3rd Grade Independence Hall Project
For my 3rd Grade project, I picked Independence Hall. We visited Independence Hall, which is in Philadelphia, between 5th and 6th Streets!
This is a picture of Independence Hall before we took the tour.
The Visitor's Center had a reproduction of the Sun Chair. Ben Franklin wondered whether the sun was rising or setting. He decided it was rising, on a new country.
I was inspired by this quote from Abraham Lincoln, who also visited Independence Hall.
This is a picture from across Independence Mall. You can see the President's House, which was destroyed and buried over many years. President Washington and President Adams lived in this house. You can look under the street and see the original foundation of the President's House.
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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania sat in this room in the 1700s. On July 8, 1776, an act of defiance occurred here when a group of Pennsylvania militiamen stormed in and tore down British King George III's coat of arms. A hundred years later, visitors came to this room during the Centennial to experience the National Museum, a collection of artifacts celebrating the founding of the nation.1
The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were both signed in this room. Later, the room became a shrine to the founding of the nation, proudly displaying the Liberty Bell and original paintings of the Founding Fathers. That was the scene when President-elect Abraham Lincoln visited the Assembly Room and praised the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Following his assassination, Lincoln's body lay in repose here for two days. Visitors today can ponder their own role in the on-going experiment in self-government.2
Sources:
Independence Hall, by Tamara L. Britton.
National park service website.
National park service tour.
Footnotes:
2 https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/places-independencehall.htm
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