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13th amendment - Correct Answer ✅abolished slavery
14th amendment - Correct Answer ✅Declares that all persons
born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection
of the laws
15th amendment - Correct Answer ✅citizens cannot be denied
the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of
servitude
3/5 comprimise - Correct Answer ✅Only 3/5 of the states slave
population counted toward representation in Congress
abolitionists - Correct Answer ✅people who believed that
slavery should be against the law
alexander hamilton - Correct Answer ✅United States statesman
and leader of the Federalists (est. the 1st Bank of the US)
articles of confederation - Correct Answer ✅a written
agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states (the first
"constitution")
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cabinet - Correct Answer ✅a group of advisors to the president
(not in the constitution, example of elastic clause)
census - Correct Answer ✅a period count of the population to
determine representation in Congress
checks and balances - Correct Answer ✅A system that allows
each branch of government to limit the powers of the other
branches in order to prevent abuse of power (Exec., Judicial, and
Legislative)
cherokee trail of tears - Correct Answer ✅The moving of the
Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. Only 1 out of 5 lived. then the
indian removal of 1830
civil war - Correct Answer ✅a war between factions in the same
country ex. North Vs. South
declaration of independence - Correct Answer ✅the document
recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4
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July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great
Britain
delegated powers - Correct Answer ✅Powers specifically given
to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example,
the authority to print money.
democracy - Correct Answer ✅a political system in which the
supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to
represent them
elastic clause - Correct Answer ✅the part of the Constitution
that permits Congress to make any laws "necessary and proper"
to carrying out its powers
electoral college - Correct Answer ✅the body of electors who
formally elect the United States president and vice-president
emancipation proclamation - Correct Answer ✅Issued by
abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves
in the confederate states would be free
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