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 Peter Zenger Trial 2 English Bill of Rights 3 Natural Rights 4 Magna Carta 5 Maryland Act of Toleration 6 Parliament 7 Distance from England Salutary Neglect Natural Rights 8 John Locke 9 Virginia House of Burgesses 10 Virginia Declaration of Rights 11 Consent of the Governed 12 Representative Government 13 Mayflower Compact 14 Great Awakening 15 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut The idea that government must get the approval of the people that it rules over. Life Liberty and the Right to own Property Law making body in England 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. 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. The first representative government that met in Jamestown Virginia in 1619. It will influence other assemblies in the colonies. Created in 1689 during the Glorious Revolution that gave Englishmen basic rights like freedom of religion, trial by jury. A form of government where people elect Representative to make the laws for them. Influenced by Thomas Hooker, became the first written Constitution in America. 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. Enlightenment thinker who stated that when a government become abusive, the people have the right to overthrow their government This trial established the idea of freedom of the press. That the newspapers are free to print information about the government. Religious revival that swept through the colonies encouraging an more independent spirit.
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