1. AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM

2. Bellwork What is freedom of the press?
What would it be like to be a newspaper writer or a TV journalist without freedom of the press? Would their job be more important or less important?

3. Standards
8.16 Explain how the practice of salutary neglect, experience with self-government, and wide spread ownership of land fostered individualism and contributed to the American Revolution. (C, E, H, P)
8.18 Describe the impact of the John Peter Zenger trial on the development of the principle of a free press. (C, P)

4. What is Mercantilism?

5. If the King didn’t enforce it, what do you think happened?
Salutary Neglect…
Let’s talk about root words…
This is when the English Crown did not enforce the “Navigation Acts” (Which did not allow the colonies to trade with anyone except England)
If the King didn’t enforce it, what do you think happened?

6. Colonial Legislatures
British and colonial governments were similar in some ways, but they had important differences.
Great Britain
American Colonies
King
Governor
Inherited executive power
Appointed by and served the king but paid by the colonial legislature
Parliament
Colonial Legislatures
House of Lords
Aristocrats who inherited legislative power along with their inherited titles
Upper House or Council
Prominent colonists without inherited titles who were appointed by the governor
House of Commons
Elected by men who held significant amounts of property
Few British men qualified to vote.
Lower House or Assembly
Elected by men who held property
Majority of colonial men allowed to vote.

7. In the colonies, 50 to 75 percent of white men could vote, which was a far greater percentage than in England.
English women, even those who owned property
Native Americans
Africans, whether free or enslaved
But the following groups could not vote:

8. Why could more men vote in the Colonies than in England?

9. Colonists start feeling independent
They are more free than they would be in England They have more control over their world They are more self-sufficient They are getting used to doing whatever they want
What are the advantages and drawbacks to this?

10. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
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11. “It is not the cause of one poor printer, but the cause of liberty!”
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
“It is not the cause of one poor printer, but the cause of liberty!”
Who was John Peter Zenger?
What did Zenger do that angered the governor?
What is libel?
Who was Andrew Hamilton?
Why was Zenger found “not guilty” of Libel?

12. IN CLASS READING
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