The Boston Massacre - Snow and Gunpowder - Extra History

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  • 📜 The Boston Massacre: Snow and Gunpowder -The Boston Massacre didn’t come out of nowhere--resentment between the early US colonies and the British army had been brewing for some time over the Stamp Act. A propaganda war ensued between the loyalists and the radicals. John Adams would get his revolutionary start as he worked to resolve this injustice...
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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  5 лет назад +1530

    Boston, 1770.
    A frigid winter night. A British sentry strikes a local citizen. Civilians begins to gather. Reinforcements arrive to back up the young sentry. Insults and snowballs escalate. Then out of the darkness comes a shout: “FIRE!”
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    • @alextheperson1393
      @alextheperson1393 5 лет назад +2

      Extra Credits yay!

    • @truthstartshere.9214
      @truthstartshere.9214 5 лет назад +2

      1 up Mario credits!

    • @crunxxyy3527
      @crunxxyy3527 5 лет назад +4

      So much chaos in za warudo

    • @DavidFrog
      @DavidFrog 5 лет назад

      I imagine the soldiers just kinda panicked when they heard that.

    • @LordBloodySoul
      @LordBloodySoul 5 лет назад +5

      It is always nice to see these events from more than just the view of the victors.
      Victory, after all, is just one side of a multi-faced dice.

  • @emmetpbyrne
    @emmetpbyrne 5 лет назад +8042

    Ah yes, the least massacrery massacre that ever massacred.

    • @tommyfox854
      @tommyfox854 5 лет назад +238

      True.

    • @DeadBaron
      @DeadBaron 5 лет назад +312

      Multiple people killed by their ruling government. That's a massacre. 1770's Waco.

    • @DocMadfox
      @DocMadfox 5 лет назад +229

      People were killed, but let's argue semantics.

    • @R2D2589
      @R2D2589 5 лет назад +770

      The worst outcome of a snowball fight ever.

    • @cammiescorner
      @cammiescorner 5 лет назад +24

      Yep

  • @thomash8079
    @thomash8079 5 лет назад +4943

    “Facts don’t care about your feelings” -John Adams

    • @Lycaon1765
      @Lycaon1765 5 лет назад +246

      *puts down all the evidence for climate change*
      Yep.
      Edit: fixed the typo

    • @absoul112
      @absoul112 5 лет назад +242

      If only everyone meant it all the time and not just when it works for them.

    • @grantm6933
      @grantm6933 5 лет назад +118

      Was John Adams' wife a doctor?

    • @TurlasThe6
      @TurlasThe6 5 лет назад +38

      I was quoting Adams when arguing with conservatives without realizing it. xD

    • @AWormsPurpose
      @AWormsPurpose 5 лет назад +88

      scyx it’s a joke. That’s what Ben Shapiro says, so your actually quoting a conservative when putting down conservatives

  • @peterkropotkin6224
    @peterkropotkin6224 2 года назад +224

    There were three categories of heroes in the trial.
    The defense attorney, John Adams, who was willing to risk destroying his reputation and legal practice to defend the soldiers and their right to a fair trial.
    The witnesses who had the courage in the face of public pressure from their fellow colonists to agree to testify and provide an honest account of the events which was exculpatory.
    The jurors who put their anger and prejudices aside to concede that the soldiers did not open fire with malicious, unprovoked intent to kill but merely panicked and acted in self-defense.

    • @hagamapama
      @hagamapama 7 месяцев назад +7

      The same passions Adams took into that trial was the passions he took into crafting and protecting the American judiciary system. And it paid off for his descendents in spades
      Adams had one thing he wanted from the Constitutional Convention and that's Constitutional supremacy. I believe he authored the Supremacy Clause and if he didn't, he sure championed it. He fought tooth and nail to force other delegates to concede that the Constitution would be the supreme law of the land.
      Jefferson didn't like this because he was a believer in natural law, but once the Bill of Rights were ratified, Constitutional Supremacy made the Constitution the ultimate protector of American rights and ensured that that guarantee was the last word in law.
      In the end the dreamer Jefferson and the cynical Adams came together and crafted a mighty protection of human libety, the best ever seen to that date and still strong today.

  • @theeleventh805gamer7
    @theeleventh805gamer7 5 лет назад +870

    In my US history class, we did a mock trial for Capt. Preston’s case. Me and one friend were John Adams and another two were Robert Pain. We won the case

  • @echo_soldier
    @echo_soldier 5 лет назад +2613

    Wow. From the way I was always taught in school, they made it sound like the British soldiers just fired into the crowd for no reason on purpose, rather than having misheard an order to fire. I had no idea there was a trial or anything else. This video really cleared up some facts I never learned.

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 5 лет назад +155

      Agreed. Though I learned about the trial in school and that Adams was on defense, but very little about the circumstances, or what Adams actually said.

    • @ThatIrishLass
      @ThatIrishLass 5 лет назад +307

      Yeah the American "education system" is a joke.

    • @bryannaroditskiy9984
      @bryannaroditskiy9984 5 лет назад +88

      My history teacher who I think is a very good one compared to most bring this thing up, and put us on trial teams in order to make cases for each side.

    • @bluewinterstorm
      @bluewinterstorm 5 лет назад +72

      Yeah those "Texas edition" textbooks are a tricksy bunch 😒

    • @maximsavage
      @maximsavage 5 лет назад +141

      Some US states have less of an "education system" and more of an "indoctrination system".

  • @tenou213
    @tenou213 5 лет назад +765

    The faces are hilarious. Love how this new style captures confusion, rage and confused rage perfectly.

  • @xxiao5156
    @xxiao5156 5 лет назад +1416

    I'll take $500 on Walpole behind the shouting of the order to fire.

  • @MrKelsomatic
    @MrKelsomatic 5 лет назад +1012

    Can we just bring back tricorne hats? Everyone get one and just act like it's normal, we've been sleeping on this for too long.

    • @Wolfen443
      @Wolfen443 5 лет назад +36

      They are kind of cool, but they could be out of place in modern minimalistic fashions.

    • @benheinz8817
      @benheinz8817 5 лет назад +39

      @@Wolfen443 Nah. I'm looking at buying one now.

    • @baltogaming2437
      @baltogaming2437 4 года назад +1

      I got like a giant costume one

    • @Aspenisms
      @Aspenisms 4 года назад +9

      How about musketeer hats too? Those were pretty cool

    • @furimindustries3410
      @furimindustries3410 4 года назад +7

      Just get a wide brimmed felt hat, you can pin the brim up on different sides to make different styles.

  • @Alkiviadis_
    @Alkiviadis_ 5 лет назад +2597

    Britain: Hey we protected you, so now you should help us pay the debts.
    13 Colonies: Well yes, but actually no.

    • @davididiart5934
      @davididiart5934 5 лет назад +262

      Didn't help that the war was partly fought on colonial soil and cost the Colonies directly in war damages. It's like asking France to pay its own reparations after one of the World Wars.

    • @theresahall8206
      @theresahall8206 5 лет назад +11

      We never asked for your help with other countries wanting a piece of the country

    • @immortaltyrant2474
      @immortaltyrant2474 5 лет назад +67

      @@davididiart5934 Hardly seeing the colonies were our colonies, not an independent sovereign nation. They were our own people - and yet they betrayed us.

    • @LateNightBreeze777
      @LateNightBreeze777 5 лет назад +134

      Wouldn't have been so bad if there was a functional parliament that could have eased in the taxes. And if the England didn't just ignore frustrations by imposing more taxes.

    • @dargondude2375
      @dargondude2375 5 лет назад +61

      @@davididiart5934 Considering the Colonists were a big part in starting the war and the war was fought all over the world and the fact that Britain did pretty much all of the leg work. it wouldn't be a defence if Britain was pretty much fighting the biggest war in it's history at that point

  • @7wintersowl
    @7wintersowl 5 лет назад +911

    Adam's dopey face while holding the join or die flag is so fricking great

  • @korstmahler
    @korstmahler 5 лет назад +3739

    Americans: "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
    British: **opens fire**
    Americans: [Shocked Pikachu face]

    • @justabird9143
      @justabird9143 5 лет назад +39

      Very nice 10/10

    • @ethpling165
      @ethpling165 5 лет назад +28

      Karbi Kid Time to send the loyalist back in feathers

    • @umdude.
      @umdude. 5 лет назад +10

      °○°

    • @masonm1124
      @masonm1124 5 лет назад +72

      Korstmahler Americans: wait there is fire on your-
      British: You heard them, fire!
      Americans: Wait-

    • @HaloFTW55
      @HaloFTW55 5 лет назад +66

      "Hey, let's go to Russia try to put down a revolution against a monarch... even though we had a revolution against a monarch"
      - USA 1918

  • @frederickthegreatpodcast382
    @frederickthegreatpodcast382 5 лет назад +867

    Sweden:
    I’m a bit of a colonizer myself

    • @hummerskickass
      @hummerskickass 5 лет назад +21

      Alec Avdakov and now your country got colonized. How is the European Somalia doing lol?

    • @oworcestershire7331
      @oworcestershire7331 5 лет назад +74

      @@hummerskickass do you even know what you are saying?

    • @unjogratis936
      @unjogratis936 5 лет назад +39

      @@hummerskickass if your from america than your country does saudis bidding and all your politicians are bought by saudi sharia promoting nobles

    • @nandinhocunha440
      @nandinhocunha440 5 лет назад +40

      @@hummerskickass I think you need to think then type

    • @piperjj4486
      @piperjj4486 5 лет назад +1

      Ya they tried there hand in Africa too.

  • @wigglyziggly
    @wigglyziggly 5 лет назад +266

    John Adams was the fucking man. Super underrated founding father. One thing left out in this episode is that he single-handedly drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, which is not only the longest-living constitution in history, but also provided a template for the US Federal Constitution. Literally the exact same system of checks and balances.
    *dabs for John Adams*

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 Год назад +2

      Sorry but as a lifelong resident of Massachusetts I can tell you that we've had two state Constitutions since the one Adams wrote for us (our latest one was ratified in the 1930s, I believe). Which is not to say that Adams' didn't influence the one we have now, because it certainly did.

    • @noonespecial9704
      @noonespecial9704 11 месяцев назад +2

      i agree that his early work was fantastic, but his time as president tampered his reputation and set a bad precedent to the powers of the president.

    • @hagamapama
      @hagamapama 7 месяцев назад +1

      His draft of the Constitution made slavery illegal in Massachusetts. I mean they had like 2 slaves in the whole state but Adams still managed to get rid of the last of them by a clever legal draft. He was a very, very, very smart man.

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato 7 месяцев назад +3

      too bad he wasn't exactly a great President. But hey even some of the best people have flaws.

  • @MDFification1
    @MDFification1 5 лет назад +2019

    "The Boston Entirely Justified Self Defense" just doesn't have the same ring to it

    • @Oneryeone
      @Oneryeone 5 лет назад +180

      Michael Atanasio Or maybe your bias doesn't line up with the truth?

    • @kevinbooth-
      @kevinbooth- 5 лет назад +43

      Really drives home that the selfish privileged bs backed by unwarranted violence seems to be a long standing norm of the people that moved there....
      Makes the USA make more sense....

    • @bingbonghafu
      @bingbonghafu 5 лет назад +10

      “The Boston Killing”, easy!

    • @zxil6
      @zxil6 5 лет назад +80

      Why let the truth get in the way of a good revolution.

    • @Lapran3
      @Lapran3 5 лет назад +26

      Outside of the US the conflict is commonly referred to as the King Street Incident

  • @Kalnaf
    @Kalnaf 5 лет назад +263

    Not only that some in the crowd actually DARED the soldiers to fire. “Fire, you cowards”, in a mocking manner

    • @quasar7951
      @quasar7951 4 года назад +34

      Soldiers: lol ok

    • @allconsumingchicken9173
      @allconsumingchicken9173 4 года назад +23

      Soldiers fires America surprised pickachu face

    • @JinxxBootheBrink1313
      @JinxxBootheBrink1313 3 года назад +5

      that’s a reason for them not to fire

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 2 года назад +2

      @@allconsumingchicken9173 soldiers with no discipline

    • @jalukejaluke6884
      @jalukejaluke6884 2 года назад

      @snailwithinternetaccess Your kinda getting a Anti Americans vibe

  • @taube8457
    @taube8457 5 лет назад +90

    "That's called foreshadowing" - Oversimplified

  • @RedJax69
    @RedJax69 5 лет назад +523

    Thank you for bringing up both sides of this event. Too often we see history as black and white, good and bad, right and wrong, and forget that people in history were still people. They had points of view and internal justifications of their own.

    • @emilygordbort7300
      @emilygordbort7300 5 лет назад +10

      Gotta love the Internet.
      *sits down and waits for notifications from the oncoming flame war*

    • @spookyscarylamppost3431
      @spookyscarylamppost3431 5 лет назад +7

      We need more fuel!
      *Throws firewood into the flame war*

    • @benheinz8817
      @benheinz8817 5 лет назад +6

      @@emilygordbort7300 Surprisingly, it's been a week since he posted this and still nothing.

    • @Crusader-7382
      @Crusader-7382 4 года назад +1

      Ben Heinz it’s been 12 months

    • @loyalpiper
      @loyalpiper 3 года назад

      @@Crusader-7382 almost 2 years

  • @davididiart5934
    @davididiart5934 5 лет назад +110

    What I wouldn't give to hear the conversation between Adams and Preston when they met each other again.

  • @alexie832
    @alexie832 5 лет назад +354

    Boston Massacre
    Talked about in school: 😴
    Talked about by Extra Credits: 😀

    • @citavalo
      @citavalo 5 лет назад +5

      Sukeban Haven Eh both seem fine to me.

    • @andrj8844
      @andrj8844 4 года назад +1

      well theres nothing that extra credits can do worse then school in any country (school in all countries is diffrent)

    • @bepisguy6963
      @bepisguy6963 4 года назад +3

      @@andrj8844 Exactly! I'm from England and I haven't learned about the Boston Massacre

    • @cowtaplayz8277
      @cowtaplayz8277 4 года назад

      Le bruh did you guys learn about the American revoltion

    • @darrellmccall6100
      @darrellmccall6100 3 года назад

      Never talked about in school for me........great video

  • @rose5443
    @rose5443 4 года назад +122

    I literally can’t even learn in my class because the kids are always yelling and the teacher doesn’t know how to teach so thank you for single handedly teaching me about this so I don’t fail

  • @DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables
    @DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables 5 лет назад +872

    I love how y'all depicted public opinion as a honey badger. 😂😂😂

  • @theredcrusader8493
    @theredcrusader8493 5 лет назад +828

    Love the stuff but. The British flag did not have the red X yet. it was just the Scottish and English flags

    • @joyphobic
      @joyphobic 5 лет назад +197

      It ain't EC if the flags are correct!

    • @goldfishi5776
      @goldfishi5776 5 лет назад +14

      we have a flag on the play!! Ref.. what’s the call?

    • @daniellemayes860
      @daniellemayes860 5 лет назад +20

      alright coca cola leave the smartassnes to wendys

    • @PUM_Productions
      @PUM_Productions 5 лет назад +7

      What I don't get it that in a prior series of "lies" they admit they did this by mistake. Why did it happen again?

    • @SuperByakhee
      @SuperByakhee 5 лет назад +14

      Ironically, they got it RIGHT on the ships at the beginning.

  • @camerongrow6426
    @camerongrow6426 5 лет назад +97

    Adams looked adorable in this episode. I want a plushie made of him

  • @LuisTorres-dq7gt
    @LuisTorres-dq7gt 3 года назад +30

    8:23 lol "Facts don't care about your feelings" John Adams

  • @ScorpioHighlander
    @ScorpioHighlander 5 лет назад +823

    You know this is really a breath of fresh air for me. I've seen and heard so many lop sided telling of the American Revolution and the events surrounding it. It's good to see a more balanced perspective for once. The truth is a complicated and nuanced thing and it should be told as such.

    • @rhorybader4054
      @rhorybader4054 5 лет назад +58

      Don't be absurd, nobody wants to look at the gritty details and realize harsh truths about all sides involved- everyone just wants their side to be right and the other to be wrong, can't be happy otherwise.

    • @Littleman3240
      @Littleman3240 5 лет назад +3

      Just curious, but what exactly have you been told about the American Revolution?

    • @BonaparteBardithion
      @BonaparteBardithion 5 лет назад +22

      @@Littleman3240
      blah blah blah blah blah
      *And I'm the Hero!!!*

    • @FistoftheSnackBar
      @FistoftheSnackBar 5 лет назад +8

      Well, when one side has guns and no casualties; and the other side has rocks, snow, and several casualties; it's easy to know who the bad guys are.
      The analogy I use is:
      "I had every right to beat that 8yo into a coma! He was trying to hit me!" Said the 17yo football player
      I don't just mean with this particular event, I mean every time some variation of this happens (which, sadly, is often)

    • @Hugglebuns
      @Hugglebuns 5 лет назад +30

      @@FistoftheSnackBar To be fair, being backed into a corner with ice and rocks being thrown at you doesn't exactly keep you in a fair state of mind. And well, chaos breeds chaos

  • @DavidChipman
    @DavidChipman 5 лет назад +846

    As a Canadian, I find these American Revolution series very interesting. Can't wait for more!

    • @sonemesis7083
      @sonemesis7083 5 лет назад +5

      Agreed :)

    • @cheddarcheese4159
      @cheddarcheese4159 5 лет назад +32

      Yeah it’s interesting history good thing there never be this much political tension again...
      Wait

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 лет назад +30

      @@neptuneseye7832 I dunno. France once had a revolution where they barricaded the streets with wagons and furniture and stuff, the American Revolution didn't have anything like that.

    • @nicholasmaniccia1005
      @nicholasmaniccia1005 5 лет назад +37

      Honestly as an American who heard these stories so much growing up as a kid it feels like it should be in Extra Mythology, this is the Pantheon of American Gods.

    • @sonemesis7083
      @sonemesis7083 5 лет назад +5

      @@neptuneseye7832 Ukraine's been going through some shit for a while now...

  • @schaep2227
    @schaep2227 5 лет назад +25

    I love how you just made the insult bubbles say insult, taunt or jeer

  • @korstmahler
    @korstmahler 5 лет назад +95

    Colonists: 'What do you mean our actions have consequences!?"

    • @swahi2702
      @swahi2702 5 лет назад +24

      @Andrew Gray So the proper response for being taxed after the mother country loses thousands of men to protect your country is revolution?

    • @prestonnichols3911
      @prestonnichols3911 4 года назад +3

      @@swahi2702 yes

    • @hvhhvvggg8663
      @hvhhvvggg8663 4 года назад +6

      @@prestonnichols3911 Then All usa states should gain independence

    • @juniperrodley9843
      @juniperrodley9843 4 года назад +2

      *WHEN WILL YOU LEARN*
      *WHEN WILL YOU LEARN*
      *THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCEEEES*

    • @sernoddicusthegallant6986
      @sernoddicusthegallant6986 4 года назад +15

      @Andrew Gray *Casually forgets the addition of sharp shells and hard clubs included with those snowballs*

  • @shahartabenkinezer7675
    @shahartabenkinezer7675 5 лет назад +249

    8:31 - so john adams coined the term "facts don't care about your feelings"?

  • @williamyates9995
    @williamyates9995 5 лет назад +138

    3:26 when someone says history sucks.

  • @jamieflournoy
    @jamieflournoy 5 лет назад +34

    If you want to see a live-action dramatization of this event & trial, Episode 1 of HBO's "John Adams" miniseries does a great job.

  • @colinmcewen9512
    @colinmcewen9512 5 лет назад +17

    By far my favorite channel! I must admit though I really miss the old narrator, the new one is great, but the OG had a range of sardonic sarcasm and subtlety that was spot on with the seeming intent of the author that is a rare gift that I am thankful he shared with us for as long as he did.

  • @strig2162
    @strig2162 5 лет назад +308

    Soldiers: YoU bAtEr StAhP!
    People:Yeets MORE stuff
    Soldiers:Yeets bullets

    • @mrbenoit5018
      @mrbenoit5018 5 лет назад +19

      bacon eggs who says you need to be intellectual to learn history?

    • @NetherTaker
      @NetherTaker 5 лет назад +7

      People: Suprised Pikachu

    • @young-blk-investor1059
      @young-blk-investor1059 5 лет назад +1

      I love how the us wiped the floor with them after lmao and to this day Britt's are our bitches

    • @technoblode4604
      @technoblode4604 5 лет назад +9

      realCeltics fan hmm with out the french or the spanish you will be singing god save the queen today you know

    • @spongmongler6760
      @spongmongler6760 4 года назад

      such a shame all those mental institutions were closed.

  • @arwing20
    @arwing20 2 года назад +6

    These soldiers deserve praise for how long they held their fire. Wearing no armor and being pelted by rocks and clam shells by a animalistic crowd, must have been terrifying

  • @gnarlypancake2362
    @gnarlypancake2362 5 лет назад +73

    “Look how they massacred my boy,”

    • @Zamolxes77
      @Zamolxes77 4 года назад +5

      And that's how school shootings started !

    • @docrofreborn7497
      @docrofreborn7497 3 года назад

      @@Zamolxes77 no, no, No, No, No, NO, NO NO NO-

  • @danthelatch
    @danthelatch 5 лет назад +66

    I’d like a series on the Dutch and Swedish colonists in the Delaware valley because it is overshadowed by the dominance of the English colonists.

    • @drag0n_rage682
      @drag0n_rage682 5 лет назад +6

      Especially the Swedish at least some history buffs know of the dutch legacy on new york.

  • @grass4655
    @grass4655 5 лет назад +104

    In social studies we’re doing the mock trials of the Boston massacre and Boston tea party. I can’t use this, (I’m a prosecuting attorney for the Boston tea party) but this is still good :)

  • @golgarisoul
    @golgarisoul 5 лет назад +8

    I love how expressive the art is in this episode.

  • @TORchic1
    @TORchic1 5 лет назад +28

    John Adam's chubby, dopey face is the highlight of this episode.

  • @KaiTenSatsuma
    @KaiTenSatsuma 5 лет назад +177

    That's odd, I don't remember my history books from K-12 mentioning there had been someone ringing a fire bell or of a fire nearby.
    Think it was left out just to make the story more convenient and agreeable?

    • @jimmyyang5193
      @jimmyyang5193 5 лет назад +48

      Considering your K-12 book has to surface level glance at 400 years of American History (including the colonial era), I think it was left out to make the story simpler.
      For a schoolchild, it’s much more important for them to understand the Boston Massacre’s effects to political tensions of the 1770s and its relation to the American Revolution than to understand the nitty gritty details of who said what insult or rang what bell.

    • @Texan.Insomniac
      @Texan.Insomniac 5 лет назад +1

      I was heard it was a church bell

    • @jam8539
      @jam8539 5 лет назад +10

      @@Texan.Insomniac chruch bells were used as fire bells, i think EH says both

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 5 лет назад +2

      Maybe the school got all its info from Fox news.?

    • @KaiTenSatsuma
      @KaiTenSatsuma 5 лет назад +1

      @@jimmyyang5193 kids are pretty damn familiar with getting blamed for something they didn't do though XD

  • @DragoniteSpam
    @DragoniteSpam 5 лет назад +204

    I complain a lot about how history class in school was a joke, but for what it's worth we did talk about this one - not just the massacre part, but the John Adams thing, which is probably the more important bit.
    Of course it fits pretty neatly into the whole "american history" narrative so why wouldn't we have learned it, and it's not like the Bronze Age Collapse or Majapahit or anything, so there's that.

    • @verbfrombonsai8852
      @verbfrombonsai8852 5 лет назад +8

      Well, history takes way too long to teach. Schools had no choice but to simplify everything. I am happy to learn history, but I don't want to take an 8-hour a day for 1000000 years to study history in detail.
      But yeah, self-study is a good way to start.

  • @tkkmss5713
    @tkkmss5713 4 года назад +4

    Oh the inaccuracies
    4:52 yeah it was a club used by a man named Richard palms who was then shot when the soldier rose

  • @saidalasgarov4971
    @saidalasgarov4971 5 лет назад +714

    Uk: Thousands Of My men Died , Millions Pounds was spend to protect you from French
    Us: Nice
    Uk: Now,Can you please slowly pay money back by Taxes
    US: *GET OFF MY LAND OF FREEDOM RIGHT NOOWW*

    • @ciganlord
      @ciganlord 5 лет назад +28

      Entitled Patent intefises

    • @UnkindledIncandescent
      @UnkindledIncandescent 4 года назад +8

      " S l o w l y "

    • @jimboa20
      @jimboa20 4 года назад +113

      Honestly, if the colonists had representatives in Parliament, they would have just paid the taxes. Their beef was that they had ZERO representation in Parliament, and thus there was no recourse, no one to argue their cause or represent their needs or wants, unlike all other British citizens.

    • @iliketurtles5180
      @iliketurtles5180 4 года назад +12

      The Americans would've complained that they don't have equal representation

    • @robertlind186
      @robertlind186 4 года назад +31

      Actually, most serving in the war were Colonists, and those fighting were promised land, but were never given the land. The war was offensive, and was fought to attack the french, and there was very little defending

  • @raullimon4210
    @raullimon4210 5 лет назад +140

    Please do a 7 years war series
    Edit: holy shit thanks for the likes guys and girls

    • @artofthepossible7329
      @artofthepossible7329 5 лет назад +2

      Or in the New World the French and Indian War.

    • @magnuspeacock5857
      @magnuspeacock5857 5 лет назад

      +

    • @armorsmith43
      @armorsmith43 5 лет назад +2

      Raul Limon yea, I feel like between this and the Bolivar series, the 7-years war is necessary context.

    • @N3WR3N41554NC3
      @N3WR3N41554NC3 5 лет назад +3

      @@artofthepossible7329 Eh, why watch the boring part of the war when you could always watch a flute busting prussian miracle his way to success out of ridiculously low odds of managing to do so?

    • @9tailedKitsune
      @9tailedKitsune 5 лет назад +2

      Become a patron and you'll be able to help that along

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 5 лет назад +34

    I always find it impressive how Extra History digs to find the rarely-told stories in even the best-known historical events.

    • @bryan0x05
      @bryan0x05 5 лет назад

      This is literally covered by US school system to this depth.
      The only difference is I was taught that the captain said hold fire but the soldiers didn't hear him clearly and opened fire.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 лет назад +4

      @@bryan0x05 There were plenty of additional details added. I dunno about your school, but mine didn't mention the incidents leading up to the Massacre, Crispus Attucks and his central role in the mob, the details of the trial, etc. I guess YMMV on how much those details matter, but I think they're important.

    • @geoffreyherrick3443
      @geoffreyherrick3443 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah. I didn't know Adams and Preston met later on in life.

    • @ComicalOrangeVR
      @ComicalOrangeVR 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@bryan0x05 Wasn't taught any of this in my history class. Just that British troops shot into a peaceful crowd.

  • @danmur15
    @danmur15 Год назад +5

    im from Massachusetts and had heard most of the story but never knew they went to trial over it. At least they told us that the commander never really said fire, but we were just never told what happened after that night ended one way or the other

  • @XSiberia
    @XSiberia 5 лет назад +31

    "Every man deserves a defense." Timing of this is impeccable vis-a-vis current events in the Weinstein case and the persecution of his lawyer.

  • @flatlo
    @flatlo 5 лет назад +150

    I can massacre a roast dinner with more violence than this :/

    • @braydenholland2319
      @braydenholland2319 5 лет назад +3

      So you can take the lives of multiple defenseless civilians in riot. Oh wait it’s ok because I wasn’t there

    • @AsurissGP
      @AsurissGP 5 лет назад +24

      @@braydenholland2319 They were not defenseless, they attacked the soldiers, soldiers defended them selves. That's natural selection not a massacre.

    • @pyrrhusofepirus8491
      @pyrrhusofepirus8491 5 лет назад +14

      @@braydenholland2319 the soldiers were being attacked and had a right to self defence, as well as the fact that Peterson didn't want the soldiers to fire

    • @pyrrhusofepirus8491
      @pyrrhusofepirus8491 5 лет назад +2

      @@braydenholland2319 the soldiers had a right to self defence, they were being attacked and Peterson didn't want them to fire

    • @mmapinoy4484
      @mmapinoy4484 5 лет назад +4

      Colonists: Fire!!
      Soldiers: yeets bUL1eTs
      Colonists: surprised pikachu face

  • @yakuzabalooza450
    @yakuzabalooza450 5 лет назад +27

    I learned more from this video than I did ever in school.
    And I did an entire unit on this exact event in school.

  • @jesuschrist498
    @jesuschrist498 5 лет назад +50

    Wait, so doesn't that mean it's actually called The Boston "Massacre"???

  • @kjyalice
    @kjyalice 4 года назад +6

    This actually clears up a lot of questions I had since I was a child.

  • @jesternario
    @jesternario 5 лет назад +8

    This and the Civil War were the only two things teachers ever taught me in my schools, and I still learned more from this video than I did in those damn history classes.

  • @oo-ef3fv
    @oo-ef3fv 5 лет назад +75

    I love it when people say England but use the Union Jack

    • @nicolasmarazuela1010
      @nicolasmarazuela1010 4 года назад +6

      Wales was conquered and transformed into core provinces. For some hundred years the majority of Ireland was defacto a colony. And scotland also hat two centuries no representation.

    • @bazmc1153
      @bazmc1153 3 года назад

      @@nicolasmarazuela1010 Scotland was Scotland before England was England.

  • @naon1793
    @naon1793 3 года назад +5

    2:31 woah

  • @Dauntless7005
    @Dauntless7005 5 лет назад +4

    When a 10 minute RUclips video teaches you more about the Boston massacre than an entire lesson at school

  • @indigothedemigod3989
    @indigothedemigod3989 5 лет назад +39

    *Me:* now. do the one about the Boston 3 Party.
    *Little sister:* don't you mean the Boston Tea Party
    *Me:* No.
    (proceed by showing her a picture of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen)

  • @LordRavensong
    @LordRavensong 5 лет назад +13

    Most of the time when the Revolutionary War is taught, at least in my state, the Boston Massacre was glossed over. I think there was maybe one time where they mentioned that the soldiers were provoked

  • @margo_3377
    @margo_3377 3 года назад +56

    Throws rocks and has weapons while encouraging to fire
    They fire
    Shocked face

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard 3 года назад +9

    Remember the days where police were put on trial if they killed someone accidentally?

  • @blakejarvis6526
    @blakejarvis6526 5 лет назад +451

    Ah yes, the great Boston tea OOF of 1770

    • @Nate9273
      @Nate9273 5 лет назад +3

      Is this Pew History?

    • @peterstickney7608
      @peterstickney7608 5 лет назад +3

      1773, actually.

    • @tomanderson6545
      @tomanderson6545 5 лет назад +1

      OOF

    • @shleemyd8169
      @shleemyd8169 5 лет назад

      Boston tea party

    • @jamesricker3997
      @jamesricker3997 5 лет назад +6

      That tea was garbage. The East India company was the sole legal provider of tea to the American colonies. The tea that was not of good enough quality can be sold in Europe they forced on the colonies.

  • @mysticalpie7402
    @mysticalpie7402 5 лет назад +15

    I absolutely love this Extra History videos. They are amazing and every time I see one that I haven't seen or is new I become so excited to learn about a topic that I had no clue existed or to learn more about a topic i thought i new all the details on. Keep up the amazing work.

  • @holl4nder
    @holl4nder 3 года назад +44

    Americans: *rings fire bell*
    Americans: FIRE!
    Britain: *fires*
    America: **so you have chosen death**

  • @Cybersoldier93
    @Cybersoldier93 5 лет назад +5

    0:34 Then out of the darkness. Walpole emerges with a plan.

  • @timjack129
    @timjack129 5 лет назад +45

    Wow! this is in-tea-resting.

  • @mjbull5156
    @mjbull5156 5 лет назад +7

    The first episode of HBO's "John Adams" series does a good treatment of this from his perspective.

  • @scoutcombs3923
    @scoutcombs3923 5 лет назад +1

    You guys are one of my favorite channels, thanks you for your wonderful educational topics. You’re truly doing the world a service

  • @LudicrousPlatypus
    @LudicrousPlatypus 3 года назад +2

    I see that the illustrators for this episode have seen John Adams HBO miniseries

  • @Master_WannaBe_
    @Master_WannaBe_ 5 лет назад +7

    Y’all should check out the John Adams HBO mini-series, Paul Giamatti gives an outstanding performance of John Adams especially during the trial.

  • @benjaminzeledon7626
    @benjaminzeledon7626 5 лет назад +14

    I'm surprised you guys didn't wait a year for the 250th anniversary

  • @Nagano_Nobi2011
    @Nagano_Nobi2011 2 года назад +3

    1:56 I love when he said that.

  • @atlasprime6193
    @atlasprime6193 2 года назад +8

    “Colonist have lower tax than Britain”
    “Britain passed more taxes to the Colonist”
    That basically means the Colonist spending on taxes is no different than the British spending on their own taxes.

  • @cindchan
    @cindchan 5 лет назад +24

    John Adams was an amazing person! And history only now seems to be realizing that!

  • @jpaysgamer8877
    @jpaysgamer8877 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you guys so much for doing this topic!

  • @tommykarrick9130
    @tommykarrick9130 5 лет назад +2

    I love how one series at a time extra history is slowly fleshing out the larger stories of some of these eras

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 5 лет назад +4

    Yeah, don't do that weird thing where you have the sound of someone shouting over someone talking calmly 2:10

  • @Devalation
    @Devalation 5 лет назад +16

    As a patriotic American, I've done extensive research on our founding. This is a very accurate portrayal of events. The revolution was not the unshackling of a tyrannical empire as much as a PR problem that poured salt in American wounds. Well done!

  • @gandhithegreat328
    @gandhithegreat328 4 года назад +18

    The moral I take from this story is be true to your morals as John Adams did regardless of what others think or what the consequences may be.
    Who knows? They might elect you President someday

  • @richardhoran6313
    @richardhoran6313 5 лет назад

    I really loved the sound editing on this episode! Great job as always guys 👍

  • @AudioEsoterixxx
    @AudioEsoterixxx 3 года назад +10

    8:18 Mans really just said “Facts don’t care about your feelings”

  • @Nikolapoleon
    @Nikolapoleon 5 лет назад +26

    Remember: the American Revolution was about more than just taxes.
    When the colonies were founded they were completely self-governing and received no support from Great Britain. They wrote their own laws, built their own militias, and even the colonial governors themselves weren't appointed by the king. They were simply private citizens who negotiated with the British government for land contracts in the New World.
    During the mid-eighteenth century these independent governors slowly started getting replaced by British bureaucrats, as the king either bought or forcibly seized entire colonies. Now, if you consider the fact that once the king took over these colonies he immediately used them as staging grounds for wars that HE started, and then forced the colonists to quarter HIS troops and pay for HIS war....
    You might start to realize why, for many colonists, the British would've seemed like an invading foreign power.

    • @QueenDarkChocolate
      @QueenDarkChocolate 5 лет назад +1

      Yes!! Thank you!

    • @owenmcphee-keath3388
      @owenmcphee-keath3388 5 лет назад +3

      facts are stubborn things, they still were a British colony. Also, Canada never had a problem with France OR Britain.

  • @jimboa20
    @jimboa20 4 года назад +6

    John Adams is my ancestor, and my favorite founding father. He was always principled, to a fault.

  • @Phoenixesper1
    @Phoenixesper1 5 лет назад

    I watched nearly all of the history ones you've made and its amazing how entertaining you have made still pictures and monotone voice. I wish history class in school had been this

  • @ConcreteEcho
    @ConcreteEcho 5 лет назад +2

    I love the art at 8:43. And Zoey looks regal in that wig

  • @AiyanaHuger1995
    @AiyanaHuger1995 5 лет назад +5

    The two narrators for EH have amazing voices.

  • @coleramirez8556
    @coleramirez8556 4 года назад +3

    This whole video helped me a lot on my history project

  • @politicscommentator
    @politicscommentator 5 лет назад +5

    I'm really digging this animation style. Great job to the artists!

  • @JohnnyBoy-ym5ct
    @JohnnyBoy-ym5ct 4 года назад +1

    The intro music brings a smile to my face everytime I hear it. Please don't ever change it! 🙏❤️

  • @brokendoughnut3903
    @brokendoughnut3903 5 лет назад +57

    Ahh yes another fine dose of American history

    • @patrickbeart7091
      @patrickbeart7091 5 лет назад +2

      I wish they'd do American history 101 for all the non-Americans who didn't do American history in-depth at school

    • @brokendoughnut3903
      @brokendoughnut3903 5 лет назад +8

      A lot of what they do teach us is biased however. For instance, when the textbook referred to the American rebels, it referred to them as soldiers. However, when we it was time to learn about the Civil War, the South was ALWAYS referred to as rebels.

    • @pocketheart1450
      @pocketheart1450 5 лет назад +2

      They were rebelling, that makes them rebels.

    • @alexanderchristopher6237
      @alexanderchristopher6237 5 лет назад +5

      @@brokendoughnut3903 for a country made by rebels, they sure were surprised that they spawned some rebels as well.

  • @MorpheusTheBro
    @MorpheusTheBro 5 лет назад +5

    I would love to see a 7 years war series! Or a series on the revolution. It's fascinating from an outside perspective

  • @m3gawither7734
    @m3gawither7734 5 лет назад +52

    DO LAFYETTE NEXT PLEASE!!!!🇫🇷🇺🇸

  • @realamod
    @realamod 5 лет назад

    The way you start a story is so amazing!!!

  • @QueenDarkChocolate
    @QueenDarkChocolate 5 лет назад +8

    Thanks for the nice summing up of a complex series of events and highlighting a great hero: John Adams.

  • @ldblokland463
    @ldblokland463 5 лет назад +46

    5 people died. What a "massacre"

    • @HarveyJackOlden
      @HarveyJackOlden 5 лет назад +11

      Not only that but it happend because of a misunderstanding and was partially in self defense

    • @Nikarus2370
      @Nikarus2370 5 лет назад +6

      I mean, in most countries today, 3-5 or more people shot (not necessarily killed) constitutes a "Mass shooting"

    • @James-dq7oi
      @James-dq7oi 5 лет назад

      I used to think it was even 7

    • @QueenDarkChocolate
      @QueenDarkChocolate 5 лет назад +4

      Population was very small, every person counted. Boston was a small city where everyone knew each other. Yes, it was a massacre

    • @RevengeOfTheKaizer
      @RevengeOfTheKaizer 5 лет назад +1

      By definition, yes.

  • @dreadedninja7058
    @dreadedninja7058 Год назад +2

    @4:43 We know it was Connor Kenway who said fire

  • @Crick1952
    @Crick1952 5 лет назад +5

    We had to do a report on a random President in 2nd grade. We picked the name out of a hat, I got John Adams.
    To this day he's still my favorite President.

  • @ReformedSooner24
    @ReformedSooner24 5 лет назад +3

    I highly suggest watching this part of the John Adams miniseries. I mean the entire series is good, but especially the court part

  • @saltypotato8183
    @saltypotato8183 5 лет назад +566

    Britain: Ok so we spent tons of money protecting you and we’re out of money
    America: Ok
    Britain: so we should get some money back right
    America: seems reasonable
    Britain: so can we tax you for some money?
    America: *REVOLUTION* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @vulbvibe
      @vulbvibe 5 лет назад +29

      Honestly the French Indian war (which I guess you’re referencing) was waged more so Britain could fight France

    • @ethpling165
      @ethpling165 5 лет назад +5

      Y can’t I change my profile Picture No Taxation with representation

    • @saltypotato8183
      @saltypotato8183 5 лет назад

      Arsenikk bro the chat I commented between Britain and The US is after the 7 years war

    • @impossibleeatable501
      @impossibleeatable501 5 лет назад +7

      Vibe Vraiment yes but also there was the fact that the French were building forts and looked ready to attack the colonies so basically st that time the Americans were massive babies and revolted

    • @jakinluk2513
      @jakinluk2513 5 лет назад

      lol, so true. This is exactly what I was thinking when we were doing our Revolutionary war unit

  • @bloodmooncomix457
    @bloodmooncomix457 2 года назад +2

    BRAVO! BRAVO! That was narrated and animated well!
    👌😎

  • @nicholaspagdanganan4727
    @nicholaspagdanganan4727 4 года назад +1

    what Adams said in 8:18 is from HBO show called john Adams when they were in the court roon