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John Locke
John locke was one of the enlightment thinkers. He was a english philosopher who developed the theory of "natural rights". He belived that all people were born with equal rights of life, liberty, and property that the role of the government was to protect these rights. -
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The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was a time when man began to use his reason to discover the world, casting off the superstition and the fear of the medieval world. Thomas Hobbes was a materialist and a empirical philosophy. John Locke humanized the ideas of Hobbes.The eighteenth century is the age of Enlightenment. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The Act required that many printed materialisn the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced i London witch carried an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacure
The Boston Massacure also called the Incident on King street by the British was ann incident on March 5, 1770 in witch the British army soliders killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The boston Tea party was a political protest by the Son of Liberty in Boston against the tax policy of the british government and the East Indian Company that controlled all the tea imported into colonies. -
Ratification of the Constitution
A maority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May. -
Federalist Papers
A series of 85 articles and or essays providing the ratification of The United States Constitution written by Alexander Hamiltion, James Madison, and John Jay. -
Missouri Compromise
It was an agreement passed in 1880 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress invovling primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Dred Scot V Sanford
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that peolpe of African descent brought into the United States and held the slaves were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizen. -
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