Exploration and Colonization

Exploration and Colonization

8.3

1609 - Founding of Jamestown

1620 - Arrival of The Pilgrims' and signing the Mayflower Compact

1776 - Declaration of the Independence

1787 - writing the U.S. Constitution

1803 - Louisiana Purchase

1861 - 1865 - the Civil War

Representative Government and its Growth

8.3

Reasons for the growth of representative government and institutions during the colonial period

1.) The right to life

2.) To liberty

3.) Property

Together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Pilgrims' arrival in America?

• It led to an alliance between the British and the French.

• It led to an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.

• It caused Puritans to separate from the Church of England.

• It introduced the slave trade to the Atlantic colonies.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

8.3

• Defined & limited the powers of government

• Created a general assembly

• Granted government the right to levy and collect taxes

Multiple Choice

What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

8.3

• the colonies united for trade and defense.

• Self-government developed in the colonies.

• Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.

Multiple Choice

The diagram shows a sequence of events in colonial history.

Why is this sequence of events important?

8.3

• Colonists created a legislature with two houses.

• Colonists declared independence from English rule.

• Colonists defended the concept of unalienable rights.

• Colonists established a tradition of self-government.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the influence of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

8.3

• It helped establish the tradition of self-government

• It was the first attempt to combine political and religious laws

• It established the concept of unalienable rights

• It outlined a plan for independence from British rule

Early Republic 8.5

Major domestic problems faced by leaders:

1.) Maintaining national security

2.) Creating a stable economic system

3.) Setting up the court system

Multiple Choice

Why did many farmers, artisans, and former Anti-Federalists support the Democratic-Republican Party?

8.5

• they favored the expansion of of a strong national government

• supported strict restrictions on immigration

• supported the use of tariffs

• favored states' rights and the rights' of common man

Reasons for English, Spanish, and French exploration and colonization of North America

God, Gold, and Glory!!

• God - religious freedom

• Gold and Goods to trade

• Glory - establish a new life on their terms

Multiple Choice

Why did European explorers search of the Northwest Passage?

• To find the legendary Cities of Gold

• To discover new technology for crossing the Atlantic Ocean

• To find the legendary foundation of youth

• To discover a new sea route to Asia