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Thomas Hobbes
immportant ideas for the Enlightnement
-Social Contract
-Agreement between people and government
-Believes people are inherently evil -
John Locke
-Natural Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property -
Baron de Montesquieu
-Spirit of Laws
-3 branches of government
legislative, executive, judicial
-separartion of powers -
François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
imortant ideas for the Enlightenment:
-Freedom of Speech
-Freedom of Religion
-Fair Trial -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
important ideas for the Enlightenment:
-Social Contract
-Common Good
-"Man is Born Free"
-Natural Rights -
George Washington
-Memeber of First Continental Congress
-Chosen to lead Continental army
-President of the Constitutional Convention and became president of the U.S. -
John Adams
-important figure in First and Second Continental Congress
-central to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
-helped negociate the Treaty of Paris that ended the Americn Revolution
-1st vice president and 2nd president -
Thomas Jefferson
-delagate to second continental congress
-part of commitee chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence
-picked to write the Declaration
-was sent to France as a diploment after the Revolution
-first vice president under John Adams and third president -
Revolution
- came about after a series of unfair taxes upon the colonists by the British government
- the colonists declared these taxes unfair and stood up against oppression
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Grievances of British Subjects
-Stamp Act
-no taxation without representation -
Declaration of Independence
-written to announce and explain the United States' separation from Great Britain
-signed by the founding fathers
based off of Locke's idea of :life, liberty, and property" -
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Anti-Federalists
-Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee
-opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government
Federalists
-against the constitution
-Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
-supports the Constitution -
Articles of Confederation
-the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain
-established a weak central government
-no power of national taxation, no power to control trade
-no direct origin in the people themselves -
Northwest Ordinance
-created the Northwest Territory
-first organized territory of the United States
- established the precedent by which the Federal government would expand westward across North America with the admission of new states -
Constitution
-supreme law of the United States of America
-describes the national frame of government -
Bill of Rights
-collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
-influenced by the Enlightenment with its emphasis on natural rights
