1. 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?

2. 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

3. The English Origins of American Government USHC 1.2 Analyze 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.

4. Constitutional Government LIMITED

5. Limited Government Individual Rights TAXATION BY CONSENT The Rule of Law Jury Trials

6. Checking monarchs since the 13 th century!

8. Absolutism Comes to England

9. James II Unpopular “Papist” Run off by Parliament Throne VACANT No Bloodshed

10. { WANTED A monarch who will sit down, shut up, and let Parliament take care of governing.

12. Parliamentary Supremacy Executive Power Limited Free and Frequent Elections Taxation by Consent

13. Declaration of Rights Freedom of Speech (1) Right to Petition (1) Arms for Defense (2) (for Protestants, at least!)

14. Natural Rights  Life  Liberty  Property

15. Locke’s Values: Religious Toleration Consent of the governed  Right of Revolution

16. English Political Traditions Constitutional Government Representative Government

17. Mayflower Compact (New England) Government derives its authority from the people

18. Town Meetings (New England) Egalitarian Democratic

19. House of Burgesses (Virginia) Aristocratic Representative

20. Parliament pursued a policy of Salutary Neglect with the colonies…leaving them alone!

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23. British National Debt Following the French and Indian War

25. Salutary Neglect

26. The Proclamation of 1763 restricted the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

27. Parliament Taxes the Colonies 1. Sugar Act (1764) 2. Stamp Act (1765) 3. Townshend Acts (1767)

28. Smuggling Photo Credit: Mary HarrschMary Harrsch

31. Intimidation Mass Protests

32. Reduced dependence on British textiles

34. 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.

43. Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that we can’t!

44.  Tea Act  Boston Tea Party  Intolerable Acts  Lexington & Concord Leading to the Revolution Photo Credit: Darwin BellDarwin Bell

45. Photo Credit: John-MorganJohn-Morgan

47. 1.Closed Boston Harbor 2.Imposed MARTIAL LAW 3.Quartering Act

48. “Shot Heard Round the World”

49. Closing Quiz on 1.2.