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JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
I didn’t get a chance to teach this, so I’m going to teach it now. PAY ATTENTION! During the Progressive Era, there was a new constitutional amendment that allowed for the direct election of Senators . Before this, state leaders picked their own Senators ____ not very democratic!
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Progressive Era, amendment, direct election of Senators ____ got it!
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Where am I?
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Who am I?
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What’s that smell?
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During Wilson’s terms, Congress passed two constitutional amendments: prohibition (18th); and women’s suffrage (19th)-both Progressive agendas. Another amendment was ratified while Wilson was President: direct election of Senators (17th) on April 8th 1913.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1912 Congress passed a constitutional amendment that provided for direct election of senators by the people of each state. The states ratified the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, and the first popular Senate elections were held in 1914.

Detailed explanation-3: -XVI (1913).; the Seventeenth Amendment, establishing direct elections to the United States Senate 3. XVII (1913).; the Eighteenth Amendment, imposing prohibition 4. XVIII (1919).; and the Nineteenth Amendment, constitutionalizing women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-4: -To revitalize democracy, progressives established direct primary elections, direct election of senators (rather than by state legislatures), initiative and referendum, and women’s suffrage which was promoted to advance democracy and bring a “purer” female vote into the arena.

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