Liberalism Time Line

By _nataliaa
  • Period: 1550 to

    Scientific Revolution

    ·In the Scientific Revolution was a time where changes were made to our ways of thinking and how the world was managed.
    ·They made discoveries that were generally unreliable or believed.
    ·the people domine their religion in their lives and they didn`t wanted to believe the facts that had the scientists until later.
  • Period: 1550 to

    Enlightenment

    ·The enlightenment was a time that was an impulse towards equality between men and woman in matters of intelligence.
    ·The scientists in the enlightenment had their discoveries proved to be specifiic many times and have become theories and laws
    ·In this time te ideas that the enlightenment had pushed the European society away from the federalism and absolute monarchies, they wanted equality.
    ·The enlightenment ideas helped to give rise to deism
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    Enlightenment Absolutism

    ·The philosophers believed in natural rights for everyone
    ·only strong monarchs could bring about the reforms society needed.
    ·A new type of monarchy was assumed, that rulers tried to govern by enlightenment principles while maintaining their royal powers
    ·No one of the three states followed the advice of the philosophers except Joseph, but no one wanted the changes
    ·Prussia wanted power/territories
    ·Austrias queen didnt help, but her son Joseph yes
    ·russia didnt wanted to lost her popularity
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    Glorious Revolution

    ·the main purpose was that they didnt wanted that England would have a absolute monarchy
    · the Glorious Revolution ensured that England would have a constitutional monarchy which parlament had the majority power
    ·the bloodless coup forced king James II to exile and make Mary (her daughter) and William of Orange elevate to the monarchy
    · they restored a protestant monarchy and at the same time limited its power by means of the Bill of Rights
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    Seven Years War

    ·the major war broke out over the succession ti the Austrian throne, when the dad of Maria Theresa died (Charles VI) succeeded him.
    ·King Frederik II wanted to take advantage and add Austria to Prussia.
    ·France entered the war against Austria while in turn Austria allied with Great Britain.
    ·At t1748 all parties were exhausted and agreed to te Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
    ·In 1756 Maria Theresa achieved what was soon labeled a diplomatic revolution

  • Stamp Act

    ·This was a tax to help the British pay for the French and Indian war
    ·The British charge tax bc the colonies were receiving the benefit of the British troops and they needed to pay the expenses, while the colonies didnt feel the same
    ·At the end the British parlament stopped the stamp act

  • Boston Tea Party

    · the Boston tea party was on three ships and the colonies didn´t want to pay taxes for the British tea
    ·the American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water in a form of protest for the taxes
    ·with this act the colonists started to rebel with violence against the government
    ·at the end they passed the intolerable acts that closed Boston Harbor, until all the tea lost was paid for
    ·it ended the Massachusetts constitution and the free elections of town officials

  • First Continental Congress

    ·The 13 colonies expect for Georgia to met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress to organize the colonial resistance to parliaments coercive acts
    ·it passed and signed the continental declaration association in its declaration and resolves
    the continental declaration was created to boycott all the contact with the British goods,

  • Second Continental Congress

    ·in the second continental congress was founded when the British failed to address the grievances of the first continental congress
    ·it was the governing body of the American colonies
    ·they print money, signed treaties appointed ambassadors, and request money from the states because they had no power to tax
    ·they established the continental army
    ·they made George Washington the general of the army and they tried again for peace by sending the Olive Branch petition to the king of Britain
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    American independence

    ·the Americans declared independence on July 4 of 1776 saying that all men are the same
    ·George Washington forged a military alliance with France to defeat the two main British invasion armies.

  • USA Declaration of Independence

    ·the declaration wanted to break away from Britain and wanted rights
    · there were four parts, the preamble, a declaration of rights.a bill of indictment, and a statement of independence
    ·it contains the complains of the colonies against the British king and the arguments the colonists used to be free of the rule of Britain

  • Treaty of Paris recognized American Independence

    · the British recognized the American Independence and ceded most of its territory of the Mississippi River to U.S doubling the size of the new nation
    ·France gave up all its territories in mainland North America ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there
    ·the colonial empire of Great Britain was destroyed in North America