1. Agenda Tues 8/30 & Wed 8/31 Journal Entry #7
Origins of America Timeline
Declaration of Independence
“Bundles” chart DUE Tuesday/Wednesday 9/6-7

2. Who is your hero? Why? (5 sentences)
Journal Entry #7
Who is your hero? Why? (5 sentences) 2

3. Origins of American Government
Chapter 2

4. Basic Concepts of Government
Ordered Government
Government is organized
Provides Structure
Limited Government
Government only has the power that the people grant
Unalienable rights
Rule of Law (power not absolute)
Representative
Government serves the people!!!!!

5. Important Documents Magna Carta (charter) 1215
Protection against monarchy and pointless laws
Judicial protection: trial by jury, due process, life, liberty and property
English nobles questioned absolute power
Rule of Law established

6. Important Documents Petition of Right English Bill of Rights 1628
Passed by Parliament
Limited government
Freedom of speech
Non-military rule
English Bill of Rights
1689
Established Parliament’s power over monarchy
Limited military
FREE ELECTIONS

7. Types of Colonies Royal Proprietary Charter Direct control of the king
Governor named by king
Proprietary
King grants land to a person
They settle and govern the land
Charter
Self governing

8. Early Plans for Revolution
Albany Plan-
1754 Benjamin Franklin
Create a congress among 13 colonies
Rejected by King AND the colonists
Stamp Act Congress
Reaction to Britain’s tax on all legal documents, newspapers, etc
Taxation without representation
Organized opposition to monarchy

9. 1st Continental Congress
1774
Response to Intolerable Acts
Debated plans for separating from England in the wake of increased British presence
Created a Declaration of rights and organized a boycott (peaceful opposition)
Except…militias Lex & Concord (Shot heard ‘round the world)

10. 2nd Continental Congress
Armed conflict escalates
1775- Philadelphia
First national government of US
Signed Declaration of Independence in 1776… what date?
Created the Articles of Confederation (early constitution)

11. 1st & 2nd Continental Congress
The 1st & 2nd Continental Congress rested on no legal base.
They were put together in haste & meant to be temporary.
The 1st attempt to establish a lasting gov’t was the Articles of Confederation.

12. “Bundles” Chart Plan/Compromise Kind of states that benefited
Provisions (Description)
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise
(aka The Great Compromise)
Three-fifths Compromise
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise