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| Columbus expropriates San Salvador for Spain |
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| King James I sets up the jamestown colony on the shores of Virginia. (Colonization |
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| Rousseau publishes 'On the Social Contract' |
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| "The Terror" (Including the execution of King Louis XVI |
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| Kant publishes 'The Metaphysics of Morals' to answer the question of how freedom and causal determinism can be reconciled. |
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| After 15 years as emperor and 1 on leave, Napoleon returns for the '100 days' in which Benjamin Constant serves as his adviser. |
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| Constant gives a speech in Paris called 'The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns.' |
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| The Industrial Revolution, characterized by dangerous work, widespread poverty and misery, which gave rise to the social question. |
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| Marx and Engels complete the German Ideology |
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| Dred Scott vs. Stanford. Slave goes north then south, and people contracts are affirmed by the supreme court as the law of the land |
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| Marx and Engels complete 'Preface to a Critique of Political Economy' |
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| International Working Men's Association |
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| 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed slavery while there was still defacto white privledge. |
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| The Paris Commune, which Marx saw as a model of popular democracy, although it was overthrown in ten weeks with 20k revolutionaries being executed or deported. |
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| Plessy vs. Fergueson which made the separate but equal clause. |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education, which desegregated schools although they could still be segregated by local taxes. Still, a formal equality. |
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