How did The First U.S. Impeachment Happen? | Animated History

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  • Опубликовано: 31 окт 2024

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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  4 года назад +253

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    • @Wrayis2Pro4U
      @Wrayis2Pro4U 4 года назад +1

      Hey

    • @sam_ram
      @sam_ram 4 года назад +3

      Hey

    • @forbesupnxlous8681
      @forbesupnxlous8681 4 года назад +1

      Dude... How do you keep your skin so nice and smooth looking!? Or is it the Camera/ Lighting!?

    • @forbesupnxlous8681
      @forbesupnxlous8681 4 года назад +2

      @Layne Staley omg 😂😂

    • @leatherneck7296
      @leatherneck7296 4 года назад

      Great Presentation of the Historical Truth as well as your last statement regarding the Comments. The only people that will Burn the Truth are those that do not accept the Truth because it goes against what they already believe; Thanks again for bringing the Truth.

  • @erikkr.r.m7380
    @erikkr.r.m7380 4 года назад +613

    50% of the comments are people expecting a comment war while the other half is just here for history

  • @prolapsrunner
    @prolapsrunner 4 года назад +2121

    The poor Armchair Historian was up all night working on this. Give the man a like, dangit!

    • @HypervoxelRBX
      @HypervoxelRBX 4 года назад +4

      Austin Gilbert hmm no

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 4 года назад +4

      @@nill5217 "people who cant speak proper Roman Latin dont deserve better"
      -some guy probably
      Languages change over time my guy or people learn more than one language or god forbid they dont care on the internet. *shrugs*

    • @jamesmccomb9525
      @jamesmccomb9525 4 года назад +3

      @@cristianvillanueva8782 To abandon language ties is to also abandon cultural ties.

    • @jamesmccomb9525
      @jamesmccomb9525 4 года назад +1

      @John Which one?

    • @alex_josephhhhh
      @alex_josephhhhh 4 года назад +1

      Jai Shri Ram bruh

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +1938

    Lincoln used SquareSpace, that’s why he was safe at the Ford Theatre. Oh wait

    • @realhawaii5o
      @realhawaii5o 4 года назад +38

      I see you everywhere man...

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 года назад +6

      Do you live in Cuba?

    • @Soylent2024
      @Soylent2024 4 года назад +1

      Too soon 🤣

    • @IRTG2006
      @IRTG2006 4 года назад +5

      Dudes wtf, how are you literally everywhere?

    • @Gerbs1913
      @Gerbs1913 4 года назад +1

      Maybe if he stayed home on Squarespace and didn't go to a play he wouldn't have been killed.

  • @martinxy1291
    @martinxy1291 4 года назад +747

    "I'm really hoping the comment section isn't on fire"
    So far it's not like Australia, but it ain't Canada either

    • @underfire987
      @underfire987 4 года назад +15

      Canada is a failing state and in national unity crisis and I cannot wait for us to separate.

    • @martinxy1291
      @martinxy1291 4 года назад +12

      @@underfire987 Argentina: Hold my crippling debt

    • @martinxy1291
      @martinxy1291 4 года назад +1

      @ALSO-RAN ! welp, it was worth a try

    • @kostas3190
      @kostas3190 4 года назад +5

      @@underfire987 Same I cant wait for Quebec to leave so I can move outta here

    • @fwcolb
      @fwcolb 4 года назад +6

      @@underfire987 Baloney. Canada has been through worse than Justin Trudeau.

  • @iupetre
    @iupetre 4 года назад +340

    "prove your innocence"
    That's not how it works.

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 4 года назад +1

      Exactly. The state has to prove your guilt (well in this case it's the Senate)

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 4 года назад

      @Omar 11112 hello loyal follower. 😃

    • @dirkturtle3354
      @dirkturtle3354 3 года назад +8

      It's not a court of law, it's a political process.
      It can work very much work like that if those are the parameters.

    • @thisisnootnoots
      @thisisnootnoots 3 года назад +3

      yep that is why impeachment is a political, not a judicial, process

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 Год назад

      In a legal trial, it is "innocent until proven guilty".
      In a political trial, it is "suspicious enough until proven innocent enough".

  • @jasonperry709
    @jasonperry709 4 года назад +471

    One quick quibble: Lincoln and Johnson didn’t run on the Republican ticket, but a fusion “National Union” ticket in 1864. This was due to a split in the Democratic Party between peace Democrats who advocated a rapid end to the war and war Democrats, who supported Lincoln’s war policies (ironically, the peace Democrats nominated a war Democrat, McClellan, as their standard bearer).
    And no mention of the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour, which resulted in two of the impeachment articles...

    • @westwoods7675
      @westwoods7675 4 года назад +12

      Except that the articles relating to the Swing Around the Circle tour weren't even brought to the Senate floor when it was time to vote. It was mainly the violation of the Tenure of Office act that kicked off the impeachment proceedings.

    • @bearhughes7009
      @bearhughes7009 4 года назад +1

      Wow, this I never knew about, I ride 100% w/T A HISTORIAN but I think you should put something up or give a lil sidebar each Friday

    • @suuriz
      @suuriz 4 года назад +2

      Originally he was but until the democrats broke off and formed the confederates

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 4 года назад +7

      I don't think you can call McClellan a 'war Democrat' if a war Democrat is one that supported Lincoln's war policies. By that point McClellan hated Lincoln, and believed that the war was unwinnable. And if Lincoln hadn't sacked him, he may have been right; McClellan was a political general who thought he was Napoleon's equal but really... wasn't.

    • @jasonperry709
      @jasonperry709 4 года назад +3

      Boo Bah He supported prosecuting the war to its conclusion, and he didn’t support the Democratic platform of an immediate end to the war. He accepted the nomination because, as you say, he REALLY hated Lincoln and thought he was God’s gift to the Army...

  • @cristianvillanueva8782
    @cristianvillanueva8782 4 года назад +274

    Honestly I'm glad the comment section has not descend intra a super fund site yet

    • @slippy2490
      @slippy2490 4 года назад

      Pannekoek has it?

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 4 года назад

      @Jack Me-Hoff yes god forbid them..... yes......
      *looks around the room nervously*

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 4 года назад +3

      @@dylan2478 are you asking what a Superfund site is or just more about my question in general?
      I can tell you a superfund site is were we just throw a bunch of hazardous chemicals or materials and lock em away. Sorry if I'm being redundant if you already know the definition. :v

    • @dylan2478
      @dylan2478 4 года назад

      Cristian Villanueva Nono, it’s okay. Thanks man!

    • @takaharatanaka8818
      @takaharatanaka8818 4 года назад +3

      TRUMP 2020! Cthulhu isn't running and a greater evil would be any Democrat!

  • @tige.8382
    @tige.8382 4 года назад +76

    Seems like only hours ago I was watching him hurriedly edit this and then fall asleep in his chair when he uploaded it

  • @AgentGWG
    @AgentGWG 4 года назад +12

    I just want to say the animation on this was amazing. I don’t know if you’ve been working on this video for a while, but the quality even compared to the last one is incredible.

  • @haughtywillow2499
    @haughtywillow2499 4 года назад +262

    That title... I never knew that George Washington was impeached.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 4 года назад +18

      It could be worded better but it would need to be much longer. Technically speaking it's a correct sentence but easily misunderstood.

    • @theangry8876
      @theangry8876 4 года назад +3

      The title is a little misleading though

    • @sp3cialed1
      @sp3cialed1 4 года назад +2

      Same

    • @Sergedfabre
      @Sergedfabre 4 года назад +2

      @@pakde8002 it should have been who not why

    • @MichailAgustusSolomonic
      @MichailAgustusSolomonic 4 года назад +1

      @@Sergedfabre the

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 4 года назад +50

    Interesting branching out. Like how some of the music is versions of I'm A Good Ol Rebel, and Marching Through Georgia.

    • @Pabloski483
      @Pabloski483 4 года назад +5

      Some of the music in the video was from the paradox Game victoria 2 i think

    • @davidmapping4041
      @davidmapping4041 4 года назад

      Jack Mercer, for sure

  • @codingjungle
    @codingjungle 4 года назад +33

    I enjoyed this video quite a bit. it kept to the topic (johnson's impeachment, and no one's else), it was a pretty good run down on how the process has always been a bit wishy washy, defined by the contemporary house/senate, instead of something set in stone (which isn't what the forefathers imho had intended it to be). the only thing i would've like to have seen was a bit better explanation on what is a simple and super majority, a lot of people seem to think everything in congress is done via simple majority.

    • @paradoxless5596
      @paradoxless5596 4 года назад

      Fair point, but I hope you know that it not being set in stone, being instead defined by the contemporary Congress killed Antonin Scalia. Again.

  • @timothyrice1621
    @timothyrice1621 4 года назад +106

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning
    Since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No we didn't light it
    But we tried to fight it

    • @egret4393
      @egret4393 4 года назад

      Oh way down south in the land of cotton

    • @capttrips1523
      @capttrips1523 3 года назад

      The purchased music is alphabetically arranged on the "by song" tab on my Apple music account. So "We didn't start the fire" is followed by NOFX's "We threw gasoline on the fire!". I always found that an interesting anecdote

  • @gaslightstudiosrebooted3432
    @gaslightstudiosrebooted3432 4 года назад +75

    This is where the fun begins....

  • @haris000000
    @haris000000 4 года назад +250

    Please do Clinton Monica Levinsky legal proceeding ... I just want to see how "reimagining animation" would look like

    • @swirvinbirds1971
      @swirvinbirds1971 4 года назад +12

      Shoot I would rather see Trump/Stormy Daniels... I mean at least he is in government still.
      Maybe do a piece on the rumored 8 abortions Trump has paid for?

    • @michaelweiske702
      @michaelweiske702 4 года назад +27

      @@swirvinbirds1971 A common practice for historians is to stay away from the recent past. Recent could range from 10 years to 20 years. They do this so that they can avoid any bias they may harbor. The Trump/Stormy debacle is too young in our memory to analyse it objectively.

    • @petersteele7603
      @petersteele7603 4 года назад +2

      I can't help myself...
      A supercomputer would malfunction trying to calculate the number of hot dogs stormy has had in her buns... if you stacked them all tip 2 tip you could make a hot dog ladder to the moon, or beyond.
      Okay jokes aside,
      Your speculation at #8 is probably less than tenth or hundredth of a percent of the actual number defective lil wieners ole stormy prevented from becoming big wieners.
      Another way to explain this... your trying to apply standard mechanics to quantum mechanics and everyone knows an elephant and a pig can't make hot dogs.

    • @coments101
      @coments101 4 года назад +4

      @@swirvinbirds1971 While a video on that would be interesting, I'd hate to see the political shitstorm of a comment section that it would create.

    • @mackjsm7105
      @mackjsm7105 3 года назад +2

      @@swirvinbirds1971 Ehh.. well that fell flat.

  • @josephvissarionovichstalin103
    @josephvissarionovichstalin103 4 года назад +63

    Gotta love watching this

    • @johnbrownsahero315
      @johnbrownsahero315 4 года назад

      😂

    • @SonOfExcess
      @SonOfExcess 4 года назад +5

      Especially seen as Trump is about to be equitted and this whole absurd impeachment garbage is about to end.

    • @jackscotchland8947
      @jackscotchland8947 4 года назад

      Lynchy The Classical Liberal lmao moron

    • @eliaspinero1337
      @eliaspinero1337 4 года назад +1

      @@jackscotchland8947 this comment didn't age well

    • @smokedoofman4763
      @smokedoofman4763 4 года назад

      Elias Pinero *are you sure about that*

  • @sonnydog830
    @sonnydog830 4 года назад +133

    2:56
    *hears While We Were Marching Through Georgia*
    me, a georgian: *screams in Burning of Atlanta*

    • @bigredwolf6
      @bigredwolf6 4 года назад +6

      Ethan Mullen Me, an immigrant from Germany: Hold on, thats a war crime! To gallows!

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 4 года назад +6

      The fact american sometimes seem to celebrate the march through georgia gives me the creeps.

    • @lindseyfrancesco4
      @lindseyfrancesco4 4 года назад +4

      @@bigredwolf6 It wasn't in the 1860s, standards were different then because armies were expected to forage for supplies

    • @bigredwolf6
      @bigredwolf6 4 года назад +2

      Michael Francesco Foraging supplies is not burning and killing everything in your path. Even back then.

    • @sse_weston4138
      @sse_weston4138 4 года назад +1

      @@lindseyfrancesco4 Didn't Sherman do this deliberately to use up the supplies in the south while on his march? Also, what @bigredwolf6 said is in a meme format not meant to be serious XD

  • @grandpa1139
    @grandpa1139 4 года назад +91

    Lincoln:Alright Andrew If I die you can play
    *Dies*
    Andrew:I barely know the controls
    Andrew:Hmmm what does this button do?
    Game:Are you sure you wanna veto Lincoln's Achievements?
    Andrew:Hmmm What's that mean?
    *Destroys Lincolns Achievements*
    Congress:You have been banned from the game.

    • @K_Sol
      @K_Sol 4 года назад +2

      Basically

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 4 года назад

      Like how did he destoy them thou

    • @giovanni848
      @giovanni848 4 года назад +9

      Infectious Legume that’s not completely true the biggest problem with Andrew Johnson he didn’t do as much as Abraham Lincoln would off done after the war for blacks I feel like his precidency really set us back

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 Год назад +1

      Johnson could have been that cool president that showed unity and respect in a post-Lincoln Union. But instead, he became the guy almost everybody hated.

  • @mikesercanto9149
    @mikesercanto9149 4 года назад +50

    I wonder how American history would have been different had Johnson been convicted and removed. Would it have set a precedent making future Presidents easier to impeach, given that Congress had already done so once? Would the Presidency have been a weaker institution, more subject to domination by the House and Senate?

    • @Wolfgrand
      @Wolfgrand 4 года назад +9

      It's one of those events that probably isn't even spoken about in history class, and yet could've result in some states seceding again and maybe having more countries than one in this huge piece of the world.

    • @MTMyTails
      @MTMyTails 4 года назад +10

      The general conversation I've seen is it would of brought in a lot more civil rights laws and we wouldn't of had the dramatic rise of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. That being said, there would of been riots and civil unrest for a lot longer and the South would basically be under a military governorship for over a decade.

    • @oisnowy5368
      @oisnowy5368 4 года назад

      If the politicians don't need the voters to do what they want (make room at the top), they'll want to accrue more powers that'll let them negate voters. Eventually, they won't bother with voting at all.

    • @tobibabs7725
      @tobibabs7725 3 года назад +3

      No Jim Crow, no end to reconstruction after the election of 1876 and more Civil rights. Basically, if Johnson had been impeached in 1868, Rosa Parks and MLK would not have had much to do in the 1950s and 1960s.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      Probably at least a little, although that probably would have faded over time away from the intensity right after the Civil War. Nobody really cared much for keeping the Tenure of Office Act and system after Johnson left and presidential power would have still increased with later wars. Nixon was not outright impeached but resigned from the start of impeachment proceedings-and presidential power still pretty quickly increased after him.

  • @AeacusSmokeLounge
    @AeacusSmokeLounge 4 года назад +121

    So they voted to put Andrew Johnson in a peach, how did they fit him in tho?

    • @terryaltherr2481
      @terryaltherr2481 4 года назад +6

      Maybe they used the peach which James would later use to go to New York

    • @darkraven5106
      @darkraven5106 4 года назад +2

      This joke will never get old

    • @hstochla
      @hstochla 4 года назад +1

      Could Taft fit in the same peach?

    • @SleepyJoeFlorida
      @SleepyJoeFlorida 4 года назад +2

      By crushing him with such a bad joke

    • @realamericanpatriots
      @realamericanpatriots 4 года назад

      @@terryaltherr2481 James "Jimmy" Carter

  • @blazeace7653
    @blazeace7653 4 года назад +227

    Part 3 of Oversimplified series

    • @Wickedonezz
      @Wickedonezz 4 года назад +6

      Oversimplified is overrated

    • @shronkler1994
      @shronkler1994 4 года назад +14

      @@Wickedonezz Forgot when I listened to people who replace their "s" with a "z"

    • @Wickedonezz
      @Wickedonezz 4 года назад +5

      @@shronkler1994 oh yeah dude definitely did that cause im "edgy" right?

    • @shronkler1994
      @shronkler1994 4 года назад +14

      @@Wickedonezz yes, very edgy

    • @Wickedonezz
      @Wickedonezz 4 года назад +5

      @@shronkler1994 oh that's why you changed your name to a rebel state of the ROC so you seem way more edgy

  • @awormnamedscoobis3419
    @awormnamedscoobis3419 4 года назад +36

    Weird. Armchair and Emperor Tigerstar posted at the same time. A suprise to be sure,but a welcome one.

  • @adamwenicki6252
    @adamwenicki6252 4 года назад +29

    After hearing the music at the beginning I thought ther would more comments about vic 2.

  • @TheOneBearded
    @TheOneBearded 4 года назад +140

    Whatever the result for the impeachment is, I think we can all agree that it's going to set a some crazy precedence that might come back to bite this country in the ass. What a strange time in history to be alive.

    • @drheusmann805
      @drheusmann805 4 года назад +68

      @@biglemon5069 A political party being able to use impeachment for political gains. It's a thing Hamilton warned about in the Federalist Papers.

    • @deutan4390
      @deutan4390 4 года назад +19

      @@drheusmann805 I mean ... he is *accused* of using his power to benefit himself, among other things, so it's not really political gain. Actually this will probably hurt the democrats more if Trump doesn't get removed

    • @JoseMendoza-JAM
      @JoseMendoza-JAM 4 года назад +4

      @@drheusmann805 not to sound like a Ass but how will both Party even use this as a Leverage, I'm pretty sure this will fly by as we are freaking out about the impending apocalypse

    • @felipesubiabre314
      @felipesubiabre314 4 года назад +26

      @@JoseMendoza-JAM hopefully, in the US impeachment never becomes just another tool for politicians. (here in Chile impeachments are getting shot at everyone, bruh.)

    • @drheusmann805
      @drheusmann805 4 года назад +37

      @@deutan4390 It most certainly could be used as a political gain. No matter what your political views are, it's a political event, not a law-endorsed one. As someone previously said, Trump really hasn't done anything wrong, and it's just a drain on taxpayers money. It'll backfire.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 года назад +12

    My buddy won’t be removed from office, I’ll make sure it won’t happen

    • @bagdon8144
      @bagdon8144 4 года назад +2

      we don't need your help, kim

    • @WalkerKinsler
      @WalkerKinsler 4 года назад

      Lol

    • @bagdon8144
      @bagdon8144 4 года назад +1

      @Neon Noir Are you joking?

    • @Jie_Da197
      @Jie_Da197 4 года назад +1

      Neon Noir yo, are you tripping?

    • @YAH2121
      @YAH2121 4 года назад +1

      Neon is high as hell, ignore em

  • @chloeomg3021
    @chloeomg3021 4 года назад +108

    Yo why trump in da peach

  • @onesmoothstone5680
    @onesmoothstone5680 4 года назад +104

    The Senate does NOT impeach; they vote to remove. The House impeaches ... dang dude.
    😉

    • @timvanrijn8239
      @timvanrijn8239 4 года назад +2

      Does justice brancj even enter this process?

    • @robertctyointrey2380
      @robertctyointrey2380 4 года назад +3

      Dunno how he screwed that up

    • @mastoner20
      @mastoner20 4 года назад +6

      They're both impeachment. The verb is the same for drawing the articles of impeachment as well as removing an official from office. So, technically, both houses vote on impeachment.

    • @onesmoothstone5680
      @onesmoothstone5680 4 года назад +4

      @@mastoner20 😴
      Oh wait ... you're serious ?
      😏😆😆😆😆😆

    • @michaelweiske702
      @michaelweiske702 4 года назад +6

      @@timvanrijn8239 the Supreme court justice acts as the Judge of the trial for removal.

  • @JeffSmith-pl2pj
    @JeffSmith-pl2pj 3 года назад +6

    Griffen Johnson looks so young.
    His presentations are very informative.
    He would be a great professor or trial attorney.
    Good work.

  • @boscochou9710
    @boscochou9710 4 года назад +6

    That tried and true Vicky 2 soundtrack is still glorious after a decade.

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 4 года назад +8

    *I sure love SquareSpace!*

  • @LadyKnightGodwin7092
    @LadyKnightGodwin7092 4 года назад +6

    There's a GREAT podcast series about this called "1865" it's based on a play so it's not 100% accurate but the writers are huge history nerds and the have a episode where they explained what changes they made and why. I cannot recommend it enough 💕

  • @IronDragon-2143
    @IronDragon-2143 4 года назад +2

    And then came General U.S. Grant. He saved the country once as a soldier and then again as a politician. In the words of Frederick Douglass...
    "In him, the Indian found a Friend. The Negro a Protector. A vanquished Enemy a Brother. A divided Nation a Savior."

  • @richard1493
    @richard1493 4 года назад +6

    That Vicky II background music brought me back to some real old memories.

  • @bigtex1238
    @bigtex1238 4 года назад +2

    Honestly I'm a a fan of this man's work. I seen every single video of the armchair historian. And Evan rewatched some

  • @HistoryHustle
    @HistoryHustle 4 года назад +13

    Great video, really connects to the news.

  • @binphan1611
    @binphan1611 4 года назад

    Wow I saw you were working on this video, LIVE last night and now it's here already!

  • @haydenboyette2391
    @haydenboyette2391 3 года назад +6

    just got impeached AGAIN

    • @haydenboyette2391
      @haydenboyette2391 3 года назад

      @@sakushadurante6229 bro??? its been a month????

  • @ralphwalker4056
    @ralphwalker4056 Год назад +1

    I think you did a great job.

  • @weeabooze655
    @weeabooze655 3 года назад +5

    The thumbnail aged like fine wine

  • @maltese_tiger_272
    @maltese_tiger_272 4 года назад +4

    This animation is *CRISP*

  • @anthonyendack3138
    @anthonyendack3138 3 года назад +3

    dang it's hard to write online, let alone make animation of writing with pens and actual words trailing them. Nice work

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o 4 года назад +9

    That Vicky 2 OST... Nostalgia.

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 года назад

      Victoria 2 soundtrack. Armchair Historian has some good taste in music.

  • @Chewyshoot
    @Chewyshoot 3 года назад +3

    Take a shot every time Griffin refers to them as "radical republicans" lol

    • @ericoberlies7537
      @ericoberlies7537 Год назад +1

      It was the actual name of the faction at that time in history.

  • @ahmadadiyaat9779
    @ahmadadiyaat9779 4 года назад +9

    Yes! Please do more videos about political history

  • @seanmolyneaux6357
    @seanmolyneaux6357 4 года назад +6

    The arguments at 6 AM were fantastic btw

  • @thefrenchkiwi9435
    @thefrenchkiwi9435 4 года назад +17

    Wow! That was very cool video.
    I know you mainly focus on military History, but can we expect more content like this?

  • @lilphilosophy481
    @lilphilosophy481 Год назад +3

    When impeachment had meaning

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 Год назад +1

    In a very Shakespearean way, Andrew Johnson is basically American Iago
    “Do you mock me?”
    “I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a man!”
    -Thomas Nast‘s Othello Political Cartoon

  • @ecmorgan69
    @ecmorgan69 4 года назад +4

    Good video, Griffin! It's nice to see a documentary presentation about a political topic that doesn't spiral off into the political bias weeds.

  • @gallantcavalier3306
    @gallantcavalier3306 4 года назад +2

    An outstanding video, a nice change especially in times like these.

  • @NoxnoctisSicarius
    @NoxnoctisSicarius 4 года назад +5

    That was actually very informative. I had no idea why Johnson was impeached in the House but now it seems like they were looking for any excuse to get rid of him period.

    • @sireyoursistermodernworld4244
      @sireyoursistermodernworld4244 2 года назад

      If I remember correctly, after impeachment failed, the Congress basically ignored Johnson and every time he tried to veto a law, they overrode the veto.

  • @BorderlineBinge
    @BorderlineBinge 3 года назад +2

    Revisiting for impeachment #4 in 2021!

  • @BamBamBigelow..
    @BamBamBigelow.. 4 года назад +3

    Explaining government to the common man is your gift, our country needs it....

  • @lancelotavenger1163
    @lancelotavenger1163 4 года назад +25

    So this can be sumed up like:
    Andrew: no I want this person
    Congress: no we have this person
    Andrew: *removes person
    Congress: dick move bro
    Andrew gets impeached

  • @gisten7818
    @gisten7818 4 года назад +1

    Best part of your vids are the hoi4 graphics. You know your target audiance.

  • @tredford
    @tredford 4 года назад +3

    I have grown to love history so much more since high school and to be honest after watching the present day circus impeachment and learning about the impeachment of Johnson I really wish my teachers would have gone into more detail about this event in American history.
    We as citizens need to pay more attention to the things which have transpired to get us to where we are today.

  • @scarpint3
    @scarpint3 Год назад

    Great job! Excellent

  • @DragonKingGaav
    @DragonKingGaav 4 года назад +6

    1:10 That's because BOTH sides were Americans. That's the definition of a civil war!

  • @ghillieguy52
    @ghillieguy52 4 года назад

    big thanks for making this i had never heard of it

  • @Mongolium
    @Mongolium 4 года назад +3

    Title makes it sound like George Washington was impeached.

  • @danielburke911
    @danielburke911 Год назад +1

    I will say the most amazing thing about impeachment is that so many people don’t realize that just because the house votes to impeach doesn’t mean that the president is immediately removed. Civics has really failed in this country.

  • @derekkoch8777
    @derekkoch8777 4 года назад +23

    How does RUclips demonetize this

    • @charlessapp1835
      @charlessapp1835 4 года назад +13

      Simple. They HATE History that does not conform to their views.

    • @deutan4390
      @deutan4390 4 года назад +6

      @@charlessapp1835 to...their views? How come? You just pulled that out of your ass in regards to this video. They just dislike political topics

    • @Bacontruffle
      @Bacontruffle 4 года назад +20

      @@deutan4390 No, RUclips is part of Alphabet (Google) and they have openly stated that they do everything to keep Trump from winning again in 2020 like "the disaster of 2016". Not being American and not being a fan of Trump, I still have to agree with Charles here, RUclips has been demonetising any videos that speak moderately or even favourably about the man

    • @deutan4390
      @deutan4390 4 года назад +4

      @@Bacontruffle I mean...the video kinda didn't mention trump right? so does it still apply?

    • @Bacontruffle
      @Bacontruffle 4 года назад +10

      @@deutan4390 It mentioned him indirectly, and he's in the thumbnail so that's enough for RUclips

  • @Gamenetreviews
    @Gamenetreviews 2 года назад +2

    The tenure of office act would be considered unconstitutional today. Stanton was clearing doing executive duties when leading the war department. Even if Stantons functions had been entirely legislative or judicial it’s still unconstitutional to have one man leading an executive agency independent of the president.

  • @sr7129
    @sr7129 4 года назад +5

    I’m sure the comment section will be civil.

    • @hossboss4551
      @hossboss4551 4 года назад +1

      The Robed Reviewer *Civil War

    • @worsethanjoerogan8061
      @worsethanjoerogan8061 4 года назад

      It actually is somehow

    • @sr7129
      @sr7129 4 года назад +1

      Dean Cutler Well, whaddaya know. I’ve been involved in a pretty reasonable debate, otherwise that’s it. Gg bois

    • @fatalshore5068
      @fatalshore5068 4 года назад

      @@worsethanjoerogan8061 I think it speaks to AH's audience, we are all history nerds here and as such are aaaaaalll about dat context

  • @state_song_xprt
    @state_song_xprt Год назад

    Looking back at this 0:37 like "third impeachment SO FAR"

  • @Lem0nsquid
    @Lem0nsquid 4 года назад +7

    at least ulysses s grant righted the ship the best he could when johnson was gone. a great president he was

    • @glennduke5853
      @glennduke5853 2 года назад

      I have no small amount of admiration for Grant, He really stepped up to the job!

  • @tbombfm674
    @tbombfm674 4 года назад

    Like the Victoria II music nobody else has seemed to notice.

  • @splatm4n8
    @splatm4n8 4 года назад +10

    When OverSimplified comes out with a video right when this video comes out so no one really pays attention to this one

  • @kebabfoto
    @kebabfoto 4 года назад

    Love your vids, this one was great

  • @Aaron.T2005
    @Aaron.T2005 4 года назад +3

    Grabbed a snack for the comment section...

    • @calebs4755
      @calebs4755 4 года назад

      1 min in and I found a Nazi and a trump supporter

    • @anasevi9456
      @anasevi9456 4 года назад +1

      @@calebs4755 given any 12 year old with distasteful sense of humour can get that title, not really an achievement.

  • @joebullwinkle5099
    @joebullwinkle5099 4 года назад

    Great video, very interesting.

  • @EDDIELANE
    @EDDIELANE 4 года назад +8

    I am also an armchair Historian. Greetings.

    • @EDDIELANE
      @EDDIELANE 4 года назад

      @Colonel Muammar Covfefe LOL

    • @EDDIELANE
      @EDDIELANE 4 года назад

      @Colonel Muammar Covfefe What???

  • @Garangus
    @Garangus 4 года назад +1

    Nice Victoria II music

  • @robertg305
    @robertg305 4 года назад +20

    Stop watching porn and start lifting weights

    • @GrogAdHoc
      @GrogAdHoc 4 года назад +4

      That's a great new year's resolution, you can do it!

    • @nineviaaware4910
      @nineviaaware4910 4 года назад

      Why not both?

    • @anasevi9456
      @anasevi9456 4 года назад

      how dare you nazi! my wife's boyfriend will beat you up!

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 4 года назад

    This was a nice video. Nice job guy.

  • @marrymekatsuya
    @marrymekatsuya 4 года назад +10

    the comments section is gonna be fun...

  • @williamshortfilm5818
    @williamshortfilm5818 4 года назад +1

    Very good job !

  • @barrys4056
    @barrys4056 3 года назад +3

    Who's here after Trump's SECOND impeachment?

  • @unsharded8503
    @unsharded8503 4 года назад

    The Total War music is soooo good

  • @meonlybro
    @meonlybro 4 года назад +3

    “The radical republicans” oop there’s the college in ye

    • @donaldtrumplover2254
      @donaldtrumplover2254 4 года назад

      I’m very confused as to what this comment is trying to say

    • @meonlybro
      @meonlybro 4 года назад +1

      @@donaldtrumplover2254 The educational system in the US is run by the Democrat party. If anything you would think the dems in that time were radical. So he probably learned that from college. 🤦‍♂️

    • @donaldtrumplover2254
      @donaldtrumplover2254 4 года назад

      @@meonlybro bruh you need to go learn some history. He said they were radical because they were considered radicals at the time compared to the dominant ideology of the party. And even if he had meant radical in that sense he wouldn’t be wrong. To say the republicans of that time period matched anywhere near the republicans of our time would be pure stupidity. I mean come on man they didn’t even believe in woman’s right to vote. Your blind loyalty to the Republican Party has made you way to biased towards them.

    • @empireoftruth3291
      @empireoftruth3291 3 года назад +1

      @@meonlybro "The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals" because of their goal of immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise."
      Radical doesnt have to mean bad. In this context, being radical is a good thing.

  • @conjugationsm8528
    @conjugationsm8528 4 года назад +1

    You don't even admit that "Free States" (such as Illinois) came VERY CLOSE to voting for Secession. EXCELLENT re-History!!!

  • @sirkibbles1944
    @sirkibbles1944 4 года назад +7

    I don't really have a lot to say...

  • @RonRonMcTavish
    @RonRonMcTavish 4 года назад +1

    Love the Victoria 2 music

  • @user-og6cg9vi7n
    @user-og6cg9vi7n 4 года назад +3

    Please do battle of grozny

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 4 года назад

      Or the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s.

  • @Rubadubdub42
    @Rubadubdub42 4 года назад

    Great episode!

  • @wheneggsdrop1701
    @wheneggsdrop1701 4 года назад +4

    I hate when I get impeached It happenes every weekend for me how do I stop this from happening to me?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?.

    • @desertranger3199
      @desertranger3199 4 года назад

      I dunno man, have you tried turning the Senate off and on again

    • @wheneggsdrop1701
      @wheneggsdrop1701 4 года назад

      @@desertranger3199 I've tried

  • @pattystomper1
    @pattystomper1 4 года назад +2

    "Fighting Slavery" was not intended to give everyone equal rights.
    But renaming slaves "Wage Earners" (AKA Sharecroppers), allowed the Union to increase taxes in the South.
    Lincoln's Federal Income Tax Act considered 1/3 of the sale of cotton "wage earnings", or "taxable income".
    Which means every former slave "got" $1000 per year, hypothetically.
    Meanwhile, factory workers in the North made less than $800 per year, so they were exempt from the Federal Income Tax.
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 kept blacks in the South until the Civil War.
    The Sharecropper's Debt Laws which followed, kept blacks in the South after the Civil War.
    So the slaves were never really set free by the Civil War.
    Which is odd, considering the Land Runs of the late 1800's, where land in the West was given away for free.
    "How many blacks participated in the land runs will likely always be a matter of debate. The 1890 Territorial Census of Oklahoma listed roughly 3,000 black residents. Of that number, only 42 were recorded as having entered the territory in April 1889 to file a claim."

    • @jackbat7637
      @jackbat7637 11 месяцев назад

      This was mostly because of Johnson. Abe had the vision of, putting it in simple terms. giving everyone what they wanted. The slaves were freed and given land, the south would be unpunished and allowed in the Union in exchange for that and reconstruction of the south, the conservative republicans would have a end to the war and the radical republicans could create new anti slave legislation and help integrate them into America as brothers and sisters. But with Lincoln dead, Johnson took the plan and as a Kentucky democrat that had sympathies with the rebels, sided with them and undid all of that. So then the republicans went hard on the south, reconstruction was a disaster and only improved because of president Grant. But even then most of the progress that had been made was undone by Woodrow Wilson who serrated not only the south but the ENTIRE government, helped build the 2nd kkk and rewrote the history of the civil war to favor the south.

  • @Milk382011
    @Milk382011 4 года назад +3

    What happened to the Afghan war video!!?! I wasn’t finished watching yet !

  • @tazz4life118
    @tazz4life118 4 года назад +1

    love history so powerful

  • @jpsartre2685
    @jpsartre2685 3 года назад +6

    This needs to be retitled, it offers the impression that George Washington was impeached.

  • @theevil7755
    @theevil7755 4 года назад

    Well animated keep up the good work

  • @affanbreacher8832
    @affanbreacher8832 4 года назад +6

    This video was quite unexpected

  • @gc4809
    @gc4809 Год назад

    Civil war music is crazy good

  • @gaktaulagi3579
    @gaktaulagi3579 4 года назад +7

    Great

  • @bluestrife28
    @bluestrife28 3 года назад

    I like your take on things. New fan!

  • @neetuchaitanya211
    @neetuchaitanya211 3 года назад +4

    Trump was acquitted.

  • @nickloughren1919
    @nickloughren1919 4 года назад

    Bravo, well said and done

  • @ernier4592
    @ernier4592 4 года назад +6

    “The Democratic and Republican parties as they existed in the 1860s bore almost no resemblance to the ones that are active today”. Can we print that on hats for all the MAGA people to wear? Since they’ve never read/studied history otherwise.

    • @glennduke5853
      @glennduke5853 2 года назад

      They would be total dumbasses even in Lincoln/Johnsons times.

  • @handcrafteddkaiser2238
    @handcrafteddkaiser2238 4 года назад

    I had to sub... just too good