Taxes and Elections
What type of tax was established by the 16th Amendment?
Income Tax
What amendment established Prohibition?
18th
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th
What movement aimed to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption?
Temperance Movement
Do all states have an income tax
No
What amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?
17th
What amendment repealed Prohibition?
21st
What 1848 convention launched the women’s rights movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What group, led by Wayne Wheeler, was a key force behind Prohibition?
Anti Saloon league
What was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
Wyoming
What kind of tax system increases rates for higher incomes?
Progressive Tax
What was the term for illegal bars that operated during Prohibition?
speakeasy
What world event influenced public support for women’s suffrage?
World War 1
Which group supported state-level suffrage and the 15th Amendment?
AWSA – American Woman Suffrage Association
What president started to support the women’s suffrage movement during ww1
Woodrow Wilson
What kind of tax system taxes everyone at the same percentage?
Flat Tax
What form of crime increased due to Prohibition?
Organized Crime
Who led the National Woman’s Party and used militant tactics?
Alice Paul
This association advocated for a federal amendment granting women’s suffrage.
NWSA – National Woman Suffrage Association
What Supreme Court case ruled a federal income tax unconstitutional before the 16th Amendment overturned it?
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
Before the 17th Amendment, who selected U.S. senators?
Representatives in State Legislatures
What act enforced the 18th Amendment?
Volstead Act
What document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, demanded women’s equality?
Declaration of Sentiments
Who were two main leaders of the Seneca Falls Convention?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
What supreme court case established that under the 16th amendment, an income tax IS constitutional?
Brushaber v Union Pacific Railroad