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Read the excerpts from historical documents. From the Declaration of Independence: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. From the Declaration of Sentiments: After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single, and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. How are these excerpts similar? |
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. Which words in the excerpt have negative connotations? Check all that apply. |
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Read the sentence. Kev’s keen insights and ________ comments impressed the judges throughout the debate. Which word completes the sentence with the most positive connotations? |
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. How does Stanton use pathos as a rhetorical appeal? |
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments. He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. Which statement best describes the relationship between Stanton’s diction and her purpose? |
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Read the excerpts from historical documents. From the Declaration of Independence: We . . . solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved . . . From the Declaration of Sentiments: . . . we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States. How are these excerpts similar? |
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. What ideas are associated with the words justice, magnanimity, and correspondence? |
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Read the excerpts from historical documents. From the Declaration of Independence: . . . all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. From the Declaration of Sentiments: . . . all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed. Why do Jefferson and Stanton include these similar excerpts in their documents? |
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Read the excerpts from historical documents. From the Declaration of Independence: . . . That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. From the Declaration of Sentiments: Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Why do Jefferson and Stanton include these similar excerpts in their documents? |
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners. What ideas are associated with the words compelled and withheld? |
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