What Did the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments Have in Common

Multiple Choice

What did the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments have in common?

A) Both amendments increased the power of the states.
B) Both amendments increased the power of the federal government.
C) Both amendments were passed during the Civil War.
D) Both amendments increased the federal government's ability to tax individual citizens.
E) Both amendments granted civil rights to African Americans.