I don't know if this helps but.. African American men become citizens through the 14th Amendment
When consulting a journal entry like this, it is <span>important to know which side the writer supported in the conflict because this can help determine any potential "bias" the writer may have had, which makes the source more usable and "in context". </span>
The word “imperialism” is widely used as an emotive—and more rarely
as a theoretical—term to denote specific forms of aggressive behavior on
the part of certain states against others; the concept refers primarily
to attempts to establish or retain formal sovereignty over subordinate
political societies, but it is also often equated with the exercise of any form of political control or influence by one political community over another.
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I believe it was the New Jersey Plan, which proposed that "e<span>ach state was equal regardless of the size of its population."</span>