the banner of join or die , a snake was chopped into 8 sections, and they were marked as 8 British colonies in the order along the coast:
NE for New England, including
Delaware,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
Rhode Island , and Rhode Island. Rhode Island
other
NY for New York New York,
NJ for New Jersey New Jersey
P. for Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
M. for Maryland Maryland
V. for Virginia Virginia
NC for North Carolina North Carolina
SC for South Carolina South Carolina
this count only 13 in North America and traditions The British colonies are consistent.
This picture was painted by Franklin and was first published on Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.
2. Don't Tread on Me
An entrenched rattlesnake is attacking, and this snake has to continue the above. With the start of the War of Independence, this snake became widely circulated as a symbol of the colony. In December 1775, Franklin published an article in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser, arguing that this rattlesnake was a symbol of the American spirit. Said that the rattlesnake does not take the initiative to attack, once annoyed, will never surrender. In the fall of that year, in order to resist British attacks and deliver supplies, the United States established a navy. The Second Continental Congress convened five companies of marines to assist the navy in this task. The flag of these marines is the rattlesnake, underneath it is written Don't Tread on Me. This is the original origin of this flag, and then it became widely circulated and became another symbol of the War of Independence. This is something to be said.
3. What
has been compromised with South Carolina? Most states have already supported the declaration of independence, while South Carolina is a "stubborn" model. The young South Carolina representative asked Adams to go out for a private talk, and the two quickly reached a tacit understanding, and the plot was very vague about the expression here. I personally think that this is not because the screenwriter is deliberately concealing it. If not, slavery will not be mentioned many times in the plot, but this compromise is already known to everyone in the United States. What is the compromise?
At the request of South Carolina, the text that directly condemned slavery in the "Declaration of Independence" drafted by Jefferson was deleted. At that time, the representatives of the South might indeed regard the immediate abolition of slavery as a threat, so they asked Adams to ensure that other states did not object to the preservation of slavery. Neither Adams nor the South Carolina representative would have thought that the price of this compromise would be so great.
Read it over and over while writing, not finished.
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