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a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies

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English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and needed to become more Protestant.

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To revoke or annul a law or congressional act

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The pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

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a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States

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a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s

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Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country

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ntellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

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a document that spells out the powers, duties and structures of government and the rights of citizens

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a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

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an employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work without pay for the owner of the indenture for a period of time.

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were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. The first four Acts were passed as reprisal for the rebellion against the 1773 Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party Protest.

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Feeling of being unhappy with the government

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the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power

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political philosophy view that the government is empowered by law from a starting point of having no power, or where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.

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Just behavior or treatment

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the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views

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rights that government cannot violate under any circumstances

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hose that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enforcement through one's actions,

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e possibly non-deliberate British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, meant to keep British colonies obedient to England, in the 17th and 18th centuries

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism