The Revenue Act of 1862 was an expansion of the ... that the war would last longer—and cost more—than President Abraham Lincoln had originally hoped. The American Civil War commenced in ...

President Abraham Lincoln first added a federal income tax with the Revenue Act of 1861 to help fund the Civil War. Taxes were based on assessments not voluntary tax returns, the date they were ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth ... a transcontinental railway and the Morrill Act to settle western lands, he laid the foundations of the modern state.