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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights People have the right " to alter or abolish" unjust governments. Popular sovereignty which states that all government power comes from the people. -
Battle of Saratoga
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British surrender at Yorktown
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Constitutional Convention
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Ratification of the US Constitution
They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which "We the people of the United States" entered.There was also a separation of powers among the judicial legislative and executive branches a concept borrowed from Montesquieu
