Question

The following item has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.

Part A
What is the central idea of the selection?
A. Not all colonists supported the French and Indian War.
B. The “Join, or Die” cartoon did not feature all of the colonies.
C. The colonists were angry about the Stamp Act of 1765.
D. Franklin designed his cartoon to encourage unity among the colonies.

Part B
Click on the highlighted text that best supports the answer to Part A.

2 Franklin published the cartoon at the beginning of the French and Indian War. France competed with Britain over North American land. Hostilities had broken out between the countries. Some colonists opposed war with the French, unselected Press enter to select this hot-text choicebut Franklin thought they needed to unite unselected Press enter to select this hot-text choice. In the editorial that accompanied the cartoon, Franklin warned that the “disunited state” of the colonies would allow the French and their Native American allies to take the colonists' territory and ruin their trade.
3 The image can be viewed as a kind of map. The colonies are listed in geographical order from north to south, although Georgia and Delaware do not appear unselected Press enter to select this hot-text choiceand all of the New England colonies are combined.
4 The image of the disjointed snake became popular again during the protests over the Stamp Act of 1765 unselected Press enter to select this hot-text choice. Britain’s Parliament passed the act to impose a ax on the American colonists. However, colonists had no elected representatives in Britain’s Parliament. The idea of taxation without representation seemed an affront to their liberty. Some newspapers added the cartoon to their masthead in 1774, before the Revolution.

Answer 1

Part A: D

Part B: "but Franklin thought they needed to unite"