The Anti-Saloon League, whose successful lobbying led to the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, was successful in part because
a. it focused only on electing “drys” and defeating “wets.”
b. it offered a broad platform that took a stance on virtually every important political issue of the day.
c. it worked through an entirely new organizational structure and avoided the conflicts that already existed in many churches and local temperance groups.
d. it insisted that any candidate receiving its endorsement had to be a publicly sworn nondrinker.
a. it focused only on electing “drys” and defeating “wets.”
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A. low-income neighborhood groups B. upper-middle-class residents C. minority communities D. economic elites
Identify at least two ways in which energy and environmental policies are interrelated. Do you believe that the American policymaking process does a good job of coordinating actions in these two policy areas? Be sure to justify your answer.
What will be an ideal response?