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Thomas Hobbes
Separate religion from poloticts
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John Locke
people were selfish
had natural rights
king's power should be limited by the people and the goverement
social condtract
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Baron De Montesquieu
The goverement should be broken into diffrent sections and each should have power to control others.(seperatation of powers)(3 branches) -
English Bill of Rights
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Cesare Beccaria
He wanted to make sure that criminals had some rights torture was wrong. Educatation would reduce crime rate. -
Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Quarting Act
This bill required colonists to house soldures. -
Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Bosten Massacre
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The Gaspee Incident
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Committiees of Correspondenece
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Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. -
Bosten Tea Party
n 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the English East India Company a chance to avert bankruptcy by granting a monopoly on the importation of tea into the colonies. The new regulations allowed the company to sell tea to the colonists at a low price, lower than the price of smuggled tea, even including the required duty. The British reasoned that the Americans would willingly pay the tax if they were able to pay a low price for the tea. -
Administration of Justice Act
British Officials could not be tried in the colonies. They would be extradited back to Britain. -
Massachusetts Government Act
British Governor had complete control of the town meetings. -
Qubec Act
This bill extended the Canadian borders to cut off The western colonies of Conn. Mass. and Va. -
Bosten port act
This bill closed the port of Boston to all colonists until, the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid for. -
First Continental Congress
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the midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock of the british coming to arrest them. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Second Continental Congress
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American Revolution
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. It went through several editions in Philadelphia, and was republished in all parts of United America. Because of it, Paine became internationally famous. -
Declaration of Independence
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American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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Cesare Beccaria
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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
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
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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
