Do Now

When do you feel our country is most united? Can you think of any recent examples? (Specific events?)

Learning Target• I will be able to explain the specific

events that encouraged the very separate English colonies to come together and unite as Americans.

• Look at pic on p. 118!!

Essential Question

• What caused the 13 English colonies to come together and eventually unite as Americans in their fight for freedom against England?

• What caused an American Identity??

ThinkThink….….

Imagine you are heading off to Imagine you are heading off to college. college.

Analyze:Analyze:

How will your How will your identityidentity change? change?

England =England had colonies,

my parents had children.

My Parents

13 English Colonies =

Me, in high school

Think….Think….What caused What caused mymy identify to identify to change?change?

What caused 13 What caused 13 EnglishEnglish colonies to become 13 united colonies to become 13 united AmericanAmerican colonies? colonies?

1. Magna CartaIssued in the year 1215.

This document was one of the earliest and most direct attempts to stop the King of England from abusing his power.

Given rights under the Magna Carta:A free man could not be imprisoned without going

through the court system. His property could not be seized without the approval of a council.

2. Parliament

Parliament is a representative government because citizens vote for people to represent them in government.

It is the equivalent of our U.S.

Congress today.

Why do you think the English Parliament was an unfavorable form of government in the eyes

of the colonists?

Hint: We discussed it earlier!

3. English Bill of Rights 1689

A transfer of greater power from the King to Parliament.

Gave the people of England more rights.

Made Parliament stronger & the King weaker.

4. The EnlightenmentThe Enlightenment was a time in which

European philosophers began to encourage people to question things, and not just accept the ways of the past.

John Locke, a British philosopher argued that ALL people have the natural right to 3 things.

1. Life

2. Liberty

3. Property

Social ContractA social contract was frequently discussed by Enlightenment philosophers.

This was the idea that rulers must protect the rights of their citizens, if not, the citizens have the right to replace those rulers.

How do you think the Enlightenment influenced

English colonists?

Mr. Pennington goes to college…

• I can go out whenever I want.• I don’t have to let my parents know where I am.• My parents have little to no say over what I do at college• I form my own beliefs, and become my own person.

England neglects its colonies...• The 13 colonies are able to trade with non-British

colonies.• They become more economically and politically isolated.• They were able to govern themselves (self-govern).• They started to form their own identity as Americans.

5. Salutary NeglectSalutary neglect occurred when England

decided to focus more on European politics and less on the enforcement of strict regulations imposed on its colonies.

This allowed the 13 colonies to prosper economically and politically as they traded with non-British colonies, and explored the ideas of self-governing.

In 2002….

Mr. P graduates from college and is forced to move home to save money while he completes graduate school. He struggles to obey his parents rules/wishes.

In 1763…This unwritten

English policy known as “salutary neglect” comes to an end when England tries to impose stricter control over the American colonies.

When Mr. P moved home, his parents (England) tried to

enforce certain rules.• Navigation Acts are enacted in 1760’s.• American colonies can only trade with Britain. • Colonists cannot move west of the Appalachian Mts.• Britain (Parliament) starts to TAX the colonists for the

first time. Colonists were used to taxing themselves.

When the policy of “salutary neglect” came to an end, how do you think the 13 colonies reacted?

They became American!!- They organized into groups.- They protested.- They rebelled and revolted.- They tried to make a (temporary) national

government.

13 separate English colonies became 13 American colonies, which in time

became the U S of A

ClosureWhat is the analogy?

1. My parents are just like the ____.

2. Mr. P in high school is just like ____.

3. Mr. P in college is just like ____.

4. Mr. P moving back home is just like____

in the year 17____.

5. The rules Mr. P had to live with when he

moved back home are just like ____.

Closure1. What document first limited the power of the King of England?2. What was the representative government that was created in that document?3. What give Englishmen (and Parliament) more

rights and power, and the King less?4. What was the intellectual movement in which

John Locke was a leading philosopher?5. What is the vocab word for England having a

“hands off” policy toward her colonies?6. What year did that change?

HomeworkRead 5.2 (pages 125-129) in your

textbook.

Then fill in the graphic organizer.