 Neglect Distance leads to self governance Salutary or healthy neglect  Mercantilism Nations power depends on wealth Navigation Acts Cheap Raw Materials from Colonies

 Taxes French-Indian War ( ) Increase in taxes to pay for war Stamp Act 1765  Taxes on newspapers and legal docs Quartering Act  House and supply British Garrison Restricting Civil Rights

 Theoretical Representation vs. Actual Representation “No taxation without representation!” “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!”  Separate Identity

 Civil Disobedience Boston Tea Party  First Continental Congress Demand Rights Be Restored Battles between British and Colonists in Mass  Lexington and Concord  Second Continental Congress Manage the Growing War

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 The Declaration of Independence was directly effected by the Enlightenment  Thomas Hobbes Leviathan  We make a contract with a government giving up rights for protection  Jean-Jacques Rousseau Social Contract Like Hobbes (make contract with gov. for protection) Sovereignty in hands of people

 John Locke Natural Rights k k  Montesquieu Separation of powers

 Using your knowledge of the enlightenment explain how that impacted the declaration of Independence Use specific examples from the Declaration

 Find 5 examples of enlightenment ideas in the Declaration of Independence

  1. Which document did the Pilgrims write at Plymouth Rock? A. Mayflower Compact B. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut C. Magna Carta D. English Bill of Rights

 2. What was the first representative legislative body in the English colonies? A. United States House of RepresentativesB. First Continental Congress C. Virginia House of Burgesses D. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

 3. Which document first stated that kings do not have “divine right” to rule? A. Mayflower Compact B. B. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut C. Magna Carta D. Hammurabi’s Code