. Kennan is known for recommending the policy of containment, which said that the best way to deal with the threat of communism was simply to try to keep it contained to the places where it already existed.
