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A number of towns and states passed laws banning alcohol sales during the first years of the twentieth century. And in nineteen nineteen, the nation passed the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution. This amendment, and the Volstead Act, made it unlawful to make, sell or transport liquor. Prohibition laws failed terribly from the start. There was only a small force of police to enforce the new laws. And millions of Americans still wanted to drink liquor. It was not possible for the police to watch every American who wanted to buy a drink secretly or make liquor in his own home. Not surprisingly, thousands of Americans soon saw a chance to make profits from the new laws. They began to import liquor illegally to sell for high prices. Criminals began to bring liquor across the long, unprotected border with Canada or on fast boats from the Caribbean islands. At the same time, private manufacturers in both cities and rural areas began to produce liquor. And shop owners in cities across the country sold liquor with little interference from local police. By the middle of the nineteen twenties, it was clear to most Americans that Prohibition laws were a failure. But the laws were not changed until the election of President Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen thirty-two. 【続く】
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次の文章が左の英文の内容と一致するときはYesを，そうでないときはNoを選んでください。
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禁酒法は主に酒を飲むことを禁止していた。
Yes No 合衆国の禁酒法は、初めは大きな成果を上げていた。 Yes No 合衆国憲法の修正として行われた禁酒法は1919年に成立した。 Yes No 禁酒法の失敗は1920年代には明らかになっていたが、廃止されたのは1930年代になってからであった。 Yes No 20世紀の初めには多くの町や州で酒類販売が禁止されていた。 Yes No 禁酒法の時代には、酒類は主にメキシコから密輸入された。 Yes No 禁酒法により、多くの人が酒の密輸入で儲けた。 |