This is a handout offered at the first session. Also given out are the Outline for all eight sessions and the study guide.

1. We the People
i Rights of Englishmen
I. the “uncollected” English constitution (3-17)
A. Magna Carta, 1215
B. Petition of Right, 1628
C. Habeas Corpus Act, 1679
1. Whigs and Tories
2. Glorious Revolution, 1688
D [English] Bill of Rights, 1689
II. “Before the white man came…” (18-34)
A. the real people
1. images
B. origins to “contact”
1. Beringia
C. Iroquois Confederacy “Haudenosaunee” (People of the Long House)
1. “Gayanashagowa” (Great Law of Peace)
2. Beaver Wars (1609-1711)
D. the fall line
III. the colonial experience (35-49)
A. Virginia, 1607
←1. precedents
←2. 1619-The 3 ‘B’s
←a. Black men
←b. Burgesses
←c. Brown “gold” (tobacco)
←3. 1500s-The 3 ‘G’s
← a. God
← b. Gold
← c. Glory
←B. Massachussetts, 1620
← 1. religious roots
← 2. the foundation legends
← 3. colonial charters- CT & RI
←C. Proprietary Colonies
← 1. Maryland, 1632
← 2. Carolina, 1663
← 3. Pennsylvania, 1681
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2. IV. 1676; the end of American independence (50-72)
A. Anglo-Dutch Wars (3 from 1652-75)
←1. James, Duke of York and Albany, later king James II (1685-88)
←2. Province of New York, 1665
← a. “the center of empire in America”-Webb
← 1. Daniel Garacontié (Onondaga sachem), Edmund Andros, and James Stuart
←B. “Gustawhenta” (the Covenant Chain)
←1. mutual ambitions
←2. Iroquois strike south
←C. Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-77
← 1. causes
← a. Sir Wm Berkeley (1605-77)
← b. Indian attacks
← 2. results
← a. rebellion crushed
← b. Berkeley’s regime replaced by Royal rule
← c. “the end of American independence”
←D. King Philip’s War, 1675-76
V. the road to 1776 (73-91)
A. Dominion of New England, 1686-89
← B. Mercantilism
←1. Bullionism-wealth = Au & Ag (gold & silver)
← a. need for a “favorable balance of trade”-- exports > imports
←2. colonialism
← a. source of raw materials
← b. market for manufactures
←3. trade restrictions
← a. Navigation Acts, 1651-1772
←C. Great War for Empire, 1688-1763
← 1. King Wm’s War, 1688-97
← 2. Queen Anne’s War, 1702-13
← 3. King George’s War,1744-48
← 4. French & Indian War, 1754-1763
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←D. Britain tightens control
←1. royal governors vs colonial assemblies
←2. taxes, troops & tea
←E. Revolutionary War, 1775-83
←1. from Rights of Englishmen to Independence
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VI. the state constitutions ( 92- 98)
1. George Mason (1726-1792)
2. The Virginia State Constitution, 1776
← 3. States as “laboratories of democracy”--USSC Justice Louis Brandeis
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