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John Locke = philosopher
Boston Tea Party = British reacted with Intolerable Acts
Sugar and Molasses Act = tax reduced after boycotts
Navigation Acts = required colonies to trade only with England
Saratoga = turning point of the Revolution
Quartering Act = required colonists to house troops
George Rogers Clark = captured western British forts
Proclamation of 1763 = forbade settlement beyond Alleghenies
Iroquois = British allies in the Revolution
French and Indian War = British obtained Canada
Permit me to say a bit more about John Locke, the philosopher -- as important background to the American Revolution.
The American founding fathers read Locke (as well as other Enlightenment writers). The American Revolution (1775-1783) was inspired by ideas such as those of Locke. John Locke (1632-1704) argued for the idea of a "social contract." According to his view, a government's power to govern comes from the consent of the people themselves -- those who are to be governed. This was a change from the previous ideas of "divine right monarchy" -- that a king ruled because God appointed him to be the ruler. Locke repudiated the views of divine right monarchy in his<em> First Treatise on Civil Government.</em> In his <em>Second Treatise on Civil Government, </em>Locke argued for the rights of the people to create their own governments according to their own desires and for the sake of protecting their own life, liberty, and property.
