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Thomas Hobbs
Believed the government should be based on facts.
Religions should be separated from government. -
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John Locke
Believed in revolting against unfair government.
Natural rights were important.
Kings power should be limited by the people.
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Baron de Montesquieu
Government should be broken down into different equal sections.
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English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
Things should be explained logically.
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Benjamin Franklin
Single Legislation.
Advisory board.
The government shouldn't be paid.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Against Absolute power
Individualism
Children should be allowed more expressive freedom.
People should choose the laws. -
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Adam Smith
The impact on modern economics and concepts of individual freedom
He believed that someone working to earn money benefited himself but also benefited society as a
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Charity should not be depended on. -
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Cesare Beccaria
Criminal rights.
The death penalty is wrong
Education can reduce the crime rate.
Fair trial.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Father Hidalgo
Mexico should be freed form foreign rule.
Independence of Mexico. -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Womens rights and equal treatment of all human beings.
people should be judged based on individual merit and moral virtue, not on gender. -
Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp Act
Partiots in Boston tar and feathered the English supporters for humiliation in retaliation to the stamp act. -
Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
The Boston massacre was 5 British soldiers being killed by a mob. The british responded with violience. -
The Gaspee Incident
The British ship The Gaspee followed around a colonial ship until it hit shore and later that night a group of colonists snuck onto the ship and wounded the lieutenant -
The Tea Act
Was designed to sell tons of unsold tea product to the colonists . But theh colonists believed the money was going straight to the english taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
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The Coercive or Intolerable Acts
The Quartering act- Soldiers can enter your house and you're forced to take care of the,
Boston Port BIll- Closed the port of Boston
Administration of Justice Act-British officials can only be tried in british courts
Massachusetts Government Act- British government got all control of the colony.
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First Continental Congress
Delegates from each colony was sent to a meeting in penslyvania -
Paul Revere Road
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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The Second Continental Congress
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Thomas Paine "Common Sense"
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Declaration of Independence
When the colonies declared their separation from England. They weren't declaring war but they were forced into war when they split off. -
American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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Simón Bolívar
importance of reason, science, and respecting humanity.
Believed in a strong central government.
The power of government should be separated.
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue
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U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
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French Revolution
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Haiti Revolution
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French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue
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France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain
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All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British
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Toussaint leads troops against the British
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French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint
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Toussaint negotiates peace with the British
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War ends between Great Britain and France
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Constitution for Haiti
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General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
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New declaration of war between Great Britain and France
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French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti
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British end the slave trade
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Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies
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French expelled from Spain
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Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone
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French abolish slave trade
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U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine
