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Thomas Ouellette
Sean Scott says. Rather than focusing specifically on the Declaration of Independence with the grant, he'll highlight the documents impact on President Abraham Lincoln. He says the $5,000 award will allow him to fully fund field trips to multiple sites of historical importance to Lincoln, including the Presidential Library and Lincoln's burial site. In Springfield, Illinois.

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Sean Scott
The declaration is really significant in just shaping him, influencing his ideas of what good government look like and what the ideals that the United States stood for. Why, you know, he had to wage war, to, to keep those ideals in the forefront of people's mind.

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Thomas Ouellette
Scott says the end goal of the project is for students to be able to present in a museum style about Lincoln's life, at times when the Declaration of Independence was at the forefront of his mind. Students will take the field trip to Illinois later this spring. I'm Thomas Ouellette