Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Hey, King: Get Off Our Backs!

Students,
how would you like it if you knew someone else would be making decisions for you for the rest of your life?

Now, look through the lens of the colonist and the level of control Great Britain put on the colonies when reading and answering the questions.
Activity
Extended Activity

Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man trying to pull the American colonists by the nose.  
Pub. by Matthew Darly (British, ca. 1720–80) Strand, 1777 April.