Founding Fathers
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Which Founding Father Am I?
They are called our Founding Fathers because they worked long and hard at the Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to debate, discuss and write a Constitution for the new United States.
I wrote the Bill of
Rights and made sure
it was added to
the Constitution
.
I was the leader at theConstitution
al Convention.
Which Founding Father Am I?
They are called our Founding Fathers because they worked long and hard at the Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to debate, discuss and write a Constitution for the new United States.
I wrote the VA Declaration of Rights, which gave us rights
such as freedom of religion and freedom of the
press.I wrote the VA
Statute for Religious
Freedom, which gave us the right to worship as we
choose.
4. The VA Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786, was later used to write the First Amendment to the Constitution. The VA Statute was written by
James Madison
George Mason
Thomas Jefferson.
3. The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence, 1776, was
Thomas Jefferson.
George Washington.
George Mason.
James Madison.
Clear
George Washington
6. The President of the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia, 1787, was
George Washington.
James Madison.
Thomas Jefferson.
George Mason.
5. The man who took continuous notes at the Constitutional Convention, 1787, and was later known as “the Father of the Constitution,” was
James Madison.
George Washington.
George Mason.
Thomas Jefferson.
Clear
2. The writer of the Bill of Rights was known as “the Father of the Bill of Rights.” Who?
James Madison
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
1. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776, was later used to write the Bill of Rights. The VA Declaration of Rights was written by
George Mason
George Washington
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Clear
8. This man became a good role model for future presidents and was known as “the Father of Our Country.” Who?
George Mason.
James Madison.
Thomas Jefferson.
George Washington.
7. Who would not sign the Constitution because it did not have a Bill of Rights?
George Mason.
Thomas Jefferson.
George Washington.
James Madison.
Clear
On August 31 a weary ? bitterly exclaimed that he . . .
“ . . . would sooner chop off my right hand than put it to the Constitution as it now stands."
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Congress of the United States. (1789). Congress of the United States. In the House of representatives. Monday, 24th August, 1789. Resolved, by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses deeming it necessary, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States ... [17 articles] In Senate, August 25, 1789. Read and ordered to be printed ... New York. Printed by T. Greenleaf, near the Coffee-House, [1789]. (Image 1). Library of Congress: American Memory, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera.
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