INTRODUCTION

The history of the creation of the United States of America, as taught and understood by a great number of modern Americans, goes something like this: In 1620, pilgrims fled King James’ England aboard the Mayflower to escape religious persecution. They settled in what would become Massachusetts and celebrated the first Thanksgiving. They abused the natives of the land and farmed, and flourished. More settlers arrived, and English taxation in the colonies became so severe that, in the mid-1700s, a revolution was sparked.