Enlightenment Thinkers
Believed people agree to be ruled because their ruler pledges to protect their rights.
Thomas Hobbes
3 cent tax placed on sugar, and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.
The Sugar Act
Event in which Bostonians, protesting the high taxes being placed upon them, dumped crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
Representatives
Colonial city known for most events leading up to the American Revolution.
Boston, Massachusetts
John Locke believed people have the rights to life, _____________, and property.
Liberty
Taxes placed on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
The Townshend Acts
The Boston Port Act resulted in this event.
The Closing of Boston Harbor
The List of Grievances were a list of __________________ against King George III and his rule over the colonies.
Complaints
North America
Voltaire believed in what societal idea? (Hint: it became our 1st Amendment right)
Freedom of Speech
Required colonists to buy tea only from the British East India Trading Company.
The Tea Act
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Group of representatives that drew up the Declaration of Independence, who explained themselves and their reasoning in the Preamble.
Continental Congress
Name of the group that led the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of Liberty
Had the idea for Democracy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Act requiring colonists to provide housing to British soldiers.
The Quartering Act
As a result of the negative events impacting the 13 Colonies, the Continental Congress met and wrote this document.
The Declaration of Independence
This section was inspired by John Locke's ideas on government.
Declaration of Natural Rights
Name of the Monarch leading Great Britain at the time in which the Declaration of Independence was written.
King George III
Believed gov. should be separated into branches to limit power from falling to one individual (Separation of Powers).
Baron de Montesquieu
The Intolerable Acts were all punishments placed on colonists for this event.
The Boston Tea Party
Resulted in the deaths of 5 innocent American citizens in Boston after they protested the presence of British troops.
Boston Massacre
The Declaration of Independence was written for the 13 colonies to declare that they were "________ and ___________________" from the rule of Great Britain and King George III.
Free and Independent
Name for the British Government.
Parliament