WHERE FREEDOM SPEAKS: Sample Lessons and Worksheets

Levels 2, 3

Part I

Using the pictures and drawing below, list the correct order in which the U.S. Capitol was constructed from 1793 to 1865.  Select from labeled sections on the drawn building below.  Start with the part finished in 1800 and go from there.

List the order in which the U.S. Capitol was built:

1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____

East Front - Box-like Wing of the old Capitol, first to be completed, served Senate, House and Supreme Court.	West Front - The tinted section in the sketch depicts the House wing occupied in 1807.
West Front - Bullfinch's Dome and central addition gave Congress's home this look from 1825 to 1856.  City planner L'Enfant called its hill site "a pedestal waiting for a monument."	East Front - Dome and Wings added to the Capitol in the 1850's and 1860's brought the structure to the form so familiar today.

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