Amendments
19th Amendment
Gave women the vote
Three-Fifths Compromise
Determined that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted for representation
suffrage
The right to vote
Has the power to declare war
Congress
Louisina Purchase
Doubled the size of the US
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
New Jersey Plan
Supported equal representation
Federalism
Division of power between the state and federal government
Senate
100 members (2 from each state)
1st American governmet
Articles of Confederation
16th Amendment
Established a national income tax
Virginia Plan
Representation based on population
Delegated powers
Powers granted only to the Federal government
House
Numbers based on population (435 members)
Virginia House of Burgesses
self-government
18th Amendment
Bans alcohol
Great Compromise
Combining the Virginia and New Jersey Plans
Anti-federalists
Against the ratification of the Constitution
Concurrent Powers
Powers shared between the state and federal government
Albany Plan
Attempt to unify the colonies (Join or Die)
15th Amendment
African American males gain the right to vote
Popular Soverenighty
Power comes from the people
disenfranchisement
The state of being deprived a right (primarily the right to vote)
Elastic Clause
proper and necessary (broadens the power of Congress)
British ignored the colonies
Salutary neglect