Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America. For a hundred years after the American Revolution, none of this was a secret. Political cartoonists used Indians to represent the colonial side. Colonial soldiers dressed up like Indians when fighting the British. Documents from the time indicate that the design of the U.

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S. government was at least partially inspired by native tribal society. Historians think the Iroquois Confederacy had a direct influence on the U. S. Constitution, and the Senate even passed a resolution acknowledging that "the confederation of the original thirteen colonies into one republic was influenced .. Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself."If we'd incorporated their fashion sense, C- SPAN would be more interesting.↓Continue Reading Below. That wasn't just Congress trying to get some Indian casino money. The colonists came from European countries that had spent most of their time as monarchies and much of their resources fighting religious wars with each other. They initially tried to set up the colonies exactly like Western Europe - - a series of small, in- fighting nations stacked on top of each other.

The idea of an overarching confederacy of different independent states was completely foreign to them. Or it would have been.

But as Ben Franklin noted in a letter about the failure to integrate with one another: "It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears insoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for 1. English colonies."Join, or die (or plagiarize from the Indians).↓Continue Reading Below.

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In 1. 98. 7, Cornell University held a conference on the link between the Iroquois' government and the U. S. Constitution. It was noted that the Iroquois Great Law of Peace "includes 'freedom of speech, freedom of religion .. Wow, checks and balances, freedom of speech and religion.

Sounds awfully familiar. One of the strangest legacies of America's founding is our national obsession with the apocalypse. There's a new JJ Abrams show coming this fall called The Revolution about a post- apocalyptic America, and of course The Hunger Games.

We go to a gift shop in Arizona and see dug- up Indian arrowheads, and never think "this is the same thing as the stuff laying around in Terminator or The Road or that part in The Road Warrior where the feral kid finds a music box and doesn't know what it is."We love the apocalypse as long as nobody acknowledges the truth: It's not a mythical event. We live on top of one. Jack O'Brien is the Editor in Chief of Cracked. You can follow him on Twitter.↓Continue Reading Below. When he's not drinking and rethinking the decisions that led him to this point in his life, Elford is a regular contributor to the music blog Riffraf and can be found on Facebook and Twitter. For more bullshit that was spoon- fed to you, check out The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class and 6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly.

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Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)Why Do We Believe It? As we mentioned with War of the Worlds, most of us want to believe that history is a steady march of progress towards enlightenment. The further we go back, the stupider, cruder and more brutal we want to think people were.

And the Middle Ages, with fewer written records than many other periods in Western history, provide an easy target. It's not enough that torture did take place. We need our ancestors to be creatively sadistic monsters who spent all their time coming up with new ways to mutilate people rather than inventing penicillin. Like the bra- burning myth, the fact that these torture devices involve sex and violence also makes them more likely to endure.

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