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Mind Map by paul.schneider, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by paul.schneider
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American Government
Before Independence
- Early
Colonists
- Immigrants
- "Land of
Immigrants"
- Americans come from many different countries
- Trend does continues
throughout history and today
- "Land of
Immigrants"
- Jamestown
- Established
in 1607
- Native American
Interactions
- Settlers wanted to take more
and more land for farming
- Conflict become war and settlers won
- Enslaved them but got sick
and died from colonist
diseases
- Started bringing African slaves,
believed would not get same
illnesses
- Settlers wanted to take more
and more land for farming
- Established
in 1607
- Plymouth
- Established in
1620
- Later established the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Later established the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans
- Came to practice their beliefs
- Strict Beliefs
- Came to practice their beliefs
- Established in
1620
- Pennsylvania
- Established in 1680
- Quakers colonized
- Practice own beliefs
- Called for tolerance
- William Penn - Founder
- Practice own beliefs
- "Land of Penn"
- Established in 1680
- Southern Colonies
- Came during British unrest
- Many were wealthy, but non-noble
- Came during British unrest
- Borderlanders
- From England, Scotland and Ireland
- Characteristics
- Spoke English
- Belief in Liberty and Human Rights
- Spoke English
- From England, Scotland and Ireland
- Immigrants
- Magna Carta
- King John had
absolute power
- Barons met with and
forced him to sign
- Threatened with army
- Right to trial by jury of peers
- Threatened with army
- Ideas original only for nobles
- King John had
absolute power
- Parliment
- Line of Kings
- Edward
- James II
- Edward
- Glorious
Revolution
- William
and Mary
- Bill of Rights
- Constitutional Monarchy
- William
and Mary
- House of Lords
- Highest Court of Appeals
- Highest Court of Appeals
- House of Commons
- Prime Minister
- Prime Minister
- Line of Kings
- Governments in the Early
American Colonies
- New Amsterdam
- Now NYC
- Settled by Dutch in 1650
- Now NYC
- Virginia
- House of Burgesses
- Founding
- Virginia Company
- John Smith
- Virginia Company
- Privy Council
- House of Burgesses
- Massachusetts Bay
- Mayflower Compact
- Pilgrims had
no charter
- Allowed Pilgrims to make laws
based on majority vote
- Pilgrims had
no charter
- Mayflower Compact
- Maryland
- Cecilius Calvert
- Lord of Baltimore
- Lord of Baltimore
- Leonard Calvert
- Appointed governor
- Told Cecilius to pass law for
Catholics to practice in private
- Appointed governor
- Catholic colony
- Cecilius Calvert
- New Amsterdam
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