The Sixteenth Amendment:
a. banned the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
b. required the election of U.S. senators directly by the voters of each state.
c. gives the federal government the authority to tax income.
d. established universal female suffrage.
ANSWER: c
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A) free elections in eastern Europe. B) the numbers of tanks Americans and Russians could keep in Europe. C) what to do with German prisoners of war. D) whether or not the Soviet Union would be in the United Nations. E) whether the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan.
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a. talent. b. godliness. c. inheritance or marriage. d. perseverance.
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