It's a Date!
The year when men traveled to Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation.
1787
George Grey Barnard and Augustus Saint-Gaudens both created sculptures of the same President.
Abraham Lincoln
Ranger Luke at Independence Hall showed us a video of this important room from the perspective of the president’s chair.
The Assembly Room
A Future President of the United States born in a one-room cabin in Kentucky.
Abraham Lincoln
Name two documents written and ratified at Independence Hall.
Declaration of Independence and/or the United States Constitution
James Madison got things started rethinking the Constitution with his Virginia Plan, drafted at his home, called this.
Montpelier
The year when women and men met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women’s rights.
1848
He encouraged colonists to use their “Common Sense” and declare independence.
Thomas Paine
Slater Mill produced this good.
Cotton thread
This was the industrial center of Monticello and the center of the enslaved community at the plantation.
Mulberry Row
He joined forces with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton to write essays known today as the Federalist Papers.
James Madison
Another American Revolution that began at Slater Mill.
American Industrial Revolution
The 200th birthday of this man motivated Congress to approve a new parkway around the capital.
George Washington
The primary co-author of “The Declaration of Sentiments" lived in this town.
Seneca Falls, New York
This item, which we saw in storage, was cast from Abraham Lincoln.
His hand
Seneca Falls is only fifteen miles from this town, where Harriet Tubman purchased property in 1859.
Auburn, New York
He wrote what is considered to be the first memoir about life at the White House.
Paul Jennings
The Declaration of Sentiments was signed by this prominent abolitionist who had escaped slavery in Maryland and later met with Lincoln.
Frederick Douglass
The year in which James Madison married his wife Dolley Payne Todd.
1794
This “loaded” father-in-law helped Alexander Hamilton to “rise up.”
Philip Schuyler
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
This park was created, in part, to preserve George Washington's view from the back porch of Mount Vernon.
Piscataway Park
She was called her “the Moses of her People.”
Harriet Tubman
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
The year when Highland was bequeathed to William & Mary.
1974
Robert Lewis and Tonia Weavil have received this special honor from the Cherokee Nation.
A Cherokee National Treasure
This person’s black bird-cage tomb was recently painted white.
James Monroe
A tea hosted by Jane Hunt marked the first organizational meeting for this 1848 conference.
The Seneca Falls Convention
He wrote Notes on the State of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson
This Cherokee game evolved from a substitute for warfare to a social game for women to find a new partner.
Stickball