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Townshend Acts (1767)

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The Townshend Acts was a group of tax acts that initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. In response to the new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports.

Committees of Correspondence (1773-1774)

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it started in 1773,Several Virginia House of Burgesses members would gather. They had established collective oppositional responses to British policies that were formalized in the First Continental Congress.

Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775-1783)

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The British marched into Lexington and Concord in order to suppress the possibility of rebellion by taking weapons from the colonists. Instead, the actions of the British led to the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

Intolerable Acts (1774)

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The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

Boston Massacre (1770)

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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that happened on March 5, 1770. It was between a "patriot" mob and a squad of British soldiers.

Sugar act (1764-1765)

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Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.

Declaration of Independence (1776)

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The Declaration of Independence is a document that states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based.

Seven year War (1756-1763)

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The Seven Years' War was a conflict between France and Great Britain. A dispute over North American land claims in the region around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Stamp act (1765)

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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

Writing the Constitution (1787)

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The Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. it portrays the national frame and constraints of the government.

The Articles of Confederation (1777)

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The Articles of Confederation created a national government composed of a Congress, which had the power to declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors.

Napoleon comes to power (November 9th/10th 1799)

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Napoleon and his allies overthrew the French Directory government and established the French Consulate. Napoleon was elected, in a rigged election, the First Consulate.

Ancien Regime (1500-1789)

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The social & political order that existed in France until the French revolution.

Meeting of the Estates General (May 5th 1789)

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The Third Estate, along with some members of other Estates, formed the National assembly and invited the other two estates to join against the King's wish.

Reign of Terror (Sep 5, 1793 – Jul 27, 1794)

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The Reign of Terror was a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety

National Assembly Declared (June 17th 1789 - July 9th 1789)

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An assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by representatives of the Third Estate.

Tennis Court Oath (June 20th 1789)

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The men of the National Assembly swore to never stop meeting until a Constitution had been established.

Marie Antionette executed (October 16, 1793)

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At 4 in the morning, she was found guilty of the three main charges against her: depletion of the state treasury,conspiring with foreign powers, the, and of committing high treason by acting against the security of the French state. Her last words were, "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès (Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose)" after accidentally stepping on her executioner's shoe.

Storming of the Bastille (July 14th 1789)

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A state prison known as the Bastille was attacked by an angry mob since the prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.

Declaration of the Republic (June 18, 1953)

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The Declaration of the Republic was a constitutional declaration by the Revolutionary Command Council of Egypt. The purpose of this document was to begin Egypt's transition to a republic.

Abolishing Ancien Regime (August 4th 1789)

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The National Assembly entirely abolished the feudal system, including the rights of the Second Estate (nobility) and the First Estate (the Catholic clergy).

Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 26th 1789)

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It defined the individual and collective rights of all humans at the time of the French Revolution. It served as one of the foundational documents of the French Revolution.

Women’s March on Versailles (October 5th 1789)

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Crowds of Parisian women marches on Versailles, demanding changes of the high price and scarcity of bread.

Beheading of King Louis XVI (January 21st 1793)

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He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. His wife, Mary Antoinette, was executed in the same way nine months later.

French Revolution grants rights of citizenship to free persons of color (February 4th 1794)

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France abolished slavery in its colonies, becoming the first country in the world to ever do so.

Ceremony in Bois Caiman (August 14 1791)

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Hundreds of slaves met to organize and discuss plans for a revolution.

Fighting continues and Napoleon leaves Haiti ( November 18th 1803)

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It was fought on 18 November 1803 between the enslaved Haitian army and Napoleon's French expeditionary forces, who were committed to regaining control of the island.

Fighting begins (slave revolt) (August 22 1791)

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An organized slave rebellion broke out, which started a resistance to obtain human rights that would last for 12 years.

L'ouverture arrested and dies in France (1803)

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Toussaint Louverture was tricked into a meeting and arrested. He was sent to France, where he was imprisoned and repeatedly interrogated. He died there of pneumonia and malnutrition in 1803.

Spanish and British join war against French (1808)

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Spain and Britain joined Portugal in the fight against France.

France frees all enslaved people (April 27, 1848)

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France created the Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, effectively freeing all slaves once again.

Napoleon reestablishes slavery (1802)

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"Napoleon wanted to extend the French colonial empire to control the Caribbean. To colonize the huge land of Louisiana in North America, he needed workers so he restarted the slave trade

Toussaint L’ouverture joins French (1794)

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He refused to negotiate with French commissioners until 1794, when France formally abolished slavery in its territories. Toussaint then rejoined the French forces, beat back the Spanish and began his sustained campaign against the British, who had their own designs on Saint-Domingue