American Revolution

By Kieca
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

  • Bottom Massacre

    Bottom Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Indpendence

    Declaration of Indpendence

    He says everybody has natural rights. Life, liberty, and property.
    If the government isn't protecting those rights. We have a duty to over throw that government.
    Popular sovereignty, which states that all government power come from the people.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

  • Constitution was ratified

    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; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.
  • British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia

    British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia