It is a political cartoon my Benjamin Franklin targeting the British colonies. The letters above the snake are abbreviated names for these colonies.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves, though of course nobody in the Confederate states listened. Hope this helps :)
I would have to say all of them! Hope this helped!
This quote can be understood as Jefferson's dislike for government with a strong power- a government that wants to control and regulate too much can harm the people rather than be beneficial for them. For this reason the concept of limited government was developed-a government that does not have too much power
The thought it was already a port of a colony