Ap U.S help

[sowstochd]

i've been staring at this political cartoon for the last half an hour, i have to analyze it for tomorrow, and i have no idea what it means, and yes i've googled it and haven't gotten ANYTHING. It's called the American Rattlesnake. does anyone remember/know wtf its point is? ++++ karma

 

[samwise]

What are you studying right now?

 

[sowstochd]

events leading up to the revolution/beginning of the revolution

 

[603skier]

i remember seeing this in us history, flipping though the book.

 

[martin.]

well it probably has something to do with Benjamin Franklin's cartoon, the one with all the states as a broken snake type deal?

idk maybe we're united so dont fuck with us?

 

[Rooddss]

this should explain it..post again if it doesnt haha

Published when peace negotiations had

begun, this etching suggests the futility of further British

efforts to suppress forcibly the Americans. The American

rattlesnake boasts: "Two British Armies I have thus Burgoyn'd,

And room for more I've got behind." A sign is posted over

a vacant third coil:"An Apartment to Lett for Military

Gentlemen."

 

[sowstochd]

bump

 

[Piste.Off]

Ben Franklin's cartoon showed a snake cut into pieces representating how the original Colonies were splitting up. I have never seen this cartoon before but it may be about how the Colonies were together before the Civil War. I dunno, just a thought.