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Standard 8.1.1

Standard 8.1.1. Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy. . Great Awakening.

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Standard 8.1.1

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  1. Standard 8.1.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

  2. Great Awakening • the period was a time of increased religious activity, particularly in New England. The First Great Awakening led to changes in Americans' understanding of God, themselves, and the world around them

  3. Revolutionary Fervor • a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period with passion or burning desire.

  4. Declaration of Independence • The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances (complaints) against King George III, and by asserting (insisting on) certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution (make a change)

  5. Individual Rights • “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

  6. American Revolution • 13 colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. • Rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them from overseaswithout representation

  7. The Voyage

  8. Great Britain to America 3,616.89 miles

  9. Civil Republicanism • Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau. • Social contract • 3 branches of government • Natural Rights

  10. Classical Liberal Principles • An idea that evolved in the late 1700s. • A government should be as small as possible in order to allow the exercise of individual freedom.

  11. English Parliamentary Traditions • It developed a bicameral arrangement with an upper House of Lords for the nobility and clergy, and a lower House of Commons for the shires and boroughs. The powers of the parliament were fairly great: the king could not institute a new law or tax without its consent.

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