Author Question: Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined? A) The Sixteenth Amendment permits ... (Read 134 times)

tuffie · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

A) The Sixteenth Amendment permits Congress to apportion and collect income taxes.
B) The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.
C) The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
D) The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote for women.
E) They are all accurately defined.

Question 2

What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, William James, and Herbert Croly have in common?

A) They formed the intellectual and ideological foundations of Social Darwinism.
B) They were the most prominent examples of the intellectual assault on progressivism that began around 1920.
C) They implicitly supported the need for far-reaching reforms of American society.
D) They were misread by progressives to mean that socialism was the nation's only hope of social reform.
E) They provided the intellectual and legal arguments used to support Jim Crow laws.