Declaration of independence vocabulary supplement quiz

Prudence

the ability to govern and discipline by the use of reason, marked by wisdom

Usurpation

the act of seizing and golding by force or without right

Insurrection

the act or an instance of revolting esp. Violently against civil or political authority or against and established government, also; the crime of inciting or engaging in such revolt

Commerce

the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale; social dealings between people

Naturalization

the legal act or process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country. It may be done automatically by a statute, i.e., without any effort on the part of the individual, or it may involve an application or a motion and approval by law authorities.

treason

the offense of attempting by overt acts to over throw the government of a state to which one owes allegiance or to bring its defeat in war by act of betrayal

Jurisdiction

the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice, as defined by the kind of case, and the location of the issue. The offical power to make legal decisions and judgments.

levy

a compulsory financial charge ( tax or tariff ) imposed on a taxpayer by a government organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures. A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistances to taxation, is punishable by law. ( adapted from Wikipedia ) The enlistment or conscription of men for military service

usurpations

a design to reduce them under absolute ____________________, it is their right, it is their duty, to over throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Perfidy

a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed.

Multitude

a large number, a great number of people gathered together

Arbitary

the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". It also used to refer to a choice mde without any specific critertion or restaint. ( Wikipedia )

Annihilation

the state or fact of being completely destroyed or obliterated.

Magnanimity

the virtue of being great of mind and heart. it encompasses, usually, a refusal to be petty, a willigness to face danger, and actions for noble purposes

Evince

to be evidence of or display clearly

Abolish

to do away with or put an end to

Disposed

to give tendency to, or be inclined to settle

Petition

to make a request to or for, to make a formal written request

Derived/deriving

to receive or obtain from a source

absolved

to set free from an obligation or from the consequences of guilt

Redress

to set right, to make amends, compensation for wrong or loss

Institute

to set up or to get going

impel

to urge or drive forward or into action

Candid

truthful and straightforward; frank

Endeavored

try hard to do or achieve something

Tyrant

a ruler who exercises absolute ( unlimited power ) in an oppressive or brutal manner

Sufferance

a type of patience, especially the patience to endure pain and suffering; a quality possed by people who endure such pains patiently and without complaining.

Convulsion

a violent social or political upheaval

Grievances

a wrong or hardship suffered, real or supposed, which forms legitimate grounds of complaint. In the past, the word meant the lifiction or cause of hardship

Prudence

and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that manking are more disposed to sffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and ______________ pursuing invariablu the same Object evinces

levy

and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to ______________ War, conclude peace, conteact Alliances, established Commerce,and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do."

disavow

deny any responsibility or support for

hath

in the past, the third person singular form of the present tense of "have"

Formidable

inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable

Province

is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term is derived from the ancient Rome

consanguinity

is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person

Translent

lasting only for a short time

allegiance

loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or an individual to group or cause

Rectitude

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness

unalienable

not capable of being taken away, given up or transferred

Obstructed

prevent or hinder ( movement or someone or something in motion ); deliberately make ( something ) difficult

Despotism

ruled by a ruler with absolute power exercising his/her power abusively, oppressively or tyrannously

Kindred

similar in kind; related

Mercenaries

sometimes knownn as a soldier or fortune, is individual who takes part in millitary. They fight for money or forms of pament rather than for political interest

Mercenaries

"He is at the time transporting large Armies of foreign __________________ to complete the work of death, desolation and tyanny, already begun with cricumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized natiom"

Acquiesce

Accept something reluctantly but without protest

Oppression

Malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. It may be overt or covert, depending on how it is practiced.

endow

Provide with a quality, ability, or asset; give or bequeath and income or property to ( a person or institution )

transient

Pudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not change for light and _____________ causes;

Absolved

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are _____________ from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved;

Deriving

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ____________ their just powers from the consent of the governed,

Abolish

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or to ___________ it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness, "

Endowed

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. that they are ____________ by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.