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A social and political philosophy that taught that the government exists to make sure every person's individual freedom is secured.
The definition of REPUBLICANISM
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A political ideology that promoted the idea of a "natural aristocracy"
The definition of ENLIGHTENMENT
A European movement based on the idea that experimental science and reason were the only avenues to knowing truth.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
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An English thinker who created the concept of a "state of nature."
What are John Locke's 3 rights (differing from Jefferson's)?
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LIFE, LIBERTY, PROPERTY
The availability of cheaper land to the west of the ORIGINAL COLONIAL settlements drew people away from their hometowns.
Who wrote the Two Treatises on Government?
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JOHN LOCKE was an English thinker who wrote the Two Treatises on Government.
What were the two battles fought in Massachusetts that opened the American Revolution?
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The Battles of LEXINGTON and CONCORD.
What role did George Washington play in the American Revolution?
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George Washington was the CHIEF COMMANDER of the AMERICAN ARMY in the Revolution.
What is the title of our textbook chapter (3)?
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Kindling the Spirit of the Rebellion
According to Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. what three rights are governments formed to protect?
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LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
What role did the sons of Liberty play in the protests following the British Parliament's enactment of the Stamp Act?
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Organized in groups called the "Sons of Liberty," colonists destroyed stamp paper and forced stamp distributors to resign their jobs and incited mobs to attack the enemies of liberty.
What reaction did the sons of liberty have to parliament's act allowing the British East India Company selling tea at reduced rates?
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The sons of liberty boarded an English tea ship and dumped its contents into Boston Harbor. This is called the Boston Tea party.
What role did the “Intolerable Acts” play in pushing the English colonies in America to revolution?
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The effect of the Intolerable Acts was to outrage the colonists more than they had been before, and led to the calling of a Continental Congress to represent all the colonies in their protest against Parliament.
Why were there so many wars fought in North America in the period before the American Revolution?
Why did the Continental Congress establish the Association? What was the role of the Committees of Correspondence?
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The Association was established to make sure that no one imported or exported goods from Great Britain. Congress appointed Committees of Safety that used threats and violence to enforce the Association.
How did the French and Indian War change North America?
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In losing the war all of France's possessions in North American became British possessions.
What was the Great Awakening? Who started it?
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The Great Awakening was a religious revival movement that began in NEW ENGLAND with the preaching of JONATHAN EDWARDS.
What was the Quebec Act, and why was it important in the events leading up to the Revolution?
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The Quebec Act permitted the French in Quebec to practice their Catholic faith, and to live according to French rather than English laws. Most of the founding fathers of the United States objected to the Quebec Act because they saw the Catholic faith and people who practice that faith as opposed to English
We celebrate Independence Day of July 4, but who was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence that day?
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John Hancock.
Who wrote Common Sense?
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Thomas Paine, to argue for American independence from Great Britain