WARM-UP Skip over 3 sets of pages in your notebook

(That means 3 left and 3 right!) I will do notebook organization with you later.

Collect a Warm-up sheet from the teachers and get a Civics Today textbook.

Turn to page 30 in the textbook and complete the fill-in reading assignment

VOCABULARY CHECKThis is the order in

which the words should appear on your sheet:

Colony Constitution Independence Repeal Grievance Charter Delegate Ratify Amend Unalienable rights Confederation

The crossword are assignments that you need to complete by the end of the unit. It will be part of the notebook review.

FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

The documents that made the Constitution happen!

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WE WILL STUDY 5 DOCUMENTS THAT LEAD UP TO THE CONSTITUTION

Pre- Revolutionary

War documents

Charters of the Virginia Company

Virginia Declaration of Rights

Declaration of Independence

Post- Revolutionary War documents

Articles of Confederation

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Constitution

CHARTERS OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY

Daily Objectives1. Identify when and

who wrote the Charters of the Virginia Company

2. Describe the purpose of the Charters

3. Explain how the Charters influenced the Constitution

Key Vocabulary Terms

1. Charter

2. Colony

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Christopher Columbus

Queen Elizabeth I King James I

Yeah! The Virginia Company pays to get settlers over to America andsettle the land I own. I just sit back and collect taxes on the profits the colonies make.

1. Meet with your 6:00 partner.2. Fill in the blanks on the “background”

section of your worksheet.3. You have 4 minutes

In 1492 Columbus discovered America. The major powers in Europe at the time- England, France, Spain and Portugal quickly placed claim on lands in America. Their hope was to find gold, silver and other riches. England settled colonies on the east coast of America. England’s largest colony was Virginia named after Queen Elizabeth I. Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 and was succeeded by King James I. He realized that sending new settlers and maintaining a colony was very expensive. He did not like to spend money on the colonies.

In 1606, a group of businessmen formed a company called the Virginia Company of London. They went to King James with an offer. The company would finance a ship to carry settlers to the Virginia colony and help to support them with food and supplies. However, they needed the permission of King James to do so since he owned the land. King James thought this was a great idea! The Virginia Company would pay and help support his colony, not him! Then he would gain money in taxes when the colony became profitable! In 1606, King James granted to first charter to the Virginia Company.

MOVIE CLIP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2Vr5z_yOE

If you were a new colonist coming to America what you pack in your suitcase?

What the colonists wanted to bring: The colonists could bring few

personal belongings on the small ships. They did want one thing- since they took the risk to go to a foreign, unknown land could they still be English citizens?

CAN YOU FIND AND UNDERLINE IN THE PASSAGE ABOVE WHAT RIGHTS THE COLONISTS WERE GIVEN?

The Charters that were signed said this: “Also we do, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, DECLARE, by these Presents, that all and every the Persons being our Subjects, which shall dwell and inhabit within every or any of the said several Colonies and Plantations, and every of their children, which shall happen to be born within any of the Limits and Precincts of the said several Colonies and Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.”

Could they still be English citizens?

OBJECTIVE CHECKDate of the document

1607

Author of the document

Owners of the Virginia Company and King James

OBJECTIVE CHECKPurpose of the documentAllowed the VA Company to establish a

colony in the new world with the permission of King James

How did the document influence the Constitution?

Guaranteed the colonists rights as English citizens

The Constitution would give rights to American citizens

HOMEWORK Color the picture at the bottom of your

notes

This and other assignments in this packet are due at the end of the unit.