This page is for a special "Webquest" activity we will do in Chapter 6
Please be sure to follow all of the directions listed on the sheet you were given in class.
Read each question carefully!
Read each question carefully!
STEP 1- Use with Question #1
Video clip: "America the Story of Us- The Importance of the Declaration of Independence"
STEP 2- Use with question #2
Taken from the Library of Congress. Link: http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/001/0500/0545.jpg
Taken from Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/001/0500/0556.jpg
STEP 3- Use for questions 3-7
Video Clip: "John Adams- Revision Scene"
STEP 4- Use for question #8
The Declaration of Independence: Final Document
This is the actual Declaration of Independence on display at the National Archives in Washington D.C. For a high resolution, downloadable image, please go to http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_zoom_2.html
STEP 5- Use for question #9
Video Clip: "Reading of the Declaration"
STEP 6- Use for question #10
Video Clip: "John Adams- final vote scene"
STEP 7- Use for question # 11
Artist: John Trumbull
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
Commissioned 1817; purchased 1819; placed 1826 in the Rotunda
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
Commissioned 1817; purchased 1819; placed 1826 in the Rotunda
STEP 8- Use for Question #12
Video clip: "Preserving the Declaration"