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From ProQuest's History
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- Montesquieu
Montesquieu came from an aristocratic background and was an
important contributor to the Enlightenment, building on the
ideas of John Locke. His most influential work was The Spirit
of the Laws. . . .
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- Boston Tea Party
On the night of 16 December 1773, a group of Massachusetts Patriots,
disguised as Mohawk Indians, seized 342 chests of tea from three
British merchant ships and dumped them into Boston Harbor. The
raid was in response to the Tea Act, passed the previous May,
which granted the East India Company a monopoly on American
tea importation. . . .
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- The Declaration of Independence
Approved by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776, the Declaration
of Independence proclaimed that the thirteen colonies which
formed Great Britain's American territory were now free and
independent states. Thomas Jefferson penned most of the document,
which is recognised as a work of immense elegance and power.
It is now considered to be the symbol of the birth of the United
States of America as a separate country, and is inextricably
linked with American ideas of patriotism.
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