Join or Die

Benjamin Franklin questions:

1. Benjamin Franklin believed that the French were going see victory, because they acted with an extreme confidence and their enemies did not. The British citizens were cowards and let what happen to other people terrify them. Before they French even had a chance to defend themselves and fight, the British began to flee and abandoned their farms and plantations. Most of the citizens left to go find places were they felt were more safe. Benjamin Franklin predicted the French victory by looking at the obvious. You clearly you can't win a war without confidence which was something that the British did not have.

2. The French and Indian acted with extreme actions towards the British. The French showed no mercy, they acted with violence when trying to murder the farmers along with their wife and children, and also obtain parts of the Britain territory. Seeing as Britain's strong point was their government, the French wanted to take attack that first so the rest would seem nothing less than a cakewalk. In order to take down the British government, the French planned to violate the most Saloom treaties between the two crowns. Also they planned to kill, take, and imprison the British traders.

Cartoon Questions:

1.The Join or Die cartoon was created originally to bring the idea of what politics were to The Pennsylvania Gazette readers.

2. The Join or Die cartoon that was created was extremely symbolic, everything put into the cartoon meant something in a certain way. The animal in the cartoon was a snake which was put their in order to represent the slender size of the colony in 1754. The eight different sections of the snake is to represent the eight different colonies at the time. Each colony was placed on the snake as though it would be placed on a map.

3. The snake that's illustrated on the cartoon is cut into eight different sections. They were put into different sections depending upon which colonies were divided by war. The eight colonies that were in war at that certain time were the colonies that were put into the cartoon.

4. The cartoon was also used as a header for many newspapers during that time period. Seeing as it was the 1700's, it was obvious that copyright were non-existent. Therefor this cartoon was copied and used in many newspapers throughout all of the colonies.

Franklin Cartoon Questions:

1. In this cartoon, Franklin is attempting to express the separation of the colonies along with his opinion on the separation. It's clear that Franklin think's the colonies are not going to be successful, and remain in one piece like the "amazing british" will.

2. Franklin's message "that the Colonies may be ruined, but that Britain would thereby be maimed" did not really turn out to be true. Britain did remain togather, however the colonies did aswell. They eventually evolved into states which still remain intack today.