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.
- Which Founding Father are you most like?
- List three qualities that you share with this person.
- Click on the link to learn more about this specific person.
- What state does this person represent?
- Write three important events in this person’s life
- How many other people from this state are considered “Founding Fathers”?
- Visit and read the first three paragraphs.
- Briefly describe the Philadelphia summer of 1787.
- How often did William Samuel Johnson record “hot” or “very hot” weather?
- Scroll down to “Apparently the delegates favored…”
- Describe the outfits of the Founding Fathers
- Why were these outfits a problem?
- Scroll down and read the last two paragraphs
- What does the author suggest we do to today’s Congress?
- 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…”
- What was the population of USA at the time, and what populations may or may not have been included?
- What percentage was able to vote and who were they?
- What was the country’s capital at the time?
- What was the average life expectancy of the time? What is it now?
- It seems that people’s height and eating habits were the same, but for what is there a “big difference”?
- Click on the link for the “bar tab”. How many bottles of Madera did they order?
- How many bottles of Claret?
- How many bottles of beer?
- Visit .
- Who was the first country to use Facebook to write a new constitution from scratch?
- On what other country’s constitution did this government originally base its constitution?
- How big is this country’s population?
- Use Google to find an estimate for the current population of the USA.
- Opinion question: Would using Facebook to devise a new constitution work well in the United States? (explain your answer!)
Last, visit
- What are the Federalist Papers?
- Who wrote them and how were they published?
- How are the Federalist Papers often used today?
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