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'''A History of Liberty City''' is a documentary that is aired constantly in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] which explains the history of [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] from the colonial age through the Revolutionary War. Liberty City's history nearly parallel's [[Wikipedia:New York City|New York City's]] history. The show is sponsored by the [[Bank of Liberty]] and Public Broadcasting Corporation. | '''A History of Liberty City''' is a documentary that is aired constantly in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] which explains the history of [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] from the colonial age through the Revolutionary War. In [[The Lost And Damned]], there is a second part which explains the history throughout the 19th century. Liberty City's history nearly parallel's [[Wikipedia:New York City|New York City's]] history. The show is sponsored by the [[Bank of Liberty]] and Public Broadcasting Corporation. | ||
==Colonial Era== | ==Colonial Era== | ||
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The revolution quickly ended. Residents pulled down the statue of king George and melted it into gold items. The union jack was taken down, replaced with the stars and stripes, and the newly liberated Americans celebrated. Although though they were free, they lived in squalor. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson came to change to agrarian based slave economy to a service one. With slaves being outlawed in the northern states, women were forced to service men. | The revolution quickly ended. Residents pulled down the statue of king George and melted it into gold items. The union jack was taken down, replaced with the stars and stripes, and the newly liberated Americans celebrated. Although though they were free, they lived in squalor. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson came to change to agrarian based slave economy to a service one. With slaves being outlawed in the northern states, women were forced to service men. | ||
To keep the country moving forward, the capital of the nation was moved from Liberty City to [[wp:Washington DC|a malaria swamp on the banks of the Potomac]]. The stage was set for organized crime and mobs to make a difference. The city | To keep the country moving forward, the capital of the nation was moved from Liberty City to [[wp:Washington DC|a malaria swamp on the banks of the Potomac]]. The stage was set for organized crime and mobs to make a difference. | ||
==The 19th Century== | |||
Despite the fact that Liberty City had high prices, corrupt police, and "strippers with annoying Russian accents", immigrants came in masses, especially the Irish, who were told that America was a place with gold coins, and that American women were easy to get into bed with when they heard a foreign accent. Soon, the Irish, who were too busy drinking, chasing rainbows, and having sex with midgets, [[wp:Great Famine (Ireland)|forgot to grow potatos]]. One-eighth of the Irish population came to Liberty City in 15 minutes. Local merchants approved of the sudden influx of Irish immigration though because they could pay them less money than African Americans. | |||
A series of riots then broke out afterwards due to the fact that television had not been invented yet. These included working-class riots, anti-Irish riots, anti-black riots, anti-English riots, soccer riots, and "girl-on-girl hot riots". At the same time, another massive influx of immigrants, this time from the South, occurred after southerners heard that Liberty City was a more racist place than the South, and that they could hate people from all over the world there. | |||
The city's first newspaper, [[The Liberty Tree]], was first published in 1835. When the Liberty Tree criticized politicians for robbing the public, the public criticized the media for institutional bias. Residents then demanded less political coverage, and more coverage of moral degeneracy, sex, and rapes. | |||
Bankers wanted to show that they could destabilize society as well as anyone, and when [[The Exchange]] [[wp:Panic of 1857|collapsed]] in 1857, the bankers made off extremely rich, and the poor got poorer, with no Social Security or Medicare to help them. | |||
A massive public works project was then completed to help the city feel better about itself, [[Middle Park]]. However, the park had a long series of rules, banning African Americans, lowriders and hybrid carriages, picnics, blowjobs, walking on the grass, "fruity exercises", and sports. | |||
Construction then began on the [[Broker Bridge]] after Broker residents complained of how rowing across the Humboldt River was abysmal, and manic depressives complained that there was nothing tall enough to jump off of. Construction caused organized crime to boom, and residents were given a new place to dump bodies. | |||
==The Civil War== | |||
The South believed that the Northern customs, such as education, arts, and interacting with people of other races, was a threat to them, so Southern states began to secede from the Union. | |||
In 1863, the first draft was announced. Drunk, angry citizens wielding iron bars, ninja swords, knives, and shurikens, among other things, [[wp:New York City draft riots|protested the draft]]. To show the South that people from Liberty City weren't "two-faced bigots", they burned down an orphanage full of black children. | |||
After hard fighting, a lot of cheap novels, and terrible speeches, the war ended. The reason the war took a long time was because of the length it took to pack a rifle, and because of the South's slow lifestyle. | |||
==The Turn of the Century== | |||
When the war ended, the art of leisure began in [[Firefly Island]], where there were hot dog eating contests, condoms in the water, de-railing roller coasters, and freak shows. | |||
Construction of the [[Liberty City Subway]] then began, with the first station opening in 1874. The first train, however, was not constructed until 1879, so people were kept waiting at the station for another 5 years. With the subway and the Broker Bridge, the advent of the suburbs began, where people could commute to work and live amongst their own kind. This allowed Algonquin to become the center of Liberty City, where they built skyscrapers and looked down on other boroughs. | |||
Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, the city's overcrowding, impressiveness, and grandiose, along with the invention of the automobile, allowed it to take its modern form. | |||
==Quiz== | ==Quiz== | ||