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Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party; Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association; Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
Why I Am a Reagan Conservative, Chapter New York: W. Morrow, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-055976-2; Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives. New York, NY: W. Morrow, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-113395-4; Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons ...
In April 1952, the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations (or just the Cox Committee Investigation), led by Edward E. Cox, of the House of Representatives began an investigation of the "educational and philanthropic foundations and other comparable organizations which are exempt from federal taxes to determine whether they were using their resources ...
Members of the CUWS holding brushes in front of a large billboard, 1914 Meeting at Coffee House, New York, 1915. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns [1] to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage.
Congress Voting Independence, by Robert Edge Pine, depicts the Second Continental Congress voting in 1776.. Although one can trace the history of the Congress of the United States to the First Continental Congress, which met in the autumn of 1774, [2] the true antecedent of the United States Congress was convened on May 10, 1775, with twelve colonies in attendance.
The new tax proposed by Congress in the Revenue Act of 1862 was the first progressive income tax placed on United States residents. This tax reflected the taxpayers' "ability to pay" by separating citizens into multiple categories and taxing accordingly: [10] For U.S. residents whose annual incomes were less than $600, no tax was collected.
[10] Georgia created a cumulative poll tax requirement in 1877: men of any race 21 to 60 years of age had to pay a sum of money for every year from the time they had turned 21, or from the time that the law took effect. [11] The poll tax requirements applied to whites as well as blacks, and also adversely affected poor citizens.
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage started planning a tour of woman's clubs in the Western United States in Spring of 1916. [1] Since most of the states that had passed the women's vote were in the West, the idea was to recruit and use the voices of women voters from these states to speak for national women's suffrage. [2]