Revolutions

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    Thomas Hobbes

    He tried to separate knowledge from faith.(which eventually got him into trouble with the British Parliament.) He believed that religion should be separate from politics major belief was that all people are fearful and greedy
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    John Locke

    Locke believed that all people were born good and were given natural rights by God believed that the king’s power should be limited by laws enacted by the people (This type of government is called a constitutional monarchy)
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    Baron deMontesquieu

    admired the
    system in England that limited the power of the king said the government should be broken into different sections and that each should have some power to control the others He wanted government to split into three branches

  • English Bill of Rights

    Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
    Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
    No quartering of soldiers.
    Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
    Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
    Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
    Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
    Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
    etc.
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    Voltaire

    Freedom.
    Logic & reason.
    Respect for individuals.
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    Benjamin Franklin

    • Franklin believed in a government that had a single legislature with an advisory board. People in charge should not be paid for their services. Felt slavery was morally wrong. Simple lifestyle guided by common sense & reason.
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Majority rule.
    Individual freedom.
    Democracy.
    Enlightenment.
    Importance of reason.
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    Adam Smith

    Work benefits you & economy.
    Don’t depend on charity.
    Self interest guides efficient use of resources.
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    Cesare Beccaria

    Beccaria believed that people who were accused of a crime should have rights. He did not like the death penalty and believed torture was wrong. believed that education would reduce the crime rate The right to a fair and speedy trial believed that the punishment should be the same for everyone who commits the same crime
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    Thomas Jefferson

    Majority of people will make a right choice.
    Government should protest individual rights & freedoms.
    Education for everyone.
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    Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    Equal treatment of all human beings.
    Education for men and women should be based on reason.
    People should be judged based on individual merit and moral virtue, not on gender.
    Wanted men to treat their wives as equals, not as property.

  • Tar and feathering

    It was a punishment and threat
    Captain William Smith might have been the first man to get tar and feathering in America

  • 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

  • The Buston Massacre

    Colonists mobed Britsh soldiers who fired on mob killing five

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • The Gaspee Incident

    Brutish ship after smugglers run a ground and is set on fire by colonist

  • Committees of Correspondenece

    there groups formed by local govermment to spreed the word about political events

  • Tea act

  • tea act

    Was not to rise taxes just help out East undia conpany but made conlonest mad

  • Boston Tea party

  • Boston Tea Party

    it was protest aginst the tea act a group of 50 men dressed up as indains took tea and threw it into the water

  • The Quebec act

    extend the canadian borders to cut off the western colonies of conn. mass.and Va.

  • First cintionental Congress

  • First Continental Congress

    delegates from 12 colonies were trying to decide what to do about how briten was treating them with all of the acts

  • The Coercive or Intolerable Acts

    Many acts were passed that limited the colonists especialiy in Bosten

  • The British are coming

    Paul Revere, Wiliam Dawes andDr. Samuel Prescott Alerted the countryside that britsh troops were coming to arest members of the suns of liberty

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    British soldiers were sent to destory guns and ammunition the colonists had stored outside of boston and to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock they fought with the colonist and no one knos who shot first

  • The second Continental Congress

    Delegeats from the colonies got together to decide what to do and eventualy wrote and aproved the Declaration of Independpinence
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    American Revolution

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

    letter to King George stateing the colonies freedum from England and why

  • 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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    Simón Bolívar

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  • Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America

  • Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 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