Ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment Is Considered a Progressive Victory

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