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Thomas Hobbes
-Religion should be seperated from politics. -
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John Locke
-Freedom of religion
-natural rgihts
- Limited power to the king -
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Baron de montesquieu
-three branches
- separation of powers
-each branch has some control over another branch -
English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
-Freedom of thought and respect for all individals
-against any form of religion that was too stict and did not accpect the view of others/
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Benjamin Franklin
-single legislature with an advisory board
-slavery was morally wrong should be abolished -
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Individuals rights
-Individual freedom
-majority rule -
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Adam Smith
-Individual freedom
-modern economics
-charity was a virtious act but society should not derdomic -
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Cesare Beccaria
-Death penalty & believed torture was wrong
-Education reduces crime rates
-Right to a speedy trail
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Thomas Jefferson
-Individuals freedom and rights should be protected by gout.
-All people should be able to get an education
-didn't want gout too much power. -
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Father Hidalgo
-freeing mexico from the harsh rule of foreigners
-marched though the streets of mexico.
-he was captured and then shot. -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
-rights of women
-In evalitiesin education
-equa; treatment all human beings
-wives as equals. not proerty. -
Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Parliament passed the Quebec Act
n the succeeding years, British efforts to incorporate Quebec into the empire had been a notable failure. -
The American Revenue Act
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The first formal committee of correspondence was established in Boston
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Quartering Act
This bill required that Colonial Authorities to furnish barracks and supplies to British troops -
the day the Stamp Act tax went into effect
Tarring and feathering was successfully used as a weapon against the Townshend Duties -
Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Captain William Smith came under suspicion as an informer of American smuggling activities
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Timeline of EventsThe first British troops arrived in Boston
from then onwards there was continuous antagonism between the people of Boston and the those trying to enforce the King's rule. -
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars
It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts -
Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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the Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods.
The Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee. -
Boston Tea Party
act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes -
Boston Port Bill:
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The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall
he idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin -
First Continental Congress
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Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington
to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. -
the same date as the American capture of Fort Ticonderoga
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American Revolution
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Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe
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Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe
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George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights
Common Sense, state and local calls for independence, and his own work on the Virginia Constitution. -
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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Simon Bolivar
-strong contract government.
-political power should be divided among different branches of government.
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
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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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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
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Haiti Revolution
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French 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
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
