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PUZZLE #35 - FOUNDING FATHERS

IN-CONTEXT WORD DEFINITIONS

delegates: Representatives chosen to speak and vote for colonies or states at a convention or congress. Colonial representatives who met to debate independence and make decisions for their communities.

statesmanship: The skill and judgment needed to lead a nation wisely. The careful leadership and sound judgment needed to guide a new nation through difficult political choices.

visionaries: People who imagine and work toward a bold future. Forward-thinking leaders who imagined an independent nation built on new principles of self-government.

philosophy: A set of ideas about knowledge values government and human life. The political ideas about liberty rights and government that influenced the nation’s founding generation.

signers: People who write their names on an official document to approve it. The men who placed their names on the Declaration of Independence to approve its bold statement.

architects: People who design buildings or create the structure of an important system or institution. A figurative term for leaders who helped design the framework of American government.

political: Related to government public affairs or the exercise of power. Describes the debates decisions and public affairs that shaped the early United States.

leaders: People who guide direct or influence others toward a goal. The influential figures who guided the colonies through the struggle for independence and nation-building.

authorship: The act or role of writing and creating a document or other work. The writing and drafting of influential founding documents that expressed American ideals.

assembly: A group of people gathered for a shared purpose especially to make decisions. A formal gathering where colonial representatives discussed independence laws and a new system of government.

founders: People who establish a new organization institution or nation. The early American figures remembered for helping establish the United States and its governing institutions.

Secret Word: A set of ideas about knowledge values government and human life. The political ideas about liberty rights and government that influenced the nation’s founding generation.