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What period of art is this?

What period of art is this?. The American Revolution. Vikings to the Civil War in 90 minutes or less…. Colonization. 1607, Jamestown 1620, Plymouth (eventually absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Company) Difference between two?. Earliest example of a Representative Government in the US?.

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What period of art is this?

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  1. What period of art is this?

  2. The American Revolution Vikings to the Civil War in 90 minutes or less…

  3. Colonization • 1607, Jamestown • 1620, Plymouth (eventually absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Company) • Difference between two?

  4. Earliest example of a Representative Government in the US? • House of Burgesses • Town hall meetings

  5. Prior to the French & Indian War

  6. Colonial Grievances • Navigation Acts • Parliamentary Sovereignty • Sugar and Currency Acts, 1764 • The Stamp Act, 1765

  7. Colonial Grievances, II • Declaratory Act, 1766 • Townshend Acts, 1767 • Tea Act, 1773 • Boston Tea Party, Dec. 1773 • Intolerable Acts, 1774

  8. Colonial Response • First Continental Congress • “No Taxation without Representation!” • Lexington & Concord • Second Continental Congress • Thomas Paine, Common Sense • Thomas Jefferson • George Washington

  9. Legal Documents of Great Influence • Magna Carta • English Bill of Rights • Mayflower Compact

  10. Declaration of Independence, 1776 • Written by Thomas Jefferson • List of grievances against King • Governments derive their powers only by the consent of the governed

  11. The American Revolution • A war of good circumstance? • Battle of Saratoga, 1777 • Battle of Yorktown, 1781 • Treaty of Paris, 1783

  12. The Articles of Confederation • State sovereignty • Unicameral legislation • one state, one vote • Could not directly tax • Amended only by unanimous vote • VERY weak central government

  13. Constitutional Convention • Calls for stronger government • United States Constitution, 1787 • Bicameral house • 3/5 Compromise • Separation of Powers

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