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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
-Natural Right
-Limited Power To the King
-Soacial COntact between the people and government
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Baron de Montesquieu
The government should be broken down in sections.
-3 branches
-one branch has control of another
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English Bill Of Rights
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Voltaire
-Freedom of thought for all people
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Benjamin Franklin
-single legislature w/ an advisory board
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-individuals have certain right,
-whatever majority wants should be law
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Adam Smith
INdividual freedom
-Modern economics -
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Casare Beccaria
-Death penalty and believed torture was wrong
-Edu. reduces crime
-Right to a speedy and fair trial
-Punishment should fit the crime for all -
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Thomas Jefferson
-didn't want a government with too much power
-All should be involved
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Father Hidalgo
-Freeing Mexico
-marched through streets of mexico
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Mary Wollstonecraft
-Individual freedom
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Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Tarring and Feathering
A punishment made by Richard lionhearted and the Crusaders, that any robber with the crusaders “shell be first shaved, then boiling pitch shall be poured upon his head, and a cushion of feathers shook over it. -
Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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The Boston Masscre
On March 5, 1770, between British troops and a crown in Boston. After an annoyance by the colonists, British soldiers fired into the mob, of course killing people. The Boston Masscre was very publicized. -
Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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The Gaspee Incident
A British revenue that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulation, A group of men led by Abraham whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, “looted”, and torched the ship. -
Committees of Correspondence
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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First Continental COngress
A convention of delegates from twelve of thirteen North American colonies. They met on September 5, 1774, in Philadelphia. It was called response to the Intolerable act. 56 member attended. -
Boston Tea Party
Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of tea from three British ships into the Boston harbor. The leader was Smauel Adams. They did this to prevent the payment a British tax on tea. -
Tea Act
It levels the regulations to allow the failing companys to sell its large tea below the prices charge by colonial competitors. The act was cancelled by colonists as another example of taxation w/o representation. -
The second continental Congress
A series of thirteen political books. Written by Thomas Paine. He wrote is to persuade the colonist to join the patriots. -
Stamp Act passed by Britich Parliament
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The British are coming.
Paul Revere said this. He was warning the colonists to be ready for the arrival of the British. Also, it was to let those who served as “minute men soldiers,” to get ready for battle if necessary. -
The shot heard around the world..
Minutemen were called against the British troops. As two armies faced each, someone fired a shot. No one knows who fired it or which side there were on. -
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American Revolution
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Declaration of Independence
It was written by Thomas Jefferson. John Hancock and President of Second Continental Congress signed it on July 4, 1776. The document was about what rights the colonist wanted. -
American and Frech Representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty and AMity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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Simon Bolivar
-strong central government
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Ratification of Constitution of the United Staes of America
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Estates Genereal convened for the time in 174 years in France
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Stroming of the Bastille, prison (and armony) in Paris
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Frech Revolution
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Haiti Revolution
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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Slave rebellion in Saint Dominque
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U.S. bill of Rights ratified by states
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French National Assembly gives citizenship to all people of color in colony of Sant domique
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France declared war on Australia
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France declares war on Great Britain
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All slaves on Saint domique emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight 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 Napolean to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
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Toussaint leads troops against the British
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New Declaration of War between Great Britain and France
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French withdraw; Haitians declare independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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Jean-Jacques Dessaline crowns himself emperor of Haiti
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British end the slave trade
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Declaration of self-government in most Latin American colonies
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French expelled form 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 declared doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as Monroe Doctrine
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The Intolerable Act
Four punishments placed by British Parliament against the American colonies. The harbor was closed until restitution was made for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea party: the Massachusetts colony’s charter was cancelled and there became a military government. British charged w/ capital offenses could go to England for trial; and housing for British troops were placed. -
The Quebec Act
Provided for a governor and appointed council, religious freedom for Roman catholics. It was supposed to resolve the problem of making the colony a province of British North America and tried to build friendship between French-Canadian and the British.
