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Tried to separate knowledge from faith. Religion should be separate from politics.
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- natural rights -limited power to the king
- social contract between the people and the government -freedom of religion
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The goverment should be broken down
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one brach has control over another
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things must be explained logical and reasonbly
fought agnist tolerance, tyranny and superstition
- freedom of thought and respect for invisual
-aganist any form of relgion -
single legisiature with and advisory board
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-individual rights
-individual freedom
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Individual freedom
modern economics
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death penalty & belived torture was wrong
- educational reduces crime rates
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Individuas freedom and rights should be protected by the goverment
-everyone should be able to get an education
-dint want a goverment with to much power -
freeing mexico from the harsh rule of foreginers
-marcheq through the street of mexico
-the was capture and the shot
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-rights of women
-Inequalities in education
-equal treatment of all human beings
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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was a punishment that went back to the Middle Ages with Richard the Lionhearted and the Crusades.
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The British tried to gain more control over the colonies. Then British began to directly pay the governors' salary, rather than being paid by the colonies. The British hoped that by paying the governor's salary, they would eliminate the colonies ability to control the governor by withholding salary. The colonies saw this as another step to put them under British control, and to eliminate their freedoms.
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Special committees of correspondence were formed by the colonial assemblies and various lesser arms of local government. The committees were responsible for taking the sense of their parent body on a particular issue, committing it to a written form and then dispatching that view to other similar groups.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, that started a move to revolutionary movement in Boston. the act did not raise revenue in the American colonies. but it prop up the East India Company which was suffered financially with 8 million pounds of unsold tea.
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After the french and indian war the British Government decided to take benfints from the colonies. Colonies were pounded with greater taxes without any say in Britain. This had soon lead to the Boston Tea Party. In act back Coercive Acts to Bring the colonies to the heal of the King
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Parliament passed the Quebec act, on the heels of the coercive acts. a intentioned measure was made to afford greater rights to the French inhabitants of Canada
in 1763 British rule through the Treaty of Paris leading In the successful years, -
First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774. The meeting was plan in advanced by Benjamin Franklin but failed to get support from Port of Boston
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In 1774 and the Spring of 1775 Paul Revere was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia.
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The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, 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. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement.
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Before adjourning in late October 1774, the First Continental Congress had provided for reconvening at a later time if circumstances dictated. The skirmishes at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, and the gathering of an American army outside of Boston provided sufficient impetus to assemble the delegates at the State House in Philadelphia. The first meeting convened on May 10, 1775, the same date as the American capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
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The most important resolution to emerge from John Hancock’s Presidency is the Declaration of Independence. Our editors have recommended concision on each of these chapters but this is unfathomable due to the Declaration of Independence. In the spirit of brevity a summary has been developed on the Declaration’s History and its early printings.
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-strong central goverment
-political power should be devided among diffrent braches of government
-power not duvuded = too strong
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Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. It went through several editions in Philadelphia, and was republished in all parts of United America. Because of it, Paine became internationally famous.
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