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TOPIC: AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1. Based on the reading below, answer the questions. Keep in mind coherence and cohesion, the grammar
structures and the lexica.

Birth of a new Nation

The thirteen American colonies had gained their independence, but a fear of concentrated power and concern for their
own interest caused them to have little enthusiasm for establishing a united nation with strong central government, and so
the Articles of Confederation, ratified in 1781, did not create one. A movement for a different form of national government
soon arose. In the summer of 1787, fifty-five delegates attended a convention in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of
Confederation. The Convention’s delegates –wealthy, politically experienced, and well educated- rejected revision and
decided instead to devise a new constitution.

The proposed United States Constitution established a central government distinct from and superior to the governments
of the individual states. The central or federal government was divided into three branches, each with some power to
check the functioning of the others. A president would serve as the chief executive with the power to execute laws, veto
the legislature’s acts, supervise foreign affairs, and direct military forces. Legislative power was vested in the second
branch of government, a bicameral legislature composed of the Senate, elected by the state legislatures, and the House
of Representatives, elected directly by the people. A supreme court and other courts “as deemed necessary” by Congress
provided the third branch of government. They would enforce the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land”.

The constitution was approved by the states –by a slim margin. Important to its discuss was a promise to add a bill of
rights to the Constitution as the new governments’ first piece of business. Accordingly, in March 1789, the new Congress
enacted the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known ever since as the Bill of Rights. These guaranteed freedom
of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly as well as the right to bear arms, protection against unreasonable
searches and arrests, trial by jury, due process of law, and protection of property rights, many of these rights were derived
from the Natural Rights philosophy of the eighteenth-century philosophers and the American colonist. Is It any wonder that
many European intellectuals saw the American Revolution as the embodiment of the Enlightenment’s political dreams?

Source: Duiker, W and Spielvogel, J. (2016). Birth of a New Nation in World History Vol II. Pg. 517. United States, Boston,
MA: Cengage Learning.

A. Explain the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the policy established in the USA. Answer
your question based on the question in the final paragraph. (20/100)
B. Is it possible to affirm the amendments established by the Americans could be associated to our current law
system? Choose one of them and develop your ideas. (20/100)
C. Is it accurate to state the American Revolution was fair? Explain your ideas based on the concept from the pillar of
the Character Counts. (20/100)

2. Observe the image and analyze it according to the meaning of the elements: explain them based on the historical
context. Develop the activities below (40/100)

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Gema Abondano Mikan Omar Cáceres Galvis María Cristina Barbosa.
Coordinación académica de Rector Directora General.
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SOURCE: Pecers, M. (2012). Mother Goose and Grim. [Cartoon]. Recovered from:
http://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-American+Revolution-Comic-Strips.php/0

a. Set the historical context.

b. Describe: What thing do you see in the artwork?
c. Analyze: What is the meaning of those elements based on the historical context.
d. Decide: Is the image accurate? Why or why not? Argue.

Elaboró Revisó Aprobó

Gema Abondano Mikan Omar Cáceres Galvis María Cristina Barbosa.
Coordinación académica de Rector Directora General.
primaria