The progressive party was successful in getting congress to pass and the states to ratify the seventeenth amendment on april 8, 1913, which allowed for the direct election of u.s. senators by the voters themselves, substituting Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the constitution, in which the Senate was elected by the State Legislatures.
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Answer:
spirit of cooperation ended abruptly in 1960, when the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane over their territory"-755
Explanation:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the 34th president of the United States of America between 1953 to 1961. He worked well with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to thaw the cold war at the end of 1950s. In May 1960, their cooperation ended prematurely when diplomatic crises erupted because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were said to have gunned down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space.
President Eisenhower was compelled to admit to the soviets that the central intelligence unit of his country has been sending out spy missions for several years in the USSR.
The Democrats held the majority of the seats in the house and senate.
