Benjamin Franklin Published in His Pennsylvania Gazette His Most Famous

question 81

Multiple Choice

Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

• A) promoted the idea that America, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would be cut apart and die.
• B) promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die.
• C) argued that the British would cut apart the French (like the snake) once the Albany Plan was accepted.
• D) implied that the French was like the snake, waiting to be cut apart by the Albany Plan.
• E) promoted the idea that the French, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would join forces with the British and be united, unlike the disjointed snake.

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