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How did ww1 make the federal government more powerful than it had been before?
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∙ 7y ago
One way was through taxes. Secretary of Treasury McAdoo greatly increased this. The federal government needed money to finance the war which went with a price tag of over $100 bil. The rich had a problem with this since it increased real estate and income taxes based on income.
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