American Government - Unit 1 Review

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, Robert Livingston

• Committee of Five

• Committee of Independence

• Founding Federation

• First Five US Presidents

Propose plan a the Constitutional Convention that called for a unicameral legislature and one vote per state; also called the "Small State Plan".

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Georgia Plan

• Action Plan

Compromise by southern states to give Congress power over trade if exports were not taxed and the slave trade would be left alone for a period of time

• Missouri Compromise
• Commerce Compromise
• Tariff Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Group that opposed ratification of the new Constitution unless it included a specific Bill of Rights.

• Libertarians
• Anti-Federalists
• Constitutionalists
• Federalists

Document signed by William and Mary in 1689 that further limited the power of the monarch and gave citizens more rights

• Magna Carta
• Petition of Right

• Articles of Confederation

• English Bill of Rights

Document developed by the Committee of Five and primarily written by Thomas Jefferson that told King George III of England that the colonists were going to separate and no longer be under British rule.

• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution

English document signed by King Charles I in 1628 that restricted the power of the monarch.

• Magna Carta
• English Bill of Rights
• Act of Settlement
• Petition of Right

The original U.S. Constitution that was replaced because it was too weak and did not give the national (federal) government enough power.

• Constitutional Convention
• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Federalist Papers

Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution that gives the U.S. Congress power to regulate interstate and international trade

• Federal Trade Commission
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Commerce Clause
• Trade Regulation Clause

Agreement that solved the issue of representation at the Constitutional Convention

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan
• Great Compromise