Enlighten Me
One of John Locke's ideas - the first involves your God or nature-given inalienable rights to life, liberty, and and property
Natural rights
Thomas Jefferson referred to John Locke's concept of natural rights instead by this name in the declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson made this change to John Locke's concept, saying all humans are entitled to this right
The Pursuit of Happiness
Acts of parliament that restricted the ability of the colonist's to govern themselves by eliminating their legislatures, banning organizing, and moving their court trials to Britain
Intolerable Acts
This document contains among many others the right to trial by jury and forbids a standing army during peacetime; it supposedly applied to all English subjects, but was not extended to the American colonists.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
A word that means an individuals natural right to be free
Liberty
"He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people." Which of John Locke's natural rights were violated?
Liberty - The right of the people to be free
One of John Locke's theories: the agreement between people and government where the people give up some freedoms for the government the protect them
Social Contract
This quote from the Declaration reflects this concept: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
What are natural rights?
This document created a Puritan society at Plymouth Colony in 1620 and was one of the first examples of self-government by English citizens in the American colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
"For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us" is a complaint levied against King George in the Declaration of Independence. This is a name for a complaint
The reason why colonists protested the acts of parliament in their own words
"Taxation without Representation"
The Enlightenment influenced the earliest settlers of America, who created their own governments that would best represent their interests.. established first by the Mayflower Compact
What is self-government?
What is the purpose of government according to this quote from the Declaration of Independence?
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
To protect the rights of the people
This pamphlet inspired many fence-sitting Americans to independence when it was published and spread via the printing press throughout the American colonies in 1776.
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
England's legislature, or lawmaking body. Passed several legal acts that infringed on the rights of the American colonists
Parliament
The Tea Act led directly to this protest
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Governments that are not all powerful, as established by Magna Carta in 1215
What is limited government?
This quote from the Declaration reflects this concept: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."
Social Contract
Written by Thomas Jefferson to tell the world that the American colonists would be free and to explain their reasons for doing so. Expressed basic American ideals like natural rights and the Consent of the Governed
Declaration of Independence
Permission
Consent
"For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever" is a grievance that refers to which act of parliament against the American Colonists?
What are the Intolerable Acts?