Di Jian Chen Chen 1
Professor Joseph Frusci
Core 100
October 19 American Revolution The American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. The American War of Independence, the battle was fought between Britain and its colonies, it was a dramatic change in the political, social, and economic system of New England. After French and Indian war changed the relationship between the colonies and British. There was not a single event that caused American Revolution, it was a series event that lead to the revolution, in addition the formation of the Republic by our Founding Fathers were deeply rooted in Hobbes and Locke’s view about human nature. The French and Indian War was very essential to the American Revolution. After French and Indian war Great Britain was heavily in debt so
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Locked emphasized that humans have the right to pursue its own liberty. Thomas Hobbes came up with the idea of “unalienable rights” in our Declaration of Independence as well as the protection by the government on people “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Hobbes described that the government’s job is do its job and protect its citizens. If the government is not doing its job then the people have to the right to overthrow the government and form a new one. This idea is vividly shown in our Declaration of Independence: “…deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new