The confederacy was divided
Idk if this is the event its asking for but: The “Red Summer” of 1919 marked the culmination of steadily growing tensions surrounding the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North that took place during World War I.
Income tax
Because the government collects the source of income tax.
The documents contained details about decisions to expand the war, and confirmed what many Americans had long believed: the government had not been honest with them.