The answer is decrease, increase
As part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish American War, Spain agreed to cede the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million.
Answer:
The answer is B: The federal income tax was unconstitutional.
Explanation:
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, (1895), U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court voided portions of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 that imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and corporations, thus declaring the federal income tax unconstitutional. The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power “to lay and collect taxes on incomes.”
Answer:
D. all of the above are correct
Explanation:
1. to spread christianity
2. they thought that they could become wealthy
