-
-
Taxed any paper product: newspaper, playing cards, etc.
-
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was throwing snow balls and rocks at them. During this event, 5 people died.
-
Colonists hurled cargo's of British tea into the harbor to protest the tax on tea.
-
Tension between thet colonist and British finally erupted into war. This war became known as the American Revolution.
-
The second continental congress met and voted to declare
The declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect the peoples natural rights. People have the right to alter or abolish unjust governments.
The idea of popular sovereignty, which states that all government power comes from the power of people. -
The treaty of paris ended the war with American Victory.
-
Document to make the articles of confederation stronger
-
became supreme law of the land
they saw the government in terms of a social 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
