PLease use our files to write don’t use any outside sources . Each Writing Assignment needs to be between 350-400 words, and must include evidence. Evidence used for Skill points must be found outside the course material. All Writing Assignments can be completed as either a Short Argument Paragraph or a Creative Writing Assignment, both of which are explained in Module 0. This is a Self-Assessment Assignment.

So far in this course we have discussed several huge developments from the time Europeans landed on the American continents till about 1750. In your estimation, what event was the most impactful, whether for good or ill, in the shaping of what would become the American experience?

• Lecture – Subject and Sovereign (22:45,

  British ColoniesClass Structure in the British ColoniesNature of Slave RevoltsCase Study: Stono RebellionImportant Themes and ConceptsSubject – a group of people who are under someone else’s authority, these people generally have limited rights under the government and usually have no recourse to control of the government they are under Sovereign – a person or group of people who have authority over the government and people that are under that government. This is established by Thomas Hobbes in his treatise of government, called Leviathan. The brilliant stroke of political genius conducted by our founders is they make the people (i.e. the subjects) their own sovereigns (i.e. one who controls the government), which makes us all our own sovereigns, and why we all have a stake in our government. Of course, the operation of that is ultimately through a republic and not a democracy (or direct democracy), so we are removed from direct control of the government (which was also very much purposeful, and I will get to that in later weeks), but we all, at least theoretically, have equal protections under the law. Now, of course, for many minorities and historically marginalized peoples this has not always been the case, not only during actual slavery, but even in the last 170 years. And the SC, in their complete lack of infinite wisdom, just made presidents above the law. So, as always, it’s a work in progress. 🙂Parliament – from the word parler, French for speak (coincidently this is actually from the Ancient Greek word paraballo, – literally para = together, ballo = to throw, which eventually meant to put next to each other, to compare or put in conversation with each other). This was an institution that came to dominate the governance of both England and Scotland from the 1200s to the 1700s. In 1707 the Parliaments of both countries formed a single institution under the name of Great Britain. Great Britain – a union formed from the countries of England, Wales, and Scotland, formally came together in 1707. United Kingdom – a union between the countries of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formally came together in 1801.1649 – Parliament tries King Charles I for treason, finds him guilty and beheads him. The was the first time a sitting monarch had been legally executed in world history (i.e. it happened through a trial). Glorious Revolution – the relatively bloodless coup that ended with the deposing of James II and the Parliamentary action of placing William of Orange and Mary on the English throne. Now the crown served at the behest of ParliamentMultiple Americas – the class divide was already fairly well cemented by the beginning of the 1700s and would become increasingly more polarized as the century continued. Commission of Trade – Parliamentary board that controlled all aspects of colonial economies, including regulating all trade, trading companies, ports, customs, coinage, exchange, and manufacturing, as well they oversaw fisheries and plantations.Mercantilism – the process and system of sending all raw materials back to European home countries from their colonial operations, producing goods in the homeland, and then sending them back out to the colonies. This was not necessarily the most cost effective, but it protected the interests of the homeland elite.Headright System – was a system in which colonists were given 50 acres of land for every indentured servant, and sometimes slaves, they brought over to America.Slave codes – various laws established throughout the colonies, mostly during the early 1700s, in which slave activity was highly curtailed. This codified the differences between white indentured servants, black freedpeoples, and black slaves

• 15:14, 18:24, 17:12) Lecture – Colonial Governments (9:11, 8:44, 8:39, 13:32)

  Government Types and Colonial Governments

  Carolinas, Crown and Parliament

  Religious Freedom in Rhode Island

  The Virginia Company Expedition

  Important Themes and ConceptsRepublic – res and publica, which means the public entity; representative government; from the Roman RepublicDemocracy – demos and kratos, which means rule by the peopleMonarchy – mono and kratos, which means rule by oneUnicameral versus Bicameral – one versus two bodies (houses) that form the government Royal colonies were set up and controlled by the crown. These colonies had governors appointed by the Board of Trade.Proprietary colonies were set up by various people through land grants from the British government. These land grants were usually awarded through the notion that the crown or Parliament would receive kickbacks from the land. Established by royal governors who were elected by colonial councils. Self-governing colonies were set up by joint-stock companies, which was then solely in charge of establishing a governing body independent of the crown or Parliament. The crown retained the power to revoke any self-governing charter at any time and convert the charter to a royal colony.