US Government

ConstitutionWebQuest

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Directions: Following the directions below to complete the WebQuest. This document is also located on my website!

  • Visit and take the quiz.
  1. Which Founding Father are you most like?
  2. List three qualities that you share with this person.
  • Click on the link to learn more about this specific person.
  1. What state does this person represent?
  2. Write three important events in this person’s life
  3. How many other people from this state are considered “Founding Fathers”?
  • Visit and read the first three paragraphs.
  1. Briefly describe the Philadelphia summer of 1787.
  2. How often did William Samuel Johnson record “hot” or “very hot” weather?
  • Scroll down to “Apparently the delegates favored…”
  1. Describe the outfits of the Founding Fathers
  2. Why were these outfits a problem?
  • Scroll down and read the last two paragraphs
  1. What does the author suggest we do to today’s Congress?
  2. Opinion question: Why do you think today’s Congress takes so long to make decisions (or never makes them at all?)
  • Visit and read beginning with “The Population of the United States of America…”
  1. What was the population of USA at the time, and what populations may or may not have been included?
  2. What percentage was able to vote and who were they?
  3. What was the country’s capital at the time?
  4. What was the average life expectancy of the time? What is it now?
  5. It seems that people’s height and eating habits were the same, but for what is there a “big difference”?
  6. Click on the link for the “bar tab”. How many bottles of Madera did they order?
  7. How many bottles of Claret?
  1. How many bottles of beer?
  • Visit .
  1. Who was the first country to use Facebook to write a new constitution from scratch?
  1. On what other country’s constitution did this government originally base its constitution?
  1. How big is this country’s population?
  2. Use Google to find an estimate for the current population of the USA.
  3. Opinion question: Would using Facebook to devise a new constitution work well in the United States? (explain your answer!)

Last, visit

  1. What are the Federalist Papers?
  2. Who wrote them and how were they published?
  3. How are the Federalist Papers often used today?

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