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Article I sets up the legislative branch, which is Congress.
The Congress is made up of the HOR and the Senate.
The main job of the legislative branch is to make laws.
Congress can collect taxes, coin money, and declare war.
The Senate has 100 members and the HOR has 435.
Explanation:
There are 3 branches in our government, the Legislative (makes laws), executive (enforces laws), and the judicial (the law, and decides if someone broke a rule). The Senate has 2 senators per state, and 50x2 is 100 senators. The number of representatives depends on the population of the state.
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The period known as the reconstruction started after the civil war. Abraham Lincoln planned for the reconstruction of the South during the war since the Union occupied a big area there. He did not want the nation to be in turmoil for long and wanted to unite it and get it on its feet as quickly as possible.
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, gave women the right to vote.