1. Pick up: a textbook from the bookshelf, a map from the front, three colored pencils
Hand in: your paper OR graphic organizer, worksheets from last week, parent homework if you have it
Sit in: Your assigned seat
You will need: paper for notes and a pen

2. Warm Up Puritans seeking religious freedom
Match the region to the best characteristics.
New England Middle Southern
Puritans seeking religious freedom
Economy was based on plantations and slavery
Middle class of artisans, business owners and small farmers
Settled by Quakers seeking religious freedom
1. NE 2. South 3. Middle 4. Middle
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4. Reading Notes Chapter 1, Section 2 Page 16
Take notes according the ideals we’ve discussed.
Rights
Equality
Liberty
Opportunity
Democracy

5. Massachusetts - Mayflower Compact
Separatists seeking religious freedom from Church of England
Others want to own land – “no one has the power to command them”
“Civil Body Politic”
“just and equal laws”
“for the general good of the Colony”

7. Back in England – The Rights of Englishmen
Magna Carta –
Government cannot remove one’s life, liberty, or property without following certain rules
Legislature – Parliament
No taxation without representation
The king is not above the law
English Bill of Rights
Real power is in hands of Parliament
Further extends rights of individuals – no cruel and unusual punishment

8. Virginia House of Burgesses, 1619
Peopled by white land owners. Model of self rule

9. Colonies as independent states
Albany Plan – 1754
Proposed Confederation – alliance of colonies
Plan included an ability to tax and raise an army
Iroquois League

10. Religion
Pennsylvania – Quakers (Virginia tried to make it illegal to be “loving to Quakers”)
Massachusetts – Puritans – banished “wrong thinkers”
Rhode Island – “liberty of conscience”
Maryland – Act of Religious Toleration – protection for Christians

11. Right to Free Expression
Zenger trial – 1734
Printed remarks that were damaging to the governor of New York.
Freedom to print the truth

12. Great Awakening The Truth is between a person and the Bible
Evolved into political activism as people found contradictions between their interpretations and norms of American Colonies

13. Freedom from debt
Georgia created as a haven for debtors and prisoners

14. Sit in: a seat of your choice
You will need: your profile from yesterday and something to write with

16. Twitter feed
Contribute to the events you feel your character would have a deep response to. At least two.
Your response can use modern jargon but it must reflect the place and position the person holds.
You are not bound to your seat. If you want to move around and find events to contribute to, you may.
If you run out of room on the front do not use the back. Pick up another paper from the from and staple it to the first sheet.

17. Turn in: your parent homework if you haven’t already
Sit in: your assigned seat
Have out: your current event! (if you haven’t printed the article, I still want the written portion)

18. Current Events! Share your articles in your groups
EVERYONE should share
Your group will pick the one article you think would be the most interesting to discuss as a class.