GOVERNMENT - Week of Jan. 27

Mon. 1/27 Review Text Readings, Chap. 2, pages 33-44. Homework: Read Chap. 2, pages 45-56.

Tues. 1/28 Return Essays on Gun Control Review Text Readings, pages 45-56. Assignment: Create a Student Bill of Rights Homework: Work on Bill of Rights; Begin collecting

magazines for Preamble Collage Project next week

Thurs. 1/30 Return/Review Chap. 1 Quizzes Finish Chap. 2 Do Chapter Review Work on Bill of Rights (To Be Presented Monday & Tuesday) Homework: Chap. 2 Quiz on Monday

Chap. 2: Building the American

System of Government

1) Many of the conflicts between Great Britain and its American colonies can be traced back to a dominant economic theory of the 1500s. Name this theory.

Mercantilism

Name three types of colonies in America. Describe their basic structure.

Colonial Self-Government

Charter colonies (2): Con.; R.I.Ran their own affairs Elected their own governors (sometimes appointed),

councils, and assemblies

Proprietary colonies (3): Maryland, Del., Penn. Belonged to companies or to wealthy proprietors

Appointed the governors and councils Assemblies were popularly elected

Royal colonies (8): Mass., N.H., N.Y., N.J., Vir., N.C., S.C., Georgia Ruled directly by the king

Appointed the governors Appointed the councils

Assemblies were popularly elected

Colonies developed legislative bodies with two houses (bicameral system)

Why did the British feel it necessary to pass laws to tax the colonies?

Salutary Neglect had an unintended effect…Tradition developed of colonial self-

determination (Assemblies)Triangular trade (Rum > Slaves > Molasses)Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763)

British Legislative Acts or Laws:The Proclamation of 1763;Sugar Act, 1764; Stamp Act, 1765; Townshend Acts, 1767;Others: Quartering Act, Writs of assistance,

Boston Port Act (Intolerable Acts)

*Shots fired at Lexington & Concord, 1775;*Declaration of Independence, 1776.

Describe one attempt by the colonies to unify or, at least, cooperate with

one another.

Albany Plan of Union, 1754

Stamp Act Congress, 1765“Sons of Liberty”Committees of Correspondence

First Continental Congress, 1774

Stamp Act

Chapter 2 Reading QuizNote: Don’t take the quiz if you haven’t done the

reading…if you don’t turn-in a paper with answers, I’ll assume you didn’t read the assigned pages…

1) Many of the conflicts between Great Britain and its American colonies can be traced back to a dominant economic theory of the 1500s. Name this theory.

2) Name three types of colonies in America. Describe their basic structure.

3) Why did the British feel it necessary to pass laws to tax the colonies?

4) Describe one attempt by the colonies to unify or, at least, cooperate with one another.

What efforts/events helped unify/govern the colonies/states prior to ratification of the

Constitution?

Albany Plan of Union, 1754

Stamp Act Congress, 1763

First Continental Congress, (Sept., 1774)Accomplishments & Importance?

Second Continental Congress, (May, 1775)Served as colonies’ government from 1775-1781

Declaration of Independence, 1776 (Appendix)

Declaration of Independence, 1776 (Appendix)

Three Major Sections: “Why” was it necessary? What were the “wrongs” suffered by the colonists? What was the “will” behind the adoption of the

Declaration?

Read the D of I, then do the following:State the general reasons in your own words for the

“why” of declaring independence (first two paragraphs).

List five “wrongs” suffered by the colonists, particularly ones that were highlighted in your text, pages 33-44 (main body of D of I).

What was the “will” of the 56 representatives of the 13 colonies who signed this document?

Two influential philosophers:Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.)

Idea: The people have the right to rule themselves.Quote (from Essays on Politics): “That the people at

large should be sovereign rather than the few best would appear to be defensible…There is this to be said for the Many. Each of them by himself may not be of a good quality; but when they all come together it is possible that they may surpass…the quality of the few best.”

John Locke (1632- 1704)Idea: The rights of the individual are supreme…

government was a compact between a people and their rulers.

Quote (from Two Treatises of Government): …“they (government rulers) forfeit the Power the People had put into their hands…and it [returns] to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty…”

Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation, 1781

Weaknesses of the Second Continental Congress?

Strengths of the Articles?

Weaknesses of the Articles?

Constitutional Convention (May, 1787)

U.S. Constitution – Ratified in 1788