Question

The Seventeenth Amendment allowed
A) Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators instead of having state legislatures vote for them.
B) voters to recall unpopular senator's by signing a petition to ask for a special vote.
C) voters to propose that a state law become a federal law by collecting signatures on a petition.
D)Americans to vote using secret ballots designed by the government rather than political parties.​

Answer 1

The Seventeenth Amendment allowed voters to directly vote for U.S Senators.

The Seventeenth Amendment was passed by the Congress on May 13, 1912 where the Article I, section 3 of the Constitution was changed to allow the Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators instead of having state legislatures vote for them.