Handout B: Vocabulary and Context Questions – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

VOCABULARY AND CONTEXT QUESTIONS

Excerpts from the Albany Plan of Union (1754) and the United States Constitution (1788)

1. Vocabulary: Use context clues to determine the meaning or significance of each of these words and write their definitions:
   1. tranquility
   2. posterity
   3. ordain
   4. delegated
   5. respective
   6. vested
   7. assent
   8. requisite
   9. originated
   10. approbation
   11. concur
   12. consent
   13. consuls
   14. levy
   15. duties
   16. imposts
   17. excises
2. Context: Answer the following questions.
   1. When was this document written?
   2. Where was this document written?
   3. Who wrote this document?
   4. What type of document is this?
   5. What was the purpose of this document?
   6. Who was the audience for this document?