• HISTORY 571020

Unit 5: American Revolution Inquiry Lesson, 54 total points
Our Inquiry Question: What factors led to the American Revolution and how did the Enlightenment play a role?
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Doc What is the document? Summarize the
document’s content. (3 pts each)
According to this document, what was one (or more)
factor(s) that caused the American Revolution?(2 pts
each)
What Enlightenment ideals (if any) are evident in
this document? (2 pts each)
1 This basically talks about how the king
didn’t care about the rights of the people,
the king just ruled the way he wanted to
rule and did what he wanted to do
without caring if the people he ruled over
agreed with him or not. I believe it also
says the king made his military
independent meaning they have free will
to do what they want.
I would say that there are multiple things that could
have contributed to causing this revolution such as
keeping army members amongst the people in times
of peace, quartering troops of soldiers amongst the
people, protecting his soldiers for any murders they
commited even if they did it just because they could
and lastly, Implementing taxes on them without even
asking them if he could, he just did it because he had
the power to do so.
Some ideals could include that the power should
be equally spread out through the people so nott
just one person can abuse and use all the
power. Another ideal could be the government or
ruler giving the people their freedom or rights
and not only just giving it to them, but also
protecting them.