revolutions

By medmondson
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    Thomas Hobbs

    -Seperation of reliogon and politics
    -Seperation of knowledge from faith
    -Seperation of church and state
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    John Locke

    -Social contract theory
    -Freedom of reliogion
    -All people are born good and with natural rights
    -Constitutional monarchy
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    Baron de Montequieu

    -Government should be broken into different sections and each should have some power to control the others (Seperation of powers) (Three branches)

  • English Bill of rights

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    Voltaire

    -All things must be explained logically and reasonably
    -Belived in freedom
    -Religion was too powerful
    -Fought against tyranny, intolerance and suspentition
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    Ben Franklin

    -One house
    -Didnt think people in charge shuld be paid
    -Slavery was wrong
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    -Individual rights
    -Support French revolution
    -Majority rule
    -Against absolute power and control of government by church
    -Children should be able to show emotions
    -Support enlightenment
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    Adam Smith

    -Belived in free enterprise
    -Someone working to earn money benifitted himself, also benifitted society as a whole
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    Cesare Beccaria

    -Criminal/ convicts should have rights too
    -Torture was wrong
    -Education would reduce crime rate
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    Thomas Jefferson

    -Didnt want a government that had too much power
    -Everyone should be allowed to have an education
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    Father Hidalgo

    -Gave a speech "Grit de Dollorer" which caused people to fight for Mexicans independence
    -He was able to capture the towns Guanajuato and Guadalajara
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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    -Fought for rights of women
    -Fought for eqaual treatment all people
    -Husbands should treat wives as equals and not property

  • Seven years war peace treaty between Great Bitan and France

  • Commitees of Correspondence

    First formal commitee established in Bostan. Charged with raylling opposition to the recently enacted Currency acts.

  • Quartering act

    Ordered colonists to provide shelter and other nesseseties to the British troops.

  • Stamp act passed by british Parliment

  • Tarring and Feathering

    Captain Williamt Smith became a suspect of smuggling activites. He was covered in tar and then with feathers, after being marched around through different towns was thrown into the sea and saved by a passing boat. Possibly the first tar and feathering in America.

  • Repell of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, New revenue on North American Colonists

  • Riots in Botson met with violence of British troops.

    Bostan Masacre, caused British soligers to kill five American Colonists.

  • Gaspee Inncident

    The Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship suspected of smuggling. Next night a group of men snuck onto the Gaspee, wounded the piolet and set the ship on fire.

  • Bostan Tea Party

    Caused by the Tea Act, passed on May tenth 1773. Monay horbors simply sent back the tea, or just refused to sell it. Although the Sons of Liberty had a different idea.

  • Administration of Justice Act

    British Officals could not be charged with capitol crimes while in the colonies, they would have to return to Britan and be tryed there. They could basically do whatever they pleased.

  • Massachusets Government Act

    Gave all power to the British Governer and took all away form the colonists.

  • Quebec Act

    Extended the Canadian Property, which cut off some western parts of the colonies of Connecticuit, Massachusets, and Virgina.

  • Bostan Port BIll

    Until the damages of the Bostan Tea Party were paid for by the colonists, the Bostan port would remain closed to all colonists.

  • First Contententail Congress

    All colonies sent delegates execpt for Georgia who desperately needed the help of British sologers. They tended to the wrongs that had been inflicted on the colonies and hoped that a unified voice would gain them a hearing in London.

  • Paul Revere "The British are coming!"

    Dr. Joe Warren sent Revere to Lexington Mass. to warn Admas and Handcok that the Britsh soligers were coming to arrest them. He used the signal of two lanterns hung up, to tell the Sons of Liberty that the British were traveling 'by sea'.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Adams and Hancock had already escaped from Lexington when the British arrived, The colonists were prepared to fight, and had organized their own militia called the Minutemen so b/c they had to be ready in a minutes notice. They were greatly outnumbered and 8 were killed ten others wounded. British moved on the Concord where the colonists had already moved and hidden most of the supplys so the British were only able to destry some of the supplys.
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    American Revolution

  • Second Contenental Congress

    Presided over by John Honcock, all colonies delegates were there although Georigas delegates were late.

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Instant best sellar, read aloud and sold everywhere throughout the colonies and even some palces in london. Sparked the idea of revolution into the colonists minds, one of the greatest political pamphlets of all time.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Entire commitee reveiwed the declaration after twenty xis changes made vy Franklin and Adams, of Jeffersons original copy. On July second they had finally raeched an agreement to independence.

  • American and French Representatives sign two treaties a Paris :Trearty of Amity and Commerce, Treaty of Allience

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    Simon Bolivar

    -Belived in a strong central government
    -He admired the parlimentary system from Britan
    -He thogh on branch of government would be too strong

  • Ratification of Constitution of the United States

  • Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris 1789

  • National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

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    French Revolution

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    Haiti Revolution

  • French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue.

  • France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • War ends between Great Britain and France

  • Constitution for Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

  • New declaration of war between Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

  • British end the slave trade

  • Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain

  • Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone

  • French abolish slave trade

  • U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine