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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
Natrual rights.
Kings should be limited.
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Baron de Montesquieu
Ademire the system in England to lower the power of a king.
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English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
All things must be explained resonable and logically.
Believed in freedom of thought was too powerful.
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Benjamin Franklin
I house didn't think people in charge should be paid.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Individual rights.
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Adam Smith
Modern econmics
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Cesare Beccaria
He wanted to make sure that criminals had some rights.
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Thomas Jefferson
Believed that almost all people will make the right choices when given.
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Father Hidalgo
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Fought for the rights of women.
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Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Tar and Feathering
It was a punishment that happened in the Middle Ages. -
Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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The Boston Massacre
It was a riot between the Patriots and the British that happened in the street. It had many people dead. -
Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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Committees of Correspondence
They were some governments ran by the Partiot leaders. -
The Gaspee Incident
It was a ship that thought another ship had goods on they ship and was chasing it. It appears that the next day they burned they ship down. -
Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
It was a meeting at Carpenters Hall. -
First Continental Congress
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The Quebec Act
It was passed by the British Parliament. -
The British Are Coming . . .
Paul was sent to Joseph to warn sam adams and john hancock that the birtish troops was comming. -
The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord
The first shots where in Lexington, Massachusetts. They was going to arrest John and Sam. -
Second Continental Congress
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American Revolution
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The Coercive or IntolerableActs
It was names for the five laws -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
A book writtien by Thomas Paine. -
Declaration of Independence
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American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of 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 States of America
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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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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 ratified by states
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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
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France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain
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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
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Toussaint leads troops 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 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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U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine
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Declaration of Independence
12 of the 13 colonies agreed on the decorations.
