“Seemingly the farmer had only to tickle the soil with a hoe, and it would laugh with a harvest.’’
“British North America by 1775 looked like a patchwork quilt-each part slightly different, but stitched together by common origins, common ways of life, and common beliefs in toleration, economic development, and, above all, self-rule.”
“Worse, Louisbourg was still a cocked pistol pointed at the heart of the American continent.”
“In 1754 the governor of Virginia ushered George Washington, a twenty-one-year-old surveyor and fellow Virginian, onto the stage of history.”
“As the dogfight intensified in the New World, the Ohio Valley became the chief bone of contention between the French and British.”
“While the French hawk had been hovering in the North and West, the colonial chicks had been forced to cling close to the wings of their British mother hen.”
“Land-hungry America colonists were now free to burst over the dam of the Appalachian Mountains and flood out over the verdant western lands.”
“The Stamp Act Congress, which was largely ignored in England, made little splash at the time in America. Its ripples, however, began to erode sectional suspicions…”
“Within a few years, that statue of King George would be melted into thousands of bullets to be fired at his troops.”
Can't you just see them all sitting around a table, having contests for the stupidest phrase that could legitally make it into an AP textbook? We've just barely hit midterm, people. I have to go through this many idiotic metaphors 7 more times. SEVEN. Pray for me.
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