Pre Revolution
Thomas Paine's book
Common Sense
The social theory by John Locke
Blank Slate
Placed tax on molasses
Sugar Act
A lot of the tension started in the British Colonies known as the French and Indian War also known as
the seven years war
British soldiers approached Lexington and Concord to
confiscate said arms
He believed that religion was deeply imbedded to world civilization, he believed maintaining personal religious beliefs were acceptable, so long as the beliefs were privately-held and not infused with the state.
Voltaire
Was a tax that affected people who needed this good more so such as laywers and people who read newspapers.
Stamp Act
Who won the French and Indian war?
British
these laws took away the right of self-governance in Massachusetts by replacing the colonial government with a royal governor
Intolerable Acts
Branch of Government that creates laws
Legislative
This group disguised themselves as American Indians & threw British tea overboard at the so-called Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
What were some issues after the French and Indian war?
Colonists had to start paying taxes
As a response to the colonial ‘insolence,’ and the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, the British sought to punish the colony of Massachusetts by passing the
Coercive Acts in 1774
His theories were applied to scores of constitutions in the world and served as a basis for the Constitution of the United States in 1787
Montesquieu
a series of taxes were applied to a broad swath of goods, including tea (a very popular consumer good) was called
Townshed Acts
What was the French and Indian war over?
The British wanted to gain control over territory the French had.
The wealthy publisher and intellectual authored his own works, and published the works of other colonial critics of the British Crown
Ben Franklin
the specific rights, duties, structure, and function of the state should be explicitly bound to a
Constitution
with the British East India Company on the verge of bankruptcy, the British passed the
Tea Act
King George reneged on the promise of land rewards for participating colonists west of the Appalachians by protecting it as an American Indian Reserve with
Proclamation of 1763