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Religion 1700-1763
- The American Indians believed spirits were in physical things and nature, such as the sun, the trees and the wind. The Europeans established colonies and attempted to convert the natives into their own religions. The Spanish were very upfront in their attempts to convert the natives to Catholicism Uprisings such as Pope's rebellion that represented Native American hate towards Spanish policies.The French Jesuits in New France were more successful than the Spanish as a whole.
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Art in the Americas
- The Emerging Art Religion Before the Europeans came to the new American continent, native Americans passed down traditions orally, generation to generation. British immigrants came to the New World to seek a new economic lifestyle and freedom of religion. After years of the development of communities with stable economic and social systems, their own new culture began to show. These paintings portrayed mainly the lifestyle of the wealthy families in the British colonies.
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The American Revolution 1763-1773
The British colonists of mainland North America had great hopes for the future in 1763, when the Peace of Paris formally ended the Seven Years’ War. Their lives had been disrupted by a series of wars between Britain and the “Catholic Powers,” France and Spain. a triumphant Britain took title to Spanish Florida, French Canada, and all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi. The colonists looked forward to a time of uninterrupted peace, expansion, and prosperity. -
Living the good life 1773-1783
Although the colonists shared problems common to people all over the world in the 18th century, such as nasty epidemics, they generally ate better, lived longer, and were more prosperous than any of their European counterparts. Land was cheap and had to sustain fewer people because the population was smaller. Because labor was often in short supply, wages were higher, which raised the standard of living. -
Taxation 1773-1783
While enjoying the protections of the formidable British Empire’s military, the average American colonist, if he paid any taxes at all, paid far less than his British cousin.The argument against British taxes, put forth by the eloquent Boston lawyer James Otis, that “taxation without representation is tyranny,” After all, more than a few Americans had to pay taxes to American local governments and still couldn’t vote or didn’t have a representative in the colonial assemblies. -
The War 1783-1812
1783
3 September: Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War
1783-1812
1786-1787
Shays’s Rebellion
Massachusetts rebellion led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays against high taxes.
1787
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The military
In 1789, the United States was the only large republic in the world; the others were a handful of small city-states scattered in Europe, and none of the larger republics in the history of the world had lasted very long. Like the ancient republic of Rome, they had collapsed and reverted to some form of tyranny, usually by a military dictator. -
Bibiography
“American art.” ABC-CLIO American History. N.p., 2012. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. <http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/379984?
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Second Edition by Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, and M. Kathryn Shields
https://www.facinghistory.org
OpenStax, US History. OpenStax. 30
December 2014. http://cnx.org/content/col11740/latest/.
