17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
The Constitution, as it was adopted in 1788, made the Senate an assembly where the states would have equal representation. Each state legislature would elect two senators to 6-year terms. Late in the 19th century, some state legislatures deadlocked over the election of a senator when different parties controlled different houses, and Senate vacancies could last months or years. In other cases, special interests or political machines gained control over the state legislature. Progressive reformers dismissed individuals elected by such legislatures as puppets and the Senate as a "millionaire’s club" serving powerful private interests.
One Progressive response to these concerns was the "Oregon system," which utilized a state primary election to identify the voters’ choice for Senator while pledging all candidates for the state legislature to honor the primary’s result. Over half of the states adopted the "Oregon system," but the 1912 Senate investigation of bribery and corruption in the election of Illinois Senator William Lorimer indicated that only a constitutional amendment mandating the direct election of Senators by a state’s citizenry would allay public demands for reform.
When the House passed proposed amendments for the direct election of Senators in 1910 and 1911, they included a "race rider" meant to bar Federal intervention in cases of racial discrimination among voters. This would be done by vesting complete control of Senate elections in state governments. A substitute amendment by Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas provided for the direct election of Senators without the "race rider." It was adopted by the Senate on a close vote before the proposed constitutional amendment itself passed the Senate. Over a year later, the House accepted the change, and on April 8, 1913, the resolution became the 17th amendment.
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a. increasingly migrated out of rural areas.
e. decreased their output of crops, due to declining demand on the American and overseas markets.
Explanation:
During the 1920s many American farmers faced hardships, the prices of crops were falling they needed to purchase expensive machinery but did not have money for that. The World was recovering from WWI and the world demand for products was not high, the prices of commodities dropped. This pushed many farmers to migrate out of rural areas and move to bigger cities looking for a job in factories.
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Explanation:
The correct answer is B, The Roman Catholic Church.
The stock market was caused by stock market speculation, over production of goods, an unregulated banking system, and unprotected consumerism.
If reform was not done in the US to fix the stem problems leading to the Great Depression, then a depression would happen again. The country wanted to prevent a depression like that from ever happening again.
Many of the New Deal programs dealt with reforming the banking industry and putting regulations, laws, and protections into place to protect people's money. The stock market was also regulated with the Securities Exchange Commission created to watch over the stock market. <span />
