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| collection of ideas, thouigts, opinions as a means of defining an event, reason or purpose |
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| Enlightenment(circa. 1690's - 1770s) |
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| simultneous movement with Great awakening in Europe and North America; identified as the "Age of reason" |
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Two Treatisies on Government (1680 - 1690)
"Natural Rights Theory" = men are by nature free, independent, and equal to eachother |
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| "Letters to a Pennsylvania Farmer" (1767)Written as a protest statement against the Townshend Acts(1767); that served to punish the colonists for stamp act uproar; basic statement on rights of coloniststo resist arbitrary measures passed down by great Britan |
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| "Summary view of the rights of British America" (1774) Written as a protest statement against the coercive Acts (1774) |
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| Member of Parliament in England, established North Briton, newspaper taht critized the king |
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| second continental Congress Convenes, votes to raise an army, george washington appointed general of army, approved printing of money, and borrowing from other countries |
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| second continental congress makes a final attempt to ask the British govt. to protect rights of the colonists, present Olive Branch Petition |
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| King George responds to olive branch petition by declaring war on the colonists |
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| Thomas Paine - radical englishman |
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| January 1776 writes common sense, simple, factual, common sense interpretation of the colonial crises, argued that aristocracy and monarh "outdated" |
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| economic theory tat colonies exist to benefit Great Britan (mother Country) |
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| Navigation Laws (circa. 1651-1849) |
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| enforce mercantilist system, imposed tarrifs on imports and exports limited trade with other countries and their colonies, british meerchants and ships recieved special privaliges |
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| Events Leading up to the Frrench and indian War: Fish Disputes |
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| between french and england; england believes french canadians are encroaching on British colonial land |
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| Events Leading up to the Frrench and indian War: Fur Trade Disputes |
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| French colonists have an amicable relationship with Iroquois conferdation; english colonists jealous of how lucrative trade is and claim that the French are Trespassing |
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| French and indian War(1754-1763) |
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| Brutal armed conflict lasting nine years; indians and french ally together against british; primarily, the war about controlling inland North America |
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| ends the French and indian War; Britain Emerges as the world's leading colonial empire |
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| Traty paris (signed september 1783) |
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| John Jay, Ben Franklin, John Adams |
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| Massachusetts, Rhodeisland, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
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| supporters of king george and parliament |
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| signed in Paris, September 3, 1783 formally ends the American revolution |
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