I Made America

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
Kidnapped from the paaaast and brought to 2012 Chicago, and this is the story!

I Made America is a YouTube series that puts out new episodes weekly. It follows the adventures of American Founding Fathers John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington.

The unfortunate sextet have been brought to the future by a political party who hope to use the Fathers to promote their agenda. They refuse, and as a result, are trapped in 21st century Chicago.

I Made America can be watched on their site, or on their YouTube channel.


Tropes used in I Made America include:
  • Adult Child: Technically all of them, in comparison to everyone else of the common era...
  • Brilliant but Lazy: Much to Hamilton's dismay, Thomas refuses to get a lawyer job.
  • The Casanova: Benjamin Franklin. You can thank him for the French ladies. With him. And there's only one woman for Benjamin Franklin.
  • Character Blog: Benjamin Franklin, yours truly. He was later joined by Alexander Hamilton, and the ladies of Tumblr collectively swooned.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: In the eyes of everyone else, all six of the founding fathers.
  • Curious as a Monkey: Naturally all of them, but Ben beats all of them when he learns to use an ATM machine. He also has finds fascination in watches and pedometers, and it was he who taught Washington how to use a telephone.

Benjamin Franklin: I am the master of all things financial!!

  • Emo: Thomas may not look like it, but he sure acts like it. He gets better after he learns about his love for music.
  • Foreshadowing: Everything that Madison says will eventually happen in the later future.
  • Fun with Subtitles
  • Go Mad from the Revelation: From the shock of being in the 21st century, Madison does not take it well. Ben and Hamilton try to comfort him by reassuring he's still in his own time, but that still doesn't work anyways.
  • Jerkass: Hamilton. Oh, Hamilton...
  • Cute Clumsy Creature: Giving Madison some applesauce and humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic will keep him from wandering off.
  • No Social Skills: At the very beginning, people were unsettled by their mannerisms, and of course, the sextet changed.
  • Theme Tune Roll Call: Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and John Adams!
  • Serious Business: John Adams finds that serving coffee is very important.

John Adams: The first of many days of employment, working and making money serving those in thirst. Goodbye, patriots!

  • Stalker with a Crush: Hamilton becomes this to Mindi when he founds out that she lives right next door to them.
  • White Collar Worker: George Washington lands a job as an office manager at a law office.
  • The Woobie: James Madison, whose poor transition and now-childlike mind causes him to be upset very easily. He ends up lost, then kidnapped and (according to his coded posts online) mistreated by his captors.