Essay On The 16th Amendment

In the late 1800s, the U.S Treasury Department used sales tax and tariffs to fund its federal budget. A tax or tariffs are funds that are paid to the government that are added when something is bought that is considered valuable. Because of the Civil war, there was a financial burden on the country. In 1861, Congress reacted by implementing taxes on individuals. The first income tax started off by taxing individuals 3% making more than $800, while people who made more than that gave up a larger percentage. (1)This taxation period only lasted a couple of years and ended in 1872. In 1894, Congress re-authorized the income tax by taxing people 2% who earned more than $4000. (2)This caused a lot of controversy because some believed it was unconstitutional.

Hamilton introduced the first exercise of taxes to be placed on the manufacture, sale or consumption of certain commodities. The so called whiskey tax was taxes that had to be paid on the grain as it was delivered to the distillery. Thus not going over very well with farmers, in the summer of 1794 in Western Pennsylvania they marched in protest of the tax.

The populist movement was a success. It grew into a national movement that mobilized a huge group of Americans. First the populist party started from farmers and grew into a political party. Secondly ideas from the populist party were adopted and are used today. Lastly they were able to have a candidate run for president of the United states.

In 1791, Congress passed a whiskey tax, which taxed the producers of whiskey and other alcohol anywhere from six to eighteen cents per gallon. This was put into place in order to repay some of the national debt. All taxes were to be paid to a Federal revenue officer who was appointed to each individual county where the producer lived. This was a problem for a lot of people especially in the western counties. The tax was to be paid in cash which was rare for the western famers to have. If they failed to comply with this tax, they were to appear in a federal court, not a state court. These federal courts were sometimes 300 miles away. The western farmers were upset about this tax because the money made form it would support a government that didn’t represent the states well. They saw it as the government not caring about the

The Articles of Confederation were put into effect to form some semblance of a central government, to keep peace between the states and to keep individual states from conducting foreign diplomacy on their own. Unfortunately the articles were flawed and gave the existing government little to no power. Federalism was the number one weakness of the Articles of Confederation. Without a separation of powers this type of government was bound to fail.

The Eighteenth Amendment, also known as the Prohibition Act, took effect as of January 16, 1920, outlawing the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages in the United States from January 1920 till December 6, 1933. Prohibition was established to reduce the effects that alcohol had on families and on society. When primarily men consumed too much alcohol, their actions often resulted in domestic violence,often interfering with men's work performance, and money wasted that the family needed to support families. The prohibition period was very unsuccessful due to people wanting and doing whatever it took to get alcohol now that it was illegal, no matter how enforced prohibition was, leading to many Americans smuggling illegal alcohol

The British government was not looking for the best of the people. They were only thinking about what they wanted; the government was not interested in what the people wanted so they decided to make decisions on their own, which resulted in changes that form the United States today. Because of this, they were justified in rebelling and declaring independence.

Have you ever thought to yourself, where did the Constitution come from? Someone surely had to inspire the people who wrote it? You’re right and I’m going to talk about 3 of some of the most important documents that influenced the Constitution. Starting with the Rights of Citizenship in the Constitution because we got to know how the Constitution affects us and why we care about it. The Constitution gives us rights that nobody can take away from us. Starting with the very first amendment granting us freedom of speech. The first 10 were in the Bill of rights written way back in 1791 giving us in detail 10 rights as a citizen. With 27 amendments now (the most recent added in 1992) we have a lot of rights as Americans. Some of these rights were gained through tradition and time. The woman’s right to vote was added to the amendments to give women equal rights. As Americans, we also have responsibilities, stated in the Constitution. We have the responsibility to vote in the elections. We also have the responsibly to follow all the laws the government makes. Those are some of our rights and responsibilities as Americans. There are many more if you look in the U.S. Constitution. My thesis statement is, American citizenship rights and responsibilities shown in the U.S. Constitution originate from the English

The British imposed taxes on the colonists were unnecessary. It is unfair for the British to make the colonists pay taxes but not everyone else in England. The colonists were brought on by salutary neglect which was self rule and had no one telling them what to do. The British did not understand that it was impossible

How Did the Whiskey Rebellion Affect the Country? In order to understand how the Whiskey rebellion affected this country we first need to understand what our country fought for during the Revolutionary War. We all know the war was for independence, but that was not the entire reasoning behind the war. There were three things that we fought against during the war the first was the fact that our country was being oppressed by the King. The second was tyranny, and the last was being the taxes being imposed on the colonies. These are some of the most important reasons we sought our independence. The Whiskey Rebellion affected our country in ways that was not thought could happen and most of the people thought that they fighting against taxes had gone in vain, and they felt that the newly formed government had stabbed them in the back by going against what

Before the Articles of Confederation and their problems, America was (somewhat) whole. Because of the Articles of Confederation, the population was split into two groups: federalists, and antifederalists, both with differing views. The political, economic, and social views of the nation were quite different.

Prohibition, the 18th Amendment, was the outlawing of the production and consumption of alcohol from 1920-1933. Advocates of Prohibition insisted that many issues and crimes often linked to alcohol would be eliminated if alcohol were to be illegal. However, this wasn't the case. Instead, crime increased. So many people protested the 18th Amendment, that it eventually was discontinued in 1933. The Prohibition period is important for American citizens, native and immigrant, to know about, because it provides good examples of the effects of Prohibition on anything, as well as teaches citizens about their right to protest. If the voice of protest is loud enough, sometimes you get the result you want.

The sixteenth amendment gives the Congress mandate to collect taxes on income from all citizens without apportionment among the different states and regardless of the state’s population. The amendment was passed in 1909 and ratified in1913. The amendment was proposed as a result of the need for correction of the flaw in the collection tax terms. The government obtained taxes from the existence of a population in a state. The system was found to be unfair, especially to the poor states as the system did not consider the people’s income. This was seen as oppression to the poor and a relief for the rich people. Therefore, the amendment hoped to clear the disparity between the poor and the rich by levying taxes based on the income earned by an

In 1791 Hamilton convinced Congress to approve taxes on distilled spirits and carriages. Hamilton 's principal reason for the tax was that he wanted to pay down the national debt, but he justified the tax "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue." But most importantly, Hamilton "wanted the tax imposed to advance and secure the power of the new federal government."