A New Nation

First ten amendments to the Constitution placed limits of the government and protects natural rights.

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalists Papers

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

Who wrote the Articles of Confederation?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

• John Dickinson

This was a law that established a procedure for the new states in the Union. It also granted a limited, self-government to that developing territory and prohibited slavery in certain regions.

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Treaty of Paris

A person held to service or labor who flees to another state to be returned to the owner in the state from which that person escaped.

• Necessary and Proper Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Fugitive Slave Clause

"Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger state, which prompted the smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788.

Weaknesses- No Executive, No Judicial, No Power to Tax, No Power to Regulate Trade

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Treaty of Paris

• Bill of Rights

A constitutional proposal that would have given each state one vote in a new congress.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

Each slave would count for 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation purposes in Congress.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

This collection of essays (by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison) which explained the importance of a strong central government. It was published in order to convince New York to ratify the Constitution.

• Bill of Rights

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Federalists Papers

• 3/5 Compromise

Article VI of the Constitution, which makes the Constitution, national laws, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within its constitutional limits.

• Necessary and Proper Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Fugitive Slave Clause