Bow Tie - Join Or Die - Battle Flag No. 1

A Person who Might Wear this? - Believes in Revolution - Bleeds Red, White, and Blue - Might often make references to "There was a time" - Men who Love their Country - True Americans - Portly Men with Wire Frames Glasses, Long Hair, Inventory types, Fondness for French Lifestyle

"Join, or Die" came about as a well-known political cartoon. It was created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.The design by Franklin depicted was the first known representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America. It was made from wood, known as woodcut for printing purposes and is showing a snake severed into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of a British American colony or region. Franklin's editorial story and the cartoon about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity. During that era, there was a superstition that a snake which had been cut into pieces would come back to life if the pieces were put together before sunset. The cartoon became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.