Day 16 APUSH
Timeline:
1651-1733: Navigation Acts
1651: Thomas Hobbs publishes Leviathan
1686-1689: Dominion of New England
1689-1697: Uprisings in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland
1687: Newton explains gravity
1688-1689: Glorious Revolution
1689: King Williams War
1689: Colonial Assemblies began to initiate legislation
1689: Colonial Assemblies take control of finances including governor’s salaries
1690: John Locke publishes Essay Concerning Human Understanding & Two Treaties on Government
1696: Board of Trade established
1702-1713: Queen Anne’s War
1732: Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard’s Almanack
1733: Molasses Act
1733: Publication of New York Weekly Journal
1735: Peter Zenger Trial
1739-1744: Anglo-Spanish War aka The War of Jenkin’s Ear
1743: Benjamin Franklin founds American Philosophical Society
1744-1748: King George’s War aka War of Austrian Succession
1750: Most colonial elections in rural areas are uncontested with low voter participation
1762: Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right by Jean-Jacques Rousseau published
Directions: Sort the events in the timeline above and provide and explanation of each, use this evidence to write a thesis
for the FRQ prompt that scores 2 pts
Were the demands for local control and representative government in the English colonies caused by the European
Enlightenment or English Colonial policy?