Atlantic Revolutions by Samira Mohammad

Seven Years War (1756-1763)

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The Seven Years War was a war mainly between England and France for land in the Americas; this war ended with a british victory, but cost the british a lot.

Sugar Act (1764)

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The Sugar Act was the first law after the Seven Years War aimed at taxing the American colonies. The Sugar Act raised the taxes on imported sugar, molasses, and other goods

Townshend Act (1767)

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The Townshend Act was a tax imposed by the British on their American colonies that raised taxes on many staples of life such as glass, paper, tea, and paint.

Boston Massacre (1770)

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The Boston Massacre was the response of a group of British soldiers posted in Boston to a group of protesting civilians where they shot into the crowd killing three.

Intolerable Acts (1774)

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The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government punishing and restricting the freedom of the American colonies. These acts were deemed "Intolerable" by the citizens of the American colonies further increasing tensions.

Committees of Correspondence (Established 1773)

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The Committees of Correspondence were groups of people who believed in an American revolution, they wrote to each other and coordinated resistance against the British.

Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the American Revolution, which lasted until 1783. The battles both resulted in an American victory.

Stamp Act (1765)

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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the British making the Americans pay extra money for paper

Articles of Confederation (Created 1777 effective 1781)

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The Articles of Confederation was a document that served as a constitution for the Thirteen Colonies until 1789.

Creating the Constitution (1787)

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The Constitution was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 where they originally aimed to revisit the Articles of Confederation, but eventually decided on creating a new document(the Constitution).

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

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The Declaration of Independence is a document declaring the United States of America's official separation from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was also the document that ended the revolutionary war.

Women’s March on Versailles (Oct 5 1789)

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The Women's March on the Versailles was a procession preformed by thousands of working women who were angered by the food shortages. They marched to the Palace of Versailles and forced the royals to return with them to paris.

Ancien Regime (15th century-1789)

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The Ancien Regime was the system of governance in France before the revolution. This form of governance said consisted of a monarchy where all of the people were under the complete control of the king.

Meeting of the Estates General (May 5 1789)

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The Meeting of the Estates General was a large meeting about deciding new taxation and laws. the people in this meeting consisted of three estates the clergy (First Estate), nobility(Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate) the largest of which were the commoners, all of whom left the meeting unsatisfied and seeking revolution.

Tennis Court Oath (June 20 1789)

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The Tennis Court Oath was an event where members of the National Assembly met and promised that they wouldn't separate until there was significant change in the government allowing for the people to have greater control over the government.

National Assembly Declared (June 17 1789)

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The Declaration of the National Assembly was when the members of the Third Estate -upset with the lack of power in the government and in the Meeting of the Estates General, decided to declare themselves as 'the National Assembly' since they represented 96% of the French population. The National Assembly wanted to make change in the government without the permission of the king, or any of the other estates.

Storming of the Bastille (July 14 1789)

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The Storming of the Bastille was when a large group of insurgents took control of a large armory and prison in protest of the king's alleged intentions to arrest the National Assembly. The people attacked this building because it held political prisoners who would likely join their cause against the government and because the Bastille was a symbol of French authoritarianism.

Napoleon comes to power (1799)

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Napoleon Took over the government's power with his army that he has created and he outsmarted the people that work with the government.

Abolishing the Ancien Regime (August 4 1789)

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The Ancien Regime lost its power in france on August 4 1789 because of the rapid reforms that the National Assembly instated and the renunciation of the roles of many nobles.

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

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The Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen was a document created by the French Constituent Assembly that dictated what the assembly believed to be the seventeen "natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man".

Beheading of King Louis XVI (January 21 1793)

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King Louis XVI was put on trial for treason where he was found guilty and then executed.

Declaration of the Republic (September 21 1792)

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The Declaration of a French Republic by the National Convention was a large change in governance and allowed for much more political power to be in the hands of the people. The declaration also raised the question of what would happen to the royals.

Marie Antoinette Executed (October 16 1793)

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Queen Marie Antoinette was executed nine months after her husband King Louis XVI after she was found guilty of high treason. This marked the beginning of the Reign of Terror.

Reign of Terror (1793-94)

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The Reign of Terror was a period of time when militants against the revolution would perform massacres and numerous public executions on the basis of treason.

French Revolution Grants Rights of Citizenship to Free Persons of Color (1792)

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During the French Revolution, the French Legislative Assembly passed a law in 1792 stating that free people of color could get full citizenship.

Ceremony in Bois Caiman (August 14 1791)

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The ceremony in Bois Caiman was one of the first meetings of enslaved revolutionaries in Saint-Domingue. The ceremony included a voodoo ritual.

Fighting Begins (slave revolt) (August 14 1791)

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Shortly after the ceremony is Bois Caiman many enslaved people fought against their masters and took over their plantations. This nationwide fighting kicked off the Haitian Revolution.

Spanish and British join war against French (1808 - 1814)

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In 1793 France declared war on Great Britain. The Spanish ruled Santo Domingo (the rest of the Island of Hispaniola). The Spanish also also fought France with Great Britain. The rebels joined too. The British and Spanish gave rebels the food, ammo, weapons, medicine and other military support to help them. On September 22, 1793 the French surrendered to the Royal Navy (British) peacefully.

France Frees all Enslaved People (Febuary 1794)

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In 1794 France made all slavery illegal in all of its colonies. This change secured the freedom of those living in Saint-Domingue.

Toussaint L’Ouverture joins french (May 18 1794)

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Toussaint L’Ouverture was a general and leader of the Haitian Revolution who -in the early stages of the Haitian Revolution, was allied with the Spanish. Later, in 1794, he switched his allegiances to the French for reasons unknown to historians, but it's speculated that it was due to his poor treatment under Spanish rule.

Napoleon Reestablishes Slavery in France (May 1802)

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Napoleon signed two laws that reversed the law they passed eight years earlier. This policy was kept in place until 1848 when slavery was finally definitively abolished. These laws led to more fighting in the Caribbean due to the large enslaved population in the French colonies.

L'Ouverture arrested and Dies in France (1802,1803)

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L'Ouverture was arrested by Jean Baptiste Brunet in 1802 after L'Ouverture failed to enforce the agreed-upon cease-fire. Brunet also believed that L'Ouverture was plotting another revolution. After his deportation to France, he was imprisoned at Fort-de-Joux in France where -months later, he died in 1803.

Fighting Continues and Napoleon Leaves Haiti (1802-1803)

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After L'Ouverture's imprisonment, Napoleon announced his desire to re-introduce slavery in Haiti, and the cease-fire was disrupted. After almost a year of fighting, the French surrendered on November 9, 1803.