American Revolution Timeline

Questions: 1. Big events in the Revolution like the Stamp Act protests, the slogan "no taxation without representation", the Boston Tea Party, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and the Declaration of Independence, were all inspired by Enlightenment ideas. 2. The main ideas present throughout the revolution were Locke's idea of "inalienable natural rights" as discussed in the Declaration of Independence and seen in the protests of the Stamp Act with the slogan "no taxation without representation". Thomas Paine's Common Sense inspired Americans to favor a democratic government, which was also a main Enlightenment idea.