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Homework answers / question archive / How did Senator Boise Penrose try to stop the ratification of the 18th Amendment?a
How did Senator Boise Penrose try to stop the ratification of the 18th Amendment?a.b.c.d, He demanded a time limit to the ratification process, limiting the time to get it ratified to only 6 years, which he thought would be too short to get it passed.
He had Wayne Wheeler assassinated, which backfired because it only made Wheeler a martyr and made the Anti-Saloon league and Prohibition even more popular.
He asked Adolpus Bush to use his money and the German American alliance to wage a massive public relations campaign against the Anti-Saloon League.
He threated to vote against American entry into World War I unless the ratification of the 18th Amendment was put off until after the war was over.
