THE LIBERTY BELL

WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR

• Freedom
• The end of slavery

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

• The bell is 3 feet long
• It's made out of copper and other metals
• Weighs 2,080 pounds
• Long crack in the front
• It has a wooden yoke that it hangs from

WHERE IS IT?

• In Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WHO MADE IT?

• First made by England in 1752 for State House
• It cracked the first time it was rung
• Then John Pass and John Stow remade it in 1753

HOW WASE IT MADE.

• First a mold was made
• Cast in a hole in the ground
• Liquid metal is poured into the mold
• The colonists had to order it from England because no one in the could make a big bell

HAS IT BEEN RUNG

• Yes because it cracked,they fixed it and it craclced again now they tap it with a rubber hammer on Independena day

HOW WAS It CRACKED?

• 1st in 1752 when rang
• Remade it