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John Locke
John Locke is a famous philosopher who influenced America by talking about natural rights and laws, as well as social contracts. -
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Montesquieu influenced government today because he wanted seperation of powers, checks and balances, and he contradicted the french throne. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar and Mollases Act was a large impact on our government and was used in the Declaration of independence as a complaint against the King. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act forced the colonists to feed, clothe, and pay to house the british troops, who were in turn, being rude, ungrateful, and gaurded their homes to keep the people from disowbeying the King"s laws. -
Proclamation of 1773
This Act was to make peace with the American Indians by telling the colonists that they were not allowed to colonize past the Appalatian Mountians; those who were already west of the mountians were forced to return back east on the other side. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act made it so that the colonists could only buy tea from the King's company, The East India Company -
Intolerable Acts
- Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Quartering Act
- Tea Act (5. Quebec Act)
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Quebec Act
This was a replacement for the Proclamation of 1773. The colonists considered this an Intollerable Act because it violated many of their wesern lands. -
Declaration of Independence
This document declared the people's freedom from England.
