Revolutions

By a.collins
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    Thomas Hobbes

    gov. should be based on facts, believed the religion should be seperated from polotics, seperation of church and state
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    John Locke

    believed in Life, Liberty and property
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    Baron de Montesquieu

    seperation of power

  • English Bill of Rights

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    Voltaire

    freedom of thought and respect
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    Benjamin Franklin

    slavery was wrong, single legislative, advisory board
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    against absolute power, individualism,
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    Thomas Jefferson

    education for all
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    Adam Smith

    free enterprise
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    Cesare Beccaria

    didnt believe in cruel and unusual punishment
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    Thomas Jefferson

    education for all
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    Father Hidalgo

    mexican independence , against harsh rule of foreigness
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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    right of women and the inequalities ineducation

  • Tarring and Feathering

    They can find tar easily and they had feathers in their pillow and feathering was a common threat and punishment.

  • Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliament

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • Boston Massacre

    a killing of five colonists by British regulars

  • The Gaspee Incident

    It was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods

  • Commitees of Correspondence

    broaden the resistance movement

  • Tea Act

    it was intended to raise revenue on the American colonies and it imposed no new taxes

  • Boston Tea party

    They dumped tea in the ocean

  • First Continental Congress

  • The Coercive or Intolerable Acts

  • The Quebec Act

    Issues beyond money were at stake.

  • First Continental Congress

    Georgia decided against roiling the waters they were facing attacks from the restive Creek on the borders and needed the support of regular British soldiers.

  • The British are coming...

    Paul Revere road into Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British are to arrest them

  • The Second Continental Congress

    Many of the delegates expected at the outset, that the rupture between colony and mother country would be healed.

  • The Shots heard 'Round the World

    The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts.

  • Thomas Paine : Common Sense

    he was a common who wrote a book talking about king George III was the reason for the war

  • Declaration of Independence

    It was 12 of the 13 colonies declared independence and freedom the British

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance.

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    Simon Bolivar

    a sstrong central gov. prosperity& security

  • Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America

  • Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France

  • Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris

  • National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

  • French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue.

  • France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • War ends between Great Britain and France

  • Constitution for Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

  • New declaration of war between Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

  • British end the slave trade

  • Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain.

  • Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone

  • French abolish slave trade

  • U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine.