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Today you will be diving into your character role at the Convention. The goal is that you will know them and their beliefs well by Tuesday's Convention. You will use these 2 sources as well as any of your own Google searching to complete your Delegate Profile sheet, which you will use at the Convention.
Start with Source 1, which is embedded below. It gives a few brief background tidbits about each of the members in Philadelphia. Find your delegate and look for interesting things. Were they involved with the Revolutionary War? Did they start rich? Poor? What did they do at the Convention?
After that go to Source 2, which goes into much more detail about what each person believed and did during the Convention, as well as their lives after the Constitution.
From there, you may need to google search what your person thought about specific things, such as the Bill of Rights. Your Profile will need to be completed by Tuesday.
SOURCE 1
Scroll down a bit on this website to find every person organized by state.
SOURCE 2
This links below go into a lot more detail on each person's background, history, as well as their thoughts during the Convention. It's a much more thorough look at their roles at the Convention. Read through your delegate and become familiar with what they believed and what they did at the convention.
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