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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Baron de Montesquieu
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English bill of rights
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Voltaire
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Benjamin Franklin
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Adam Smith
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Cesare Beccaria
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Thomas Jefferson
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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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 Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
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American Revolution
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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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Simón Bolívar
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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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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France
