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- 4. 🇺🇸 Colonists who supported independence
- 6. 📜 Document signed in 1776 expressing colonial freedom
- 7. 📜 Term for rights all humans are born with (life, liberty, etc.)
- 11. 📚 Author of Two Treatises of Government, believed in natural rights
- 12. 📚 The intellectual movement inspiring the revolution
- 13. 🔍 Philosopher who emphasized empiricism and the scientific method
- 14. 📢 Enlightenment thinker who said government should protect natural rights
- 16. 👑 Voltaire criticized this institution for abusing its power
- 17. 💰 Law passed by Britain taxing all printed materials in the colonies
- 19. ✍️ Voltaire defended this right more than any other
- 20. 🌍 Philosopher who believed in the social contract and popular sovereignty
- 21. 🧑⚖️ Enlightenment idea: the law should apply equally to everyone
- 22. 🏛️ Rousseau believed government should be based on the ________ contract
- 24. ⚔️ Final major battle of the American Revolution (1781)
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- 1. 👑 British monarch during the American Revolution
- 2. 📖 Work by Rousseau on political freedom: The Social ________
- 3. ⚖️ French philosopher who advocated separation of powers
- 5. 💭 The idea that power comes from the people, not a monarch
- 8. 💬 Phrase from Locke: "Life, Liberty, and ________"
- 9. 🗣️ English thinker known for his pessimistic view of human nature; supported strong governments
- 10. 🛡️ French Enlightenment thinker who argued for freedom of speech
- 12. 🌍 Movement emphasizing reason, science, and individual rights
- 15. 📦 Protest event involving tea and a harbor
- 18. 🔥 Pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraging independence
- 19. ⚖️ Enlightenment idea promoting division of powers in government (Montesquieu)
- 23. 🎖️ First major battle of the Revolution (1775)