For Each Definition, Identify the Person Being Described. All of the People Have Full

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Unit 4 People

For each definition, identify the person being described. All of the people have full names that are capitalized. All names need to be spelled correctly.

1. ______In 1775, he led settlers on horseback and on foot through the Wilderness Road that cut through the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.

2. ______Delegate to the Constitutional Convention from the state of Virginia; a leader in the fight against ratification who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not include a bill or rights.

3. ______Famous scientist and statesman; delegate from the state of Pennsylvania who lent his wit and wisdom to the Convention.

4. ______Delegate from Virginia who was the first recognized speaker at the Convention; he is credited with proposing the Virginia Plan.

5. ______Delegate from the state of New Jersey at the Convention who presented an alternative to the Virginia Plan that came to called the New Jersey Plan.

6. ______Delegate to the Convention from the state of New York he is credited with writing many of The Federalist Papers essays in 1788.

7. ______Delegate from Virginia who came out of retirement and was chosen as the president of the Convention.

8. ______Delegate who was elected in Virginia to attend the Convention but refused; he led the fight as an Anti-Federalist and would not vote for ratification of the Constitution unless it included a bill of rights.

9. ______Chosen as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Confederation Congress; he wrote some of The Federalist Papers.

10. ______Delegate from the state of Connecticut at the Convention who proposed the Great Compromise, which became the basis for the first 3 articles of the Constitution.

11. ______Massachusetts farmer who led a failed rebellion on a federal arsenal in an attempt to provide debt relief to farmers in his state.

12. ______Delegate from Virginia at the Convention who took thorough notes of the convention’s proceedings, his notes are the most detailed picture of what took place; he did most of the actual writing of the Constitution and is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”