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The civil war part of video also ignores that almost all of the border states had troops on both sides, and also had to enact martial law in a few to ensure they stayed loyal to union, Lincoln also said fuck the constitution a few times and got rid of habeas corpus and arrested political opponents and anyone who suggested just letting the southern states leave. Calling it a civil war isn't even really accurate as they were trying to leave the union to form a new nation, not take over usa as a whole. Lincoln purposefully reinforced forts in the new confederate states to get them to fire as federal troops weren't leaving their nation. He than proceeds to use the firing on fort sumter to declare war, one which many thought would end quickly even having picnics in first major battle, which csa wins.
Also it saying Lincoln was anti slavery was a lie. He was more neutral on the matter. Lincoln was pro union more so than anything, with everything he proposed being to keep union alive, he states on multiple occasions he wouldn't free a single black if it kept the union together, even the emancipation proclamation expressly frees only slaves in rebelling states after a certain date, in other words if every slave state decided to rejoin union on day he said emancipation proclamation than slavery still exist. Only 13th amendment bans slavery except for prisoners and that is after war.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and west Virginia all had troops fight for confederacy, so reasonable should be marked as both. The territories out west were mostly unpopulated so didn't matter, also native americans fought for both sides, though those from Indian territory usually aligned with confederacy.
Thank you for your interest our history & for not judging us for the mistakes of our past. We’re far from perfect people or a perfect country, but we try to elect good, decent & genuinely honorable people, who reflect what the majority of us believe our country should represent: the desire to make up for the sins of our past & to do our best for those who consider us a partner & a friend. Although we haven’t always succeeded, we’ll never stop trying.
Thank you again & all the best to you.
Respectfully, an American friend & fellow citizen of the world.
@@ks9610 Speak for yourself. I do not feel that we made any mistakes to made up for. Wars happen. To the victor go the spoils. We were the second only to Great Britain in abolishing slavery. We did not create slavery, we just used it as ALL the rest of the world did. I do not feel that we owe apologies to the American Indians. They should be assimilate into all of our society and not set aside. Time to be a true part of this great nation.
If anyone was wondering, if the the damages from the Boston tea party would have been around $1,700,000 USD had it happened today
*let's cause more*
damm
Cool
This video did not mention the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s, where the economies of many desert states and Midwestern states collapsed because all their crops were destroyed by high winds and sandstorms which lasted weeks and months. Many people from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska moved west toward California, in order to escape the grinding poverty which the "Dust Bowl" weather phenomenon had caused.
Also part of the Dust Bowl were human-made failures, like not applying dry land farming methods, which basically sped up the destruction of the top soil by settlers. Combine that with droughts, then we had the Dust Bowl.
PLEASE don’t apologize for pausing! As an ancient retired teacher, I love watching your learning(reactions). Since much of this is no longer being taught in schools, you’re providing a great service to RUclips browsers and your subscribers.
I get so confused when people say these things are no longer being taught because I learned all of this when I went through school... and I don't see any indication that things have changed. There's definitely things to be fixed about our educational system, namely funding, but the "kids aren't being taught anything anymore" is so vastly over exaggerated.
@bulletsandbracelets4140
I didn’t say “kids aren’t being taught anything anymore.” I said, “much of this” is no longer being taught. By “much of this,” I meant some of the specifics of our history. The problem is educators(administrators & teachers) are burdened with so much material that is legislated to be taught time doesn’t allow for some things, that used to be considered basic, to be taught. Funding isn’t as much of the problem as time and prioritizing what’s important. Don’t be confused; consider yourself lucky that you were taught the story of the National Anthem.😊
@@courtneyraymer6586 I still feel this really depends on the school and district. We not only had that, we had a full class walking through the history of the state, from the tribes that lived here pre-colonial occupancy to and through the early settlers. US history is still a huge focus of schools - tbh, I think a lot of what we are missing is history of other places (like south america, a place close enough to be highly relevant and still not really explored). We had one optional course in high school, "world cultures", but other than that all we learned about was US history. I get the focus, but I still don't think learning about WW2 from a purely american perspective is as important as maybe exploring some other countries' roles in the situation.
I get what you are saying, but I don't see it. Things aren't really dictated on a national level - school districts decide, at the end of the day, what they teach. And that's going to vary widely. Everyone has to do science, math, etc... but aside from that, nothing has changed from 2010 (when I graduated). Most kids, at least in the schools I attended, are still going to learn the history of the anthem.
Andre, your enthusiasm for learning about the United States is delightful! Pause all you want!
The first country to recognize the US as a sovereign republic was Morocco in 1777. I love this little known fact.
my opinion of morocco just went down a bit.
Friendly relations with Morocco couldn't have lasted long. That was one of the countries that the Barbary Pirates operated out of. They picked on US ships because it was a new, weak country without a real navy. They demanded protection money from the US. That eventually led to the US constructing some powerful frigates, including the USS Constitution, which is still an active, commissioned ship in the US Navy, the oldest active navy ship in the World, I believe, and eventually, a new, very small force of US Marines helped decide the issue on the "shores of Tripoli". Thomas Jefferson was in charge. 25 years earlier, Jefferson wrote the words, "All men are created equal", that motivated George Washington's troops not to surrender on Manhattan Island and to eventually win the Revolutionary War. Those words have shaped the rest of American history in America and in the World as people have become more and more equal since those very prejudiced days.
@@timmethyYeah guess what that first treaty with the United States was. Morocco agreed to not commit piracy against the United States and they would have peace and friendship. But unfortunately the actual Barbary states of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers didn’t agree to peace so the Barbary wars happened.
Arguably it was the Netherlands; the Dutch West India company controlled the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius and in November of 1776:
"First Salute"
The island sold arms and ammunition to anyone willing to pay, and it was therefore one of the few places from which the young United States could obtain military stores. The good relationship between St. Eustatius and the United States resulted in the noted "First Salute".
On November 16 1776, the 14-gun American brig Andrew Doria commanded by Captain Isaiah Robinson[39][40] sailed, flying the Continental Colors of the fledgling United States, into the anchorage below St. Eustatius's Fort Oranje. Robinson announced his arrival by firing a thirteen gun salute, one gun for each of the thirteen American colonies in rebellion against Britain. Governor Johannes de Graaff replied with an eleven-gun salute from the cannons of Fort Oranje (international protocol required two guns fewer to acknowledge a sovereign flag). It was the first international acknowledgment of American independence.
(from Wikipedia's page on Sint Eustatius)
Still, Morocco was the first to recognize the US on paper.
Morocco acutely has a deep history in America many Moroccans werre in the Americas for hundreds of years
fun fact The USA actually had pretty good relations with the Russian Empire
Cathrine the Great even partially supported the US war of independence. Russia never got involved but she herself did personally support the revolution obviously fear of her own people doing the same thing she did allow a copy of the declaration of independence into Russia but it was heavily censored.
During the US civil war they even threatened the UK and France that they would go to war with them if they helped the confederacy. They sailed part of their historically lack luster navy to the pacific to show this threat.
And then obviously we can’t forget that just a few years after the civil war Russia sells the US Alaska.
But eventually after the Russian revolution the good relations died with rise of the USSR.
there was this big theory by most political projectionists prior to WWI that the US and Russia would become close allies with the US helping Russia industrialize and liberalize, and with Russia providing the US with greater international political sway as well as a reliable trade partner, and that such an alliance would be one of the strongest ever seen due to the lack of competing zones of influence and similarities in culture and history in how both consolidated their respective bordering frontiers. all of this of course never happened due to a certian communist revolution
Asking what happened in Vietnam is like opening a can of worms. Best to research it yourself.
Exactly, it’s best he realizes the amount of war crimes the US committed in Vietnam
@@7blueblood both sides did war crimes in that mess of a war
quickest oversimplification is that it started as a war of independence from France that the US took over for Communism Containment reasons. Which as a "they aren't fighting us" thing didn't really ethically qualify to many for the ongoing military draft and as such faced major backlash from the US civilian population, especially as the news coverage was getting more direct. Support fell apart and the US tried doing the same as what happened with Korea and just have a split, but the ceasefire deal wasn't honored by anyone except the US. (There was no reason or motivation to go back)
@@7bluebloodIt wasn’t just the U.S. War crimes were committed ruthlessly on both sides. That war was a complete bloody mess that the U.S. should’ve never been apart of
The dominate US geo-political theory of the time was called the Dominio Theory. When the French pulled out of Vietnam, it was thought that if South Vietnam fell to communism then all of South-East Asia would fall to communism, like domminos..... Cambodia suffered horribly in the aftermath. We faced Soviet troops & aircraft in Vietnam. [I do not think North Vietnam trusted China] Did this proxy war hold back Soviet & Chinese expansion? I think so. Did we lose? I won't ask that question. My thanks to all the men and women who served & sacrificed.
My ancestor got on a boat in Liverpool and landed in Virginia in 1792. 30 yrs later his son was in Florida and my family has been here ever since.
My ancestor came over on "The London Merchant" in the about 1640s. He, his wife, and their infant son were part of the colonists in Jamestown.
There's a lot of information about him online. So interesting. I'm glad they kept some records/writings.
@OkiePeg411 I know, records can be very hard to find. The only reason I know all this is because my great-aunt was the family historian and she took donations to print copies of a book compiling everything she found on our family. It's actually two volumes. The first is history and the second is just an index with the known names, phone numbers, and addresses of people decended from Henry Isaac Nelson.
You should learn about the Seminole Wars in Florida and Ponce De Leon. Florida has the oldest European established city in the US. St Augustine was established in 1565 by the Spanish.
How did De Leons' search for the fountain of youth turn out🤔
@@johnvaccaro7022Sorry, people in Florida can't tell you unless you want to end up like Ponce De Leon.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 very well. It was a very scary time to be alive. You are right, it was the closest the US and the USSR ever came to nuclear war. What the video did not explain was that the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey first, and that was why the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Once the US agreed to remove the nuclear missiles in Turkey, the USSR removed their missiles from Cuba. The provocation that almost started a nuclear war began with the US, not with the USSR.
Hi! I like the history summary. Sure, we learn American History, but it takes years and we learn it so young, it’s nice to have a review. You can visit with Native Americans currently. There are special celebrations but also you can call a tribal nation a day ahead and let them know your family would like to meet a family. See what happens. You’ll probably be connected to someone who wants to carry the story of their people to the world. you might have opportunities to hear about history, cooking or art. Whatever interests you.
To put into perspective how close nuclear war came during the cuban missile crisis. A nuclear sub near Cuba had fully believed that war had broken out. This was not true but they didn't know right then and there.
So the two people in charge of giving the orders to fire their nuclear weapons has given the okay, but one man them "Vasily Arkhipov" convinced them not to fire their nuclear torpedo.
Thank you for this. Stanislav Petrov does not get enough credit for being possibly the only man in history to literally save the world.
Petrov deserves a lot more credit. It says a lot that when Russia agreed to the terms of the deal, they had to shut all traffic down in Moscow so the stupid car carrying the official documents could move around the city, including to Radio Moscow building where the accord was announced to the country. When traffic is now a "risk to world peace", there is more tension than you realize.
You’ve badly mixed up your history. Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who didn’t overreact to a false alarm of an American ICBM attack in 1983. Vasily Arkhipov was the Soviet naval officer who, during the Cuban missile crisis 21 years earlier, prevented the diesel-powered B-59 submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo at American warships that the sub’s captain and political officer thought were attacking them. Arkhipov did not outrank those two. He did, however, have a second duty assignment as the chief of staff of the flotilla of which the B-59 was a part. Because of this very unusual circumstance, all three men had to agree to launch the special weapon, and Arkhipov refused to let that happen.
@@markhamstra1083 yea you right I did mess up the names. I just googled "Soviet that prevented nuclear war" as I didn't know the name my heart and assumed the first one was the person I was thinking of.
As a young boy of 14 yrs old in 1962, I think, that one week in late Oct.1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most harrowing experiences of my lifetime. I remember kissing my mom every morning as I left for school, not knowing if I would see her again that afternoon. I'll never forget, the relief that Sun. morning when we heard on the radio, the report that Russia had ordered their ships to turn around in order to not run the naval block-aid that Pres.Kennedy had put around Cuba to prevent them from bringing more missiles to fortify the island.I pray, with all my heart, that no child would have to experiemce that kind of fear ever again!
If you want to react to US history, the Lewis & Clark expedition is really interesting. They were sent by Prez. Jefferson to map a route to the west coast. The discoveries and overall journey were the first comprehensive documentation about the peoples, landscapes, and animals of the interior US. Ken Burns did a documentary on it for public TV years ago. It was an amazing feat.
Love these types of videos. I majored in political science in college and took loads of history courses. I find world history in general fascinating. Would love to see more.
Abraham Lincoln stated:
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Lyceum Address - 1838
(an excellent read)
Fun fact, he was a pro wrestler and a poet on top of being an extremely successful lawyer
An American Indian here and I say that the preferred term is Indian, unless you're trying not to get confused with India Indians
It just depends on the person. My husband and his family prefer native American. My cousin prefers Indian just like her father preferred it.
@BlahBlahBlahBlah69 Just curious why, I see it as other people saying it because they think I'm too dumb to defend myself, and also for discrimination against the other half of my heritage, white
The southern states still grow a lot of tobacco and cotton. Cotton processing has become quite industrialized, but tobacco is still very much a labor-intensive hand-processed crop.
19. We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks for the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.
I love watching you react to anything regarding America, and I would absolutely watch you react to anything historical!
I am not sure if someone else has mentioned it or not but I figured I would say it anyways.
Abraham Lincoln was opposed to slavery but he wasn't "hostile" as it is said in the video. In fact, Lincoln didn't even want to repeal slavery because it could cause a civil war and after the war started he was afraid that doing so would both legitimize why the South left and change the nature of the war.
"In a public letter of August 22, 1862, Lincoln replied to Greeley, writing that while he personally wished all men could be free, his first obligation as president was to preserve the Union." - taken from Wikipedia
Edit: Grammar
I like the historical videos
11:06 Fun Fact: Russia tried to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein first before it offered it to the USA. Liechtenstein refused. For those who don't know where Liechtenstein is it's smack in between Switzerland and Austria and border no other country. Directly South of Germany and Directly North of Italy.
Andre, I have to admit I learn more about our U.S. history than I did in high school in the 80s! I enjoy your videos so much. You love the U.S. more than a lot of our own citizens do.
Definitely should check out more on Vietnam War wasn’t great for either side. Newer tech vs jungle warfare.
19... just FYI I always watch all the way to the end. I just love when you react to historical videos. I can hardly turn away until it's over. Thank you for sharing your reactions. As an American, I know most of the history but there are always a few details that I just don't remember or learning myself. Also, I learn a lot about the differences in our countries as you react and I think I love that most. Thanks again 😁❤
Andre, just to make sure you understand, Louisiana and Louisiana Territory are not the same thing. Louisiana Territory was the area between the Mississippi river and the crest of the Rocky Mountains that the US bought from Napoleon in 1803. As this area became more populated it reached a point where states were carved out of it. The state of Louisiana was the first state that was carved out, in 1812, other states followed as more and more people moved into the territory.
The same thing with the Oregon Territory, and the eventual state of Oregon. I see that it puzzled you.
And same with Dakota territory and North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota
Andre you should learn about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that took place in new mexico between the spanish and the Pueblo People. The Puebloans we success and driving out the spanish for about 12 years.
Amazing history has taken place in new mexico, including a famous Civil War Battle at Glorieta Pass
Separation of church and state is a huge part of what makes the United States great! Many people came to America to have religious freedom! I am Christian. However, I believe that people should be free to choose any or no religion. I love your videos, Andre, and I hope people who watch and comment will do so with kindness and respect for other's beliefs. 🙏 We might disagree on political issues, but from one American (who leans left) to another, I would stand and die with you to defend this great country. Don't underestimate the power "We the People" have, and that includes tremendous love for this great nation! We all bleed red, white, and blue.
Be kind, my friends!❤
The Constitution doesn't address the "separation of church and state'"in any way. That stuff was all in the Federalist and anti federalist writings, and the personal corespondents, of people like Jefferson and Adams. The only time religion is mentioned in the constitution is the first amendment, and all that says, is that the State will not establish a religion, like the Church of England, nor interfere in a citizens exercising their preferred religious choice. That's it.
@Xiphos0311 The concept is enshrined in the very first freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Which you have so eloquently point out. This concept has been further established by the Supreme Court. My point is to be accepting of the rich diversity religious or otherwise we have in this great country! 🙌 😊
@@Xiphos0311not to mention we have a treaty that says we aren’t a some religious nation and that stuff with the treaty of Tripoli and not to mention our nations first official friend was Morocco. That’s why the USA and Morocco have decent relations.
That doesn't make America great as removing a core religion that runs the nation kills one of the major pillars of stability history only proves this as we see all the left winging nations that have implemented Albania fell fast soviets had no support China is soon aswell due to this
It removes reasons to work with the government look at France constantly has issues due how distant the government is from the people
I live in Springfield, IL. There is a Lincoln museum here. It shows a really cool video of when the civil war battles happened and who took over what and it’s just really cool. A must see if you like Abraham Lincoln! It’s just a really amazing fluid map showing which side had what at certain times! You used to be able to find it online, but I couldn’t find it just now. If you like Honest Abe, Springfield is one of the places to be!
I've been several times. (From Chicago area) The museum opened in time for my last visit. Absolutely amazing!
I posted a short clip of my stay in rural Indiana over the weekend.
I visited A birthday Party of my Native American friends kid.
Though Im not Native, Ive always felt an attachment to this land and to the Natives….Its stronger than any other religion or spiritual belief. The Land And the Natives live in the land and grow in the people around them.
Love the history reactions.
At 1:53, the year 1755 came onto the screen. You may remember that year as being the start of the French and Indian War--the setting for the movie "Last of the Mohicans".
Since you brought up the tribes here, there are still around 20 tribes with native speakers still living, with the largest in the US being the Navajos in AZ @ #1, with 170,000 speakers today, and in Canada, it's the Cree, with around 70,000 speakers.
I'll admit that the Potomac R. is a weird name. Nevertheless, he mispronounced it as POE-toe-mac, when it should be puh-TOE-mc.
Technically, it wasn't Louisiana (the state), but the Louisiana Purchase--a huge territory we acquired all at once. The exploration of that area started in 1803 with the Lewis and Clark expedition.
California came out of the Mexico (white area), along with many other states, and Oregon, plus other states, came from the gray Oregon Terr.
In the year 1893 is a typo--it should read Rubber Baron, not Robber Baron.
I so clearly remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, since I was 15 at the time--a very scary time. In that era, in addition to fire drills, we had air raid drills, during which we hid under our desks--for all the good that would have done.
The radical Islamists have called us "The Great Satan" for decades.
A couple of things. Indian Territory was and is the state of Oklahoma. (statehood in 1908). Indiana is located between Illinois and Ohio. Yes, the Civil War had more casualties than all other American wars combined.
I have to say that this...
The Americans fighting in the Revolutionary War were NOT insurgents. They were people born and raised on this land.
Yes, they did the native Americans dirty. And yes, slavery is a rotten part of our past, but, we wouldn't have become one of the greatest nations on the planet if we were still a part of England.
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The war of 1812 had more to do with England capturing American ships and pressing American sailors into working on English ships, basically enslaving them.
Being born and raised in a place doesn’t make you “not an insurgent” which literally just means Rebel
insurgent isn't a bad word. it just means a local militia that is violently opposed to an occupying military. we think of insurgent as a bad word because of Iraq, but if you ask an Iraqi they would call them patriots too.
Would that be so bad? Who elected the US as judge, jury, and executioner?
From the US perspective, it was as you say. But it was challenges from European powers led Britain to enhance their navy's crews by capturing the American sailors. 19
they were worse than that.
they were english traitors.
but they arent the ones who fought and won that war were france, spain, india(yes, india) and netherlands.
washington and his rich slaver friends were mostly just symbolic figures with no practical effect on anything.
also we are not "native" americans. we are americans.
The Cotton Gin was still around along with the industrialization of industry overall. Even though the Cotton Gin initially led to a growth of slavery as an unintended consequence it was still there to fall back on when the huge labor vacuum hit. With the industrial revolution and the fact that free labor from slavery was no more, it required innovation for those industries that wanted to prosper.
I love history, and I am here for it if you wanted to do the History of every country lol
I went to school in the US and the video you are reacting to is far better than anything in the books or films we had available.
19. They fit a lot of history in 20 minutes.I live in Illinois,home of Abraham Lincoln. In fact,he is buried here.One wonders how different things would be had he lived. My maternal grandfather immigrated here as a boy from Belgium. He grew up and founded a greenhouse. I never knew him as he died when my mother was a child.How I would have liked to know him and asked why did he emigrate and why at that time. Two of his sons joined the navy and fought in WWII.I always enjoy your content. Cheers,my friend.
21:02 generally, especially at that time, communism was most likely to be supported by people who stand to benefit the most from the ideals espoused, like the young and the working class.
@ 11:48 you ask if the industries supported by slave labor are insupportable after slavery is abolished. Many former slaves would continue to do the same work as “share croppers”. This was an incredibly unfair system where the laborers produced the products in exchange for living and working on the land. The arrangement left many people in crippling debt and was commonly referred to as “slavery with a paycheck”.
4:55 I recently found your channel and really enjoy watching many of the topics you choose. Your reactions are genuine and your questions are intelligent.
As an American I can say it's crazy how much we take our history for granted. I love videos like this because even though I know most of the facts, I don't take into account how amazing they are until someone who hasn't grown up with them talks about them. Thank you so much!
The USA Civil War was one of the most fascinating wars in human history. The more you study this war the more you understand what being an American means. A nation of emigrants and slaves, combining to became more than the sum of their parts. A struggle to define freedom and government.
11:26 I know the location of the midpoint of the railroad from San Francisco, California to Omaha, Nebraska. It's in Promitory Point and best to go on May 10th since that's when the two rails met for the final track placement.
19! I also found this interesting. There were some things that, as a member of a military family, I remember or understand a bit differently. But as a teacher, I recognize that this was a good representation of our nation's history. I, for one, would enjoy watching more history with you. 🤠
The invention of “Cotton Gin” Could Pick the Seeds from Cotton.
It industrialized the cotton trade without the need of slave labor
The Oregon Territory was jointly administered by the USA and Great Britain until the border was fixed at (49° N) with the Colony of Vancouver Island going to the British. In 1859 the Island was merged with the government on the mainland and the Colony of British Columbia was formed. 12 years later BC joined Canadian confederation.
My ancestor got on a boat somewhere in France in 1650 and landed somewhere in Canada. I'd like to add more information but that was 374 years ago. The family Bible disappeared centuries ago.
They did not go to Canada because it did not exist until the mid-1800s
@@jeffhampton2767 omfg they went to modern day canada
As a side note, there are many many many historical stories about America I think you would really love learning about. Some have mentioned the Seminole wars, the war of 1812. The history of the Cajuns from Canada. The gold rush in the Dakotas, California, and Alaska. The panama canal. The Philippines. Jean Lafite the pirate King of the Gulf of Mexico and his lost treasure. The railroad wars and the industrialists that spanned a nation with Iron Horses (trains). So many more in a varied history involving many cultures settling and interacting across a continent. Alot of stories out there hardly told
A large factor in what made the US Civil war so deadly was the invention of rifling. Suddenly the guns used in these battles were much more accurate but the tactics from previous wars with muskets were still being used. You could line soldiers up to fire muskets at each other because a lot of them would miss. When they did that with rifles a lot more soldiers died.
It was one of the first major wars fought on an industrial scale and foreshadows how deadly the wars of the 20th century would become.
Bravo Andre it's a good introduction, for United States of America history, there is so much more to learn 🔥🤟 Andre I'm going to give you one recommendation on the civil war history that's historian Shelby Foote! Also there's a PBS special series called the civil war by Ken Burns! 🇺🇸🔥🤟19
Shelby Foote was not a historian but a novelist. His writing makes compelling reading because of that however his “history” of the Civil War is written from the perspective of a southern white man and gives short shrift to (1) slavery as a prime cause of the war (see seceding states’ statements for why they were seceding) (2) contributions of African Americans. He didn’t even mention Frederick Douglass once in a three volume work. Not a good source for a balanced discussion.
@@helenavalentine9718 the sense of history that Shelby Foote had and the grasp of History, his works and his reputation speak louder did any degree or PhD did he have his opinions of course he did, he didn't perport it as anything but that, that, doesn't make him any less of historian than any other one.
Utah was part of Mexican territory. I still remember learning about Fathers Escalante and Domingez as a student. There's even a location with Father Escalante's name in Utah. Ecalante's Staircase and it's gorgeous there. I can't remember where Monterey is but I suspect somewhere in Mexico near the Arizona and New Mexico borders.
No, Utah and other parts of the American West were not part of Mexican territory. They were Spanish territory. At that time, “Mexico” only meant the areas around Mexico City - essentially the current states of Mexico and Mexico City within the country of Mexico. “Mexico” meaning territory outside of those two states didn’t happen until after independence from Spain and some further political struggle and consolidation, by which time Utah and other former Spanish territories were firmly within the United States.
As a North Carolina even today most of my state is still cotton in tobacco fields Reasons why we didn't have to watch 2 of our ways slavery was not due to more reasons but was due to economy based reasons our economy crashed after that war our economy didn't recover until 1880 Back in the 18th century we didn't really have the modern day farm equipment to make farming easy it took a lot of labor Going from free labor to paid labor is pretty weird Think a bit like this let's say you made a $100 a year from selling cotton this is just a rough saying this is not the real amount Then you end up having to start paying your employees Let say you have 50 employees Who all get paid a dollar There is half your profit right there And let's see you add 200 Unpaid Employees You have 1/4 of the Workers you originally had And you're losing half your profit to pay that amount They have to increase the prices of everything Which other countries you're trading with will go along and say wait why are you increasing the prices And then we'll try to find someone cheaper to get it from It's like having 2 stores across the street from you one place sells a candy bar for $5 while the other 1 sells for $2 which store you get to go into And I'm not racist I don't promote what they did I don't approve of it at all But at the same time we don't look at Indians ago Hey Let's judge you because you were cannibals And I don't look at the French for surrendering at World War 2 you see my pointThere's plenty of things people have done in the pastFor bad or Immoral reasons but we kant Change it
The Unitef States did NOT fight against France. France was America's first ally to obtain infependence from Britain and starting in 1776 helped in the fight by secretly shipping supplies to the continental army.
By 1803, Thomas Jefferson wanted to get control of the land around the Mississippi river and Napolelon wanted to avoid a confrontation with the British and sold to the US for $15 million their territories from New Orleans in Louisiana, going north all the way across to Canada, nearly doubling the size of the country.
You left out the fact that Napoleon was in desperate need of money to fund his war at the time.
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I was three-years-old during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of course, I didn't really understand what was going on, but I knew something serious was up. My mom went into labor with my younger brother when the crisis was at its height, and she was worried he was going to be born in the middle of a nuclear war. Fortunately, the crisis was resolved as he was born.
To answer the question about southern agriculture post civil war. Look up sharecropping and the Jim Crow laws. Black people were free, but legally and economically bound in the same place doing the same work, for another 50ish years before they truly broke out of “slavery.”
I really enjoyed this reaction because this is a channel I recently discovered as well and has become a favorite of mine. Their whole channel is similar to this video and they cover plenty of interesting topics/time-periods. My personal favorite is their video on the Cold War (extended version).
We enjoy your reactions to everything! ❤
My ancestors came from Spain and settled near St. Augustine Fla. During the civil war the Rebel army commandeered their farm and tavern and took everything. My dad still gets mad talking about to this day😂
Just a thought. If you are so interested in early U.S. history, check out Civil War reenactors. There are also Revolutionary War reenactors. These are people who buy uniforms weapons and equipment, and reenact battles from those wars. You might even want to do a video responding to what you see.
PS - I watched until the end.
Andre, you have a very good feel for choosing interesting vids. I don't think you talk too much and your voice is soothing. Please do as you have. 😀
There's so much when it comes to history. You find your self asking why did this happen? And then find out there's a century of history that resulted in one thing of many that helped to cause it. Take WWIII. There's literally dozens of reasons as to why things happened. And then each reason has a century of history that resulted in it. History is can be so complex but also so fascinating.
Really love your reactions on this channel during my 23 United States Navy I visited your country at least twice Lisbon Portugal 🇵🇹 beautiful and very friendly people.
To answer your question. Cotton and tobacco had to be grown in a warm climate like the south. After slavery was ended those farms still operated much in part to the cotton gin.
The last territorial change was actually only in 2009 when we swapped a few river islands with Mexico.
Thanks for this video.
Ken Burns' multi-part documentary "The Civil War" appears to be available on RUclips. It's well worth watching.
We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks to the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.
South and North Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and a lot of Oklahoma and Kansas are now considered territory. Not officially, just by them being in such large numbers in those states.
19 Just wanted to say that I am fairly new to your channel but love your videos. I love seeing how you make sense out of things for yourself. Not always right but usually pretty close. You should not apologize for stopping the video it is a way for you to ask questions and to react to what you have seen this is what it is all about. Keep it up and I would love to watch more of you responding to American History.
Great video and your reactions were a ton of fun!
You might enjoy watching a video about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition. Very interesting history.
I love when you react to history videos. You should totally review more especially since you like it.
The Oregon Territory was that part of the northwest shared by Britain & America. It includes tge modern states of Oregon & Washington.
Love your videos!
"19"! I always enjoy your reactions, keep it up!!
Puritans were religious pilgrims in the north(Massachusetts)and economic settlers went south(Virginia).
What happened to our Native American people was the darkest part of our history.
America is only strong when we have a strong leader.
They were slavers are warriors for thousands of years before we arrived. They attacked us far more than we them.... Although we did eventually treat them poorly .. it wasn't anything they hadn't done to us 40 times before. We just had more power by the end.
@@rs6730yep... just look at the Jamestown Massacre.
Now, people who are angry about the BRITISH "stealing" Indian land are ok with a foreign invasion at our wide open southern border!!!
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“We gotta build a wall and make the citizens pay for it, and if I lose I’ll raid the capital because it has to be rigged! No other way would I lose”
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Where I live in Virginia, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybean and Corn are still big, with Tobacco mostly in the southern part of the state. This is a good overall review, but summarizes extremely. SO much more to the Revolution, "Civil War" and other topics are very simplified :)
I really enjoy your pov! Your reactions teach and explain things. Really great! Have a wonderful day!
23:32 - The Vietnam War was Hell on Earth. I'll try to summarize:
- France was heavily involved in Vietnam before the US, but I don't know much about that. I only know the US took over when France decided to pull out. I sometimes wonder if things might have been different if both countries had worked simultaneously.
- Whenever the USSR tried to support one side during another country's civil war, the US had a policy of trying to balance the scales by providing an equal amount of support to the other side.
- In Vietnam, the USSR started sending weapons to the North Vietnamese, so the US began sending weapons to the South Vietnamese. Then the USSR sent people to train the North, so the US did the same in the South.
- The US tried to negotiate peace between the North and South Vietnamese.
- At some point, the USSR and China decided to send their own troops in to the help the North. President Nixon wanted to do the same, but Congress did not approve a declaration of war. Therefore the US military had very limited money to fight. However, the US President has the authority to do limited fighting without Congressional approval, so President Nixon sent what he could.
- At the same time, the CIA began secretly selling drugs to South America, and the money was used to fund larger military involvement in Vietnam. This didn't come out until the mid 1980's. I'm ashamed that this happened.
- The US tried to set up a heavy defensive line that the North could not breach, similar to the DMZ between North and South Korea, but continuing lack of Congressional approval, and then the Watergate scandal that drastically reduced Nixon's standing and political power, left the US military unable to send the forces necessary.
- When the Americans pulled out, the North overwhelmed the South. Many South Vietnamese were granted asylum, but there were too many. I've read that as the Northern forces reached the southern shore, they lined South Vietnamese up along the shore and shot them so that the last departing US ships would see.
- With the fighting over, the CIA stopped selling drugs to South America. However, the people involved had no interest in stopping, and began what would become the "Cartels" using the knowledge and training the CIA had given them. They then began selling drugs in the US, where the profit was higher.
What's weird is that people actually trust the CIA with their horrific record. And essentially as you said, we abandoned Vietnam because of administrative issues back home and bad press. Toe to toe and by the numbers, we were dominating the North Vietnamese but a wicked government and wicked media proved too influential and the success(though often tragic and at a cost) on the ground proved insufficient.
@@UniqueArtsCostcoPicasso In the end, I suppose the question was whether we could fully win without going to war with Russia and China, instead of keeping it a proxy war. Same problem we had in Korea. Setting up a DMZ in Vietnam could have worked though. The US could absolutely have crushed North Korea, but not without going to war with China, at the time. I imagine China secretly regrets not letting the US finish off North Korea. Anyway, I think perhaps Nixon should have just accepted the decision of Congress. I think it would have been different if the US hadn't just gotten out of the Korean War. It was only a few years before.
Definitely a like for history ! I semi often do the exact thing you're doing now for other parts of the world !
A point about the people leaving Europe to flee religious persecution:
The English Puritans who formed the Massachusetts colony made a law which allowed them to execute any Catholics who refused to leave the colony. They left England because they believed that the Church of England was too heavily influenced by the Catholic church. Other puritans stayed in England to reform the church of England (and to a certain extent succeeded).
My point being that while American history classes teach the line "fled religious persecution," the reality is a little more complex, because the point of divergence between them and the church of England was essentially that their desire to persecute Catholics (or what they considered catholic-adjacent faiths) was greater.
This history summary was great! It reminded me of facts I had forgotten. 19!
Vietnam was the first war that we actually saw with our own eyes every night on the 6 o'clock news, and it wasn't pretty. The young Americans (mostly college students) started the protest movement. Older Americans were outraged, they supported war no matter what. The Vietnam War was not our war. It was rooted in a lot of political moves, France being the main player and we pretty much got roped in. The 60's were the most turbulent times in the US, in my opinion. We had 3 major associations (president Kennedy, Robert Kennedy running for president, and Martin Luther King Jr.), we had the Civil Rights movement, the Women's movement, the sexual revolution because of the birth control pill, the protest of the war, the whole hippie movement, the drug culture, and, most importantly, Rock and Roll. The 60's were intense, but we ended up with the best music EVER, which got us through those troubling times!
Korea also wasn’t our war, should we have done nothing there cause South Korea doesn’t think so? I don’t argue Vietnam wasn’t a mess but in many cases it’s we who view it as bad while the people we helped don’t. Even Japan chose to surrender to us rather than the Russians who were swiftly approaching (they didn’t want what would happen to east and West Germany)
I was commenting on the turbulence of the decade, not looking for petty political arguments. So sorry you were offended by the protest against the first televised war. And had Korea been televised, it might have been protested as well. That is commentary on the times, not the validity of the conflicts. This wasn't intended to trigger you.
@@lauramittler HMMMM... sounds kinda like the pot calling the kettle black. The first comment seems to be just pointing out an opinion. What have we become if when we express an opinion someone who doesn't agree labels us "petty" and "triggered"? Are we as Americans so childish and intolerant that anyone who disagrees with us should remain silent? Without healthy communication and debate, our society is doomed!
For me the Revolutionary War is the most fascinating. In many cases, our first civil war. As we were all citizens of Great Britain. Almost everything about it was the first of it's kind in modern times. We were the first colonies of Great Britain, and the only to win independence by force. The type of government we set up was also the first of it's kind, heavily influenced by the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, along with ideas from the enlightenment. Just take a look around at the architecture of DC, and you'll clearly understand the ancient Greek/Roman influences. These details are easily overlooked. Just the whole colonial, revolution and forging of the United States periods is absolutely packed with amazingly dense history about the plight of natives, exploration, innovation, piracy, architecture.. and so much more that has changed the course of the world in almost every way. From the British colonization of Australia in response to losing the war with America, to France's revolution, to the formation of the european union.. just to name a few. All of it has all stemmed from that one event where we told Britain and their tea to get off our lawn.
19 - great stuff dude. Hello from Oregon!!
There are facts on this video that even Americans can still learn. The American Indians have been kicked around and booted back since the Mayflower hit our eastern shores. And the Indian culture is the TRUE American culture.
Not totally wrong but, I think that most people who paid attention in US history class knows almost all of this
I'd love to see more stuff like this
#19; I always watch the entire video! Greatly enjoy your reactions!
19. I love history so it would be cool to see your reactions on other history videos :)
Of significance, the video overlooks the Korean War (1950-1953, treaty never actually signed) in which the US and allies prevented the North Koreans, with their Soviet and Chinese allies, from completely overrunning South Korea. Many forget this war or somehow think it was a failure, but in reality it was a successful defense of a democratic nation and the ideals which America has enshrined in its founding documents.
I always watch your videos all the way through.
I love history. ❤️ keep it up please.
Some form of slavery or indentured servitude or forced contract work system continued for nearly a hundred years after the civil war ended. Slavery wasn't immediately ended, it was fazed out slowly over time in gradual steps. Not to mention the police putting black people in jail in insane numbers to perform forced labor with things like mining or road laying just because they were loitering. They'd find any excuse.
The south still has a lot of tobacco and cotton crops. They are harvested with machines.
Tobacco is not good for the soil so it’s grown a lot differently today than in the past.
There is a lot of information on the Civil War in America. And yes, more Americans died in the Civil War than all other American wars combined. And that’s including WW2.
Interesting video. There was a TV show called "How the states got their shape." I dont know if he can find it.
You’re right. It can be found several places including right here on RUclips. It gives a healthy dose of history rather painlessly,I think.😊
I love your reactions to history.
At 12:00, you asked whether the South continued to grow cash crops like cotton and tobacco after the Civil War ended slavery. They did. Although the former slaves were technically free, they often remained economically dependent on their former masters, who used legal and terrorist methods (like the KKK and the Red Shirts) to keep the freedmen in a state of disenfranchised quasi-servitude. The federal government after about 1877 basically abandoned any effort to correct this situation and left the African-Americans to their fates under a system of organized discrimination (known as the "Jim Crow" system) in the South. This did not change significantly until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s.
Meanwhile, cotton (which depletes the soil if not alternated with other crops) ran its course in the Deep South until the 1930s, when large areas of the country saw failed crops due to drought and depleted soil. At that point, many Black Americans simply abandoned the South and headed for factory jobs in the northern cities. Tobacco (also depletes the soil) continued to be grown in many parts of the Upper South into the 1980s and 1990s, when massive court damages and public opinion against smoking vastly reduced that crop as well. You can still find it growing, though, in some parts of North Carolina. Edit: 19.