"give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
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THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.". SOME OF INTERESTING FIGURES - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
SOME OF INTERESTING FIGURES
Statue completed in Paris: June 1884Statue presented to America by the people of France: July 4, 1884Statue dismantled and shipped to US: Early 1885
Date of Acceptance by President: October 28, 1886 Part of Acceptance Statement by President Cleveland: "We will not forget that liberty here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected". Date designated a National Monument: October 15, 1924
Height from base to torch: 151' 1" (46.50m)Heel to top of head: 111' 1" (33.86m)
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Old Custom House Through New York Harbour
THE PRESENT ISLAND AS NATIOANL MUSEUM
Two immigration movements
Began probably 25,000years ago(in search of new huntingGrounds or of refuge from
Pursuing enemies)
Began with the expansion of Europe from the 16th century
Europe in the 16th and 17th century
learning
Art
church
The feudal system of serfdom prevailed. Art and learning were Controlled by the church
The first force
The development of capitalism
Bourgeois class (moreand more powerful
in politics and economy)Working class
The second force Renaissance – a changing outlook on life God-centered world and even the authority
of the Bible were challenged by the great progress in natural and social science
The development of technology was pushed
The third force
Religious reformation(Martin Luther)
↓Protestant reformation
The Pope had no right to sell “indulgences”
For the remissionOf sins
Sinful men would winSalvation only by
Faith in Jesus ChristAnd through a directRelationship to God
The only true guide To the will of God was
The Bible
The Settlement in VIRGINIA (Jamestown 1607)
Captain John Smith + John Rolfe (married princess of an Indian tribe chief)
House of Burgesses+ the governor and his council members
Ref: Burgesses: senator in Virginia or Maryland before the American Revolution
The first example for future United Satesdiscuss enactment of laws for colony(first meeting of an elected legislaturea representative assembly)
Puritan New England(Puritan 1620 in Massachusetts Bay)
Followed the doctrine of John Calvin(everyone had a calling given by God; read the Bible tofind God’s will and search for one’s individual contact with God. )
Culture heritage of Puritan: value of individualism,hard work, respect of education
Catholic Maryland founder: the second Lord Baltimore; carried out his father’s will in 1632(His father George Calvert, with a granted charter in 1623 from the King but died before long.)
Pointed a Protestant governor in 1648
Maryland Tolerance Act in 1649(assured freedom of worship to all who believed in Jesus Christ)abandonment of Feudal plan and development of capitalism
Quaker Pennsylvania founder: William Penn(seeking a place for their religious belief which included people contact directly with God, the inner light, God is in everyone’s soul;simple but productive life, thrifty and self-denial)received a grant from King Charles II in 1681 for the 16000pounds of debt
Penn made no restrictions on immigration & naturalization- idea of the melting-pot; established a liberal self-government;government had no interference with individual religious belief
The American revolution British began to charge new taxes on sugar,
coffee, textiles and other imported goods. The Quartering Act: force the colonies to house and feed British soldiers.
No taxation without representation The colonists refused to obey the British
laws, so British soldiers were sent to Boston.
Boston Tea Party In 1773, a group of patriots disguised as Indians, boarded British
merchant ships and tossed 342 crates of tea into Boston harbor. Intolerable Acts was passed More British soldiers were sent to the port of Boston. In 1774 the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. (urge
Americans to disobey the Intolerable Acts and to boycott British trade) The colonists began to organize militias and collect and store weapon. On April, 1775, the first shot was fired when 700 British soldiers went
to capture a colonial arms depot in the small town of Concord near Boston.
American War of Independence began.
Declaring independence Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 Colonists’ rights: unalienable rights (life, libe
rty and the pursuit of happiness) The war of independence came to an end in
1781 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. (Brit
ish had to recognize the independence of the United States)
George Washington(1732~1799)
Founding Father of the United States; Delivered his inaugural Address in New York CityOn April 30,1789On September 17,1796Peacefully turned over thePower of the presidency to John Adams
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Distinguished member of the Continental Congress that drafted the Declaration of IndependenceHe and John Jay and John Adams negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783),which ended the War for Independence.
Thomas Jefferson(1743~1826)
Author of the Declarationof Independence andthird president of theUnited States Nation’s greatest champion of representative democracyand the rights of man The most eloquent spokesmanon the founding principlesof American self-government