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16th Amendment
16th Amendment
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Significant Election Scene
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Income Tax Bill Ratified
Income Tax Bill Ratified
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Gathering Facts for the Income Tax
Gathering Facts for the Income Tax
First Vote
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"Protect the Freedman"
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"Protect the Freedman"
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15th Amendment
16th Amendment
A man wearing a top hat casts a ballot into a box while surrounded by onlookers, depicted in a detailed 19th-century engraving.
1867
Significant Election Scene
An engraving depicts a Black man casting a ballot at a polling place, reaching toward a ballot box as other men look on, illustrating African American suffrage during Reconstruction.
1867
First Vote
Sheet music cover for "Freedman," a song and chorus, with decorative lettering and text noting it was performed by Gaylord's Minstrels.
1866
"Protect the Freedman"
15th Amendment
Text excerpt titled "Income Tax" discussing the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment and its connection to the Supreme Court's 1895 Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. decision.
1913
16th Amendment
Newspaper headline reading "INCOME TAX BILL RATIFIED" in bold capital letters.
1913
Income Tax Bill Ratified
A line drawing of a young woman with short bobbed hair, wearing a ruffled blouse, seated at a desk with her arm resting on its surface.
1921
Gathering Facts for the Income Tax
16th Amendment
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