Why did Benjamin Franklin say”We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately?”
On July 4, 1776, just before signing the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin uttered the words, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” The new country would face a tyrannical government in England after the declaration, and each signing member would be held accountable thereafter.England’s ThreatEngland’s king had already threatened capital punishment upon any one of the colonists who committed treason.French to the NorthEach delegate present at the signing of the declaration knew that the French may not come to the aid of America if the country seemed divided.IndiansAmerican Indians had already experienced many atrocities at the hands of the colonists.
