1. Warm-Up Name and describe the three types of government.
Why is education crucial to a democracy?
What’s the difference between an autocracy and an oligarchy?
Why must democracies have citizen participation?

2. Events Leading to Independence
American Government Tradition

3. English Political Heritage
Two basic political principles:
Limited government – the concept that a monarch’s power is limited, not absolute
Representative government – a government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
Magna Carta:
Limited the power of the government
Fundamental Rights
Trial by jury
Due process of law

4. Petition of Right English Bill of Rights Men have rights Rule of law
Basic Rights
Trial by jury
Protection against marshal law
Protection against quartering troops
Protection of private property
English Bill of Rights
Limited power of the monarch
No standing army in peacetime
Free elections
Right of petition
Parliamentary checks on power

5. Colonial Government
The English founded thirteen colonies along the eastern coast of North America between 1607 and 1733.
Colonial governments established practices that became key to our government like:
A written constitution
A legislature of elected representatives
The separation of powers between the executive and the legislature
The Mayflower Compact was the first colonial plan for self-government
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first colonial legislature in America

6. Movement to Independence
Two events pushed the colonies toward independence from England:
After the French and Indian War the British thought the colonies should help pay for war debt
The Stamp Act increased Britain's revenue but angered the colonies

7. Proclamation of 1763
Colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains

8. Sugar Act Quartering Act Stamp Act Tax on sugar and other luxuries
Provide food and housing for British soldiers
Stamp Act
Required that revenue stamps be placed on most printed paper in the colonies

9. Protests

10. Protests The Boston Massacre
Guards fire on a crows protesting the stamp act, killing 5 people.
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the colonists that led to the Coercive Acts

11. Colonial Unity Stamp Act Congress Committees of Correspondence
First meeting organized by the colonies to protest the British government
Committees of Correspondence
Organized resistance to the British
First Continental Congress
Organized by Massachusetts and Virginia in response to the Intolerable Act
Delegates agree to an embargo prohibiting trade with the British
Led to the first battle of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts

12. Second Continental Congress
Delegates from the thirteen colonies assumed the powers of a central government

13. Wrap-Up Questions Answers Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act
Opening Battle of the American Revolution
Tax on sugar and luxury items
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
Closed the port of Boston
Tax on legal documents and paper
Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians
Required colonists to house and feed British soldiers
Groups of colonists who protested taxes
When 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers
When colonists dressed like Native Americans and threw tea in the harbor
Olive Branch Petition, Declaration of Causes and Necessities, Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts of 1774
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress