The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and the First Continental
Congress of 1774 were two assemblies of legislatures from the American
colonies, assembled in response to taxes enacted by Great Britain. Yet while
the Stamp Act Congress and the concomitant boycott of British goods positively
forced Britain to repeal the Stamp Act, the First Continental Congress happened
during a time of intensified tension between Britain and the colonies and in
its place directly led to the American Revolution.
Classical Greek sculpture were characterized by the portrayal of idealized, lifelike bodies. Characters were very symmetrical and almost perfect versions of human beings, that almost seem real.
