Declaration of Independence Assignment: DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

The names that are struck through are not available. We will cover those people in class.

Delaware
• George Read
• Caesar Rodney
• Thomas McKean

Pennsylvania
• George Clymer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Morris
• John Morton
• Benjamin Rush
• George Ross
• James Smith
• James Wilson
• George Taylor

Massachusetts
• John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• John Hancock
• Robert Treat Paine
• Elbridge Gerry

New Hampshire
• Josiah Bartlett
• William Whipple
• Matthew Thornton

Rhode Island
• Stephen Hopkins
• William Ellery

New York
• Lewis Morris
• Philip Livingston
• Francis Lewis
• William Floyd

Georgia
• Button Gwinnett
• Lyman Hall
• George Walton

Virginia
• Richard Henry Lee
• Francis Lightfoot Lee
• Carter Braxton
• Benjamin Harrison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Wythe
• Thomas Nelson, Jr.

North Carolina
• William Hooper
• John Penn
• Joseph Hewes

South Carolina
• Edward Rutledge
• Arthur Middleton
• Thomas Lynch, Jr.
• Thomas Heyward, Jr.

New Jersey
• Abraham Clark
• John Hart
• Francis Hopkinson
• Richard Stockton
• John Witherspoon

Connecticut
• Samuel Huntington
• Roger Sherman
• William Williams
• Oliver Wolcott

Maryland
• Charles Carroll
• Samuel Chase
• Thomas Stone
• William Paca


SCHMOLL/H231/Dec. of Ind. Assignment/DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 Your name:

STEP ONE: Go online and read Thomas Jefferson’s account of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/account/index.htm (three pages)

STEP TWO: Sign up for one of the signatories of the Declaration and find information on that person.
You may use online sources, but be sure to keep track of your sources. The key information you need is why this person signed the declaration.

STEP THREE: Find an image of the person you are studying. Print that image out at a reasonable size,
one that will fit in the space below.

STEP FOUR: Fill out the form below.



Declaration of Independence:
Signed by ___________________.
From the colony of ___________________.
Here is an image of this signatory:


My social and political position in the colony was


Something interesting about my life is that


I signed this document because