Origins of American government

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Origins of American government

• Chapter 2 (pgs. 24-49)

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Can you define these terms?

• limited government-
• representative government-
• Magna Carta-
• Petition of Right-
• English Bill of Rights-
• Charter-
• Unicameral-

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What are the basic concepts of government?

• Representative Government
• Ordered Government
• C. Limited Government
• (mnemonic aid-ROL)

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What are some facts about ordered
government?

• 1st English saw a need for orderly regulation of
  their relationships
• Many offices they established are still around-
  sheriff, coroner, assessor, grand jury

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What are some facts about Limited Government?

• Government shouldnt be all powerful
• Each individual should have rights the government
  cant take away
• Idea was planted by the
• Magna Carta of 1215

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What do you know about Representative Government?

• Its the idea that govt should serve the will of
  the people
• People should have a voice in the government

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The basic concepts of govt can be traced to
English documents. What were they?

• The Petition of Right
• The English Bill of Rights
• Magna Carta
• (mnemonic aid- PEM)

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What ideas did we borrow from the Magna Carta?

• Trial by jury
• Due process of law
• Protection of arbitrary taking of life, liberty,
  or property
• Power of the ruler wasnt absolute (Touch Down
  Pretty Powerful)

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What did we get from the Petition of Right?

• It challenged the idea of the divine right of the
  king- that he had to obey laws also

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What ideas did the English Bill of Rights give us?

• Prohibited standing army in peace time
• All elections were free
• Making money for kings own use was illegal
• Right to fair and speedy trial

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What was the govt like in the 13 colonies?

• Govt established separately over 125 years.
• Virginia was the 1st colony
• Georgia the last
• Each colony had its own charter
• 5. all had English origins

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Each colony was established on the basis of
what???

• A charter

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What was a charter?

• It was a written grant of authority from a king.

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The charters led to the establishment of three
kinds of colonies. What were they?

• Charter colony
• Proprietary colony
• Royal colony
• (Charter Proprietary Royal - CPR)

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What do you know about a Royal Colony?

• They were subject to direct control from King
• N. Hampshire, Massachusetts,
• New York, New Jersey, Virginia,
• N. S. Carolina, Georgia
• Virginia was the 1st, Georgia the last

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Royal colony continued-

• The king named a governor
• King appointed a council
• (became the upper house)
• Property owners elected lower house
• This is where we got
• bicameral two house

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What do you know about a Proprietary colony??

• 3 existed- Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware
• Proprietor a person the king had given a land
  grant
• Land could be settled governed as proprietor
  chose

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Who was the proprietor of Maryland?

• Lord Baltimore

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Who was the proprietor of Pennsylvania Delaware?

• William Penn

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How was the proprietary colony different from
royal colony?

• Governor was appointed by the proprietor
• Pennsylvania had unicameral (one house)
• Maryland Delaware had bicameral (two house)

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How can you describe a Charter Colony??

• Connecticut Rhode Island were Charter colonies
• Were self governing
• governors elected by white, male ,property owners
  (needed Kings approval but never asked usually)

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Charter Colonies

• Bicameral legislature
• Very liberal for their time
• Charters were kept as their State Constitutions
• If other colonies were like this there may not
  have been a Revolution

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The Coming of Independence(what you should know)

• 1. How did the colonies Great Britains
  relationship
• change before the Revolutionary period???

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2. Why is the Declaration of Independence
considered to be a revolutionary document?3.
What was the govt like in the new independent
U.S.?
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Words to know!!How many can you define?

• Albany Plan of Union
• boycott
• constitution
• popular sovereignty

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We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall
all hang separately.(Who, when, and where was
this said?)

• Benjamin Franklin
• July 4, 1776
• At the Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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What led to the decision to break ties with Great
Britain?

• Colony management was left to the Crown they
  were across the ocean so colonies were left to
  self-govern.
• When King George III came he got more involved in
  the colonies.
• He restricted trade, imposed more taxes
• Colonists said taxation without representation-
  thought tax unfair

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What do you know about the Albany Plan?(who
proposed it, what was the plan?

• Ben Franklin proposed it
• Wanted an annual congress of delegates from each
  13 colonies
• Could raise military, make war, regulate trade
• Idea turned down by Crown

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What about the Stamp Act Congress?

• Brought about because of Stamp Act of 1765
• Nine colonies united at congress -1st time
  colonies got together to protest against British
  govt

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What other things did colonists do to protest the
British?

• Mob violence at ports
• Boycott of British goods
• Boston Massacre
• Committees of Correspondence-formed by Samuel
  Adams
• Boston Tea Party 12/16/1773