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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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The battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights. People have the right "to alter or abolish" unjust governments. Popular sovereignty, which states that all government power comes from people. -
Battle of Saratoga
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Surrender of Yorktown
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Constitutional Convention
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Constitution Was Ratified
They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which "we the people of the United States' entered. There was also a separation of powers among the judicial, legislative and executive branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.