All About the Benjamin's
Freedom or Death
T-Paine
Break up Letter
Phillis
100
This is one of the main themes of Franklin's work.
What is industry, thrift, or wealth/success?
100
This is the attitude that Henry takes at the beginning of the speech toward those in the Convention who oppose his position.
What is respectful?
100
This is the crisis in "The Crisis No.1".
What is Britain's unfair treatment and taxation of the colonies?
100
According to Jefferson, who is primarily responsible for the wrongs and injustices the American colonists were experiencing in the 1770s?
Who is King George III?
100
Mrs. Wheatley named Phillis after ____
What is the name of the ship that brought the child to America.
200
Franklin is generally credited with founding this school.
What is University of Pennsylvania?
200
This is a kind of question that does not required an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
Paine says that the colonists are being favored by _____.
Who is God?
200
What is a literary technique present in The Declaration of Independence?
What is parallelism?
200
In "To His Excellency..." Wheatley makes use of this literary device
What are allusions?
300
This is the profession that Franklin's father originally intend for him to pursue?
What is clergy?
300
This is the main purpose of Henry's speech?
What is to persuade his fellow leaders of Virginia to fight against the British?
300
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my _______”
What is child may have peace?
300
Jefferson’s claims about natural rights—the idea that “all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” are presented in the Declaration as
common sense and universally agreeable
300
This is the purpose of Wheatley's "To His Excellency...".
What is to inspire the reader to take up the Americans cause for freedom from the British
400
This is the virtue that gave Franklin the most trouble?
What is Order?
400
Throughout the speech Henry insists that Americans who trust Britain deceive themselves. Cite several metaphors for deception and illusion that appear in the text.
What is betrayed with a kiss, hearing the clang of the chains in the bay?
400
Paine asserts that the colonists have special favor because ______.
What is because they have tried so hard to avoid war with the British?
400
Why does Jefferson not blame the British people?
What is to not burn ties and relationships with the British family and friends?
400
What kind style does Wheatley use in this poem?
What is ornate/sophisticated?
500
Explain the story of the specked-ax. What was the point Franklin was making?
And I believe this may have been the case with many who, having, for want of some such means as I employed, found the difficulty of obtaining good and breaking bad habits in other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle, and concluded that a speckled ax was best
500
This is one of the most persuasive reasons as to why the colonies need to fight.
What is because the war is already here!
500
This is what Paine implies about those people who do not act.
What is they are cowardly?
500
Name a grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence. .
What is dissolution of colonial legislative bodies, imposition of taxes without representation, inciting Native American warfare, etc
500
Who or what is "Columbia"?
She is the goddess used to personify America.
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