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Explain what “we must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately” means
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Explain what “we must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately” means

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Benjamin Franklin meant that they must have unity, or "must hang together," in the terms of colonies. If the British emerged victorious from the war, the penalty for treason would be death. They would literally "hang separately" meaning execution.
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