Propaganda's Role In The Revolutionary War

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Propaganda People have drawn many cartoons, paintings and more to describe events that happened to the colonies and Great Britain, but how do each of these pictures show how propaganda influence American colonists to join the war effort? First, I looked at a picture called “United or Die Patriot Propaganda.” It shows a snake that is in many sections. “Join, or Die is a political cartoon, drawn by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754” (Wikipedia). This shows that Benjamin Franklin, a patriot wanted the colonies to see that if the colonies all join together they can all fight Britain but alone they will die. This also shows that if they don’t come together individually there are useless but if they do come …show more content…

The second cartoon I viewed was “Boston Massacre Colonist Propaganda.” The picture has 4 red coffins with skulls on each of them. “Several pieces of propaganda depicted the event as a massacre, a violent attack by a trained military on unarmed civilians. The most successful of these was this poster by Paul Revere” (Study). This shows that Paul Revere, a patriot, made this cartoon to show that the Britons killed 5 innocent people without being ordered to fire. But why are there only 4 coffines? Well, because the 5th person killed, Patrick Carr, his body was attended to on Saturday, while the others were attended to on monday. So Patrick’s body was attended to 6 day after the other 4 people were killed. So Patrick was put by the fame grave because he had to do deal with the hands of violence. This influences Americans to join the war because in the picture “Boston Massacre Colonist” it shows people want to fight in the war and win for the 5 innocent lives that were taken. The third and final article I looked at was “Boston Tea Party.” It shows Native Americans dumping crates of tea over the side of a boat. “The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on

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