Introduction
While the rest of the 8th grade is off touring Washington DC, you will take an electronic tour of our Nation's Capitol.
Directions. Record all your answers on the sheets provided at school. A copy can be downloaded at the 8th grade resource page. Each grouped set of questions will be on a specific topic. Each question can be answered with information from one of the related links provided. Turn all of your answers in on Monday, April 12th when we return to school. You may also turn it in to the office and they can place it in my box. This assignment is worth 100 points.
Jefferson Memorial
1. What building is the Jefferson Memorial patterned after?
2. Why was the planning and building of the memorial called undemocratic
and un-Jeffersonian?
3. What is written on the walls of the Memorial?
4. What did Alexander Hamilton do to help Jefferson get elected and why
did he do it?
5. What
body of water surrounds the Jefferson Memorial?
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial
http://www.essortment.com/all/thomasjefferson_rjdb.htm
History of the Jefferson Memorial (PDF) (check out page 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1800
FDR Memorial
6. What do the four rooms of the FDR Memorial represent?
7. How long was FDR the President of the United States?
8. What disabililty did FDR suffer from?
Links
http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/fdr/fdr.htm
http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/memorial/memorial.htm