This intro presentation is played as students arrive. It's purpose is two-fold. (1) to help them set their intentions for what will be developed in detail later. It contains reminders every 15 slides of the major teaching/learning points. (only 2 examples included here to conserve space) (2) it encourages them to arrive early and be ready for class at the start time. This is the first session so it doesn't include a third component. Visual and written reminders of previous presentations.

1. session i
Rights of Englishmen

2. session i
Rights of Englishmen

3. Course Outline
i. Rights of Englishmen
ii. A More Perfect Union
iii.The Document (C2)
iv. The Interpretation (C3)
v. First Amendment
vi. Second Amendment
vii. Rights of the Accused
viii. “Living Constitution” vs. Original Intent

4. questions to answer in this session
what were the major documents comprising the 18th century
English constitution?
how did the 148 year colonial experience prepare British
subjects to govern themselves?
what were the three types of colonial governments?
why did Britain follow a policy of salutary neglect, 1607-1675?
what changed Britain’s colonial policy in 1676?
what were the policies which “impelled [us] to the separation” of
1776?
how did the experience of writing state constitutions pave the
way for writing the U.S. Constitution?

5. preview of today’s session

8. Magna Carta, 1215

9. Petition of Right, 1628

10. Habeas Corpus
Act,
1679

11. King Charles II
1660-1685
his brother
James II
1685-1688

13. English
Bill
of
Rights,
1689

14. Before
the
white
man
came...

18. Amerindian Culture Groups

20. Sessions Remaining
A More Perfect Union
The Document (C2)
The Interpretation (C3)
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Rights of the Accused
“Living Constitution” vs. Original Intent

21. questions to answer in this session
what were the major documents comprising the 18th century
English constitution?
how did the 148 year colonial experience prepare British
subjects to govern themselves?
what were the three types of colonial governments?
why did Britain follow a policy of salutary neglect, 1607-1675?
what changed Britain’s colonial policy in 1676?
what were the policies which “impelled [us] to the separation” of
1776?
how did the experience of writing state constitutions pave the
way for writing the U.S. Constitution?

23. Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union, 1754

24. The
Beaver
Wars
1609-
1680

25. 17th Century tribal territories (approximate)

26. colonial westward
settlement halts
at the Piedmont
Plateau

27. Jamestown Colony

28. 2007 reenactment
400th anniversary

29. “Brown Gold”

30. signing the Mayflower Compact
1620

36. The “Merrie Monarch” pays his debt to the Penn family

38. James Stuart
Duke ofYork
1644-1685
James II
1685-88

39. NewYork, 1664

40. Governor Andros

41. The Gustawenta
(Covenant Chain)

45. Bacon sets fire to
Jamestown, 1676

46. Leviathan appears again

47. King Philip’s War, 1675-76

48. Andros & his Iroquois
Allies end the war
but trigger Bacon’s
Rebellion in
1676

49. Andros’ Dominion
of
New England,
1686-89

50. Andros a prisoner

53. 1733
Prime Minister Walpole’s
advice:
“Don’t kill the goose
which lays the golden
eggs”

54. 1759- General Wolfe,
here dying, conquers
New France

55. The Proclamation Line of 1763

56. Three “T”s
Taxes
Troops
Tea

59. “Give me liberty or give me death!”

61. George Mason
principal author
of theVA
Constitution &
the US Bill of
Rights

62. Mason’s home
Gunston Hall

63. ...but that’s another story