Influences on American Democracy Old World Ancient Greece & Rome European Enlightenment – Locke – Rousseau – Voltaire – Montesquieu Limitations on British Monarchy – Magna Carta – English Bill of Rights New World Virginia House of Burgesses Mayflower Compact Fundamental Orders od Connecticut New England Town Meetings Salem Witch Trials Peter Zenger Court Case Triangle Slave Trade Iroquois Confederacy Albany Plan of Union Salutary Neglect Mercantilism

The Ancient World Greece Direct Democracy Trial by Jury Rome Representative Democracy The Senate

Limits on the Kings Power Magna CartaEnglish Bill of Rights

Establishing Local Governments in the New World Virginia House of Burgesses Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-1630s Mayflower Compact-1620 New England Town Meetings

Salem Witch Trials-1600s

Peter Zenger Court Case- 1730s

Triangle Slave Trade

The Iroquois Confederacy

Albany Plan of Union

French and Indian War ( )

British had to pay for the war.

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