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?