1. COS Standard 2 Part B
Compare regional differences among early New England, Middle and Southern colonies regarding economics, geography, culture, government and American Indian relations.

2. Explaining the role of essential documents in the establishment of colonial government, including the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights and the Mayflower Compact

3. Magna Carta 1215 King John of England
Limited the power of the king and forms Parliament
Sets up representative government as well as protection of individual rights
Basis for US Constitution and Bill of Rights

4. Glorious Revolution James II disliked Disobeyed Parliament
Practiced Catholicism
James has a male heir to the throne with his second wife who would practice Catholicism.
Parliament was unwilling to have another Catholic king.
Parliament overthrows James II and replaces him with his Protestant daughter and husband William of Orange and Mary.
Bloodless exchange of power

5. English Bill of Rights Further limited the powers of the king
Listed the rights that Parliament and citizen had
Use in writing the US Bill of Rights

6. Mayflower Compact
Agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the majority under the regulations they agreed upon.
Step towards self government
Leads to town meetings