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JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Declaration of Independence draws upon the ideas of Enlightenment thinker ____, who wrote that if a government did not protect its people’s freedom, it should not exist.
A
Jean Jacques Rousseau
B
Smuggling
C
Social Contract
D
John Locke
E
Split with Great Britain
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Locke’s critical concept of the social contract, the natural and inalienable rights and that men are born free and equal served the colonists as a basis to justify their revolutionary thoughts and the independence.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Second Continental Congress had to decide whether to continue working toward peace or to split with Great Britain. Following the French and Indian War, King George issued a forbidding colonists from settling in lands won from France. boycotting British goods.

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