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Who were the Founding Fathers?
The Founding Fathers signed the Constitution of the United States into law in 1787. They were a group of men who organized the American colonists’ revolution and formed an independent country—the United States of America. They knew that after they won the war with England, they would need a Constitution to create laws for the new country. The men who led the revolution, worked on the Declaration of Independence, and wrote the Constitution are known as the Founding Fathers. Seven of those men are considered key figures and students today study their lives and writings.
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Do the math to label each Founding Father pictured.
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Thomas Je erson John Jay George Washington John Adams
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Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton James Madison
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Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence; he was not part of the Constitutional Convention, as he was the minister to France at the time. Four years after the Constitution was written, he insisted that Ten Amendments be written up as The Bill of Rights to protect an individual’s rights as a citizen.
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Heroic Homonyms
Benjamin Franklin used these words urging his fellow signers to be of the same mind. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” This reveals two meanings of the word “hang”— to stay together and to be killed by a rope tied around the neck . Many homonyms have at least two different meanings. Write down another meaning for each word other than the one given.
BANK: The edge of a river or BAT: A small ying animal or LIGHT: Weighing very little or RING: A sound made by a bell or
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students understand homonyms.
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