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!” bit.ly/EHPatreon
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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*
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@davididiart5934 Hardly seeing the colonies were our colonies, not an independent sovereign nation. They were our own people - and yet they betrayed us.
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.
@@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
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
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....
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.
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.
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)
@@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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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*
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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?
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* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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
*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)
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.
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.
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
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
“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.
Very interesting video. Cant wait for more! Also, proposal for next video; Balkans (seriously, you gusy covered every inch of history across all inhabited continets, form Americas to Asia, to Australia and Africa, but you missed the Balkans?)
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.
4:20 You have to give redcoats props for massive balls of steel. 7 of them walk in a crowd of several hundred angry people. I can see how they conquered largest Empire in history. Take a look at romanian protests from spring and last year, jandarmerie is out in force and just clubs passerbys. And John Adams had such massive balls, that he created his own gravity field. He goes and defends the rights of hated men, contrary to the fad of "kill them".
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.
1:15 England: “So you know how we’re defending you?” America: “Yeah?” England: “And that we’re now bankrupt from defending you?” America: “Yeah?” England: “Well, can you just maybe pay us some money so we can carry on defending you?” America: “No. and now we’re going independent”
I had a edpuzzel with this video attached to it as an assignment in 5th grade and became so obsessed with it that I memorized the channel name from the intro so here I am once more 2 years later
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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!”
bit.ly/EHPatreon
Extra Credits yay!
1 up Mario credits!
So much chaos in za warudo
I imagine the soldiers just kinda panicked when they heard that.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah the American "education system" is a joke.
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.
Yeah those "Texas edition" textbooks are a tricksy bunch 😒
Some US states have less of an "education system" and more of an "indoctrination system".
The faces are hilarious. Love how this new style captures confusion, rage and confused rage perfectly.
I love how far apary the middle parliament member's eyes are.
Homestuck pfp
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.
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.
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
Of course you did (btw good history teacher)
@@depressedninjaturtle1813 I love your username-
That sounds like a fun class
*Paine
Did with this with my teacher back in school, too!
Ms. Gore, you were the best history teacher!
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.
They are kind of cool, but they could be out of place in modern minimalistic fashions.
@@Wolfen443 Nah. I'm looking at buying one now.
I got like a giant costume one
How about musketeer hats too? Those were pretty cool
Just get a wide brimmed felt hat, you can pin the brim up on different sides to make different styles.
“Facts don’t care about your feelings” -John Adams
*puts down all the evidence for climate change*
Yep.
Edit: fixed the typo
If only everyone meant it all the time and not just when it works for them.
Was John Adams' wife a doctor?
I was quoting Adams when arguing with conservatives without realizing it. xD
scyx it’s a joke. That’s what Ben Shapiro says, so your actually quoting a conservative when putting down conservatives
Ah yes, the least massacrery massacre that ever massacred.
True.
Multiple people killed by their ruling government. That's a massacre. 1770's Waco.
People were killed, but let's argue semantics.
The worst outcome of a snowball fight ever.
Yep
Adam's dopey face while holding the join or die flag is so fricking great
Dat upside down face at 9:39 though.
I'll take $500 on Walpole behind the shouting of the order to fire.
onyx bell literally behind
DEAL
300 galactic credits
Ill deal 1000 shmekles
@@doopboop8359 DEAL
Americans: "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
British: **opens fire**
Americans: [Shocked Pikachu face]
Very nice 10/10
Karbi Kid Time to send the loyalist back in feathers
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Korstmahler Americans: wait there is fire on your-
British: You heard them, fire!
Americans: Wait-
"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
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*
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.
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.
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.
too bad he wasn't exactly a great President. But hey even some of the best people have flaws.
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.
Gotta love the Internet.
*sits down and waits for notifications from the oncoming flame war*
We need more fuel!
*Throws firewood into the flame war*
@@emilygordbort7300 Surprisingly, it's been a week since he posted this and still nothing.
Ben Heinz it’s been 12 months
@@Crusader-7382 almost 2 years
Britain: Hey we protected you, so now you should help us pay the debts.
13 Colonies: Well yes, but actually no.
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.
We never asked for your help with other countries wanting a piece of the country
@@davididiart5934 Hardly seeing the colonies were our colonies, not an independent sovereign nation. They were our own people - and yet they betrayed us.
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.
@@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
Not only that some in the crowd actually DARED the soldiers to fire. “Fire, you cowards”, in a mocking manner
Soldiers: lol ok
Soldiers fires America surprised pickachu face
that’s a reason for them not to fire
@@allconsumingchicken9173 soldiers with no discipline
@snailwithinternetaccess Your kinda getting a Anti Americans vibe
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
"The Boston Entirely Justified Self Defense" just doesn't have the same ring to it
Michael Atanasio Or maybe your bias doesn't line up with the truth?
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....
“The Boston Killing”, easy!
Why let the truth get in the way of a good revolution.
Outside of the US the conflict is commonly referred to as the King Street Incident
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.
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.
Just curious, but what exactly have you been told about the American Revolution?
@@Littleman3240
blah blah blah blah blah
*And I'm the Hero!!!*
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)
@@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
As a Canadian, I find these American Revolution series very interesting. Can't wait for more!
Agreed :)
Yeah it’s interesting history good thing there never be this much political tension again...
Wait
@@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.
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.
@@neptuneseye7832 Ukraine's been going through some shit for a while now...
"That's called foreshadowing" - Oversimplified
Ah yes
Both of my fav history channels
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.
What I wouldn't give to hear the conversation between Adams and Preston when they met each other again.
I love how y'all depicted public opinion as a honey badger. 😂😂😂
An accurate depiction.
Don't mess with the badger.
I love honey badgers!.
more like public outrage
because, like the regular public, honey Badgers don't give a shit
Boston Massacre
Talked about in school: 😴
Talked about by Extra Credits: 😀
Sukeban Haven Eh both seem fine to me.
well theres nothing that extra credits can do worse then school in any country (school in all countries is diffrent)
@@andrj8844 Exactly! I'm from England and I haven't learned about the Boston Massacre
Le bruh did you guys learn about the American revoltion
Never talked about in school for me........great video
Sweden:
I’m a bit of a colonizer myself
Alec Avdakov and now your country got colonized. How is the European Somalia doing lol?
@@hummerskickass do you even know what you are saying?
@@hummerskickass if your from america than your country does saudis bidding and all your politicians are bought by saudi sharia promoting nobles
@@hummerskickass I think you need to think then type
Ya they tried there hand in Africa too.
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.
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.
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 :)
We’re learning the Industrial Revolution
We’ve already learned about the War if 1812
Cool
Ah I would love to be a prosecutor
Adams looked adorable in this episode. I want a plushie made of him
same
8:23 lol "Facts don't care about your feelings" John Adams
8:31 - so john adams coined the term "facts don't care about your feelings"?
Ah yes and "facts are stubborn things"
Yeah, before ben shapiro 😂😂😂
ok this is epic
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.
Especially the Swedish at least some history buffs know of the dutch legacy on new york.
3:26 when someone says history sucks.
Or 7:23
I love how you just made the insult bubbles say insult, taunt or jeer
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*
Entitled Patent intefises
" S l o w l y "
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.
The Americans would've complained that they don't have equal representation
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
Soldiers: YoU bAtEr StAhP!
People:Yeets MORE stuff
Soldiers:Yeets bullets
bacon eggs who says you need to be intellectual to learn history?
People: Suprised Pikachu
I love how the us wiped the floor with them after lmao and to this day Britt's are our bitches
realCeltics fan hmm with out the french or the spanish you will be singing god save the queen today you know
such a shame all those mental institutions were closed.
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?
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.
I was heard it was a church bell
@@Texan.Insomniac chruch bells were used as fire bells, i think EH says both
Maybe the school got all its info from Fox news.?
@@jimmyyang5193 kids are pretty damn familiar with getting blamed for something they didn't do though XD
I always find it impressive how Extra History digs to find the rarely-told stories in even the best-known historical events.
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.
@@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.
Yeah. I didn't know Adams and Preston met later on in life.
@@bryan0x05 Wasn't taught any of this in my history class. Just that British troops shot into a peaceful crowd.
I love how expressive the art is in this episode.
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.
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.
Please do a 7 years war series
Edit: holy shit thanks for the likes guys and girls
Or in the New World the French and Indian War.
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Raul Limon yea, I feel like between this and the Bolivar series, the 7-years war is necessary context.
@@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?
Become a patron and you'll be able to help that along
I learned more from this video than I did ever in school.
And I did an entire unit on this exact event in school.
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* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Honestly the French Indian war (which I guess you’re referencing) was waged more so Britain could fight France
Y can’t I change my profile Picture No Taxation with representation
Arsenikk bro the chat I commented between Britain and The US is after the 7 years war
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
lol, so true. This is exactly what I was thinking when we were doing our Revolutionary war unit
Colonists: 'What do you mean our actions have consequences!?"
@Andrew Gray So the proper response for being taxed after the mother country loses thousands of men to protect your country is revolution?
@@swahi2702 yes
@@prestonnichols3911 Then All usa states should gain independence
*WHEN WILL YOU LEARN*
*WHEN WILL YOU LEARN*
*THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCEEEES*
@Andrew Gray *Casually forgets the addition of sharp shells and hard clubs included with those snowballs*
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.
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
Lol
This actually clears up a lot of questions I had since I was a child.
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!
I love it when people say England but use the Union Jack
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.
@@nicolasmarazuela1010 Scotland was Scotland before England was England.
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
*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)
Just woosh me on this
😂
@@thewanderinggamer2410 Boston Celtics
“Look how they massacred my boy,”
And that's how school shootings started !
@@Zamolxes77 no, no, No, No, No, NO, NO NO NO-
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
Ah yes, the great Boston tea OOF of 1770
Is this Pew History?
1773, actually.
OOF
Boston tea party
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.
"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.
Americans: *rings fire bell*
Americans: FIRE!
Britain: *fires*
America: **so you have chosen death**
LOLLLLLLLLL
The intro music brings a smile to my face everytime I hear it. Please don't ever change it! 🙏❤️
John Adam's chubby, dopey face is the highlight of this episode.
The first episode of HBO's "John Adams" series does a good treatment of this from his perspective.
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.
Yes!! Thank you!
facts are stubborn things, they still were a British colony. Also, Canada never had a problem with France OR Britain.
When a 10 minute RUclips video teaches you more about the Boston massacre than an entire lesson at school
You guys are one of my favorite channels, thanks you for your wonderful educational topics. You’re truly doing the world a service
I love how one series at a time extra history is slowly fleshing out the larger stories of some of these eras
Thanks for the nice summing up of a complex series of events and highlighting a great hero: John Adams.
0:34 Then out of the darkness. Walpole emerges with a plan.
I'm really digging this animation style. Great job to the artists!
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
I don't get thanks.
I just lose kings.
Throws rocks and has weapons while encouraging to fire
They fire
Shocked face
Y’all should check out the John Adams HBO mini-series, Paul Giamatti gives an outstanding performance of John Adams especially during the trial.
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
Wait, so doesn't that mean it's actually called The Boston "Massacre"???
I was wondering when this channel was going to talk about the Revolution! What’s next? NAPOLEON!? I love this channel keep up the good work!!!
John Adams is my ancestor, and my favorite founding father. He was always principled, to a fault.
This whole video helped me a lot on my history project
John Adams was an amazing person! And history only now seems to be realizing that!
And a future president.
Thank you guys so much for doing this topic!
BRAVO! BRAVO! That was narrated and animated well!
👌😎
0:21 "They throw snowballs and sharp hunks of ice."
Also glass, rocks, and oyster and clam shells (among other things).
(Local Boston-Boi): *Sees fellow Boston-Boi get hit with a musket)
*Pulls out shades and baseball bat*: "Time to go bonk."
“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.
I would love to see a 7 years war series! Or a series on the revolution. It's fascinating from an outside perspective
what Adams said in 8:18 is from HBO show called john Adams when they were in the court roon
Very interesting video. Cant wait for more!
Also, proposal for next video; Balkans (seriously, you gusy covered every inch of history across all inhabited continets, form Americas to Asia, to Australia and Africa, but you missed the Balkans?)
Wow! this is in-tea-resting.
u are not funny
Ahh yes another fine dose of American history
I wish they'd do American history 101 for all the non-Americans who didn't do American history in-depth at school
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.
They were rebelling, that makes them rebels.
@@brokendoughnut3903 for a country made by rebels, they sure were surprised that they spawned some rebels as well.
I love the art at 8:43. And Zoey looks regal in that wig
this vid helped me with a slide show so much thank you so much!!!
4:20 You have to give redcoats props for massive balls of steel. 7 of them walk in a crowd of several hundred angry people. I can see how they conquered largest Empire in history. Take a look at romanian protests from spring and last year, jandarmerie is out in force and just clubs passerbys.
And John Adams had such massive balls, that he created his own gravity field. He goes and defends the rights of hated men, contrary to the fad of "kill them".
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.
The two narrators for EH have amazing voices.
1:15
England: “So you know how we’re defending you?”
America: “Yeah?”
England: “And that we’re now bankrupt from defending you?”
America: “Yeah?”
England: “Well, can you just maybe pay us some money so we can carry on defending you?”
America: “No. and now we’re going independent”
American logic 101
1:56 I love when he said that.
1:57 - 1:58
4:48 - 4:49 FIRE!!
I'm surprised you guys didn't wait a year for the 250th anniversary
Britain: Hey, uhh... We’ll need money to protect you guys
Americans: Screw that, RIOT!!!!
Capissotor America in one sentence ^
Actually the war was offensive against France. Also the colonies had no parliament to ease the taxes, which was against Britain’s constitution.
I highly suggest watching this part of the John Adams miniseries. I mean the entire series is good, but especially the court part
Yeah, don't do that weird thing where you have the sound of someone shouting over someone talking calmly 2:10
I had a edpuzzel with this video attached to it as an assignment in 5th grade and became so obsessed with it that I memorized the channel name from the intro so here I am once more 2 years later
@10:29 The character signing in front ofAdams has his face drawn upside down, was this on purpuse, and if so, to what extent?
The colonists were throwing clams, rocks, ice, and snow. This is practically the 18th century version of modern riots.
na its a snowball fight gone wrong
DO LAFYETTE NEXT PLEASE!!!!🇫🇷🇺🇸
Colonel Frost YES
Colonel Frost YES