Taking Liberty – US Political History Mad Libs
Fill in this page then plug your words into the following page of unquotes:
Unquotes
Salad ingredient:
Baked good:
Feeling that ends in ness:
Dessert food:
Kind of footwear:
Car part:
Name of yourschool principal:
Kind of bird (plural):
Body part:
Number with a decimal or fraction in it:
Adjective:
Time period (month, week, hour, decade):
Room in the house:
Toy:
Piece of sporting Equipment
Taking Liberty
Unquotes
Give me ______(salad ingredient) or give me death! -Patrick Henry
They who can give up essential ______(baked good) to obtain a little
temporary ______(feeling ending in ness) deserve neither
______(dessert food) nor ______(kind of footwear).
-Benjamin Franklin
Damn the ______(car part), full speed ahead. -David Farragut
______(verb) the Alamo!-Defenders of the Alamo
All we have to fear is ______(name of your school principal) itself. –FDR
And so, my fellow ______(kind of bird plural): ask not what your
______(body part1) can do for you — ask what you can do for your
______(body part1)-JFK
I have a dream that my ______(number with a decimal or fraction in it)
______(adjective) children will one ______(time period) live in a
______(room in the house) where they will not be judged by the color of
their______(toy), but by the content of their ______(piece of
sporting equipment) -MLK
Not So Great American Documents
Fill in the next three pagesand then plug your words into the not great documents found on the following pages.
The Declaration of Dependence
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Breakfast Food:
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Amble to the Constitution
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Restaurant chain:
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Video game:
Food:
Child Actor:
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Your teacher’s first name:
1st Draft of the 1st Amendment
Teacher:
Main course for supper:
Name of a ride at the fair:
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Talk show host:
Rock and Roll Band:
Wild Animal:
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Gettysburg Undress
Time period, minutes, hours, decades, etc:
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Piece of furniture:
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Sporting Event:
Rapper:
App:
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Not So Great American Documents
The Declaration of Dependence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
______(verb) the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of ______(planet), the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
______(verb) the causes which impel them to the separation.
______(cartoon character) holds these truths to be self-evident, that all
______(breakfast food) are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are ______
(fruit), ______(animal) and the pursuit of ______(emotion – ending
in ness).--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
______(amphibian), deriving their just powers from the consent of the
______(nationality plural), --That whenever any Form of ______
(sport) becomes ______(adjective), it is the Right of the
______(religious group) to ______(verb), and to
______(verb) new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and ______(emotion - ending with ness).
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be
______(verb ending in ed) for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to
______(verb), while evils are ______(same verb ending in
able), than to right themselves by ______(verb ending in ing) the forms
to which they are accustomed.
The history of the present King of ______(American city) is a
history of repeated ______(plural noun) and ______(plural
noun), all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over
these______(adjectives a gangster would use) States. To prove this, let
Facts be submitted to a ______(adjective) world.
Amble to the Constitution
We the People of the ______(adjective1) States, in Order to form a more ______(adjective) Union, establish ______(restaurant chain), insure domestic ______(adjective), provide for ______(video game), promote the general ______(food), and secure the Blessings of ______(child actor) to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the ______(adjective1) States of ______(your teacher’s first name).
1stDraft of the 1stAmendment
______(teacher) shall make no ______(main course for supper) respecting an establishment of ______(name of a ride at the fair), or ______(verb) the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of ______(talk show host), or of the ______(rock and roll band); or the right of the ______(wild animal) peaceably to ______(verb), and to ______(verb) the Government for a redress of grievances.
Gettysburg Undress
Four score and seven ______(time period, minutes, hours, decades, etc) ago our ______(type of family member plural) brought forth on this ______(piece of furniture) a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all ______(mammal) are created ______(adjective).
Now we are engaged in a ______(adjective) civil ______(sporting event), testing whether that ______(noun1), or any ______(noun 1) so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that ______(sporting event). We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their ______(App) that that ______(Rapper) might ______(verb).
Rehistory
Fill in the next two pages, and then plug your words into the not so great history found on the following pages.
Constitutional Ratification
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Body part:
Rival High School:
Annual holiday event:
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Party favor – plural:
Famous music festival:
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Number greater than 421:
The Battle of Gettysburg
Famous parade:
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A year since 2000:
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Small furry animal 1:
Type of nut 1:
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Star Wars Creature
Star Wars Character
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Reality TV Star:
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Rehistory
Constitutional Ratification
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to ______(Verb ending in ing) by the central government. Fresh in their ______(body part) was the memory of the ______(rival high school) violation of civil rights before and during the ______(annual holiday event). They demanded a "bill of ______" (plural noun) that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for ______(Party favor plural) others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that ______(Famous music festival) would be offered.
On September ______(number greater than 53), 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures ______(number greater than 421) amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. And the rest is history.
The Battle of Gettysburg
The ______(famous parade), fought from July 1 to July ______(number greater than 31), ______(a year since 2000), is considered the most important ______(annual school event) of the American Civil War. After a great victory over ______(small furry animal1) forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. ______(type of nut1) marched his Army of ______(plural amphibian1) into ______(city or place from a work of fiction or movie) in late June ______(a date before 1450). On July 1, the advancing ______(small furry animal1) clashed with the Union’s Army ______(Star Wars creature), commanded by General ______(Star Wars character), at the ______(adjective) town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier ______(verb –ending in ing), as the ______(small furry animal1) attacked the ______(plural amphibian1). On July 3, ______(type of nut1) ordered an attack by fewer than ______(number less than 8) troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “______(reality TV star) Charge,” managed to pierce the Union ______(piece of clothing) but eventually failed, at the cost of ______(number) of rebel casualties, and ______(type of nut1) was forced to withdraw his battered army toward ______(A place in Star Wars).
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