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Thomas Hobbes
- Believed government should be based on facts
- Believed that religion should be seperated from politics -Seperation of church and state
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John Locke
- Believed in that all people we born good and were given natural rights by God -Social contract (government + people)
- Freedom of religion
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Baron De montesquieu
- Seperation of power
- Government should be broken into different branches, to keep one person from taking total control (legislature-make laws, judical - intrepet laws, executive-inforce laws)
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English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
- no intolerance, no tryanny, no supersition
- believed in freedom of thought and respect for everyone -against any form of religion that was to strict and didn't accept the views of others
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Benjamin Franklin
- single legislature
- advisory board they would also work for the government and not be paid
- slavery should be abolished
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- against absolute power
- he believecs in individualism
- people should have power of say in government (majority rule)
- laws should be strictly enforced
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Adam smith
- free enterprise
- sef interest guides on efficent use of resources
- someone working for money also benifited society
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Cesare Beccaria
- Constitiutional protection -didn't believe in cruel and unusal punishemnts
- fair and speedy trials
- same crime = same punishments
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Thomas Jefferson
-education for all
-individualism for peoples rights
-majority of people make good choices
- government shouldn't have to much power -
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Father Hidalgo
-deas of freeing mexico
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Mary Wollenstone craft
- Fought for womens
- forught against inequalities in education
- equal treatmen of all humans
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Seven Years War Peace Treaty
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The Coercive or IntolerableActs
Quartering Act - House and funrish troops
Boston Port Bill - Closed Boston's port
Justic Act - British Officials couldn't be tried in provincial courts for capital crimes.
Government act - governer gained complete control
Quebec act - Exteneded canadian border and cut of Conn. mass. and Va. -
Stamp Act
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Tarring and Feathering
The specific date was for the tarring of Captain William Smith. Tarring and feathering was orginally a medievil punishment but is was revived by the Patriots. They used this to torture the Loyalists and British Officials. -
Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed by British Officials. -
Riots in Boston met with Voilence by British troops
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Commitee of correspondence
Special Commitees were formed by colonits and not as powerful forms of Government. The commitees had to take what England said and put it in written form. -
The Gaspee Incident
The Gaspee was a British Ship that was chasing a ship suspected of smuggling when it ran aground in Narragansett Bay. The ship was burned and the lieutenant wounded. -
Tea Act
Tea was taken to the colonies with out there consent and it was taxed. It was ment to just to sell the unsold tea, but colonists took it as another way to tax. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor, following the Tea Act. -
quebec act
extended canadian borders so the Mass. Conn. and Va were excluded from the colonies. -
First Continental Congress
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American Revolution
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British are coming..
Paul Revere and William Dawes made the famous midnight ride that warned the minutemen that the British were coming to attack, allowing them to arm themselves and be ready. -
Lexington and Concord
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Second Contienetal congress
Olive branch petition - as a last resort petition to try to convice the king that they wanted peace once again. -
Common sense
it was a pamplet that was written by Thomas Paine. It was written to express the feelings of the common people and how they should have a say in the government decisions as well as the wealthy and powerful. -
Declaration of Independence
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American and French Repesentatices ign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerence and a Treaty of Alliance
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Simon bolivar
- strong central governmet
- if power wasn't divided on ebranch would become to powerful
- can't vote till educated
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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,prson (and armory) in Paris
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Nation Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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French Revolution
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Haitie Revolution
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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 the 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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French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint
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Toussaint negotiates peace with the British
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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 trad
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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
