Preamble
Wrote the preamble.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The rhetorical appeal evidenced in this statement: "For imposing taxes on us without our consent".
What is logos?
The definition of natural rights.
What is a freedom people possess relating to life, liberty, and property?
to formally set up; institute
What is established?
According to the document, the way the British captured colonists to force them to fight against their own people on behalf of Britain.
What is at sea?
The self evident truths are "life, ________ and ___________".
What is liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Jefferson's tone here: "He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy . . . "
What is indignant/angry?
Thomas Jefferson believes governments derive their power from . . .
What is the consent of those it governs?
Effected or affected - the word that correctly completes this sentence: He has effected or affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
What is affected (to cause or influence)?
"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," is an example of . . .
What is the way the colonists tried to resolve the issues with Britain peacefully?
The purpose of the Preamble.
What is it describes the new philosophy of government that Jefferson and the other Founders proposed and also justifies the "necessity" of a revolution?
"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 right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security," is an example of which rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
The declaration stating that the king has refused to pass laws that are for the good of the people is an example of . . .
What is a grievance?
to grant or endow
What is invest?
The way the declaration tried to ensure that one body of government didn't have too much control.
The He in "He has refused assent . . ."
Who is the King of Great Britain, King George III?
Rhetorical device used here: "We have reminded . . . we have appealed . . . we have conjured"
What is parallelism?
Jefferson's complaint about taxes.
What is imposed on the colonists without consent?
To relinquish or cede responsibility for.
What is abdicate?
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with ___________, his invasions on the rights of the people.
What is "manly firmness"?
"He has refused to pass laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless these people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature- a right inestimable to then, and formidable to tyrants only," is an example of this.
What is a grievance?
Rhetorical device used here: "He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governs to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance . . . he has called together . . "
What is parallelism?
What is inflict further harm on them.
Use the correct vocabulary word to finish the sentence: "He has ____________ government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us."
What is abdicated?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Congress made changes to Jefferson's _______________, but it did not touch his ____________, which became a lasting statement.
What is made changes to his grievances, but not declaration of rights.