2. Directions for notes
from the next slide
• On one page you will create a web-style
organizer – a circle surrounded by 15 blocks
• On the facing page[s] write what is in the block
leaving room for additional information –
delivered orally or gathered from each other
• This is a good visual study tool for those ideas
that led the colonists to revolt against British
rule
3. Colonists’ political values: a legacy of freedom
Magna Carta
English Bill of
1215
Rights 1689
Parliament
John Locke –
Two Treatises
on Civil Gov’t
Albany Plan of
Union 1754
New England
Confederation 1643
Zenger Trial
•Freedom/liberty
•Republicanism
•Self-determination
•Equality under law
New England
town meetings
Petition of Right 1628
Iroquois
Confederation
Mayflower Compact
Maryland Toleration
Act 1649
Montesquieu –
Spirit of Laws
J.J. Rousseau –
Social Contract
Salutary Neglect
Fundamental
Orders of Conn.
1639
Virginia House of
Burgesses
![Directions for notes
from the next slide
• On one page you will create a web-style
organizer – a circle surrounded by 15 blocks
• On the facing page[s] write what is in the block
leaving room for additional information –
delivered orally or gathered from each other
• This is a good visual study tool for those ideas
that led the colonists to revolt against British
rule](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)