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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
Statue completed in Paris: June 1884
Statue presented to America by the people of France: July 4, 1884
Statue 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 hunting
Grounds or of refuge from
Pursuing enemies)
Began with the expansion of Europe
from the 16th century
Europe in the 16th and 17th century
The feudal system
of serfdom prevailed.
Art and learning
were Controlled
by the church
Art
church
learning
The first force
The development of
capitalism
Bourgeois class (more
and more powerful
in politics and economy)
Working class
The second force
– 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
 Renaissance
The third force
Religious reformation
(Martin Luther)
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Protestant reformation
The Pope had no right
to sell “indulgences”
For the remission
Of sins
Sinful men would win
Salvation only by
Faith in Jesus Christ
And through a direct
Relationship 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
The first example for future United Sates
discuss enactment of laws for colony
(first meeting of an elected legislature
a representative assembly)
Ref: Burgesses: senator in Virginia or
Maryland before the American Revolution
Puritan New England
(Puritan 1620 in Massachusetts Bay)
Followed the doctrine of John Calvin
(everyone had a calling given by God; read the Bible to
find 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 16000
pounds 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
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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,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
 The war of independence came to an end in
1781
 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.
(British 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 City
On April 30,1789
On September 17,1796
Peacefully turned over the
Power of the presidency to
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
Distinguished member of the
Continental Congress that
drafted the Declaration of
Independence
He 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 Declaration
of Independence and
third president of the
United States Nation’s
greatest champion of
representative democracy
and the rights of man The
most eloquent spokesman
on the founding principles
of American selfgovernment