1650-1750

Famous scientist and thinker

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Isaac Newton

• Montesquieu

Influenced the Declaration of Independence and wrote all men deserve live, liberty and property.

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Isaac Newton

• Montesquieu

Known for the idea of a "social contract"

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Isaac Newton

• Montesquieu

Wrote about the separation of powers

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Isaac Newton

• Montesquieu

belief in profitable trading, exporting more than you import to colonies

• Navigation Acts

• mercantilism

• Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

Religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s

• Navigation Acts

• mercantilism

• Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

Act passed to help Great Britain by forcing the colonies only to trade with them.

• Navigation Acts

• mercantilism

• Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

Age of reason, science, ideas like liberty, progress, and toleration were common.

• Navigation Acts

• mercantilism

• Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country.

• Smuggling

• mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• The Enlightenment

When Great Britain laxly enforced imperial supervision on the Colonies

• Smuggling

• mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• The Enlightenment