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Handout B: Vocabulary and Context Questions – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

VOCABULARY AND CONTEXT QUESTIONS

Excerpts from the Albany Plan of Union (1754) and the United States Constitution (1788)

  1. Vocabulary: Use context clues to determine the meaning or significance of each of these words and write their definitions:
    1. tranquility
    2. posterity
    3. ordain
    4. delegated
    5. respective
    6. vested
    7. assent
    8. requisite
    9. originated
    10. approbation
    11. concur
    12. consent
    13. consuls
    14. levy
    15. duties
    16. imposts
    17. excises
  2. Context: Answer the following questions.
    1. When was this document written?
    2. Where was this document written?
    3. Who wrote this document?
    4. What type of document is this?
    5. What was the purpose of this document?
    6. Who was the audience for this document?