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-Seperation of reliogon and politics
-Seperation of knowledge from faith
-Seperation of church and state -
-Social contract theory
-Freedom of reliogion
-All people are born good and with natural rights
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-Government should be broken into different sections and each should have some power to control the others (Seperation of powers) (Three branches)
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-All things must be explained logically and reasonably
-Belived in freedom
-Religion was too powerful
-Fought against tyranny, intolerance and suspentition -
-One house
-Didnt think people in charge shuld be paid
-Slavery was wrong -
-Individual rights
-Support French revolution
-Majority rule
-Against absolute power and control of government by church
-Children should be able to show emotions
-Support enlightenment -
-Belived in free enterprise
-Someone working to earn money benifitted himself, also benifitted society as a whole -
-Criminal/ convicts should have rights too
-Torture was wrong
-Education would reduce crime rate -
-Didnt want a government that had too much power
-Everyone should be allowed to have an education -
-Gave a speech "Grit de Dollorer" which caused people to fight for Mexicans independence
-He was able to capture the towns Guanajuato and Guadalajara -
-Fought for rights of women
-Fought for eqaual treatment all people
-Husbands should treat wives as equals and not property -
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First formal commitee established in Bostan. Charged with raylling opposition to the recently enacted Currency acts.
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Ordered colonists to provide shelter and other nesseseties to the British troops.
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Captain Williamt Smith became a suspect of smuggling activites. He was covered in tar and then with feathers, after being marched around through different towns was thrown into the sea and saved by a passing boat. Possibly the first tar and feathering in America.
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Bostan Masacre, caused British soligers to kill five American Colonists.
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The Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship suspected of smuggling. Next night a group of men snuck onto the Gaspee, wounded the piolet and set the ship on fire.
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Caused by the Tea Act, passed on May tenth 1773. Monay horbors simply sent back the tea, or just refused to sell it. Although the Sons of Liberty had a different idea.
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British Officals could not be charged with capitol crimes while in the colonies, they would have to return to Britan and be tryed there. They could basically do whatever they pleased.
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Gave all power to the British Governer and took all away form the colonists.
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Extended the Canadian Property, which cut off some western parts of the colonies of Connecticuit, Massachusets, and Virgina.
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Until the damages of the Bostan Tea Party were paid for by the colonists, the Bostan port would remain closed to all colonists.
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All colonies sent delegates execpt for Georgia who desperately needed the help of British sologers. They tended to the wrongs that had been inflicted on the colonies and hoped that a unified voice would gain them a hearing in London.
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Dr. Joe Warren sent Revere to Lexington Mass. to warn Admas and Handcok that the Britsh soligers were coming to arrest them. He used the signal of two lanterns hung up, to tell the Sons of Liberty that the British were traveling 'by sea'.
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Adams and Hancock had already escaped from Lexington when the British arrived, The colonists were prepared to fight, and had organized their own militia called the Minutemen so b/c they had to be ready in a minutes notice. They were greatly outnumbered and 8 were killed ten others wounded. British moved on the Concord where the colonists had already moved and hidden most of the supplys so the British were only able to destry some of the supplys.
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Presided over by John Honcock, all colonies delegates were there although Georigas delegates were late.
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Instant best sellar, read aloud and sold everywhere throughout the colonies and even some palces in london. Sparked the idea of revolution into the colonists minds, one of the greatest political pamphlets of all time.
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Entire commitee reveiwed the declaration after twenty xis changes made vy Franklin and Adams, of Jeffersons original copy. On July second they had finally raeched an agreement to independence.
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-Belived in a strong central government
-He admired the parlimentary system from Britan
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