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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
Everyone has natural rights.
Right to over throw the government.
Popular sovereignty, the power of the government belongs to the people -
Battle of Saratoga
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Surrender at Yorktown
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Constitutional Convention
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Ratification
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
