"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.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Something that is passed down from one person to another.

• persuade

• inheritance

• divine

• scorn

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.RI.9-10.4