Origins of Basic Ideas About Government

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Origins of Basic Ideas About Government Rights
From the Colonial Experience

• Annotated Timeline Assignment

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Timeline Should Have

• A title
• Two Timelines
• One stretching from 1600-1763
• Another stretching from 1770-1778
• Individual entries that each contain the
  following
• An iconic symbol and bold label
• Date and a place
• Brief definition and explanation of significance
• Specifically identify Rights introduced

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Items to Include On Your Timeline

• Virginia Co. Charter
• Mayflower Compact
• Mass. Bay Co. Charter
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Carolina Constitution
• Pennsylvania Charter

• Virginia House of Burgesses
• MA Body of Liberties
• New England confederation - 1643
• MD Act of Toleration
• Sir Edmund Andros
• Zenger Case
• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Declaration of Independence

• State Constitution of Pennsylvania
• State Constitution of Massachusetts
• State Constitution of Virginia
• State Constitution of Delaware