Question

Match the following.

Answer 1

Here are your matches:

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 First Treatise on Civil Government.  In his Second Treatise on Civil Government, 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.