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Thomas Hobbes
-Seperating Religion from Politics.
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John Locke
-Natural Rights
-King should be limited
- Freedom of Religion
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Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
-Gov. should be broken into different sections.
-Each should have some power to control the others.
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English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
-All things must be explained logically and reasonably.
-Freedom of thought and respect fo all individuals.
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Benjamin Franklin
-1 House
-Didn't think people in charge should be paid
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Individual rights.
-Support French Revolution.
-Against abosolute power and control gov. by church.
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Adam Smith
-Modern economics and concepts of individual freedom.
-Free enterprise.
-Working for money benefits self and society. -
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Cesare Beccaria
-Make sure criminals had some rights.
-Torture was wrong.
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Thomas Jefferson
-Didn't want gov. to have to much power.
-Individual rights and freedom should be protected from gov.
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
-Fought for Mexican Independece.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
-That people should be judged on individual merit and moral virtue not on gender.
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Tar and Feathering
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Seven Years War Peace Treaty
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Quartering Ace
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Stamp Act
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act
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Boston Massacre
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The Gaspee Incident
Customs ships patrol the sea off the coast of America. They would regularly stop merchant ships to examine their cargo looking for illegal goods, and enforcing British customs and taxation laws. -
Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and others were determined that the cargo would not be landed in the city. His mobs roamed the streets in the evenings, threatening violence if challenged by the authorities. -
Administration of Justice Act
stated that British Officials could not be tried in provincial courts for capital crimes. They would be extradited back to Britain and tried there. -
Quebec Act
extended the Canadian borders to cut off The western colonies of Conn. Mass. and Va. -
Government Act
effectively annulled the charter of the colonies, giving the British Governor complete control of the town meetings, and taking control out of the hands of the colonialists. -
Boston Port Bill
closed the port of Boston to all colonists until, the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid for. -
First Continental Congress
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British are Coming
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Committee of Correspondence
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Battle Of Lexington
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Second Continental Congress
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American Revolution
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American Revolution
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Thomas Paine: Common Sense
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Declaration of Independece
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Declaration of Independence
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American and French repres (Treaty of Amity and Commerce and Treaty of Alliance)
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Simón Bolívar
-Strong Central Government.
-Political power should be divided. -
Ratification of Constitution
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Estates General
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Storming of the Bastille
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National Constituent Assembly
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue
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U.S Bill of Rights
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French Revolution
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Haiti Revolution
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French National Assembly
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France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain
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Slaves drew in the British Army and fought against French
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Toussaint against British
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French Defeat 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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bU.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine.
