Enlightenment and Amer. Rev.

Test Tomorrow

Montesquieu

Separation through powers, Checks and balances

John Locke

 life, liberty, property, Declaration of independence/ One government gets its power from the people, Two when the government violate the right of the people they have the right to overthrow the government

Becarria

Bill of rights, Speeding and fair trial,

Thomas hobbes

Social contract

Voltaire

Bill of rights, freedom of expression,

What book did the Catholic Church censor

The encyclopedia 

Montesquieu’s influence on the branches of government

Found in the constitution

What happened right after the American Revolution started?

The constitutional convention was called 

Who influenced the Bill of Rights

John locke, Rousseau, Voltaire

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence:

Thomas Jefferson

The soical contract

People give the government the right to govern them but if the government doesn't do a good job can be overthrown 

What did the philosophes believe in

Progress or cesitate 

What did colonists object to the stamp act

 They didn't like the tax passed by parliament cause they did not pass reputation

Who dumped tea into boston harbor and why

Sons of liberty, to protest the tax on tea

Why were taxes increased on the colonists after the French & Indian War

The british wanted to make the colonists pay for part of the cost of the war 

No taxation without representation was a result of

A response to the stamp act

Townsend act

 This was a tax on manufactured goods, tea & paper 

Strengths & weaknesses of British & colonists

British - weak leadership, no clear plan, native americans sighted with them / Colonists- lack of unity, self sustaining, defence of fighting