1. Bell work:
On ISN page ,create a Triple Venn Diagram to show similarities and differences between the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies.

2. Early Forms of Government

3. House of Burgesses Created in 1619 in Virginia
First representative assembly in American colonies
Became foundation for the principle of self-government in the colonies

4. Town Meetings Form of local self-government
Landowners made laws and other decisions for the community
Helped set the stage for the American Revolution

5. Follow up questions
How would this apply to the Pilgrims? Why did they feel it necessary to form laws before leaving the Mayflower?

6. Mayflower Compact Video

7. What is the Mayflower Compact?
a document signed by 41 male Pilgrims on November 21, 1620 in Massachusetts.

8. Mayflower Compact
Men on Mayflower vowed to obey the laws agreed upon for the general good of the colony
Helped establish the idea of self-government and majority rule

9. Set up an organized orderly government
Key step in the development of representative, democratic government