civics lesson for September 17 2012

 

This delegate took notes at the

 

Philadelphia Convention.

 

Name: James McHenry

 

State: Ireland

Age/Year of Birth: 1753

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:  Spent most of his time writing

 

He refused to sign the Constitution.

 

Name: John Dickinson

 

State: Maryland

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1732

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. studied law in Philadelphia and London.

2. He did enlist in the Continental Army.

 

Clue:

 

This delegate was the head of the

 

Virginia delegation to the convention.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He practiced in law in Williamsburg.

 

Name: John Blair

 

State: Virginia

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1732

 

Two Additional Clues: 1.
At the Virginia ratifying convention, Blair helped win support for the Constitution

2. associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1789, where he served until 1796.

 

 

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Clue:

 

He studied medicine in Scotland.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

This Framer emancipated his slaves in

 

his will.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He was responsible for the Judiciary Act

 

of 1789.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He was the chairman of the Committee

 

on Style.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He served on the committees that draft

 

both the Declaration of Independence

 

and the Article of Confederation.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

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Clue:

 

He studied law in Philadelphia.

 

Name: George Read

 

State: Maryland

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1733

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. he set up a legal practice in Delaware

2. was busy with state activities.

 

Clue:

 

He was a roommate of James Madison

 

at the College of New Jersey.

 

Name: Gunning Bedford, Jr.

 

State: Delaware

 

Age/Year of Birth:1747

 

Two Additional Clues 1. Bedford was born into a large family.

2. Bedford spent many years as a federal district judge.

 

Clue:

 

He served as the first postmaster general

 

of Wilmington.

 

Name: Jacob Broom

 

State: Delaware

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1752

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. a relentless entrepreneur and died in Philadelphia while attending to business.

2. included farming, surveying and mapmaking, shipping, importing, real estate, and city government.

 

Clue:

 

He voted against independence and did

 

sign the Declaration of Independence.

 

Name: Robert Morris

 

State: England

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1734

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He came to America when he was 13.

2. He served as superintendent of finance under the Articles of Confederation, a very difficult job

 

Clue:  

 

He voted against the independence, but

 

signed the Declaration of

 

Independence.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

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Clue:

 

He was born in Connecticut.

 

Name: William Samuel Johnson

 

State: Connecticut

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1727

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He graduated from Yale and became a lawyer.

2. Johnson was a powerful member of the Continental Congress.

 

Clue:

 

During the Revolution he served as a

 

lieutenant colonel in the dragoons.

 

Name: William Few

 

State: Georgia

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1748

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. As a result, his brother was hanged, the family farm was destroyed, and the family had to flee to Georgia.

2. one of Georgia’s first U.S. senators

 

Clue:

 

Served as one of the original trustees of

 

the University of Georgia at Athens.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

His notes at the convention described the

 

personalities of others.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He studied in Flanders, Belgium.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

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Clue:

 

He died three years after the convention.

 

Name: Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

 

State: Maryland

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1723

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. he owned a large estate near Annapolis

2. Not much is known about his early years

 

Clue:

 

He was opposed to increasing the power

 

of the federal government.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He was called away from the convention

 

due to family illness.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

This Framer studied law under Thomas

 

Jefferson.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

After Shays’ Rebellion, he spoke out

 

against giving the common people too

 

much power.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

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Clue:

 

He became an apprentice to a merchant

 

at the age of fifteen.

 

Name: Nathaniel Gorham

 

State: Massachusetts

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1738

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He was active in state politics and supported the revolutionary cause

2. He worked to gain approval of the Constitution in Massachusetts.

 

Clue:

 

He was born in the territory that became

 

Maine.

 

Name: Rufus King

 

State: Massachusetts

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1755

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He studied the law and entered practice in Massachusetts

2. King ran for vice president twice and president once, but lost each time.

 

Clue:

 

In his early twenties he contracted

 

smallpox, which damaged his eyesight.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He came late to the convention and

 

served on Committee of Postponed

 

Matters.

 

Name: Nicholas Gilman

 

State: New Hampshire

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1755

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He served in the Continental Army

2. born into a large and distinguished New Hampshire family.

 

Clue:

 

His wealth came from investing in trade.

 

Name: John Langdon

 

State: New Hampshire

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1749

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He did not receive a great deal of education and began as an apprentice to a merchant.

2. He avidly supported the Revolution

 

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Clue:

 

He was arrested by the British for

 

treason, rescued by a group of patriots.

 

Name: David Brearly

 

State: New Jersey

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1745

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. Although he dropped out of college, he practiced law in New Jersey.

2. He fought in the Revolutionary War.

 

Clue:

 

He went to convention because his

 

father and an associate decided not to

 

go.

 

Name: Jonathan Dayton

 

State: New Jersey

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1760

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. later served in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

2. named after him because he owned the land where the city was founded.

 

Clue:

 

He is not to be confused with the

 

gentlemen from Georgia who also did

 

not sign the Constitution.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He served as a missionary among the

 

Mohawk Indians as a teen.

 

Name: William Livingston

 

State: Albany, New York.

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1723

 

Two Additional Clues:1. Livingston graduated from Yale and spent many years in law practice and politics in New York.

2. Tired of law and having lost power in the New York legislature, he moved to New Jersey around 1770.

 

Clue:

 

He was born in Ireland and came to the

 

colonies at the age of two.

 

Name: William Paterson

 

State: New Jersey

 

Age/Year of Birth:1745

 

Two Additional Clues:1. graduated from the College of New Jersey and studied law.

2. served as attorney general of New Jersey

 

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Clue:

 

During the Revolution he served as

 

secretary and aide to General

 

Washington.

 

Name: Alexander Hamilton

 

State: New York

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1757

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. born to unmarried parents in the British West Indies..

2. After the war, he studied law and entered practice.

 

Clue:

 

He believed that the Articles of

 

Confederation should simply have been

 

amended.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He served eight years as chief justice of

 

the New York Supreme Court.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

In 1790, he moved, settling in what is

 

now Tennessee, and was one of its first

 

U.S. senators.

 

Name: William Blount

 

State: North Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1749

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. eldest son of a well-established North Carolina family.

2. in 1797 over a plan to raise forces to invade Spanish territory in Florida and Louisiana and hand the territory over to the British

 

Clue:

 

He was born in North Carolina, but

 

raised in Ireland and Scotland.

 

Name: Richard Dobbs Spaight

 

State: North Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1758

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He was educated there and in Scotland, returning to North Carolina in 1778.

2. He worked to gain ratification in North Carolina.  

 

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Clue:

 

He was educated to be a minister, but

 

studied medicine in Europe.

 

Name: Hugh Williamson

 

State: North Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1735

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He worked for ratification and served two terms in the U.S. House.

2. , he settled in North Carolina, where he practiced medicine, serving as surgeon-general for the state’s troops.

 

Clue:

 

He was one of the founders of the

 

University of North Carolina.

 

Name: William R. Davie

 

State: North Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1756

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. Davie did not sign the Constitution but did work for ratification.

2. he served as governor of North Carolina, as a state legislator, and as a peace commissioner to France, among other offices.

 

Clue:

 

He was tried and acquitted of the charge

 

of cowardice after the Battle of

 

Germantown.

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

His Poor Richard’s Almanac was read

 

nationwide.

 

Name: Benjamin Franklin

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1706

 

Two Additional Clues: 1Born into a poor family, Franklin became an inventor, scientist, diplomat, and publisher

2. With the possible exception of George Washington, Franklin was the best-known man in America.

 

Clue:

 

He was expelled from the Quaker church

 

for his military service.

 

Name: Thomas Mifflin

 

State: Pennsylvania

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1744

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He was educated in Philadelphia and entered business upon finishing his education

2. attaining the rank of major general.

 

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Clue:

 

He served as superintendent of finance

 

under the Articles of Confederation..

 

Name:

 

State:

 

Age/Year of Birth:

 

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

 

He lived in Philadelphia, where he was a

 

prominent businessman.

 

Name: Thomas Fitzsimons

 

State: Ireland

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1741

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He fought in the Revolutionary War

2. moving to America about 1760.

 

Clue:

 

This delegate was born in Connecticut,

 

the son of a British colonial official.

 

Name: Jared Ingersoll

 

State: Connecticut

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1749

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. graduated from Yale and then managed his father’s business affairs

2. He followed his father to Philadelphia, where he studied law.

 

Clue:

 

After the Revolutionary war, he

 

defended loyalists and their

 

sympathizers.

 

Name: James Wilson

 

State: Pennsylvania

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1742

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. was born and educated in Scotland.

2. He arrived in America in 1765, where he taught and studied law.

 

Clue:

 

Early in life, he lost a leg in a carriage

 

accident.

 

Name: Gouverneur Morris

 

State: New York

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1752

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. He graduated from King’s College in New York City and studied law.

2. He served briefly in the Senate

 

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Clue:

 

He studied law in London, then

 

practiced law and built a fortune.

 

Name: John Rutledge

 

State: South Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1739

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. educated at home by his father and a tutor.

2. He continued to be politically active through the 1780s.

 

Clue:

 

He served in the military during the

 

Revolution and was held as a prisoner

 

for two years.

 

Name: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

 

State: South Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1746

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. educated in England, where his father was representing South Carolina.

2. attended every session of the Philadelphia Convention

 

Clue:

 

He was an older cousin to delegate with

 

Almost the same name.

 

Name: Charles Pinckney

 

State: South Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth: 1757

 

Two Additional Clues: 1. , the son of a wealthy lawyer and planter.

2. He trained as a lawyer.

 

Clue:

 

He served in the British Army until

 

1771, when he resigned after marrying

 

a colonial girl.

 

Name: Pierce Butler

 

State: South Carolina

 

Age/Year of Birth:  1744

Two Additional Clues: 1. born in Ireland, the son of a member of the House of Lords.

2. spoke often at the Philadelphia Convention