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Thomas Hobbes
-Seperating religion from politics
-Seperating knowledge from faith
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John Locke
-Natural rights
-Kings power should be limited
-Freedom of religion -
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Baron de Montesquieu
-The Government should be broken into different sections and each should have some power to control others. -
English Bill of Rights
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Voltaire
-All things must be experienced reasonably and logically.
-Believed religion was to powerful. -
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Benjamin Franklin
Believed in a Government that had a single legislature with an advisory board
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Individual Rights
-Support French Revolution
-Majority rule
-Children should be able to show emotions
-Support of enlightment -
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Adam Smith
-Wrote a book called "The Wealth of Nations" which was his most famous book published in 1776
-Was a teacher that taught ethics, human motives, and society -
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Cesare Beccaria
He believed that education would reduce the crime rate
-Torture was wrong -
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Thomas Jefferson
-Didn't want a Government that had to much power
-Everyone should be allowed to have a education -
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
-After France invaded Spain and Napolean replaced the spanish king with his brother, Hidalgo formed ideas about freeing Mexico from the harsh rule of foreigners. -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
-She fought for equal rights of all human beings
-She wrote two books that discussed womens rights -
Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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When the Stamp Act went into effect, there were no stamp commisioners in the colonies left to collect it
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp act
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Captain William Smith comes under suspicion of American smuggling activities
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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The Boston Massacre is when British Regulars killed 5 colonists in Boston, Massachusetts
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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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Declaration of Independence
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American and French representativessign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a treaty of Alliance
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Simón Bolívar
-Believed in a strong central government.
-He also encouraged all the countries in Spanish America to join
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Ratificationof constitution of the 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, 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 National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the 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
