Last Saturday, I went to Greers Ferry Lake. It was my stepsister, Ashlyn's, eighteenth birthday celebration. There was my family, a friend of mine, and some of Ashlyn's friends at the celebration. We went to jump off some rocks, and that's fairly scary for a kid like me, who can barely swim. I made sure my life-jacket was especially tight. It is not really that bad once you jump. We were going to tube, but we forgot the tube at home. We normally leave the tube on the pontoon, but last time we took it home because my stepbrother, Dillon, thought there was a leak in the tube. We have a floating rectangle called a "Floating Oasis". I would be satisfied, but it only floats, it has never Oasised!
Alright, so I could talk about every single little insignificant thing I've done over the last week, but let's be real here, I don't care, and nor do you. So, in some of my blogs I want to start writing about some things in history that interest me. Overview some wars. random facts, just whatever I feel like writing. It might actually have a tiny bit of use to anyone reading this.
I want to write a little about the American Revolution, one of the most important revolutions in modern history. I'll start it in this blog and continue it in another.
It all started with the Seven Years War, which arguably lasted nine years. The part that applies to this context is Britain and the French fighting for territory in North America. The British won, but it cost them a LOT of money. They were in tremendous debt. So since they fought the war to protect the colonies, they decided to tax the colonies.
The colonists were not happy with this decision. These taxes would lead to rebellions across the colonies, such as Bacon’s Rebellion and the Boston Tea Party. The taxes and rebellions would sour the relationship between Britain and its own colonies.
The rebels threw snowballs, sticks, then stones. The army men, feeling threatened, shot at the rebels. “The Boston Massacre” was a riot in Boston that led to the death of five colonists due to the British army. Three years later, the Boston Tea Party dumped out incoming tea shipments into the ocean, costing Britain a lot of money.
The British sent some army men to the colonies to maintain control, and made the colonists pay for them. They were not happy, so the colonists formed their own army of minutemen to intimidate the British army. They met in Lexington. No one actually thought they would truly fight.
“The shot heard around the world” started the American Revolutionary War.
I hope you are all having a great summer so far!
Are you running out of ideas for your blog? If so could you write a blog about some more interesting history. Also one other question how are you studying for your ACT. Because I know you are plus is there any books you think you should read for the ACT? Plus are you going to have to take the Acuplacer for the college algebra class? These comments are just weird and bad because no one is posting any questionable articles to talk about. You have to admit there is not many articles to comment on that have some good questions. Anyways have fun with summer my man. - Austin C 4
ReplyDeleteBryce Despain - Comment 9
ReplyDeleteWhat is up my silly goose. So, from what I’ve read so far, I can tell that you do not like to get into water that much because you can’t swim very well. You would be surprised though at how many people can’t actually swim though, it really isn’t that uncommon because some kids just never get the chance to be taught how to correctly swim and stuff. If you don’t like how you can’t swim as well as you wish you could, I would recommend taking a swim class so you can be taught correctly how to swim, so you can overcome your fears. However, if you don’t like that idea, you could also teach yourself which is what many people do.