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Thomas Hobbes
gov. should be based on facts, believed the religion should be seperated from polotics, seperation of church and state -
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John Locke
believed in Life, Liberty and property -
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Baron de Montesquieu
seperation of power -
English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
freedom of thought and respect -
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Benjamin Franklin
slavery was wrong, single legislative, advisory board -
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
against absolute power, individualism, -
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Thomas Jefferson
education for all -
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Adam Smith
free enterprise -
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Cesare Beccaria
didnt believe in cruel and unusual punishment -
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Thomas Jefferson
education for all -
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Father Hidalgo
mexican independence , against harsh rule of foreigness -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
right of women and the inequalities ineducation -
Tarring and Feathering
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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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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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Boston Massacre
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The Gaspee Incident
It was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods -
Commitees of Correspondence
broaden the resistance movement -
Tea Act
it was intended to raise revenue on the American colonies and it imposed no new taxes -
Boston Tea party
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First Continental Congress
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The Coercive or Intolerable Acts
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The Quebec Act
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First Continental Congress
Georgia decided against roiling the waters they were facing attacks from the restive Creek on the borders and needed the support of regular British soldiers. -
The British are coming...
Paul Revere road into Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British are to arrest them -
The Second Continental Congress
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The Shots heard 'Round the World
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Thomas Paine : Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence
It was 12 of the 13 colonies declared independence and freedom the British -
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
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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
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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 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.