The correct answer is B. The Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows the Federal Government to levy an income tax.
Explanation:
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress on February 3, 1913. It gives Congress the right to levy and collect federal income tax, the proceeds of which are entirely directed to the federal budget.
Congress has the right to establish and levy income taxes, whatever their source, without distributing these taxes among individual states and without taking into account any census or population estimates.
This amendment was made after the Supreme Court of the United States had ruled in Pollock v. Farmer's Loan (1895) that the income tax law enacted by Congress in 1894 was unconstitutional.
The Sixteenth Amendment states that "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. They passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed.
The Hull House was a settlement house that helped immigrants assimilate to American culture after immigrating from Europe. They helped immigrants become official citizens and gave activities to children and helped them learn American culture.
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955
