Prompt Answer this focus question about Prohibition and the Volstead Act and what you have learned in this lesson to answer this prompt. Support your argument with at least FIVE concrete and specific examples from the documents.

If you were a congressional staff person, what would you recommend to the congressional representative you worked for about whether to continue the Volstead Act, revise it, or repeal it?

the puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the church of england the common unity strengthened the community.

first representative government in british america called virginia assembly

answer: in 1900, there were no "workplace safety laws"!

explanation: at the beginning of this century, workers in the united states faced remarkably high health and safety risks on the job.

a century ago in 1900 about three hundred out of every one hundred thousand miners were killed on the job each year.

[industria] developments occurred within a legal and regulatory climate that diminished employer’s interest in safety. as a result, americans developed production methods that were both highly productive and often very dangerous.