1. What does each segment of the snake represent?

2. What does the order of the segments illustrate?

3. What does the entire snake represent?

4. What does the caption mean?

5. Which statement best describes the message of the political cartoon?

a. To kill a snake, you must cut it up

b. The colonies must unite together to be strong or they will perish

c. If a snake grows back together, the colonies will be strong

 

"No Taxation without Representation"

1. What are the people protesting?

2. Who do the dolls hanging from the trees represent?

3. How did the colonists protest the tax?

4. What does the sign "The Folly of England and the Ruin of America" mean?

5. What is meant by "NO taxation without representation"?

 

1. What does "repeal" mean?

2. Who is the funeral for?

3. What does the coffin represent?

4. Why do they depict it as a child’s coffin?

5. How can you tell this is in England?

6. Why are the warehouses empty along the Thames River?

7. Why are there ships in the harbor?

8. Why are the British so full of grief and despair?

9. Why did the British need the colonies?

10. Who does the dog represent?

11. Explain the actions of the dog.

 

                1. What does "propaganda" mean?

2. How did Paul Revere stir up anti-British sentiment among his fellow colonists?

3. Why isn’t this a true depiction of what happened?

4. Why did Revere misrepresent what happened?

                5. Why is this considered a milestone in America's road to independence?

1. What does "boycott" mean?

2. What event is taking place on the ships in the background?

3. Why are they doing this?

4. Who is being tarred and feathered?

5. What are they pouring into his mouth?

6. Who are the people committing the act?

7. What does "Liberty Tree" mean?

8. Who do they want liberty from?

9. Why is the "Stamp Act" turned upside down on the tree?

 

1. Why did the colonists call the new Acts "intolerable"?

2. Why would some colonist want to refuse to sign the pledge not to sell tobacco to England?

3. What would happen to them if they didn’t sign? (What is hanging from the gallows?)

 

1. Who were the Minutemen and how did they get that name?

2. Where were the first shots fired that began the American Revolution?

3. Why did the British send troops to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts?

4. Why did the British lose so many more men than the Americans?

5. What did Patrick Henry mean when he said, give me liberty, or give me death!

 

CRITICAL THINKING

Answer the following questions by giving examples from the information and political cartoons above.

1. How did people get the news during the Revolutionary Period?

2. Was the information always accurate or biased? Cite an example.

3. How were political cartoons used to stir up anti-British sentiment among the colonists?

4. What did the colonists do to show their displeasure with England's actions?

5. What were some of the causes that made the colonist go to war with England?

6. What have you learned about how the colonist thought about England's actions by viewing the political cartoons?

7. What do Americans do today to show they do not agree with their government's actions?

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