Enlightenment
Social contract
Enlightenment thinker whose ideas are most prevalent (commonly seen) in American government.
John Locke
Invisible line across the Appalachian Mountains that forbid settlement in the newly acquired British territory.
Proclamation of 1763
The First Continental Congress was convened as a reactoni to ....
Intolerable Acts
This pamphlet is the reason colonists were willing to support a declaration to separate from England
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Life, Liberty and Property
Natural rights according to Locke
Believed that the government must be limited with 3 branches, each with its own responsibilities, to stay democratic and fair
Montesquieu
taxes on imported goods like glass and tea
Townshend Acts
militias
Which delegates demanded that sentences about slavery be taken out of the Declaration?
Southern delegates because slavery made them rich; they didn't want to give up slavery
Rights for protection from state of nature
Social contract according to Hobbes
He took the laws from all over England and consolidated them into one big book, called Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone
This law would make a new graduate, married couple or widow pay a tax on the official legal document.
These battles happened during the 1st CC
Lexington and Concord
Jefferson exchanges the right of property for...
pursuit of happiness
The will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives, direct democracy is best. Whose idea?
Rousseau
the name given to the Enlightenment in the American colonies.
Age of Reason
Another name for search warrants, allowed British soldiers to search colonial homes and ships for smuggled goods
writs of assistance
The last-ditch effort made at the 2nd CC to patch things up with the king. He says, "get lost"
Olive Branch Petition
What is ironic (happening in the opposite way to what is expected) about Jefferson's words, "All men are created equal"?
he himself 'owned' 600 slaves
The "prince" or leader, must be willing to use all means necessary, including deceit and trickery, to do a good job.
word that means cruel and oppressive government or rule, commonly used by Jefferson in the Declaration.
tyranny
This was the name of the near-backrupt company the Tea Act was meant to help out
British East India Tea Company
George Washington will command the Continental Army
Thomas Jefferson will write the Declaration of Independence
On this date, the Declaration was adopted by the Continental Congress.
July 4, 1776