THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The colonists get cranky
Chapter 6
Things went along like this for quite a while, with nothing much important happening anywhere but where the settlers were mostly exiles and refugees from Great Britain,
2Until there were thirteen English-speaking colonies that thought they had aidentities of their own, namely,
3In no particular order,
4New York,
5Virginia,
6bNew Jersey,
7Delaware,
8Massachusetts,
9Connecticut,
10Rhode Island,
11New Hampshire,
12cPennsylvania,
13North Carolina,
14South Carolina,
15Georgia,
16dAnd Maryland,
17Unless some of these are wrong.
18The Brits who owned these colonies were pleased at how well they were doing,
19And got the idea that maybe they could help out a little bit with all the expenses Great Britain was incurring at the time,
20eWhat with Britain being involved in a bunch of major wars against the French and all,
21Which suggested the idea of taxes,
22And upset the colonists quite a lot.
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