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George Washington | strong leadership skills earned him the title "Father of our Country" |
George Mason | wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights |
Thomas Jefferson | authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom |
James Madison | strong note-taking and compromising skills earned him the title "Father of the Constitution" |
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | served as the basis for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution |
Virginia Declaration of Rights | served as the basis for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution |
Virginians migrated west and south looking for | new farmland and new opportunities |
The Cumberland Gap | was a passageway through the Appalachian Mountains as people moved West |