In the Second Treatise of Civil Government written in 1689 by John Locke, Locke implies that individuals' personality and possessions is free if they are within the law of nature and not bounded by others individuals like Britishers. ... Paine in his pamphlet states that if Americans did not fight for independence and remained in the hands of the Britain king, there would be negativity ruling in the whole country. ... Paine asserts that, "The king's negative here is ten times more dangerous and fatal that can it be in England, for there he will scarcely refuse his consent to a b...

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John Smith was another explorer sent by the Queen of England to travel to America in search of all the riches he could find. ... He met a man named John C. ... This essay greatly influenced many leaders of the American civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. ... In 1870 John Muir was on an expedition in California's Sierra Nevada. ...

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Britain and the American colonies got along fine at first. The colonies recognized the "mother contry's" right to authority over them. But beginning primarily during the French-Indian War, tension between the colonies and Britain gradually increased, eventually to the point of absolute rebellion a...

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Clever and witty writers such as John Adams and Thomas Paine relayed information, and support through their writings; conveying to not to give up. ... " He excites the emotions of the colonists, and uses his own opinions to make the colonists angrier at King George and the British. ...

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The Writing of the Constitution On July 2, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Thomas Jefferson finished the final draft of their Declaration of Independence. ... Some major justifications which were listed are: "He[King George III] has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance," quartering "large bodies of armed troops" among people in the New world and for "imposing taxes on us without our consent." ...

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The Olive Branch Petition was written (in very polite language) by John Dickinson just after the beginning of the war demanding three things: a cease-fire at Boston, repeal of the Coercive Acts, and negotiations about American rights. The King refused to even read it. ...

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The colonists created the Stamp Act Congress in response to the Stamp Act, which is where they drafted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" and sent it to King George III. ... John Crevecoeur states that American is this new man and is this place where "all nations are melted into a new race of men" (H). ...

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