Drag each tile to the correct location. Match the ideas that influenced Thomas Jefferson to the thinkers who wrote about them.

The American colonies

were at a considerable

distance from their

ruling nation.

People have the right

to create a new

government if their

government does not

obey the social contract.

The laws imposed by the

British government on

the colonists were

unreasonable.

A government should

protect the natural

rights of its people.

Thomas Paine

John Locke