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Thomas Hobbes
.Seperating religion from politics
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John Locke
.Natural Rights
.King should be limited
.Freedom of Religion
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Baron de Montesquieu
.The government should be broken into different sections & each should have some power to control the others. -
English Bill of Rights
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Benjamin Franklin (BFF)
.1 House
.Didn't think people in charge should be paid
.Slavery was wrong -
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Voltaire
.All things must be exp. responsability and logically.
.He believed in freedom of thought and respect for all individuals.
.Believed religion was too powerful/ -
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Jean-Hacques Rousseau
.Individual rights
.Support French Revolution
.Majority rule
.Against absolute & contol of government by church/ -
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Adam Smith
Believed someone woking to earn money benefited himself but also benefited society as a whole. -
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Cesare Beccaria
.He wanted to make sure that criminals had some rights
.Torture was wrong -
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Thomas Jefferson
.Didn't want a government to have too much power
.Believed individuals freedom and rights should be protected for the country and everyone. -
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Father Hidalgo
.Fought for Mexican independence and questioned many of the policies of his own church. -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
.Fought got the rights of women
.Fought got equal treatment got all human beings.
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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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Tar and Feathering
Some merchants and shipbuilders captured Captain William Smith and covered his whole body with tar then in feathers. After that they threw him in the sea to drown. -
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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The Gaspee Incident
The Gaspee was chasing a Merchant ship because they thought there were goods being smuggled in. One night the Gaspee ship was invaded and the ship was set on fire. -
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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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 1789 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 Revolution
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Haiti Revolution
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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
