Author Question: The __________ Amendment empowered the national government to collect taxes on income. A) ... (Read 76 times)

kaid0807 · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

The __________ Amendment empowered the national government to collect taxes on income.

A) Sixteenth
B) Nineteenth
C) Twenty-first
D) Twenty-sixth
E) Twenty-eighth

Question 2

The U.S. income tax was first introduced in order to

A) help finance the Civil War.
B) respond to the dramatic drop in federal revenues as a result of the Great Depression.
C) finance U.S. participation in World War I.
D) reduce the ability of a few industrialists to create economic disadvantage for the majority of citizens.
E) enable the U.S. government to grow in response to competition from foreign countries.