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The Enlightenment was a major part in history due to how much was found out and discovered by reasoning.
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The early Enlightenment thinkers included the English men Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman Rene Descartes. The early Enlightenment also included key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In 1686 Isaac Newton published his “Principia Mathematica” and in 1689 John Locke published “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” two works that really helped the with the Enlightenment´s major advances.
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Philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Buffon and Denis Diderot all played parts in the high Enlightenment. Fredrick the Great, who unified, rationalized and modernized Prussia in between brutal multi-year wars with Austria. The Declaration of Independence arguably one of the most known evens in American history which was a big part of the Enlightenment made by Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson both big Enlightenment thinkers.
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The late Enlightenment, contained more of a fight for rights. A Enlightenment thinker known for fighting for rights. Mary Wollstonecraft, she inspired both the Haitian war of independence and the radical inclusive of Paraguay’s first post-independence government.
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The French Revolution held a lot of chaos in its ten years. From the Storming of Bastille to the Reign of Terror, this revolution left a big dent in history.
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The storming of bastille took place on July 14, 1789. Bastille was a state prison on the east side of paris. The prison took a hard hit from an angry and aggressive mob. The prison was burned down almost all the way to the ground with only seven prisoners inside.
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On August 26, 1789 the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen were issued. They stated the basic rights of a human being and the limits of the government.
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The Haitian Revolution was a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804.
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After being convicted of conspiracy with of having foreign powers King Louis XVI was sentenced to death. Shorty after was executed by guillotine.
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The reign of terror was a series of massacres and public executions when the committee took control over the french government.
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The main part of the Haitian Revolution was the overthrow of the french regime by the Africans and their descendants who were enslaved by the french.
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The wars for independence in the 19th century led to the making of Latin America´s nation, states. Cuba and Puerto Rico remained Spanish colonies till the Spanish-America war in 1898.
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On April 25, 1898 is when America declared war with Spain. U.S troops landed in Cuba on June 22, and defeated the Spanish at the battle of San Juan Heights. Then destroying the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay in Cuba on July 3rd. On July 17 Spain surrendered and 4 months later the two countries signed the protocol of peace.
In December the treaty of Paris was signed ending the war and then ratified by the U.S senate. The U.S acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.