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Chapter seven: one step too far
Rushing over to look at my video game collection, I began to look through them for something that sounded good. After a few moments of looking, I found one game that sounded good, so I began to start it only to have the yearning to play it disappear as it loaded.
Giving out a loud moan, I turned the television back to normal and back to the documentary. Lying down on my couch, I went back to watching the show and slipped into my thoughts.
I was angry at England. At England, his boss, Canada; they were all a bunch of butt-head's. None of them cared about me; especially England. Why else would he have made all of those stupid rules to punish me recently?
The first thing he did was shut down the port until me and the town's people paid back for all that tea. How are we supposed to pay it back if the town can't make any more money? Not only that, but now all the government officials in the colony were going to be appointed by the king. Then for a new law in all of the colonies, any soldier can have his trial moved to a different colony; or back in England if he so chose. This friend of mine put this act in a good way by saying that now a British soldier could do whatever they wanted and escape justice. It's not fair, they're way going overboard.
Along with all of these new rules that effect my colonies, England's decided that I'm not allowed to leave the house unless with him. He's practically treating me even more like a little kid! Why couldn't he realize that these acts didn't want to make me be a 'good little colony?' If anything all of this simply made more of my people angry.
The worst part however was all of the leniencies he had been giving to Canada. I thought that he was just being nice to him before, but this is ridiculous! Not only did England's boss put into law that Canada and his people can continue being Catholic and speaking French (at least while not to England's face), but he gave him even more room. It's my house; I should be the one getting more room!
All of this was just too much to deal with at the time, so one night when I knew there would be an important meeting for my colonies I sneaked out of the house. Or at least that was the plan until I bumped into Canada.
After I bumped into him I sighed, glad that it wasn't England. Canada then looked at me for a moment, and after seeing that I was dressed to go outside asked what I was up to.
Not really sure that I could trust him with the truth; I decided to tell him, "That's none of your business. See ya later."
Before I could leave however, he grabbed at my wrist and said in his whispery voice, "Are you crazy? If England catches you leaving without his permission you'll be in big trouble!"
I roughly tugged my wrist away and replied with a glare, "Well he'll only find out if someone tells him now won't he."
"If someone…you mean like with the tea party thing? America, I didn't mean to get you in trouble; it just sort of happened. You gotta believe me on that," Canada said trying to justify himself.
"Is that like how I should believe you haven't been enjoying all the positive attention England has been giving you?" I asked snidely.
"Wha-um…well," Canada began, only to have me stop him by saying, "Look, how I see it you're either with me against England or against me. So which is it?"
He did not give me a fast enough response, so I turned around from him and once again began to leave the hall. As I walked away he whispered, "Why do those have to be my only options?"
The meeting that I was going to was big, really big. There were people from all of the colonies that made me; all of them there to talk over the recent acts and what to do about them. It was obvious that none of them were happy about the things which were going on in Massachusetts, and even came up with a plan incase England and his boss decided to be even bigger jerks.
By the end of the meeting, it was really late and I ended up having to run home. When I reached my house, I creaked open the door as quietly as I could and tip-toed my way to my bedroom. On my way however, I noticed a light coming towards me.
Then I heard England asked me, "America? What are you doing up at this bloody hour?"
I wasn't expecting England to still be awake, so I decided to ask him why he was still up. To this he replied, "I had some work to do…why are you in your day clothes?"
Without giving myself any time to think I replied, "I went out for a walk. I, uh, had to clear my head before I could fall asleep."
"You know I told you not to leave without my permission," England said with a frown; far too tired to give me a proper scolding at disobeying one of his requests.
"I thought you were asleep and didn't want to wake you," I said while giving him the most innocent look I could.
He smiled at this and said, "I see, you are learning something about being considerate. Soon you'll be a good colony too, I just know it."
When he said this I could feel my smile drop and my fists clench into fists. It was that last sentence that got to me, the way he said it mostly. Especially since he had to add in the 'too.'
At last I glared at him and asked with anger heavy on each word, "Too? You mean like Canada."
He looked at me shocked when I said this, but I left before he could try to explain himself. I guess I wasn't in the mood to listen to him deny what was obvious; he did like Canada more.
Giving out a sad sigh, I sat back up and looked at the clock. It had been an hour and the documentary was almost half way done; sadly it was a two hour one.
"Maybe I'll be able to stop thinking about it after the documentary is over," I mumbled to myself.
So for today's history review:
There were five acts the English passed shortly after the Boston tea party, which were known as the intolerable acts to the colonists. These acts included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government act, the Administration of justice Act, the Quartering act, and the Quebec act. The friend that America was talking about with these acts was George Washington, who felt strongly against the Administration of justice act and referred to it as the "Murder Act."
The meeting referred to that America went to was the first continental congress. Here the colonies agreed to boycott the English good and stop exporting to them if the intolerable acts were not reversed within the year. Along with this the other colonies agreed to support Massachusetts if the English attacked them.
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