Question

document 5... the end of the prohibition era marked the demise of a moral crusade meant to impose a uniform standard of social behavior in the united states. unrealistic and unforgiving, prohibition had allowed a vocal minority to regulate the personal habits of all americans, especially those who lived and worked in cities like new york. while the desire of the dry crusade to uplift and improve the united states by banning alcohol and the saloon had in some ways been understandable in the progressive era that spawned the prohibition movement, the shortcomings of the dry crusade manifested themselves as soon as the dry experiment had begun. anachronistic outdated and unworkable, the prohibition experiment in the united states by the 1920s had grown too large and too varied a nation to be governed by an impulse as intrusive as the dry crusade. despite the force of federal law, the use of authoritarian tactics to enforce it, and the expenditure of millions of dollars a year, in fourteen years prohibition succeeded neither in changing americans’ behavior nor in eliminating the problems caused by alcohol abuse. when prohibition failed, and it did so spectacularly, it revealed the limits of moral reform movements, and specifically the paternalistic, prejudiced, and undemocratic ideals behind the dry crusade.... source: michael a. lerner, dry manhattan: prohibition in new york city, harvard university press, 2007 5 according to michael a. lerner, what has been one impact of the efforts to address prohibition? 1

Explanation:

To answer this, we analyze the text. The passage states that the Prohibition efforts (spending millions yearly, using authoritarian tactics) neither changed Americans' behavior nor eliminated alcohol - abuse problems. Also, it revealed the limits of moral reform movements and the paternalistic, prejudiced, undemocratic ideals of the dry crusade. We can pick one of these impacts. For example, the efforts failed to change Americans' behavior (or failed to eliminate alcohol - abuse problems, or revealed the limits of moral reform movements, etc.).

Answer:

One impact of the efforts to address Prohibition, according to Michael A. Lerner, is that they failed to change Americans’ behavior (or failed to eliminate the problems caused by alcohol abuse, or revealed the limits of moral reform movements and the undemocratic ideals behind the dry crusade, etc.). (Any one of the valid impacts derived from the text is acceptable.)