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This document was written by Thomas Jefferson and several contributing members. The official break up letter to King George III
The Declaration of Independence
Colonists disguised themselves as Native Americans and threw British tea into the Harbor
The Boston Tea Party
John Locke's ideas created this kind of agreement.
Social Contract.
This 1770 protest led to the British shooting and killing five colonists.
The Boston Massacre.
Thomas Paine passed out this pamphlet urging the colonists to declare independence against Britain.
Common Sense
What was the colonists' main objection to taxes imposed by British Parliment?
Hint: "No taxation without"
The colonies had no representation in British Parliament.
The motto of the French Revolution was: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Brotherhood).” Which philosophical idea from the Declaration of Independence inspired this motto?
John Lock, Edmund Burke, or Baron de Montesquieu
John Locke
This British document created in 1215 was the basis for the American Bill of Rights.
The Magna Carta
How did the colonists get the Townshend Acts repealed?
Boycotting Taxed Items
The Founders wrote the Declaration of Independence to challenge King George III. Whose philosophical ideas were they following? a. John Wesley
b. Edmund Burke
c. Émilie du Châtelet
d. Baron de Montesquieu
John Wesley
(1)Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes…. (2)But when a long train of abuses … [attempts] to reduce them under absolute Despotism, (3) it is their right … to throw off such Government…. (4)Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Which phrase justifies a revolution against Britain
Phrase 2
Out of these five thinkers: Which two led to the creation of the Continental Congress
John Locke, Edmund Burke, Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
a. serving on a jury b. voting in an election
c. petitioning Congress d. enlisting in the military
Voting in an election