In American history classes, we only learn the big things: Columbus, the American Eevolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and oops, better skip ahead to World War II or the school year will run out. In all these eras and in between, other important things were happening that shaped what America is today, but you wouldn't know about them unless you studied on your own.
Before and after the revolution, various factions in the colonies had their own grievances and drama. In western North Carolina, the Regulators, under the leadership of Herman Husband, rebelled against excessive taxation and predatory land speculators. Husband went on to lead other rebellions in other colonies and later states, siding with the working class against the rich and powerful. These rebellions had little to do with the American Revolution, technically, but they showed the independent spirit of the people who became Americans. PBS Origins tells the story.
