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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Baron De Montesquieu
The gov't should be broken down
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English Bill Of Rights (Br/Us)
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Voltarie
Freedom of for all peeps religion to powerful -
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Thomas Jefferson
- Majority people will make right decisions
- No gov't with to much power
- Individual freedom and rights are protected
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Benjamin Franklin
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Individuals Rights
- Individuals Freedom
- Majority Rule
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Adam Smith
- Self benifits Benifits society
- Society shouldn't depend on charity
- Self interests guides most effiecient use of resources
- Self benifits Benifits society
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Cesare Beccaria
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Father Hidalgo
- Urged people to fight for mexico's independece
- Questioned his own policies
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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- Education for men and women
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The English shifted from seeking commodities to gathering land itself (Br/Fr)
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament (BR)
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Tarring And Feathreing
They thought Captian William Smith was snitching because of smuggling activites. -
Repeal of Stamp Act (BR)
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists (BR/US)
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists (BR/US)
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The Gaspe Incident
The Gaspee were chasing a merchant ship they thought to be smuggling goods. Then the Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee. -
Committees of correspondence
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party (US)
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Boston Tea Party
Was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. -
The Coercive or Intolerable Acts
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First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
First Continental Congress (US)
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The Quebec Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. -
The Bratish Are
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The Shot Heard ’Round the World
British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. -
The Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
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Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence (US)
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American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance. (US/FR)
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Simon Bolivar
- Emphasized the importance of science reason and respecting humanity
- Politcal power should be divided into branches
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America (US)
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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris (FR)
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris (FR)
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man (FR)
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Beheading of King Louis XVI (FR)
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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
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U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states (US)
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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. (FR/ Haiti)
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France declares war on Austria (FR)
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France declares war on Great Britain (BR/FR)
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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 (Haiti)
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Toussaint leads troops against the British (Haiti)
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French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint (Haiti)
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Toussaint negotiates peace with the British (Haiti)
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War ends between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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Constitution for Haiti
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General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery (FR)
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New declaration of war between Great Britain and France (BR/FR)
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French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence (Haiti)
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti (Haiti)
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British end the slave trade (BR)
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Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies (Latin America)
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French expelled from Spain. (FR)
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Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone (FR)
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French abolish slave trade (FR)
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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. (US)
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