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100

The year when men traveled to Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. 

1787

100

George Grey Barnard and Augustus Saint-Gaudens both created sculptures of the same President. 

Abraham Lincoln 

100

Ranger Luke at Independence Hall showed us a video of this important room from the perspective of the president’s chair.

The Assembly Room

100

A Future President of the United States born in a one-room cabin in Kentucky.

Abraham Lincoln

100

Name two documents written and ratified at Independence Hall.

Declaration of Independence and/or the United States Constitution

100

James Madison got things started rethinking the Constitution with his Virginia Plan, drafted at his home, called this.

Montpelier

200

The year when women and men met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women’s rights.

1848

200

He encouraged colonists to use their “Common Sense” and declare independence.

Thomas Paine

200

Slater Mill produced this good.

Cotton thread

200

This was the industrial center of Monticello and the center of the enslaved community at the plantation.

Mulberry Row

200

He joined forces with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton to write essays known today as the Federalist Papers.

James Madison

200

Another American Revolution that began at Slater Mill.

American Industrial Revolution

300

The 200th birthday of this man motivated Congress to approve a new parkway around the capital.

George Washington

300

The primary co-author of “The Declaration of Sentiments" lived in this town.

Seneca Falls, New York

300

This item, which we saw in storage, was cast from Abraham Lincoln.

His hand

300

Seneca Falls is only fifteen miles from this town, where Harriet Tubman purchased property in 1859.

Auburn, New York

300

He wrote what is considered to be the first memoir about life at the White House.

Paul Jennings

300

The Declaration of Sentiments was signed by this prominent abolitionist who had escaped slavery in Maryland and later met with Lincoln.

Frederick Douglass

400

The year in which James Madison married his wife Dolley Payne Todd.

1794

400

This “loaded” father-in-law helped Alexander Hamilton to “rise up.”

Philip Schuyler

400

These were a key architectural feature of Slater Mill, and evidence that the people who worked there needed to see what they were doing.

Windows

400

This park was created, in part, to preserve George Washington's view from the back porch of Mount Vernon.

Piscataway Park

400

She was called her “the Moses of her People.”

Harriet Tubman

400

This woman’s abolitionist efforts may have been motivated by the sale of her three older sisters to cotton plantations in the South.

Harriet Tubman

500

The year when Highland was bequeathed to William & Mary.

1974

500

Robert Lewis and Tonia Weavil have received this special honor from the Cherokee Nation.

A Cherokee National Treasure

500

This person’s black bird-cage tomb was recently painted white.

James Monroe

500

A tea hosted by Jane Hunt marked the first organizational meeting for this 1848 conference.

The Seneca Falls Convention

500

He wrote Notes on the State of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson 

500

This Cherokee game evolved from a substitute for warfare to a social game for women to find a new partner.

Stickball

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