Founded friends, meet Deacon Adams (Samuel Adams Sr): Boston’s most frugal man with the loosest purse strings. Picture it: Massachusetts is broke, paper money is flowing like ale at a tavern, and someone says, “Hey, let’s back currency with land instead of gold!” Enter the first Samuel Adams; he hops aboard the Land Bank scheme, believing it’s a righteous cause for struggling farmers and merchants.

We’ll also discuss when Boston said, “No thanks, Royal Navy,” and turned the harbor into a hullabaloo. Get ready for what would have happened if Beyoncé cancelled a concert in 1747, it’s the Knowles Riot!

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George Washington was a person not a statue and people make mistakes. After Jumonville's Glen, George Washington was in need of some help; so he built Fort Necessity super fast. You know what Fort Necessity needed? A whole lot more than it was ever gonna get. Let’s just say the vibes were not great. With retaliation forthcoming: Will George Washington make it out alive? (SPOILER ALERT: yeah, obviously.)

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Have you ever messed up so bad that you accidentally triggered a war and then had it vaguely referenced some 260-ish years later in a hit Broadway musical? No? Well, you're about to learn about someone who has. No other than, George Washington. This week, we’re finding out what might have happened at Jumonville's Glen. Next episode we'll find out what happened at Fort Necessity and how that may have triggered the Seven Years War in the mid-1750’s.

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What do you think you know about the founding of the United States of America? Find out how accurate that knowledge is with Founded as Tori Phantom goes over pivotal moments in the nation’s beginnings as a British colony rife with unrest. Listen to hear all about the stories you only learned the half of in school along with the stories you’ll wish you hadn’t missed, and the people they should have taught you more about!