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Revision note: American and French Revolutions and the Rise of Nationalism

  • Enlightenment: Locke (natural rights), Montesquieu (separation of powers 1748), Rousseau (Social Contract 1762)
  • American: Stamp Act 1765, Boston Tea Party 1773, Declaration 4 July 1776 (Jefferson), Yorktown 1781, Treaty of Paris 1783, Constitution 1787
  • French: Estates-General May 1789, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille 14 July 1789, Republic 1792, Terror 1793–94, Napoleon 1799, Waterloo 1815
  • Italy: Mazzini (Young Italy 1831), Cavour, Garibaldi (Red Shirts), 1861 kingdom, Rome 1870
  • Germany: Zollverein 1834, Bismarck "blood and iron", wars 1864/66/70–71, Empire Jan 1871 at Versailles
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