Matching Pairs Growth of Rep. GovtOnline version Match the events, documents and important people who helped establish representative government in the 13 colonies by Bobbi Wood 1 John Locke 2 Representative Government 3 Distance from England Salutary Neglect Natural Rights 4 Natural Rights 5 Maryland Act of Toleration 6 Magna Carta 7 Consent of the Governed 8 Great Awakening 9 Parliament 10 Virginia House of Burgesses 11 Mayflower Compact 12 English Bill of Rights 13 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 14 Virginia Declaration of Rights 15 John Peter Zenger Trial This trial established the idea of freedom of the press. That the newspapers are free to print information about the government. The idea that government must get the approval of the people that it rules over. Reason why England allowed Colonist to have representative government Signed in 1215 that limited the power of the King. It also stated that the King must get the consent of the people before he raised taxes. The first representative government that met in Jamestown Virginia in 1619. It will influence other assemblies in the colonies. Granted freedom of religion in the colony of Maryland. It ensured that Catholics were not going to be persecuted. Written in 1620 on the Mayflower by the Pilgrims. It established the idea of self-government for a colony whose laws would be created for the good of the colony. Written mainly by George Mason for the colony of Virginia that ensured rights for the colonist. Rights such as freedom of speech and religion and trial by jury. Created in 1689 during the Glorious Revolution that gave Englishmen basic rights like freedom of religion, trial by jury. Influenced by Thomas Hooker, became the first written Constitution in America. Law making body in England Enlightenment thinker who stated that when a government become abusive, the people have the right to overthrow their government Life Liberty and the Right to own Property A form of government where people elect Representative to make the laws for them. Religious revival that swept through the colonies encouraging an more independent spirit.
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