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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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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
- Reflects natural rights. (life, liberty, & property)
- Government's job to protect rights.
- If government doesn't protect the rights the people can over throw them.
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Battle of Saratoga
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British Surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
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Constitutional Convention
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Constitution was Ratified
- They say 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.
