Origins of American Government

By grace.shults

  • The Europeans Arrive to America

    The Europeans Arrive to America
    In the 1600s, Europeans immigrated to what would become America later. They brought their Judeo-Christian ideals and created the colonies and those ideals influenced their government. They also believed in "power to the people" and they didn't want to have the government be overly powerful. Following the Magna Carta, they made the English Bill of Rights, which was created to limit the current monarchy and give the colonists rights.

  • Pre-Revolutionary War Governments

  • The Creation of New Ideas

    The Creation of New Ideas
    The colonists between the 1600s and the 1700s really liked the ideals of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. These ideals would later become important when the Constitution is written.