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Serialized Story Guide for Teachers, Students and Families

By Antonette Bomentre-Walter and Chris Yatchyshyn


Answers to Questions in the Guide

Chapter 8 - Good Ideas in Print Shaped a Nation

Recalling the Facts

1. The Constitutional Convention

2. Philadelphia

3. 1787

4. Benjamin Franklin

5. 10 amendments - The Bill of Rights

6. The Rights of Man

7. Age of Reason

8. James Monroe

Comprehension Questions

1. Promoting his iron bridge invention.

2. Freedom of religion, speech, press, right to peaceably assemble and petition.

3. His ideas are reflected in it.

4. In Paris in 1793. In the deadly Luxembourg prison, where thousands of prisoners remained without trial. He became ill and his cell door was left open and they never saw the chalk mark on the door to alert them he was to go to the guillotine.

5. Frederich, his wife and Anna Marie made him feel happy and young again.

6. A great and lasting friendship with Nicholas and Marguerite deBonneville.


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