Read this passage from the Articles of Confederation. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be
incurred for the common defense or general welfare...
shall be defrayed out of a common treasury
The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and
levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of
the several States within the time agreed upon by the
United States in Congress assembled.
- The Articles of Confederation, 1777
This passage from the Articles of Confederation primarily
relates to the authority of
state governments to tax citizens.
O state governments to form armies.
o the federal government to sign treaties.
O the federal government to produce currency.

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i do not have access to the graph, but from 2001 to 2011 the rate of unemployment in the united states changed drastically. it remained relatively steady, at 5 percent, on average (4.4 percent in 2006 due to the economic expansion and 6 percent in 2002 as a result of the elevated costs of the war of terror) until 2008. it was then when the financial crisis, the worst since the great depression of 1929, occurred. during the recession that followed, the unemployment rate reached almost 10 percent in 2009, and in 2010 it was above 9 percent. by 2011 job losses had been continuous and prolonged for months, but the rate decreased timidly.