Constitutional Progressive Amendments Quiz

Cause and Effect: What did the 16th Amendment allow the government to do?

• Raised money for private corporations to pay their workers more

• Raised money for Federal Government projects like highways, new services, etc.

• Senators were forced to answer directly to the people instead of the states

• Made it so that government positions had to be filled by women 50% of the time

Cause and Effect: What was a result of the 17th Amendment?

• Made it harder to run a campaign for senate

• Ended child labor and gave us the weekend

• Forced the president and the vice president to run on the same ticket

• Increased the public's control over congress

Cause and Effect: What did the 18th Amendment set the stage for in America?

• Broadway musicals became widely popular in America

• The crack-cocaine epidemic in inner city ghettos

• Organized crime involving the sale and production of alcohol

• The invention of the radio and the television

Cause and Effect: What was the primary result of the 19th Amendment?

• Increased the voter population by about 50%

• Decreased voter turnout in the Eastern States

• Completely destroyed traditional gender roles

• Nothing, because there is no 19th Amendment to the constitution