European<span> countries wanted to have </span>colonies<span>. One reason was to gain resources. The </span>Europeans<span> needed raw materials to make products in their factories. They knew they could get these raw materials cheaper from their </span>colonies<span> than they could if they bought them from other countries.</span>
Thomas Jefferson ranked Locke, along with Locke’s compatriot Algernon Sidney, as the most important thinkers on liberty. Locke helped inspire Thomas Paine<span>’s radical ideas about revolution. Locke fired up George Mason. From Locke, James Madison drew his most fundamental principles of liberty and government. Locke’s writings were part of </span>Benjamin Franklin’s<span> self-education, and John Adams believed that both girls and boys should learn about Locke. The French philosopher </span>Voltaire<span> called Locke “the man of the greatest wisdom. What he has not seen clearly, I despair of ever seeing.” </span>
Your answer would be a superpower or global power.
