1. U.S. Constitution Power Point Project By Danny and Narek

2. Land Ordinance of 1785 The United States Congress adopted the Land Ordinance in 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. The goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the large territory west of the colonies acquired from the British at the end of the Revolutionary War.

3. Legislative Branch The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States of America. It is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both senators and representatives are chosen by election.

4. Executive Branch The executive power in the federal government is used by the President of the United States, although power is often given to members and other officials. The President and Vice President are elected by people for a maximum of two four-year terms by the Electoral College, for which each state is allocated a number of seats based on its representation in both houses of Congress.

5. Judicial Branch The United States federal courts comprises the Judiciary Branch of government organized under the Constitution and laws of the federal government of the United States.

6. Amendment 13,14,15 Before the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and other leaders of the anti-slavery Republican Party thought not to stop slavery but just to stop its extension into new territories and states in the American West. This policy was unacceptable to most Southern politicians, who believed that the growth of free states would turn the U.S. power structure against them. In November 1860, Lincoln's election as president signaled the making of seven Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America. Shortly after his inauguration in 1861, the Civil War began. Four more Southern states joined the Confederacy, while four slave states in the south remained in the Union.

7. Checks and balances To prevent one branch from being too strong, and to induce the branches to work together, governance systems that employ a separation of powers need a way to balance each of the branches. Typically this was accomplished through a system of “checks and balances", the origin of which, like separation of powers itself, is specifically credited to Montesquieu. Checks and balances allows for a system based on regulation that allows one branch to limit another, such as the power of Congress to alter the composition and jurisdiction of the federal courts.

8. Separation of Powers The separation of powers is a model for the government of democratic states. The model was first developed in ancient Greece and came into widespread use by the Roman Republic as part of the un codified Constitution of the Roman Republic. Under this model, the state is divided into branches or estates, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility. The normal division of estates is into an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary.

9. 15th, 19th, 26th Amendments The fifteenth amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude It was ratified on February 3, 1870 The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Twenty- sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. It was adopted on July 1, 1971.

10. 18th and 21st Amendments Amendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United State Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S.), established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919. It is the only amendment to the Constitution that has been repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment (1933). The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide Prohibition.