THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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The name of the people from the 13 colonies who supported the war with the British
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The English philosopher whose ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness where used in the Declaration of Independence
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Protestant minister from the 13 colonies who formed the Black Regiment that recruited soldiers to fight for the colonies
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The colonist who helped George Washington fight the British by supplying them with food, clothing and weapons
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist who was born in 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, and died in 1704 in High Laver, Essex. He is recognized as the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Jefferson took the phrase “pursuit of happiness” from Locke and incorporated it into his famous statement of a peoples’ inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -In politics, Locke is best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances.
Detailed explanation-4: -Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.