THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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Poor Richard’s Almanack
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Join, or Die
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Treaty of Paris
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French and Indian War
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of its earliest practitioners was American founding father Benjamin Franklin who, in 1754, published a cartoon, “Join or Die, ” depicting a snake severed into pieces that symbolized the American colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Join, or Die was a political cartoon and woodcut created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. It was designed to unite the American colonies against the French and their Native allies at the start of the French and Indian War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the outbreak of the French and Indian War, Franklin hoped to persuade the American colonies to unite their governments to protect themselves from the French and their Native American allies under a plan later known as “The Albany Plan, ” which was ultimately rejected.
Detailed explanation-4: -Join or Die, the first political cartoon published in an American newspaper, illustrates Benjamin Franklin’s warning to the British colonies in America “join or die” and exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives.