1. 9/8- Draw and complete the chart
Colonial Region Economies
Add details to describe the economy of the Southern Colonies
Add details to describe the economy of the Middle Colonies
Add details to describe the economy of the New England Colonies

2. Origins of rights in the English Colonies
OR: how we learned to stop worrying and love self-government

3. IF YOU REMEMBER ONE THING FROM THIS SLIDESHOW:
MAGNA CARTA:
12:15PM 1215 CE
LIMITS THE POWER OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY
Right to a trial by jury
Limits King’s power to tax
Limits King’s power to raise an army
Establishes the concept of LIMITED GOVERNMENT

4. ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS
1689: Take a look at some of these points, some of them look familiar? HINT: CIVICS
A frequently summoned Parliament and free elections
Members should have freedom of speech in Parliament
No armies should be raised in peacetime
No taxes could be levied, without the authority of parliament
Laws should not be dispensed with, or suspended, without the consent of parliament
No excessive fines should imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted

6. MEANWHILE:

7. So there’s this thing called the enlightenment…
Social contract theory: says that government comes from the consent of the governed.
*People agree to have a government as long as it does not violate their rights and freedoms.
In return they agreed to follow the law of the contract…

8. They had some pretty good ideas:
Natural rights: Rights that are so basic that they cannot be taken away.
(you are born with them)
-John Locke - Life, LIBERTY ,AND PROPERTY
-Declaration of Independence - LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

9. So the colonists (Pilgrims, Puritans)
Decided to see if these ideas could work in the real world!

10. THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Social contract of the Pilgrims. Created in 1620
Became the foundation of law at the Plymouth  colony in Massachusetts  and ESTABLISHED THE IDEA OF SELF GOVERNMENT IN THE COLONIES and CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

11. VA House of Burgesses: Established in Jamestown, VA in 1619
First representative governing body In the New World.
Established the idea of elected legislative bodies to make laws in the colonies
(what does that mean?... Representative governing body)
What is significant about Jamestown?

12. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The first governmental Constitution in the
American colonies

13. What’s going on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0
From Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Why did I show you this?
Where did the King Arthur derive his power from?
Where did Dennis think power should have come from?