Hero or Zero?

The question is simple. Should George Washington be considered a hero or a zero? The answer is as simple. Obviously he should be considered a hero. What he did to become a hero was bring independence to America. You already know that the British have tried to conquer many places one of them being the U.S. The British founded Virginia, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, Delaware, and Connecticut, formally known as the original 13 colonies. The British took control of these colonies and kept them under their rule. They also tortured, not physically but they did. The way they tortured the colonists is by putting taxes on items that were in demand such as tea and sugar. They also stole some of the colonists’ mandatory rights. This angered the colonists. They rioted, protested, and boycotted, or stopped buying British goods. What mainly led to the fighting and wars was the Boston Massacre. This was an event that looks like afterwards; hurt the British more than it did the colonists. One day a British soldier got into a fight with a colonist. Other colonists surrounded the soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults. After that a group of British soldiers came and shot into the crowd of colonists and several colonists died. This was called the Boston Massacre. After that the colonists got mad and did something that hurt the British in their wallet. The colonists dressed up as American Indians and boarded three ships full of tea. They dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor and changed back into their normal selves before anyone caught them. The thing was that the British didn’t do anything that night to stop the colonists. After the Boston Tea Party as they called it, the British came back with the intolerable acts. These acts were intolerable and the colonists had to come up with something to stop them. The colonists arranged a continental army and made George Washington general. They had minutemen who were army people who were ready to fight on a minutes notice. They were ready to fight. They gained their independence eventually owing a lot but not all of the credit to George Washington. Many famous names such as Samuel Adams and John Paul Jones also helped. This is why Washington is a hero.