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What two things are being compared in this epic simile (the odysseus)

Why was the sixteenth amendment important to woodrow wilson’s efforts to regulate the economy? a) the sixteenth amendment lowered interest rates charged by banks. b) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to levy an income tax c) the sixteenth amendment lowered tariffs on imported goods d) the sixteenth amendment allowed congress to break up monopolies

Plz which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 was designed to appeal to slave states? a. congress passed a strict fugitive slave law. b. the slave trade was banned in washington dc. c. texas agreed to give away some of its land so that the territory would be available for future states. d. california was admitted to the union as a free state.