Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was the man who created the telephone. The man I can thank for starting the addiction of phones world wide. Bell was only 29 when he created the first phone- it was 1876. One year later, the Bell Telephone Company was founded. Also in 1877 he married Mabel Hubbard and went on a year long honeymoon in Europe!



Before his creative invention was made, he discovered ways for his "hard-hearing" mother to hear him during conversations. When they would talk Bell would talk up close to her forehead so she could feel the vibrations. The Scotland born man eventually moved to Boston and decided to make a school for the deaf. He was an inventive teacher and believed that sounds could travel through a machine.

In 1876 (age 29) Bell received a patent for a device with a transmitter and receiver, only 3 days later he planned to test the device but spilled acid on himself. Alexander called out for help to his assistant (Thomas Watson), his assistant heard him- through the device! Bell then decided to call it the "Telephone."

Currency project

 

- Equals one cent

- The Building is The Lincoln Memorial 

- E pluribus unum—Latin for "Out of many, one"—is a phrase on the Seal of the United States, along with Annuit cœptis and Novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782.

- Made of Copper
-It is believed that the first citizen to appeal that it be minted on coins was Rev. M.R. Watkinson, who was the Minister of Gospel at a church in Ridleyville, Pennsylvania
- Abe was the first face on a coin

OTHER INFO:

It was the first form of U.S Currency 

Suggested By Ben Franklin

The original coin was much heavier and larger

Over 300 billion pennies have been minted (around 11 different designs) since 1787

In 1815 no pennies were made due to a copper shortage 

LINKS:

http://www.alincoln-library.com/abraham-lincoln-penny.shtml

http://www.pennies.org/index.php/penny-history

Heads of State Quiz

1.) President of the United States

Barack Obama

2.) Vice President of the U.S

Joseph Biden 

3.) Secretary of State (U.S) 

John Kerry

4.) Chief Justice

John Glover Roberts

5.) Speaker of the House

John Boehner

6.) Senate Chair 

Patrick Leahy

7.) Delaware National Congressman 

John Carney 

8.) Delaware National Senator 

Chris Coons

9.) Delaware National Senator 

Tom Carper

10.) Governor of Delaware

Jack Markell

Bill of Rights --Amendment VII

"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

The seventh (VII) Amendment are your Civil Trial Rights. What that means is, if your trial is not a criminal trail- divorce, money etc. you don't need a judge, just a jury. The jury can make all decisions and once the decision is made a judge can't come in and overrule the jury.

The Amendment is important because it protects us from having our rights "abused" by the government. This way we do not go to jail for dumb charges. It also protects us from the government tyranny. Judges are government officials and could find us guilty due to what the prosecutor says, all because the government wanted to be tyrannical (even if you're not guilty).

One news story that links to the seventh amendment is, A black women won a case against her black manager for calling her the "n" word. The women won $280,000 in her civil case. The manager claimed it was out of "love" but the jury obviously decided differently.

Hannah Lewis

John Adams biography

Where is her from?
Where did he grow up and what schools did he attend?
Describe his family.
What is his religion?
How did he become part of the American Revolution?
What did he hope to accomplish as part of the Revolution?


John Adams. Who is he? Adams was a founding father and first Vice President and second President. But lets not start there. Who was John Adams before the revolution?


October 30, 1735 Massachusetts welcomed founding father, John Adams. At age 16, This Unitarian man earned a scholarship to Harvard University. Adams graduated 4 years later, in 1755. But in 1758 earned his Masters Degree. At age 28 soon to be 29 he married his third-cousin, Abigail Smith, they later had six children (Abigail, John, Susanna, Charles, Thomas, and Elizabeth).

Adams was a lawyer in Massachusetts and a supporter of the Revolution. He also was on the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence. Adams He wanted to accomplish freedom for America during the Revolution.

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      You can still tour the famous Adams house -------------->

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