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Unit 1

Unit 1. Causes of American Revolution. Establishment of Colonies. Establishment of Colonies. 1 st settlements-Roanoke & Jamestown Reasons for Settlement New England, Middle & Southern cultures. Annotated Timeline-Causes of American Revolution. DIRECTIONS. TERMS. Mercantilism

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Unit 1

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  1. Unit 1 Causes of American Revolution

  2. Establishment of Colonies

  3. Establishment of Colonies • 1st settlements-Roanoke & Jamestown • Reasons for Settlement • New England, Middle & Southern cultures

  4. Annotated Timeline-Causes of American Revolution DIRECTIONS TERMS Mercantilism Salutary neglect Toleration Acts “taxation without representation” Stamp Act Tea Act Intolerable Acts Quartering Act Enlightenment Sons of Liberty French & Indian War • Create a timeline of events/causes of Am. Revolution • For each term • Define • Write 2-3 sentence summary of how it caused Am. Revolution • Draw visual

  5. Annotated Timeline-Causes of American Revolution (HONORS) DIRECTIONS TERMS Mercantilism Salutary neglect Toleration Acts “taxation without representation” Stamp Act Tea Act Intolerable Acts Quartering Act Enlightenment Sons of Liberty Second Great Awakening French & Indian War • Create a timeline of events/causes of Am. Revolution • For each term • Define • Write 3-5 sentence summary of how it caused Am. Revolution • Draw visual

  6. Early Forms of Government

  7. Athenian democracy

  8. Roman republic

  9. Difference between democracy & republic?

  10. Influential British governments/documents • Magna Carta (1215) • English Bill of Rights (1689) • Common Law System

  11. Enlightenment • John Locke • Natural Rights • Consent of the governed • Rousseau • Social Contract • Thomas Hobbes • Sovereignty • Montesquieu • The Spirit of Law • Adam Smith • Wealth of Nations

  12. Colonial documents/GOvernments Iroquois Confederacy-ca 1000-1500 Mayflower Compact-1620 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-1639 House of Burgesses-1616 Toleration Acts-1649 Town Meetings

  13. Mayflower compact • In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. • Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.

  14. Iroquois confederacy “The Council of the Mohawk shall be divided into three parties . . . The third party is to listen only to the discussion of the first and second parties, and if an error is made or the proceeding is irregular they are to call attention to it, and when the case is right and properly decided by the two parties they shall confirm the decision of the two parties and refer the case to the Seneca Lords for their decision. “

  15. Fundamental orders of Connecticut • For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and Decrees as shall be made, ordered, and decreed as followeth: • 1. It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that there shall be yearly two General Assemblies or Courts, the one the second Thursday in April, the other the second Thursday in September following; the first shall be called the Court of Election, wherein shall be yearly chosen from time to time, so many Magistrates and other public Officers as shall be found requisite: Whereof one to be chosen Governor for the year ensuing and until another be chosen, and no other Magistrate to be chosen for more than one year: provided always there be six chosen besides the Governor, which being chosen and sworn according to an Oath recorded for that purpose, shall have the power to administer justice according to the Laws here established, and for want thereof, according to the Rule of the Word of God; which choice shall be made by all that are admitted freemen and have taken the Oath of Fidelity, and do cohabit within this Jurisdiction having been admitted Inhabitants by the major part of the Town wherein they live or the major part of such as shall be then present.

  16. Articles of confederation • 1781 • Central government • One house, vote per state • 9 out of 13 to pass laws • Controls military and treaties

  17. Weakness of Articles -Enforcement of laws -Taxes Shay’s Rebellion (1786) -Executive branch -Court system -Regulation of trade

  18. Baseball Cards • Hobbs • Locke • Montesquieu • Rousseau • Front • Name • Decorate to reflect their ideas • Back • Idea with definition • Quote that describe their ideas (pull from articles)

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