science speed and distance Flashcards
What was the purpose of the olive branch petition?
It was a treatie To ask king George for peace between the colonies
How did king George react to the petition
He ignored it
Who was Thomas Paine
He published a pamphlet called common sense which persuaded thousands of colonists that independence was the key to a brighter future
What was the common sense how did it impact people in the colonies
A pamphlet that Thomas Paine wrote which persuaded colonists that independence was the key to a brighter future
Who made the descion to write the Declaration of Independence
Contental congress
Who was put in charge of writing the declarition of independence
Thomas Jefferson
What was the purpose of writing the Declaration of Independence
To declare independence
What was the date the declaration was ratified
July 4 1776
What are natural rights
Rights that you were born with given by god and cannot be taken away
What are the four parts of the declaration of independence
Preamble
Basic rights of the people
wrongs done by king george the third
colonists declare independence
Who is blamed for making the goverment tyrannical What does a trynical mean
King George the thrid
A harsh and unfair use of power by the goverment
What were three complants that the colonists had
King unfairly used his powers
Taxed colonists without them having a say
tried to control the laws made in the colonies
What did the 56 signers of the declaration of independence pledge in order to fight for independence
Life, money and honor
What was the enlightment period
It was the age of reason it was the time in life when everyone started using reasoning and science instead of just using religion and beliving in what the church says
What is one belief of Baron de Montesquieu
Each government should make sure there is a way that each branch does not get to powerful(checks and balances)
What is one belief of Jean Jacques Rousseau
People are born good but does wrong by socitey and majority rules
state three ideas of the enlightment philoshper john locke found in the D of I
All men are equal
Everyone is born with natrual rughts that cant be taken away
The peoples rights are life liberty and property
WE hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal
race dont matter we are all equal
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to disasolve political bands which have connected them to another
somwtimes people need to break away from the goverfemnt
…..that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienble rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Everyone is given rights given by their creator that no one can take away
That to sescure these rights, govermnets are unstitued among men, derving their just power from the consent of the governed
the government protects the peoples rights and the government gets it power from the poeple
That whenever any form of govenment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the rights of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new goverment
if the gornment abuses the citezens have the rights to get rid of or make a new goverment
Pruduce indeed will dicate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes
government should not be changed unless there is a majoir reason
