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The parliament passed the first internal tax on the colonists. This law required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Shots were fired in the center of Lexington, Massachusetts which started the American Revolution.
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2nd Continental Congress issues formal declaration of separation from British
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It ended with the treaty of paris & the United States of America became a free nation, no longer subject to British control
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The National Assembly of the new parliament seized all the church lands to further suppress religion. It assigns a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution.
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Started with the Storming of the Bastille prison
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Feudalism is abolished & the right of everyone to be a free citizen is declared.
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Text that Was approved by the National Assembly. This justified the destruction of a government based upon absolutism & privilege
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Begins with the Bois Caiman ceremony.
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The slave Toussaint l’Overture led the rebelling against the planters
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The First Republic voted for the abolition of slavery in all the French colonies.
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In August of 1802 Leclerc ordered Toussaint's general, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other officers to take the rebel slave's weapons but their attempt failed.
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Dessalines declared the nation independent and renamed it Haiti.
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Spain recognizes independence of new countries
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