Introduction

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Aaron Burr was the grandson of America’s greatest evangelical theologian, __________.

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Jonathan Edwards

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John Adams’ Federalist running mate in 1800, __________ served for fifteen years as the president of the Bible Society of Charleston.

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

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They (Jefferson/Adams) could write like angels and scheme like demons. Trained as attorneys, they thoroughly mastered that craft only to turn their formidable legal skills toward statecraft. Both men preferred __________ to law or politics. But the year was 1776, and their respective colonies—North America’s two most populous British domains—had sent them to Philadelphia as delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

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farming

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Among the delegates, __________ had argued longest and most effectively for independence.

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Adams

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__________'s celebratory painting of the signing ceremony puts Adams and Jefferson front and center, with Benjamin Franklin prominently at their side and the other two committee members obscurely in the rear. Lanky and lean with an unruly sandy-red mane, Jefferson at a youthful thirty-three stood head and shoulders above the balding, rotund, but square-shouldered Adams —then a prematurely old forty.

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John Trumbull

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Regarding his own portrait, __________ once commented, “He should be painted looking like a short thick archbishop” and, writing from Philadelphia in November 1775, had characterized himself as “a morose philosopher and a surly politician.

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John Adams

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At over six feet two inches tall, with high cheekbones and deep-set eyes, Jefferson towered over most men of his time even when he __________—which he often did, especially when seated.

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On that fateful July 4, _______________, speaking as president of the Continental Congress and the nearest thing to an elected leader for the aligned but not yet amalgamated states, warned his fellow delegates, “We must be unanimous.”

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John Hancock

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Wise and worldly, _______________ reportedly added to Hancock’s “we must all hang together”, “Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

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Ben Franklin

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What city could have fallen in the same year as Britain's military force launched against its rebellious American colonies, sending the delegates running for their lives?

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Philadelphia