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In 1641, The Leviathan was written by Thomas Hobbes using reason and not religious beliefs about his view on man. -
John Locke wrote The Second Treatise on Government using reason and his own beliefs of mankind over the dominant religious beliefs that had been thought of for centuries. -
In 1776, the British people called for a revolution and then wrote a declaration from the British crown and established the states. -
France had lots of debts from the Seven Year War, so the crown started to tax the people. Then, the French Revolution began against the monarchy and the draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man was formed. -
In 1791, the large number of slaves began to rebel against the wealthy land-owning whites. -
In 1803, the 500,000 slaves had succeeded in abolishing slavery, and the French gained control over the island. -
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain in 1804. -
Hidalgo called people of the town Dolores to fight for their town with thousands of people joining the fight for their equality and independence. -
In 1813, Venezuela was invaded by Bolivar and his men, beginning the Admirable Campaign, which was victorious, and Venezuela became independent. -
The Spanish soldiers were surprised by San Martin, and liberated Santiago, Chile, where he continued on his original plan for Lima to be captured. -
Moses moved to Missouri after his mines had failed, then he became an owner of a bank in St. Louis, but then the economic crisis created a depression making his fortune plummet. -
In 1820, Moses arrives in Texas and meets with the governor, who does not approve of U.S. citizens. After, he meets a man named Baron de Bastrop who offers to help Moses with his colonization. -
Under Bolivar's new government, the Gran Colombia was created in 1821 -
Hidalgo and the Mexican Rebels finally gained independence ten years after el Grito de Dolores. -
After about four years, Moses Austin's colonization plan was finally put together by his son, but not without any inconveniences. The Mexican government let Austin control his colony under the old laws and he headed back to Texas. -
Mexico proclaimed that they were to be governed by a president and create a federalist government, where the national and state governments shared the power. -
By 1824, Austin decided that his colony needed a capital, so he founded San Felipe de Austin and it became the heart of the colony. -
From 1825 to 1831, four new colonies were created by Austin. All of the colonies were overlapping, except for one people called the Little Colony. -
Benjamin Edwards founded the Republic of Fredonia and they declared independence from Mexico. -
With Austin's goal of 300 people, he was close with about 100 to 200 settlers in his colony making his colony a success. -
On April 6, 1830, the government of Mexico made a law to get Mexico more control over Texas, and Mexico ended all U.S. immigration. -
In 1832, the Texans wrote a series of statements called the Turtle Bayou Resolutions that denied that they were attacking the Mexican government and asked for the support of Santa Anna and the Constitution of 1824. -
The Texans listed their grievances and presented their requests to Santa Anna in the Conventions of 1832. -
The Mexican government was not organized, and a cholera epidemic in Mexico City because of Santa Anna. Austin was put into jail because the Mexicans thought a letter he sent to them was treason for two years. -
The Texans became divided into two groups after the consultation, one group wanted peace with Mexico, and the other wanted independence from Mexico. -
At dawn, the volunteers at Gonzales attacked the Mexicans, and the Mexicans wanted the cannon back, the Texans raised a flag that said "come and take it." -
The Mexicans had given the Texans a cannon and wanted it back from the Texans. The Texans refused to give back the cannon, resulting in the Mexicans coming to try and get the cannon back, and a battle broke out, leading to the Texas Revolution.