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John Locke
Born in 1632 to a rich English family, John Locke studied medicine at Oxford University. He always thought different about the relevance of ancient Greek philosophy to the teachers. Locke found more practical philosophical information in newer modern works including especially the writings of Rene Descartes. After college Locke was employed by the Earl of Shaftsbury, helping him in many non medical matters. He had two roles when working here estate administrator and political advisor. -
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The Enlightenment
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The sugar act
The sugar act was a British law that went into America, this started in 1764. This act put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned importation of rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, but the affected merchants were very vocal. These taxes were raised without any of the colonists knowing. This was one of the first instances in which colonists wanted to complain about the tax -
The American revolution
The American revolution started from 1775 until 1783. This Revolution was a political mayhem that happened in 1775 until 1783 during this period colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British kingdom and the nobility, conquered the authority of Great Britain, and established the United States of America . The reason this was began was because a disagreement over the way in which Great Britain treated the American colonies against the way the colonies wanted to be treated. -
The American civil war
The Civil War is a very important event in America's history. The Revolution of 1776-1783 produced the United States, while the Civil War of 1861-1865 decided what kind of nation it would be. The war determined two important questions left unsolved by the revolution. If USA was to be a dissolvable confederation of independent states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation. -
The French revolution
The French revolution happened during 1787 and 1799. Throughout this period, French citizens razed and reformed their country’s political landscape, changing centuries-old institutions such as absolute kingdom and the feudal system. No one knew who was fully responsible for the French Revolution. One of the biggest changes was that France no longer had a monarchy, The French Revolution invented new government systems as well, for example democracy and socialism. -
Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot along with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg by a Serbian nationalist. This happened in Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1914. Franz Ferdinand was the nephew of the Emperor Franz Josef and also the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand, he was just a participant in a huge assasination plan by the Black Hand, a Serbian freedom fighter group, who wanted to kill Archduke because he planned to give concessions to the South Slavs.
