Enlightenment History and Individuals.
What is science/reason/philosophy?
Most Enlightenment thinkers supported this type of government, which would be based on representatives of the people.
What is a republic.
What is trial by jury?
Although people lived in the American Colonies, they were likely to think of themselves as this instead.
What is British/English/a resident of their particular colony (i.e. Georgian/A New Yorker)
This was the name for the hated tax on Americans favorite caffeinated beverage.
What is the Tea Act?
Montesquieu was inspired by this Ancient Roman idea.
What is separation of powers?
The idea that some rights apply to everyone, no matter where they are because of God or some other force outside of government.
What are natural rights/laws?
The Mayflower Compact was important for being the first document to inspire this in the American Colonies.
What is self-government?
The idea that American colonies were meant only to provide wealth to Britain.
What is mercantilism?
This is law forced colonists to live with random British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Voltaire was famous for supporting these two freedoms.
What are freedom of speech and freedom of religion?
The idea that one agrees to a type of government which takes away some agreed upon freedoms in order to provide other agreed upon protections.
What is the social contract?
Thomas Paine's Common Sense argued that what idea should be considered common sense?
What is that America should become independent from Britain?
This technology helped spread Enlightenment ideas in Europe and the American colonies.
What is the printing press?
This battle marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
The Enlightenment was not cultural movement mainly by nobles. It was instead supported by these types of people.
What are middle class/intellectuals/merchants/artisans?
A thought experiment in which people were imagined to behave a certain way before the invention of governments.
What is the state of nature?
This document inspired the famous rallying cry, "No taxation without representation!" in the American Revolution. (Note from past Mr. McMahan, this must be exactly correct!)
What is the English Bill of Rights
What is unalienable?
These laws were considered intolerable to the colonists, and were meant to force them to pay for the Boston Tea Party by blockading Boston and ruling with martial law.
What were the Coercive Acts?
What is popular sovereignty?
In popular sovereignty, the people rule the government. The idea that when the people no longer support a government they can alter or abolish it is called this.
What is Consent of the Governed?
John Locke's ideas of the right to, "life, liberty, and property inspired the preamble to this famous American document penned by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independance
This is the most famous American general that got his start in the French and Indian war.
Who is George Washington?
This group was the first to join together leaders from all thirteen colonies to plan to boycott the British and share news about their abuses.
What was the Continental Congress?