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Influences on American Democracy

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1 Influences on American Democracy
Old World New World Ancient Greece & Rome European Enlightenment Locke Rousseau Voltaire Montesquieu Limitations on British Monarchy Magna Carta English Bill of Rights Virginia House of Burgesses Mayflower Compact Fundamental Orders od Connecticut New England Town Meetings Salem Witch Trials Peter Zenger Court Case Triangle Slave Trade Iroquois Confederacy Albany Plan of Union Salutary Neglect Mercantilism

2 The Ancient World Greece Rome Direct Democracy Trial by Jury
Representative Democracy The Senate

3 Limits on the Kings Power
Magna Carta English Bill of Rights

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5 Establishing Local Governments in the New World
Virginia House of Burgesses -1612 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-1630s Mayflower Compact-1620 New England Town Meetings

6 Peter Zenger Court Case- 1730s
Freedom of the Press!

7 Triangle Slave Trade

8 Salem Witch Trials-1690s

9 Albany Plan of Union Colonial Cooperation

10 The Iroquois Confederacy

11 French and Indian War (1756- 1763)

12 British had to pay for the war.

13 End of Salutary Neglect


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