Handout B: Vocabulary and Context Questions – John Adams (1735-1826)
VOCABULARY AND CONTEXT QUESTIONS
John Adams’s Letters to Abigail Adams, 1776
- Vocabulary: Use context clues to determine the meaning or significance of each of these words and write their definitions:
- dissenting
- impelled
- hitherto
- commencement
- controversy
- recollect
- folly
- sundered
- calamities
- affliction
- venality
- apprehensions
- Providence
- epoch
- Context: Answer the following questions.
- Who wrote these documents?
- When were these documents written?
- Who is the audience of these documents?
- Why were these documents written?