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18 Who was the most powerful opponent of the Anti-Saloon league?

 

a. Adolphous Busch, the richest and most powerful of the Brewers who had the money and resources to fight the Anti-Saloon League at every level.  

 

b. President Woodrow Wilson who knew that the tax on alcohol was critical to running the federal government, especially during World War I.

 

Daniel Okrent, a writer who was popular with immigrants and kept warning them that anti-immigrant sentiment would lead to a ban on alcohol is they c. did not vote for pro-alcohol politicians to protect them.

 

d. Senator Boise Penrose, the most powerful Senator in America who could keep blocking nationwide Prohibition.