The repeal of national prohibition in 1933
showed that
(1) alcohol consumption was not socially
acceptable
(2) the government should lower the drinking
age
(3) crime rates had fallen to record low levels
(4) unpopular laws are difficult to enforce

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.