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REQUIRED READINGS: Handout

TERMS, PEOPLE, & PLACES TO IDENTIFY

Where there is a time mark, the answer is provided at the time indicated in the relevant podcast or video. Where there is no time mark indicated, the student should look up in a book or perform an Internet search for the term, person, or place.

  1. Review the Declaration of Independence
  2. Sacred
  3. Hemisphere
  4. Captivating
  5. Thither
  6. Piratical
  7. Opprobrium
  8. Infidel
  9. Prostituted
  10. Suppressing
  11. Prohibit
  12. Execrable
  13. Commerce
  14. Assemblage
  15. Obtruded
  16. Vitriol
  17. Query
  18. Perpetual
  19. Boisterous
  20. Tyrant
  21. Provocation
  22. Recollections
  23. Norm
  24. Hypocrite
  25. Unremitting
  26. Despotism
  27. Imitative
  28. Philanthropy
  29. Intemperance
  30. Odious
  31. Peculiarities
  32. Prodigy
  33. Undepraved
  34. Temperate
  35. Perceptible
  36. Abating
  37. Mollifying
  38. Auspices
  39. Emancipation
  40. Extirpation
  41. Convulsions
  42. Refutation
  43. Sir Isaac Newton
  44. Thomas Jefferson (Review)

STUDY QUESTIONS

  1. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence? (1:20)
  2. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. True or False?
  3. What words in the Declaration of Independence did Thomas Jefferson write that people find problematic or that conflict with the fact that he owned slaves? (1:29)
  4. Should this conflict be ignored? Why? (2:00)
  5. What three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson want to be remembered for? (3:00)
  6. Review the Declaration of Independence and the paragraph from Thomas Jefferson’s Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence.
  7. Regarding the paragraph provided, where in Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence would you find this? (7:00)
  8. When Thomas Jefferson calls King George III ‘piratical’, what does he mean? (9:50)
  9. What is Jefferson refer to? (9:50)
  10. Some colonies in British North America had tried to abolish slavery and the slave trade. True or False? (11:00)
  11. Why did Thomas Jefferson capitalize some words in this paragraph from his rough draft of the Declaration of Independence? (11:30)
  12. At the time that Thomas Jefferson wrote this paragraph from the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, what other titles did King George III hold? (11:50)
  13. Why is Jefferson’s capitalization of the word ‘MEN’ significant in this paragraph? (12:15)
  14. Why is slavery wrong? (13:10)
  15. What did Jefferson think of the slave trade? (14:20 – 16:19)
  16. Did this paragraph from the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence make it into the final Declaration of Independence? Why? (16:30 – 18:35)
  17. Why is this paragraph from the rough draft significant? (18:40 – 20:50)
  18. What is the title of the only book Thomas Jefferson ever wrote? (21:00)
  19. Why did Jefferson write the book? (21:30 – 25:00)
  20. What was the book about? (25:00)
  21. From Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, what is Thomas Jefferson describing? (26:40 – 38:12)
  22. Was slavery the norm at the time Jefferson wrote his book? (26:40 – 38:12)
  23. Summarize Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Henri Gregoire, February, 25, 1809. (39:00)
  24. Based on Jefferson’s letter to Henri Gregoire, did he equate talent or ability (degree of talent) with a slaves natural rights? (41:20)
  25. What passage in his letter highlights this? (41:20)
  26. What example does Jefferson use to demonstrate his point? (42:30 – 44:43)
  27. Summarize Query 14 from Jefferson’s book, Notes on the State of Virginia. (45:00)