Enlightenment
by Zach Speight
1. Voltaire
2. Social Contract
3. Checks and Balances
3.1. The House of Representatives
3.2. The Senate
4. Freedom of Speech
5. Rule of Law
5.1. Magna Carta
5.2. English Bill of Rights
5.3. Salutary Neglect
6. British Taxation
6.1. George Grenville
6.2. Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax
6.3. Stamp Act
6.4. Sugar Act
7. Thomas Hobbes
7.1. Laws of Nature
8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8.1. The Social Contract
9. Baron de Montesquieu
9.1. The Spirit of Laws
9.1.1. Splitting of Government into Three Branches
9.1.1.1. Executive
9.1.1.2. Legislative
9.1.1.3. Judicial
10. John-Locke
10.1. Two Treaties of Government
10.2. Natural Rights
11. American Self-Government
11.1. Mayflower Compact
11.2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
11.3. House of Burgesses
11.4. Albany Plan Union
12. Challenging Authority
12.1. The First Great Awakening
12.2. The Glorious Revolution
13. American Responses
13.1. Stamp Act Congress
13.2. Sons of Liberty
13.3. Boston Tea Party
13.4. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
13.5. Non-importation Agreements
13.6. Revenue Act
13.7. Continental Association
13.8. Committees of Correspondence
13.9. Gaspee Affair
13.10. Olive Branch Petition
13.11. Suffolk Resolves
14. British Policies
14.1. Mercantilism
14.2. French and Indian War
14.3. Proclamation of 1763
14.4. Declaratory Act
14.5. Townshend Acts
14.6. Writs of Assistance
14.7. Quartering Act
14.8. Tea Act
14.9. Coercive/Intolerable Acts
14.10. Currency Act
15. Revolutionary Events
15.1. Boston Massacre
15.2. Siege of Boston
15.3. First Continental Congress
15.4. Battles of Lexington and Concord
15.5. Second Continental Congress
15.6. Common Sense
15.6.1. Written by Thomas Paine
15.7. Declaration of Independence
15.7.1. Democracy
16. Founding Fathers
16.1. Thomas Jefferson
16.2. John Adams
16.3. Roger Sherman
16.4. Benjamin Franklin
16.5. George Washington
16.5.1. Against Political Parties
16.6. James Madison
16.7. Alexander Hamilton
17. Three Branches of Government
17.1. The Executive Branch
17.2. The Legislative Branch
17.3. The Judicial Branch
18. Early Presidents
19. Original Political Parties
19.1. Anti-Federalists
19.1.1. Thomas Jefferson
19.1.2. James Madison
19.2. Federalism
19.2.1. Alexander Hamilton
20. The Constitution of the United States
20.1. First Constitution was the Articles of Confederation
20.2. Freedom
21. Ratification
22. Virginia Plan
22.1. Virginia’s Declaration of Rights
22.2. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
23. Representation
23.1. Census
23.1.1. Slaves Representation
23.1.1.1. Three-fifths Compromise