i mean why would he need to. theres perfectly good cherry's on it. if u had a cherry tree would u cut it down for no reason at all. was there any point or did he just not like it. maybe i should start a internatonal conspiracy.
2007-07-18 16:56:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Because he didn't want anyone else to have any cherry's?
2007-07-18 16:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off: George Washington did NOT chop down a cherry tree. The fable had young Washington ‘fessing up to “barking” his father’s prized sapling.
However, the whole story is a moral lesson invented by the patriot’s first biographer – a former Anglican pastor and itinerant Bible salesman named Mason L. Weems.
There is no documentation for Weem’s charming tale of the cherry tree. He writes that he heard the story from “a distant relative close to the family.”
Close relatives asserted they had never heard the tale. Nonetheless, the alleged incident is in character with Washington’s childhood personality.
2007-07-18 17:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by jimandmellissa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Cherry Tree?
2007-07-26 13:18:30 · answer #3 · answered by little timmie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not proven that he actually cut down the cherry tree. It's just a story to teach little kids to be truthful.
2007-07-18 17:09:57 · answer #4 · answered by kr1818 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From all the REAL history books I have read about President Washington and having visited his birthplace and more, the answer is: he didn't. It is a story invented (supposedly) by school teachers to show that George couldn't tell a lie.
2007-07-18 17:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The democratic national commitee was meeting in the tree house at the time.
2007-07-18 17:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by Paully S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because when its freezing cold, there are no cherries on the tree and it makes good firewood....
2007-07-24 23:40:09 · answer #7 · answered by verminoligist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he wanted to find out how old it was after having been told that the way to tell was by counting the rings in it's trunk.
2007-07-18 17:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did no longer lie. He pronounced, "i won't manage to tell a lie, I minimize it down with my awl". Or so is going the asserting. What made you think of he lied? Now if it have been Lincoln, he would have spent eighty % of his time sprucing his awl and in common terms 20% of his time reducing the tree.
2017-01-21 09:11:32 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never happened. One of the first political lies in the US, maybe it started it all!
2007-07-18 17:00:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋