Mr. Rowe’s Museum

1. Founding Fathers and Mothers of the United States Mr. Rowe’s Museum

2. Welcome to Mr. Rowe’s Museum A Legacy of Documents Founding Mothers Founding Fathers Mr. Rowe’s Office YOUR Room

3. Brad Rowe - Museum Co-Creator I once served under General George Washington at the Battle of Trenton. Later on, I helped James Madison write the Constitution, finally convincing him to include a Bill of Rights (what a stubborn guy!). Finally, in later life, I found my calling as a showgirl on a Mississippi River riverboat. No one could sing “Shenandoah” to the poker boys like I could. Contact me at: browe@lyon.k12.nv.us Return to Exhibit

4. Founding Fathers Museum Entrance

5. Foudning Mothers Museum Entrance

6. THE MONKEY ROOM Artifact 4.2 Artifact 4.1 Artifact 4.4 Artifact 4.3 Museum Entrance

7. Articles of Confederation Articles of Confederation asdf Image acquired at: http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/flash/assets/asset_upload_file755_11927.jpg Return to Exhibit

8. The Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence asdf Image acquired at: http://questionitnow.com/iraqb/uploaded_images/QuestionitNow-Declaration_of_Independence-756793.jpg Return to Exhibit

9. The Great Seal of the United States The Great Seal asdf Image acquired at: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=5# Return to Exhibit

10. The United States Constitution The United States Constitution asdf Insert the artifact here. Image acquired at: http://www.granitegrok.com/pix/Constitution.jpg Return to Exhibit

11. The Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance asdf Image acquired at: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=8 Return to Exhibit

12. Eli Whitney       Eli Whitney is best known as the inventor of the cotton gin, a machine that changed cotton growing in the South. Less famous but just as important are the improvements Whitney made in the way products are manufactured. Eli Whitney's inventive ideas affected United States history in a way that he might never have imagined. Before the end of 1793, Eli Whitney had built a machine called the cotton gin that solved their problem. Soon, Whitney and Miller went into business together, and news of their new machine spread quickly. Because it allowed farmers to clean raw cotton for market far more quickly than before, the cotton gin made cotton a money-making crop. By 1798, Eli Whitney was at work on his second big discovery. He created a faster and less expensive way to manufacture goods—in this case, guns for the United States government. For many years, products such as muskets, a kind of gun, were made one at a time. Talented craftspeople worked slowly to produce each item by hand. As a result, the products were expensive and hard to get. Because each product was different from any other, goods like muskets were also difficult to repair. If a musket broke, replacement parts to fix it usually had to be made by hand. To solve this problem, Eli Whitney came up with the idea of mass production. This made it possible to produce well-made guns more quickly and for less money, which helped the colonists during the Revolution. Image acquired at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Eli_Whitney_gravure.jpg Return to Exhibit

13. Washington Irving Irving had many interests including writing, architecture and landscape design, traveling, and diplomacy. He is best known, however, as the first American to make a living solely from writing. Initially, he wrote under pen names;  one was "Diedrich Knickerbocker." In 1809, using this pen name, Irving wrote A History of New-York that describes and pokes fun at the lives of the early Dutch settlers of  Manhattan. Eventually, this pen name came to mean a person from New York. Published in 1819 under another pen name, "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent," The Sketch-Book includes the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and  Rip Van Winkle.  The fictional Sleepy Hollow is actually the lower Hudson Valley area near Tarrytown, N.Y., and Rip Van Winkle sleeps through the entire Revolutionary War in the Catskill mountains of  upstate New York. Irving never married or had children. On November 28, 1859, on the eve of the Civil War, Washington Irving died at Sunnyside surrounded by his family. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Image acquired at: http://www.fcahomeschool.com/samplelessons/biowashingtonirving_files/image002.jpg Return to Exhibit

14. George Washington Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, . Image acquired at: http://www.fightthebias.com/people/George_Washington/George_Washington.htm Return to Exhibit

15. Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was a hero of Colonial America and a man of amazing talents. His achievements are too varied to sum up easily; they include signing the Declaration of Independence, publishing the famous Poor Richard's Almanack, serving as postmaster of Philadelphia, founding the first American fire insurance company, living in Paris as American ambassador to France, and inventing useful objects like the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, and bifocal glasses. Franklin was born in Boston but at age 17 moved to Philadelphia, where he worked as a printer, wrote pamphlets on public issues, and eventually bought The Pennsylvania Gazette. By 1732 he was publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, a blend of practical information, humor, and homilies like "A penny saved is a penny earned." He grew into Philadelphia's most famous citizen: a blend of businessman, inventor, philosopher, public planner, and civic cheerleader. He helped negotiate and write the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, and in 1787 he signed the new U.S. Constitution. During all these years he never lost his interest in science, and in particular spent years studying electricity. Image & Text acquired at: http://hearthepeople.org/images/young-ben_franklin.jpg Return to Exhibit

16. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson wished to be remembered for three achievements in his public life. He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice-president in the administration of John Adams, and as president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. On his tombstone, however, which he designed and for which he wrote the inscription, there is no mention of these offices. Rather, it reads that Thomas Jefferson was "author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia" and, as he requested, "not a word more.“ The University of Virginia was the last of three contributions by which Jefferson wished to be remembered; they constituted a trilogy of interrelated causes: freedom from Britain, freedom of conscience, and freedom maintained through education. On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson died at Monticello. Image & Text acquired at: http://www.wise.virginia.edu/college_relations/images/jefferson_statue.jpg Return to Exhibit

17. Benjamin West One of the first American artists to win a wide reputation in Europe, Benjamin West exerted considerable influence on the development of art in the United States through such young American painters as Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and John Singleton Copley. West painted historical and religious subjects on huge canvases. Among his famous works are Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768); The Death of General Wolfe (1771), the controversial painting in which he broke away from classical costumes; Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1772); and Death on a Pale Horse (1817), which anticipated developments in French romantic painting. Modern critics regard West's figures as somewhat stiff, his colors harsh, and his themes uninspired, but they respect his leadership and influence on later artists. West died on March 11, 1820, in London. Image acquired at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Benjamin_West_by_Gilbert_Stuart_1783-84.jpg/471px-Benjamin_West_by_Gilbert_Stuart_1783-84.jpg Return to Exhibit

18. Mercy Otis Warren Mercy Otis Warren was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where she lived until 1754, when she married James Warren and moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts. There, Mercy Otis Warren found herself at the center of a lively Patriot family: both her husband and her brother James Otis took active parts in Massachusetts politics, and the Warren home became a common meeting place for revolutionaries. She also participated in the Patriot cause, beginning with the 1772 publication of her play The Adulateur, the first in a long line of similar propagandistic pieces published anonymously. She developed friendships with Abigail and John Adams at this time and corresponded with both throughout her life. Warren continued to write and publish after the war, issuing a volume of poetry under her own name in 1790 and in 1805 publishing her three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. Image & Text acquired at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Mercy_Otis_Warren.jpg/250px-Mercy_Otis_Warren.jpg Return to Exhibit

19. Dolley Madison • Dolley's social graces made her famous. Her political acumen, prized by her husband, is less renowned, though her gracious tact smoothed many a quarrel. Hostile statesmen, difficult envoys from Spain or Tunisia, warrior chiefs from the west, flustered youngsters--she always welcomed everyone. Forced to flee from the White House by a British army during the War of 1812, she returned to find the mansion in ruins. Undaunted by temporary quarters, she entertained as skillfully as ever. • Blessed with a desire to please and a willingness to be pleased, Dolley made her home the center of society when Madison began, in 1801, his eight years as Jefferson's Secretary of State. She assisted at the White House when the President asked her help in receiving ladies, and presided at the first inaugural ball in Washington when her husband became Chief Executive in 1809. Image acquired at: http://teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/dolley/port1b.jpg Return to Exhibit

20. Phyllis Wheatley • ACCOMPLISHMENTS: During her life, while it was not common for American women to be published, it was especially uncommon for children of slaves to be educated at all.  Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary;  they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin." Her elegy on a popular evangelical Methodist minister, George Whitefield, brought her instant success upon his death. • She also was well versed in Latin which allowed her to write in the epyllion (short epic) style with the publication of "Niobe in Distress." • Phillis' popularity as a poet both in the United States and England ultimately brought her freedom from slavery on October 18, 1773.   She even appeared before General Washington in March, 1776 for her poetry and  was a strong supporter of independence during the Revolutionary War.  She felt slavery to be the issue which separated whites from true heroism: whites can not "hope to find/Deivine acceptance with th' Almighty mind" when "they disgrace/And hold in bondage Afric's blameless race.“ • Phyllis is remembered for many first time accomplishments from a woman of her day:  • First African American to publish a book • An accomplished African American woman of letters • First African American woman to earn a living from her writing Image & Text acquired at: http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/whea-phi.htm Return to Exhibit

21. Abigail Adams Like other women of the time, Abigail lacked formal education; but her curiosity spurred her keen intelligence, and she read avidly the books at hand. Reading created a bond between her and young John Adams, Harvard graduate launched on a career in law, and they were married in 1764. It was a marriage of the mind and of the heart, enduring for more than half a century, enriched by time. Long separations kept Abigail from her husband while he served the country they loved, as delegate to the Continental Congress, envoy abroad, elected officer under the Constitution. Her letters--pungent, witty, and vivid, spelled just as she spoke--detail her life in times of revolution. They tell the story of the woman who stayed at home to struggle with wartime shortages and inflation; to run the farm with a minimum of help; to teach four children when formal education was interrupted. Most of all, they tell of her loneliness without her "dearest Friend." The "one single expression," she said, "dwelt upon my mind and played about my Heart.... When John Adams was elected President, she continued a formal pattern of entertaining--even in the primitive conditions she found at the new capital in November 1800. She leaves her country a most remarkable record as patriot and First Lady, wife of one President and mother of another. Image & Text acquired at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/abigailadams/ Return to Exhibit

22. Eliza Pinckney At 16, Eliza Lucas Pinckney managed three South Carolina plantations; she transformed the colonial economy with her hybridization of indigo, increasing its production by 2,500% in just two years. Perhaps the nation’s first important agriculturist, Eliza Lucas ran three South Carolina plantations at sixteen. Born in the West Indies in 1722, she assumed responsibility for her siblings at an early age because her mother died soon after the family moved to the farming area near Charleston. When her father, an officer in the British military, had to return to the Caribbean, Eliza was left in charge. She had the advantages of Finishing School in England, however, and though that education stressed French, music, and other traditionally feminine subjects, she was particularly interested in botany. The exceptional educations she had given her sons paid off, as they went on to play major roles in the American Revolution and the establishment of a new government. Her contemporaries held Eliza Pinckney in such esteem that George Washington—the nation’s president at the time—served as one of her pallbearers. Image & Text acquired at: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nwhm.org/youngandbrave/pinckney.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pumapac.org/2008/11/16/re-writing-history/&usg=__6WRgdpCa0qev2vCkvtrT7KnSrrA=&h=450&w=313&sz=23&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=y_jbawK5vfmu0M:&tbnh=127&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Deliza%2Bpinckney%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den Return to Exhibit

23. Martha Washington • From the day Martha married George Washington in 1759, her great concern was the comfort and happiness of her husband and children. When his career led him to the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War and finally to the Presidency, she followed him bravely. Her love of private life equaled her husband's; but, as she wrote to her friend Mercy Otis Warren, "I cannot blame him for having acted according to his ideas of duty in obeying the voice of his country." As for herself, "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." • At the President's House in temporary capitals, New York and Philadelphia, the Washingtons chose to entertain in formal style, deliberately emphasizing the new republic's wish to be accepted as the equal of the established governments of Europe. Still, Martha's warm hospitality made her guests feel welcome and put strangers at ease. She took little satisfaction in " formal compliments and empty ceremonies" and declared that "I am fond of only what comes from the heart." Abigail Adams, who sat at her right during parties and receptions, praised her as "one of those unassuming characters which create Love and Esteem." • As a girl of 18--about five feet tall, dark-haired, gentle of manner--she married the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. Two babies died; two were hardly past infancy when her husband died in 1757. Image acquired at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/02/ST2009020201419.html Return to Exhibit

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