Growth of Democracy In Colonial America
I. Building the Foundations House of Burgesses – 1 st Colonial Assembly, 1619
Mayflower Covenant:
Direct Democracy New England Town Meetings
Headright System: encourage settlement land went to whoever paid the passage
II. PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Separation of Church & State Puritans: Halfway Covenant Quaker Abdication
Great Awakening:
Effects of…
III. Freedom of Speech:
Freedom of the Press: John Peter Zenger
IV. Unity V. Discord
New England Confederation:
Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676
Leisler’s Rebellion:
Paxton Boys Uprising:
Regulator War: