Congress collects taxes. The government uses the money to pay for goods and services that it provides, such as school.
“Consent of the Governed”, John Locke & Thomas Jefferson
Americans did not want to be taxed by those they did not elect. "no taxation without representation".
<span>The accuracy of Ida Tarbell’s research about John D. Rockefeller is very important because
It was essential for her credibility as a journalist.
Ida Tarbell's mode of researching about John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil company includes:
</span>1) interviewing dozens of Standard Oil employees.
2) visiting Standard Oil headquarters in meetings with a representative of Standard Oil, Henry Rogers
<span>3) visiting Rockefeller’s Baptist church where he continued to serve.
</span><span>4) scrutinizing 300 testimonies, each approaching 1,000 pages of text as part of her research.
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Her thorough research lent her the credibility to write her series about John Rockefeller, the start of the oil industry, and how it became a monopoly.
<span>3. digging irrigation canals.
Sumerians lived in present day Iraq which is mostly desert. Being arid with periods of rain, the region of Sumeria was difficult to cultivate crops. The Sumerians used a system of canals and gates to create watered plains with flooding and then closed them off during growing seasons. </span>
