Passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913:

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The Seventeenth Amendment, which was passed in 1913, allowed for the popular election of senators. Prior to this amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures. The amendment was a significant change to the way the federal government operated and gave more power to the people in choosing their representatives in the Senate. The other options given in the question, such as giving women the right to vote or establishing prohibition, are separate issues that were not directly related to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment. Establishing a federal income tax was also a significant change to the way the government operated, but that change was enacted through a different amendment (the Sixteenth). Finally, prohibition was established through the Eighteenth Amendment, but that was repealed through the Twenty-First Amendment.