Virginia Experience Civics & Economics Social Studies
The Virginia Experience effectively teaches students about United States history. All curriculum materials cover foundations of the U.S. government, citizenship, political process, understanding government, judicial system, public policy, economy, and finances as required by the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL).
The Virginia Experience effectively teaches students about United States history. All curriculum materials cover foundations of the U.S. government, citizenship, political process, understanding government, judicial system, public policy, economy, and finances as required by the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL).
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Comprehensive Cross-Check<br />
Match each historic document to its influence on the U.S. Constitution.<br />
A. Magna Carta<br />
B. Articles of Confederation<br />
C. <strong>Virginia</strong> Declaration of Rights<br />
D. Declaration of Independence<br />
____ 1. It allowed freedom of religious beliefs and opinions.<br />
____ 2. It guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists.<br />
E. <strong>Virginia</strong> Statute for Religious<br />
Freedom<br />
F. Charters of the <strong>Virginia</strong> Company<br />
of London<br />
____ 3. It served as a model for the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.<br />
____ 4. It established the first central government of the new independent states.<br />
____ 5. It gave Englishmen basic rights and freedoms and established “rule of law.”<br />
____ 6. It affirmed the ideas that people have certain unalienable rights and that all<br />
people are created equal.<br />
Primary Source<br />
Read the text from the <strong>Virginia</strong> Statute for Religios Freedom and answer the question.<br />
“And though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for the<br />
ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of<br />
succeeding Assemblies…yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that<br />
the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that<br />
if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its<br />
operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.”<br />
What are <strong>Virginia</strong> lawmakers saying to future lawmakers? ________________________________________<br />
__________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
__________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
__________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Writing Prompt<br />
Sample<br />
What rights do you think <strong>Virginia</strong>ns would consider most critical to be publicly stated if the <strong>Virginia</strong><br />
Declaration of Rights was being written today? Write a list of the rights that would go in your<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong> Declaration of Rights.<br />
©Carole Marsh/Gallopade • www.gallopade.com • <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Civics</strong> & <strong>Economics</strong> • Page 13<br />
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