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- 5. Enlightenment idea that government exists only because the people consent to be governed; if the government fails, the people have the right to change or overthrow it.
- 8. the Enlightenment largely brought about the end of this belief that said that monarchs received their power from God
- 9. Britain sent its military to protect the American colonists during this war
- 11. This 1773 British “Act” led to taxes on tea sales in the colonies, which led directly to protest.
- 14. Enlightenment thinker who inspired the US, and most governments in the Americas, to have executive, legislative, and judicial branches
- 18. gathering of angry colonists at a port where they threw all the tea into the harbor to protest its taxation
- 19. A 1215 English document that established the principle that the king's power was not absolute and protected certain rights for English subjects.
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- 1. This 1765 British “Act” demanded colonists feed and house the British soldiers sent to protect them
- 2. influential English Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas on natural rights (life, liberty, and property) heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence
- 3. country from which the American colonists wanted independence
- 4. This 1765 British “Act” placed a tax on all printed materials (like newspapers and legal documents) in the colonies, leading to the rallying cry, "No taxation without representation."
- 6. A 1689 document that guaranteed certain rights, such as trial by jury to English subjects and further limited the power of the monarchy.
- 7. Enlightenment thinker whose ideas about freedom of speech inspired colonists to speak against the British government
- 9. country that threatened the safety of American colonists as it completed for territory
- 10. An 18th-century European intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individualism, and liberty.
- 11. these were the things that caused the biggest problems between the colonists and the British, but that were levied by the British to pay off war debts
- 12. Voltaire called for the separation of the state and this.
- 13. “American” colonists were angry that they were not granted this type of a trial as was required by the English Bill of Rights
- 15. the Enlightenment largely brought about an end to this type of monarch
- 16. Enlightenment thinker who proposed the idea of a “Social Contract” inspiring colonists to expect that the government should serve their needs
- 17. Massacre A 1770 confrontation where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five.