Hello, History Friends!! I've noticed that a lot of timelines skip from the Boston Massacre in 1770 to the Shot Heard Round the World in 1773. But life doesn't quite happen that way. And it's not like nothing happened during those times! Granted, I've had to learn about them, but I'm excited to tell you all the things that I HAVE learned. We're focusing on North Carolina. Apparently, starting a few years back, in 1765/6, there was something called the Regulator Movement. I had never heard of this before, so now you get all of the background info, too! Before we start, you should know that in this case, Regulators would be the farmers and the regular people in the back country. These folks were mostly Scotsmen and Colonials from all kinds of places. There was an interstate type road called the Wagon Road and people from the Northern Colonies would follow it down looking for new starts. One of the lectures I watched was by a lady named Marjoleine Kars, who wrote ...