Colonial Influences

  • Magna Carta
    1215

    Magna Carta

    It was a government that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility, this was written by the English nobility in 1215.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    They need a government fast.The manged to create a new government and to follow it's rules. Inexchange, they would all protect each other
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    This document expanded the rights of the parliament and the people and limited the power of the king more
  • Cato's Letters

    Cato's Letters

    Cato's Letter discussed many different ideas such as freedom of expression
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    This was a pamphlet written to convince the American colorist to support becoming independent from England. Written by a colonial journalist in 1776