Liberalism
A political and social philosophy that emphasized the freedom of individuals to follow their own desires in their social, religious, and economic life.
What is Liberalism?
The gathering location of the first Continental Congress.
What is Philadelphia?
Thomas Paine's influential book that convinced many colonists of the need of independence.
What is Common Sense?
In 1765, Parliament passed an act which required all legal documents to have a stamp affixed to them for which a tax had to be paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1739, the Spanish captured Robert Jenkins and cut off his ear, outraging England's parliament.
What is the "War of Jenkins' Ear?"
He believed that the state of nature was a miserable state. he believed that humans had no notion of right or wrong. Life was a war of every man against another.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The document by which the first Continental Congress argued that American colonists were guaranteed all the constitutional rights of Englishmen.
What is the Declaration and Resolves?
Was picked to write the draft of the Declaration of Independence.
In 1763, Parliament drew a line along the western side of the colonies, preventing colonists from settling past it.
What is the Proclamation Line?
The French lost the colonies of Newfoundland and L'Acadie to England as a result of this war.
What is Queen Anne's War?
Said that man possessed three natural rights in the state of nature of Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
An agreement among the American Colonies, adopted by the first Continental Congress, to boycott British trade.
What is the Continental Association?
Thomas Jefferson borrowed this man's philosophical language when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
After the Stamp Act was repealed, Parliament issued an act claiming that they could, "bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever."
After this war, France gave Britain all of her North American colonies except a few small islands.
What is The French and Indian War?
To ensure that every person may exercise his rights with as much freedom as possible without hindering the rights of other individuals.
What is Locke's purpose of government?
These groups helped enforce the Continental Association and were appointed by Congress.
What are Committees of Safety?
The Declaration claims that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with these unalienable rights.
What are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?
This act closed the port of Boston until all expenses for the Boston Tea Party were repaid.
What is the Boston Port Act?
In March 1770, British soldiers fired into a mob that had been pelting them with snow and stones killing three and wounding two Bostonians.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The well-educated, virtuous, and wealthy men who were worthy of being elected into office.
What is the natural aristocracy?
Was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the provisional army formed during the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
The Declaration uses this notion to justify its political revolution.
What is social contract theory?
Granted French in Quebec freedom to practice the Catholic faith and allowed them to be governed by French rather than English laws.
What is the Quebec Act?
In 1773, the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped the tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?