The voice of a new nation: mastery test
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select the correct text in the passage.
which words in this excerpt from the declaration of independence are emotionally charged?
nor have we been wanting in attentions to our british brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. we have
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these
usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. we must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind,
enemies in war, in peace friends.
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