Growth of Representative
Government in America
Social Studies PRIDE Lesson
Tuesday 09.16.14
Growth of Representative Government in America
Learning Target:
• I CAN understand why representative government and the idea of
inalienable rights are a centerpiece of American lives today by creating a
multi-flow map.
1. On a sheet of paper write your name at the top.
2. Write your social studies teacher name
3. Copy down the Learning Target at the top of the paper
Growth of Representative Government in America
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
• Excerpt from Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776
• What is the meaning of this excerpt?
• What are inalienable rights? Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
• Where do these ideas come from?
• Write these questions down on your paper and leave space to answer later.
Growth of Representative Government in America
Magna Carta?
What is significant about each one of these?
Discuss as a class and fill in.
English Bill
of Rights?
House of
Burgesses?
Fundamental
Orders of CT?
Mayflower
Compact?
Growth of
Representative
Government in
America
Growth of Representative Government in America
English Document
in 1215 that
limited power of
King
Magna Carta
Possible Answers
listed rights
guaranteed to
Englishmen
English Bill of Rights
First Legislative
Assembly in
colonies
House of
Burgesses
Mayflower
Compact?
laws made by the
people promotoing
self government
First written
Constitution
in colonies
Fundamental
Orders of CT?
Growth of
Representative
Government in
America
Growth of Representative Government in America
English Document
in 1215 that
limited power of
King
Magna Carta
What is in our lives today that could possibly have been inspired by these documents?
listed rights
guaranteed to
Englishmen
English Bill of Rights
First Legislative
Assembly in
colonies
House of
Burgesses
Mayflower
Compact?
laws made by the
people promotoing
self government
First written
Constitution
in colonies
Fundamental
Orders of CT?
Growth of
Representative
Government in
America
Growth of Representative Government in America
English Document
in 1215 that
limited power of
King
Magna Carta
Possible Answers
listed rights
guaranteed to
Englishmen
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of
Independence
Click to add text
First Legislative
Assembly in
colonies
House of
Burgesses
Mayflower
Compact?
laws made by the
people promotoing
self government
First written
Constitution
in colonies
Fundamental
Orders of CT?
Growth of
Representative
Government in
America
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Growth of Representative Government in America
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
• Excerpt from Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776
• What is the meaning of this excerpt?
• What are inalienable rights? Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
• Where do these ideas come from?
• Answer these questions based on the information entered into the multi-flow map.
Growth of Representative Government in America
Learning Target:
• I CAN understand why representative government and the idea of
inalienable rights are a centerpiece of American lives today by creating a
multi-flow map.
At the bottom of the paper answer the learning target by completing the
stem:
Representative government and the idea of inalienable rights are a
centerpiece of American lives today because ...