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Thomas Hobbes
He emphasized reason instead of faith. Want a strong goverment based on resoning -
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John Locke
Wanted natural rights for all and king paver should be limited. Freedom of religoin -
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Baron de Montesquieu
Agreed with Locke. Belived thus system would prevent leaders and become a tyrant -
English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
He believed in freedom of thought and respect for all individuals and that religion was too powerful and defended -
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Benjamin Franklin
Want the people in charge and slavery is mitally -
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wanted majority rules, Individual freedom and enlightment -
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Adam Smith
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Cesare Beccaria
People who did a crime should havve rights. Belived tourture was wrong -
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Thomas Jefferson
Goverment to protect the people and education for all -
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Father Hidalgo
He wanted to free mexico from their harst rulers. Fought for independence -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Tarring and Feathering
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Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Intolerable Acts
Quartering Act: Established March 24, 1765
Boston Port Bill: Effective June 1, 1774
Administration of Justice Act: Effective May 20, 1774
Massachusetts Government Act: Effective May 20, 1774
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Boston Massacre
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Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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The Gaspee Incident
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Tea Act
This act was for the colonist so that the tea can be sent straight from the east indias to the colonist -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty dressed up as mohawk indians
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The First Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonist sent delagates to the meeting.They talked about rather to right the wrongs that had been inflicted on the colonies and hoped they can get a meeting in london -
First Continental Congress
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Quebec Act
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Common Sense
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The British is coming
Paul Revere and William Dawes ride around the whole town warning that the british is coming for war -
Shots heard around the world
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2nd Continental Congress
Included some of the same delegates as the first, but Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Joseph Galloway were there too. All of the colonies sent delegates, but Georgia delegation did not arrive until fall. -
Declaration of Independence
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Declare 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 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris (FR)
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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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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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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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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
