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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?

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  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. 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. From England, With Love The English Origins of American Government

  4. LIMITED Constitutional Government

  5. Limited Government Individual Rights TAXATION BY CONSENT The Rule of Law Jury Trials 1215 Latin: Great Charter Magna Carta

  6. Parliament Checking monarchs since the 13th century!

  7. Queen Elizabeth I

  8. Absolutism Comes to England JI CI The Stuarts CII JII

  9. (1688) The Glorious Revolution 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.

  11. The English Bill of Rights William III (of Orange) Mary II (Stuart)

  12. The English Bill of Rights • Parliamentary Supremacy • Executive Power Limited • Free and Frequent Elections • Taxation by Consent

  13. The English Bill of Rights • 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 John Locke GOD-GIVEN

  15. Locke’s Values: Religious Toleration Consentof the governed • Right of Revolution John Locke GOD-GIVEN

  16. Constitutional Government Representative Government English Political Traditions

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

  18. (New England) Egalitarian Democratic Town Meetings

  19. (Virginia) Aristocratic Representative House of Burgesses

  20. Parliament pursued a policy ofSalutary Neglectwith the colonies…leaving them alone!

  21. The French and Indian War1754-1763

  22. WarsCostMoney

  23. Following the French and Indian War British National Debt

  24. Cost of QuarteringTroops in the colonies

  25. NO MORE Salutary Neglect

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

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

  28. A Serious Problem Smuggling Photo Credit: Mary Harrsch

  29. 1764 IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar ADMIRALTY COURTS Jury Trials The Sugar Act

  30. 1765 INTERNAL Tax on legal documents MASS RESISTANCE Boycotts Mob Violence The Stamp Act

  31. Resistance Movement(s) Sons of Liberty Intimidation Mass Protests

  32. Homespun Fabric Daughters of Liberty Reduced dependence on British textiles

  33. NOTAXATIONWITHOUT REPRESENTATION

  34. HERE HERE 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. Taxing Authority

  35. 1765 INTERNAL Tax on legal documents REPEALED MASS RESISTANCE Boycotts Mob Violence The Stamp Act

  36. Parliament’s NotDone

  37. 1767 Tax on Imports Townshend Acts

  38. These Guys Again

  39. More of These Guys

  40. Confrontation between British Troops and a Rowdy Mob 1770 Boston Massacre

  41. With one exception... 1767 Tax on Imports REPEALED Townshend Acts

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

  43. Tea Act • Boston Tea Party • Intolerable Acts • Lexington & Concord Leading to the Revolution The Chain of Events Photo Credit: Darwin Bell

  44. ParliamentGrants aMonopolyto a BritishCompany 1773 The Tea Act Photo Credit: John-Morgan

  45. 1773 Boston Tea Party

  46. 1774 Closed Boston Harbor Imposed MARTIAL LAW Quartering Act Intolerable Acts

  47. 1775 “Shot Heard Round the World” Lexington & Concord

  48. . ClosingQuiz on 1.2

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