It was a set of laws that: 

1. extended voting rights to non-church members

2. limited the power of governor

3.expanded representative government

4. made Connecticut more democratic

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

pg. 79. 82-83

 Important ideas in the Mayflower Compact include:

It helped establish the ideas of:

self government and

majority rules

This encouraged:

1. individuals to esercise their own judgement

2. ideas of equality

3. the right to challenge authority including religions, political and social

The Great Awakening

One of the roots of our Constitution is the ___________________ which made it a crime to restrict the rights of religious groups.

Maryland Toleration Act

List 3 colonial religious groups that promoted the idea of self-government.

1. Quakers

2. Puritan

3. Pilgrims

List 3 Colonial American roots of the Constitution.

1. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

2. House of Burgesses

3. Mayflower Compact

Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac?

Benjamin Franklin

What restricted western settlement?

Appalachian Mountains

What common geographical feature of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston influenced their economic growth in the 18th century.

Seaports

Which colonies depend on fish as a source of food and commerce?

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Maine

What region had the climate and the land to support large-scale agriculture?

Southern colonies

In the southern and mid-Atlantic colonies, merchans hoped to become wealthy growing _______ and _______.

Tobacco, rice, cotton

What did tobacco and cotton production do to the soil?

wired it out

A plantation requited a large amount of land and slave labor in order to be ________.

Profitable

Before 1650, much of the labor working in the tobacco fields was supplied by _________.

Indentured servants

Mass production means the manufacture of goods in large quantities.  Innovative ways of mass production is an important feature of the _________ system.

Interprise System

Improvements in ___________ was responsible for the following benefits: improved trade within the country, lessening of regional isolation, reduction of dependence on foreign goods.

transportation

What colony was established by William Penn?

Pennsylvania

Who had religious freedom in Pennsylvania?

anybody who believed in God

The Constitutional right to _______ reflects the importance American society places on the open exchange of _______.

 speech;

First Amendment Ratified

1791

Roger Williams establishes Rhode Island colony

1636

Toleration Act passed in Maryland

1649

William Penn establishes Quaker colony

1681

Great Awakening

1730's and 40's

 Jonathan Edwards, one of the best known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved.  This religious ovement that swept through the colonies was called the ____________.

The Great Awakening