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Colonial Political Values

A legacy of freedom
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
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

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Colonial ideas of freedom [revised]

  • 1. Colonial Political Values A legacy of freedom
  • 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