<u> C.The federal government was able to collect taxes.</u>
Under the Constitution, the government consists of three branches (Legislative, Executive and Judicial), in which the Legislative has the power to lay and collect taxes. This was quite different under the Articles of Confederation, which established a weak central government that consisted only of a Congress. One of the most important powers the Congress lacked was the power to collect taxes, therefore if they needed to raise money, they could attempt to do so by asking the states for funds (which had the option to reject the request), borrowing from foreign governments, or selling western lands.
Three new reforms were introduced by progressives to force state legislators to respond to voter's concerns. allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it.
In the 1860s, most factories were located in the North of the United States, mostly because the South was largely agricultural and remained this way for many years.
The New Deal was Franklin Roosevelt's program designed to fight the Great Depression.
Both groups are called Slavs. In the years before World War I, Serbia wanted all Slavic peoples to form one empire, free from rule by the Turks or Austria-Hungary. The Serbs' wish to unite all the Slavs in one empire is an example of. imperialism.
