Conversations on Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry

Fifth grade students from Brookneal Elementary School have taken up the challenge to learn more about these two extraordinary men. The students will inquire into their early life and career as lawyers, how they became acquainted with one another, their reactions to the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party, Henry’s “give me liberty, or give me death” speech, their role as war time Governors, their issues and concerns once independence was won, and what they see as the future of the 13 United States of America.