He then races off screen, yelling "Charge!" In the fourth segment, George Washington gets a letter in the mailbox, opens it and exclaims: "Gadzooks! I've been drafted!" He is then seen racing off on horseback to the Candy Shoppe, where he says to Martha that she'll have to look after the candy stores alone, while he's off to fight the war. Bugs explains to Clyde that the Colonists refused to drink their tea with tacks and that's how the Army was formed. When the worker explains: "But Your Majesty, these are carpet tacks", the King dumps the tacks all over the place in a fit of insanity and exclaims: "Well, they're tea tacks now!" and exits, laughing all the way. With a box of hardware tacks in hand, he orders the worker to "Spread these tacks on the Colonist's tea".
The King is seen approaching a worker in the Royal Tea Warehouse in Boston. In the third segment, Bugs explains to Clyde about the Boston Tea Party. Ben runs back, picks up Bugs who is flashing off and on like a lightbulb, exclaiming "I discovered electricity! I discovered electricity!" Bugs looks at the camera and says: "Heh . Bugs sees a storm cloud approach, lightning hits the kite and travels down the string and electrocutes him. Ben states: "I'm trying to discover electricity," and asks Bugs if he can tend to his kite (with a key tied on it, naturally), and that he must get out ". ye first edition of The Saturday Evening Post", so he hands his kite string to Bugs to look after until he gets back. In the second segment, Bugs is interacting with Benjamin Franklin on the day that Franklin discovered electricity. Bugs explains that the Statue of Liberty was ". just a little goil ( girl) at the time". In the first segment, in a trade of land with the Native American Indians, Bugs explains that Manhattan wasn't the bustling city you see today, but was rather, filled with Indian teepees. His uncle Bugs offers to help and proceeds to tell him how rabbits made American history. After several moments, he exclaims: "I give up!". Clyde is lying down on the floor doing his history homework for an exam at school, scratching down important dates in history and getting confused.