The African Nation that has been independent is Ethiopia.
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The correct answer is (C). Once the Soviet Union entered into World War II against the Nazis, the Nazis were effectively surrounded and now faced conflict with the Western European allies and the United States to the west and the formidable, and well trained and practiced, Soviet Union military to the east.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution empowers Congress to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” Article I, Section 9, further states that “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”
South Carolina seceded from the Union. They were worried that as President Lincoln took office, he would appoint anti-slavery supporters to public office.