"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" - 1/22

Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice in the Declaration of Independence offered to us?

In this sentence, principles mean:

• racism

• a personal basis of conduct or management

• inheritance

• treason

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Something that is passed down from one person to another.

• persuade

• inheritance

• divine

• scorn

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To forget them, to ignore the wrongs they suffer would be treason to them.

In this sentence, treason means:

• a betrayal of trust

• rival

• savages

• auction

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

In the sentence, solemnly means:

• erect

• scorching

• in a serious manner

• denounced

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I dare to question and to condemn everything that serves to uphold slavery.

In the sentence, uphold means:

• withering

• shameless

• unbearable

• to support

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

But some of my audience may say that you and your brother Abolitionists fail to make a good impression.

In the sentence, abolitionists mean:

• a person who wanted to end slavery

• someone who wanted slavery to continue

• a person who likes toast

• someone who likes to go to church

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being?

In the sentence, moral means:

• auction

• rules of right and wrong

• reigns

• sermons

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race.

In the sentence, affirm means:

• fraud

• contempt

• to support

• exposed

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

We have among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers.

In the sentence, orators means:

• public speakers

• rebuke

• hideous

• clerks

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Do you want me to make the argument that man deserves liberty?

In the sentence, liberty means:

• hymns

• canopy

• injustice

• freedom

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4