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Founding Principles of Early America: From British Colonization to Revolution

Explore key events from British colonization to the American Revolution, including the establishment of limited monarchy, the social contract theory, and pivotal conflicts like the Boston Tea Party. Uncover revolutionary ideas that shaped America's founding principles.

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Founding Principles of Early America: From British Colonization to Revolution

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  1. 1. Term: compromise between Virginia and New Jersey Plans2. Amendment: protection from double jeopardy3. Court Case: established judicial review4. Terms: the idea that people form governments to protect their natural rights

  2. EOC Review: Pt. 1

  3. Early America • British Colonization of America (1607-1776) • Motivations: • Economic: joint-stock companies • triangular trade route, middle passage • Religious Dissenters: Puritans, Quakers • Regions • Southern Colonies • Middle Colonies • New England

  4. Revolutionary Ideas • In Europe • Magna Carta: created limited monarchy • Social Contract (Rousseau): • People establish governments to protect their natural rights • In America • Mayflower Compact: first direct democracy • House of Burgesses: first legislature • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: first written Constitution • Rebellion: Bacon and Shay’s

  5. The Revolution • British Offenses • Navigation Acts, Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts (Quartering Acts, Writs of Assistance) • American Reactions • Sons of Liberty, Boston Tea Party, Common Sense • American Revolution • Lexington and Concord: first battle • Second Continental Congress: revolutionary government

  6. "Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part."

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