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Origins of American Economics and Government
US History
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Mercantilism Salutary Neglect
Economic theory that colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country by providing: Markets Materials Money!! Colonies may only trade with the mother country Period to about where England generally left the American colonies alone; the colonies were able to develop unique American: Economics Society Politics
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Origins of American Government
Long Term Short Term Magna Carta - Mayflower Compact (2) Enlightenment - Maryland Act of Toleration John Locke - New England Town Meeting - Virginia House of Burgesses - Right to Petition
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Quiz - Origins of American Government
- Mercantilism - Salutary Neglect Long Term Short Term Magna Carta - Mayflower Compact Enlightenment - Maryland Act of Toleration John Locke - New England Town Meeting - Virginia House of Burgesses - Right to Petition Make a 8 question matching or fill in the blank quiz on the origins of government.
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Magna Carta
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Enlightenment
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John Locke
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Mayflower Compact Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politic, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony;
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Mayflower Compact
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Maryland Act of Toleration
…enacted that no person or persons whatsoever within this Province professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent
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House of Burgesses (REPUBLIC)
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New England Town Meetings
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Right to Petition White House Weird Petitions Bieber
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Discussion Which factor had the biggest impact on the origins of American government?
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