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Handout B: Vocabulary and Context Questions – John Dickinson (1732-1808)

VOCABULARY AND CONTEXT QUESTIONS

Excerpts from Letter 2 of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)

  1. Vocabulary: Use context clues to determine the meaning or significance of each of these words and write their definitions:
    1. provinces
    2. preside
    3. lodged
    4. calculated
    5. mutually
    6. intercourse
    7. constituent
    8. injurious
    9. revenue
    10. exerted
    11. levying
    12. innovation
    13. abject
  2. Context: Answer the following questions.
    1. Who wrote this document?
    2. When was this document written?
    3. What type of document is this?
    4. Who was the audience for this document?