2. Colonial Cartoons
“The Colonies Reduced.” This 1767 engraving, published in Great Britain and attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warned of the consequences of alienating the colonies through enforcement of the Stamp Act.
Belisarius: a successful soldier with many glorious victories, who became so poor in his old age that he had to beg at the side of the road
Source: The Colonies Reduced. Design’d and Engrav’d for the Political Register, Library of Congress.

4. Colonial Cartoons
English Lord severs the neck of the goose that laid the golden egg. (America)
Symbolizes the inflammatory measures taken against the colonies.
Britain: sleeping lion
Map of North America and dog lifting a leg over it.

5. Colonial Cartoons

6. Colonial Cartoons
This political cartoon by Ben Franklin was originally written for the French and Indian war, but was later recycled to persuade the people of different colonies to join together against the British.