Just look up President Roosevelt response to the attack and paraphrase every he said into your own words. You can find it on google and YouTube
The effect of the 16th Amendment was that b) It granted Congress the
power to tax incomes. The 16th Amendment to the United States
Constitution allowed Congress to levy taxes without apportioning it to
that specific state or basing it on the United States Census
(apportioning it to the state and according to their respective numbers)
and this included all taxes except income tax.
"As Lorena Hickok traveled through 32 states , she regularly penned letters to Harry Hopkins and the Roosevelts detailing what she saw. She reported that unemployment had devastated city dwellers and farmers alike . Those without jobs endured the hardships caused by economic insecurity as best they could "
-Quora
The National Magazine Youth's Companion