Visual rhetoric: American Revolution - Political Rhetoric

The initials in the image refer to the 13 colonies.

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This image symbolizes....

• This graphic masterpiece, originally represented the inevitable death of the American colonies if they failed to unite during the impending French and Indian War

• This graphic masterpiece, originally represented the inevitable death of the American colonies to the eyes of the British king

• This graphic masterpiece, originally represented the threat of the Mexican people

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This image was meant to influence the colonists by...

• making them think of going back to Britain.

• making them join the revolutionary cause.

• making them go to Mexico.

This image was produced to warn the colonists about...

• the threat of the British taxes.

• the threat of the severe winter.

• the threat posed by the French and the Native Americans that allied to them.

What was the primary audience for this message?

• the British

• the Native Americans

• the Colonists

• the French

It represents...

• reality as it was

• the British tyranny

• the Americans' victory

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Its purpose was to...

• elevate the British soldiers' view among the colonists

• to agitate the colonists negative view of the British soldiers in Boston

• to attack the British press

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It was created to...

• to show how the British soldiers were altruistic

• to show what was really happening in the harbor in Boston

• show the British viewpoint of the rebellion

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It symbolizes...

• the rebellion against the British tyranny

• the rebellion against the French threat

• the rebellion against the Native Americans

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It shows that...

• despite king George's efforts the colonists did not show any sign of respect of wish to submit

• George Washington was powerful

• the British had the control over the port in Boston

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