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The ideas of the Enlightenment influenced American colonists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson because they read the works of Enlightenment thinkers and adopted similar views on politics and society. Political philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that using reason will guide us to the best ways to operate in order to create the most beneficial conditions for society. This included a conviction that all human beings have certain natural rights which are to be protected and preserved. The Enlightenment ideal was that individual freedom and equal rights and opportunity for all would be promoted and protected. Each individual's well-being (life, health, liberty, possessions) should be served by the way government and society are arranged. The American founding fathers accepted these Enlightenment views and acted on them.
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John Locke, in his Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690), had expressed the idea of natural rights in the words that follow. Notice the similarities to what was later stated in the American colonists' <em>Declaration of Independence</em> (1776).
- <em>The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.</em>
I believe the answer is D. Hope this helps.
Answer:It's been overshadowed by other events, but King George III's decree—which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians—was the first in a series of British actions that led to the American Revolution.
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Los Hijos de la Libertad (Sons of Liberty en inglés) fue una organización de patriotas americanos que surgieron en las colonias británicas de América del Norte. El grupo estaba formado para proteger los derechos de los colonos y para manifestarse contra los abusos del gobierno británico. Son especialmente conocidos por su participación en el Motín del té en Boston en 1773 en reacción contra el Acta del Té, que causaron las Leyes intolerables (una campaña de represión del Gobierno Británico), y una contra-movilización de patriotas.
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