The Enlighenment

1. Caused by Challenging Authority

1.1. The First Great Awakening

1.2. The Glorious Revolution

2. Rule of Law

2.1. Magna Carta

2.2. English Bill of Rights

2.3. Salutary Neglect

3. British Taxation

3.1. George Grenville

3.1.1. Stamp Act

3.2. Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax

3.3. Sugar Act

4. British Policies

4.1. Mercantilism

4.2. French and Indian War

4.3. Proclamation of 1763

4.4. Declaratory Act

4.5. Townshed Acts

4.6. Writs of Assistance

4.7. Quartering Act

4.8. Tea Act

4.9. Coercive/Intolerable Acts

4.10. Currency Act

5. Revolutionary Events

5.1. Boston Massacre

5.2. Siege of Boston

5.3. First Continental Congress

5.4. Battles of Lexington and Concord

5.5. Second Continental Congress

5.6. Common Sense

5.7. Declaration of Independence

6. Philosophers

6.1. Thomas Hobbes

6.1.1. Social Contract

6.2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6.2.1. General Will

6.3. Baron de Montesquieu

6.3.1. Checks and Balances

6.4. Voltaire

6.4.1. Freedom of Speech

6.5. John Locke

6.5.1. Natural Rights

7. American Self Government

7.1. Mayflower Compact

7.2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

7.3. House of Burgesses

7.4. Albany Plan of Union

8. American Responses

8.1. Stamp Act Congress

8.2. Sons of Liberty

8.3. Boston Tea Party

8.4. Declaration of Rights and Grievances

8.5. Non-importation Agreements

8.6. Revenue Act

8.7. Continental Association

8.8. Committees of Correspondence

8.9. Gaspee Affair

8.10. Olive Branch Petition

8.11. Suffolk Resolves