explain what happened in American history from the 1st President George Washington all the way to the 16th President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War started. You can spend most of this essay on presidents or events that you liked the most during this time period from 1788-1860.

Jackson pollock described his art style in the following quote: “new needs need new techniques.… it seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the renaissance or of any other past culture. each age finds its own technique.” what point is pollock making about the new styles of art?