Ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment Is Considered a Progressive Victory

question 16

Multiple Choice

Ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment is considered a progressive victory because ___________.

• A) by providing for the income tax, it had the effect of redistributing wealth in the United States
• B) by providing for the direct election of United States senators, it took their election out of the hands of state legislatures
• C) by establishing a regulatory commission for all industry, it furthered the concept of a planned economy
• D) by making the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal, it furthered the progressive goal of moral purity

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