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Opening:Ezekiel grows corn and wheat in his back yard. He believes
that all people have God’s inner light. What colonial region is Ezekiel from? What is the example colony from this region?
David is a member of the House of Burgesses. He is a wealthy landowner who rarely goes to church. What colonial region is David from? What is the example colony from this region?
Michael is a devout Puritan. He makes a living from building ships and trading. What colonial region is Michael from? What is the example colony from this region?
Standard 1.2 (see standards board)
Opening:Sample Questions Practice
Work Period:• Road to the Revolution Notes
Closing:Quiz on 1.2 Homework:
Reading Journal 1.3
The English Origins of American Government
From England, With Love
USHC 1.2Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
Constitutional Government
LIMITED
Limited Government
Individual Rights
TAXATION BY CONSENT
The Rule of Law
Jury Trials
Magna Carta1215Latin: Great Charter
Checking monarchs since the 13th century!
Parliament
Queen Elizabeth I
The StuartsAbsolutism Comes to
England
J I C I
C II J II
The Glorious Revolution
James IIUnpopular
“Papist”
Run off by Parliament
Throne VACANTNo Bloodshed
(1688)
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WANTED
A monarch who will sit down, shut up, and let Parliament take care of governing.
The English Bill of Rights
William III (of
Orange)
Mary II
(Stuart)
The English Bill of Rights
Parliamentary Supremacy
• Executive Power Limited
• Free and Frequent Elections
• Taxation by Consent
The English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Rights
• Freedom of Speech (1)
• Right to Petition (1)
• Arms for Defense (2)(for Protestants, at least!)
Natural Rights Life
Liberty
Property
John Locke
GOD-GIVEN
Locke’s Values:
Religious Toleration
Consent of the governed
Right of Revolution
John Locke
GOD-GIVEN
English Political
Traditions
Constitutional Government
Representative
Government
Mayflower Compact
(New England)
Government derives its authority from
the people
Town Meetings
(New England)
EgalitarianDemocratic
House of Burgesses(Virginia)
Aristocratic Representative
Parliament pursued a policy of
Salutary Neglectwith the
colonies…leaving them alone!
{
The French and Indian War1754-1763
WarsCostMoney
British National Debt
1754 1763 1764£0
£20,000,000
£40,000,000
£60,000,000
£80,000,000
£100,000,000
£120,000,000
£140,000,000
Following the French and Indian War
Cost of
Quartering
Troopsin the
colonies
Salutary NeglectNO MORE
The Proclamation of 1763 restricted the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Parliament Taxes the Colonies
1. Sugar Act (1764)2. Stamp Act (1765)3. Townshend Acts (1767)
The Sugar ActIMPORT Tax
on Foreign Sugar
1764
ADMIRALTY COURTS
Jury Trials
The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob Violence
Resistance Movement(s)
Sons of Liberty
IntimidationMass Protests
Homespun Fabric
Daughters of Liberty
Reduced dependence
on British textiles
NO
TAXATION
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Taxing Authority
HERE
HERE
NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.
The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob ViolenceREPEALE
D
Parliament’s Not Done
Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
These
Guys Agai
n
More of
These
Guys
Confrontation between
British Troops and a
Rowdy Mob
Boston Massacre 1770
Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
REPEALE
D
With one exception...
Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that we
can’t!
The Chain
of EventsTea ActBoston Tea Party Intolerable ActsLexington & Concord
Leading to the Revolution
Photo Credit: Darwin Bell
ParliamentGrants a
Monopolyto a BritishCompany
The Tea Act 1773
Photo Credit: John-Morgan
Boston Tea Party 1773
Intolerable Acts 1774
1. Closed Boston Harbor
2. Imposed MARTIAL
LAW3. Quartering
Act
“Shot Heard Round the World”
Lexington & Concord
1775
Closing
Quiz on 1.2
.
