With "as an American", do you mean like a person from Chile? Brazil? Mexico? Canada? They are all in America. America is a continent, not a country. South America, Central America, and North America. The US is exactly that. "The united states OF America". Sorry, I'm European.. Oh Wait! No! I'm Norwegian... My bad!
these comments are fun to read Thanks for checking out the video. This was meant to be a quick-study version of US history since this was a final project for my class. I really enjoyed Bill's style and I used him as an inspiration to make this video by putting my creative hobbies together. As for the future, I'll pursue to be more stylistic, since I do want to make more of these history videos, but instead putting more of my spirit.
To be fair, cramming an entire year's worth of high school U.S. history class into 15 minutes is pretty difficult and he at least mentioned all of the important stuff
The Property of Louisiana when Napoleon sold it to Thomas Jefferson was roughly, the size of 828,000 Miles. He sold it to Jefferson for 4 cents per acre, so 0.4 x 828,000 = $331,200, which nowadays would be somewhere around 15Million
I'd love to see your reaction to the Oversimplified videos about the Civil War, World Wars I and II. I think those are the best, although the one about the Cold War is pretty good, too.
All you need to really know about is the horny one that kept killing his wives and set off a bunch of religious wars, the ones that lost all the colonies so the empire collapsed.
Having taken many history classes, this is very accurate...but very fast. Check out the decision about making Kansas a slave state or not (very important in the spark of the civil war). If you know the history, you get all this.
For perspective, we bought 8 acres of land this past winter for $130,000. That's around $16,000 per acre, which is the going rate for rural land that is usable for development or agriculture. Raw land (heavily wooded or rocky) usually goes for about $5,000 per acre, while suburban land with various amenities in a great school district can reach upwards of $200,000 per acre. Ours came with a lake, farmland, woodland, a spring, coal seam, clay, etc. Pretty good deal for homesteading land.
I watched this video on my own at double speed and it made sense the whole time Just one thing though, I’ve lived in the south for 8 years and I never met a southerner that denies the civil war or believes that the south losing was a bad thing
Whereas I know someone born and raised in California who will argue that the Civil War was not about slavery. When I was at uni I did meet someone from Texas who swore that Texas did not ever lose the Civil War, that Texas is not actually a State in the Union, and that Texas born residents have their own citizenship cards.
@@nathanforrest2061 I sometimes encounter people who say the Civil War wasn't about slavery. Slavery and the protection of it is mentioned in the articles of secession in the states that seceded so I don't see how anyone can believe that. When I post links to it many don't even realize this until they read them.
@@Anon54387 It was about slavery for some of the slaveowners, no doubt, but very few in the south owned any slaves and the average Confederate soldier didn't give a crap about slavery one way or another. For them it was about self-governance, and the right to secede if they didn't agree with the federal government. It definitely wasn't about slavery for the north either, for the north it was about keeping the union together. If you asked any regular Union soldiers about why they were fighting they would not have mentioned slavery at all, until quite late in the war when it became policy to free slaves in the south to disrupt the wartime economy of the south (while doing nothing about slavery in the north or border states). The issue of slavery was the issue that split the states into two camps, which led to the secession of the southern states, which led to the war. But saying that means the war was over slavery is missing a lot of context and doesn't accurately portray the motivations of the two sides. It was a war about the right to secede, whether that was secession to keep slavery around or for any other reason. Slavery would have ended pretty soon regardless and everyone pretty much knew that. To quote Lincoln: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
I love how everyone puts slavery in a red reoublican thing when it was technically democratic parties owning slaves. A true republican cares about the nation as a whole. LINCOLN WAS A REPEPUBLICAN BTW. This shit is so skewed, missing context, and historically inaccurate by like ten years?
I followed the video but he's glossing over issues and events that could all have their own videos. I wouldn't think many, not familiar with US History, would follow this well.
Portugal got more than a tiny chunk in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Sure they got a tiny bit of South America which would eventually expand and become Brazil, but because of the treaty, Portugal won influence over Africa and especially the Indian Ocean, which was what they wanted.
@@garycamara9955 What’s with the attitude? I’m saying because Millie thought we “copied” British place names so I was clarifying the settlers from wherever they came from named them. Relax
@@garycamara9955 Don’t DUH people if you didn’t even know Spain conquered La Louisiane and named it Louisiana. We literally use the Spanish name for it to this day lmao
Little Rock was La Petite Roche. It’s a French settlement of course, founded at the first rock of any real size that the French explorers saw on the trek up the Arkansas River from the Mississippi River. Little Rock is basically where the flat Delta farmland of east AR starts to become the foothills of the Ozark and Ouachita mtns in W/NW AR. Edit: See, Gary Camara? That’s an example of one appropriate way to make a comment on someone’s post. Just showing you what it looks like, since you seem to be unaware of how to function appropriately when it comes to basic social skills.
That looked like Mesa Verde in Colorado. Its a National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage site. You can literally take a tour and go them there. Most are restricted and you can't go in but Mesa Verde you can if you take the tour. There are a lot of other ones in that general area but if you can only pick one that's the one you want.
10 or more states were once a part of Mexico.. including California, FL, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada.. those are only I can remember but there's more
Louisiana Purchase was extremely inexpensive, as was the purchase of Alaska from the Russians. The debate on the abolition of slavery began during the Colonial period, well before George Washington was born. It was pivotal in the ratification of The Constitution, in that the Southern States would not have joined The Union without a provision allowing slavery.
There are a couple of different sets of preserved ruins of the type you wish to see. They are all in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado - most are relatively close to the borders between these three states. Canyon de Chelly (National Monument) is in north-eastern Arizona (Technically within the Navajo Nation); The Gila Cliff Dwellings (National Monument) is near Silver City, New Mexico; Mesa Verde (National Monument) is in southwestern Colorado There are also - Aztec Ruins (Nat Mon), near Aztec, New Mexico, Bandelier (Nat Mon), near Los Alamos, New Mexico. There are many more in the area, I've only listed the "flagship" sites. But also, if you are in that part of the US, there are the Taos, and Acoma Pueblos - which have been occupied dwellings for around 1000 years (and are still in use) Santa Fe, New Mexico also has 2 of the oldest building in continuous use from the Colonial era. The "Palace of the Governors" dates to 1610, and the San Miguel Mission predates 1628.
As an American and a retired teacher who taught American History, I think one of the biggest reasons the US has so much history packed into just a few hundred years is its sheer size. Being almost as big as all of Europe and 40 times the size of the UK means that a lot of history was being made simultaneously in numerous parts of America. Also, with immigrants coming to America from colonial times to the present, things are in a constant state of flux. In the US, history and literature are taught simultaneously. For example, you can't teach Shakespeare in a British Literature class without teaching about what was going on in Elizabethan times, otherwise, there is no context. Conversely you can't teach about Elizabethan times in a history class without teaching about what was going on in science, the arts, and literature-- Shakespeare, Spencer, etc. As a Literature teacher, I had to teach mini lessons on American History in American Literature classes, British History in British Literature classes, and World History in World Literature classes. At the same time, the history teachers were touching on literature through the ages in their History classes. That meant teachers had to consult each other. For example, a history teacher colleague had her kids read "The Miller's Tale" from Canterbury Tales when she was teaching the late Middle Ages, so I avoided that tale when teaching Chaucer to my British Literature kids and taught other tales from Canterbury Tales instead. When I planned to teach The Grapes of Wrath in an American Literature class, I consulted the same colleague as to when she was covering the Great Depression in American History class so that we'd be somewhat in sinc.
Being an American who likes history, none of this was new to me -- just amusing the glib, offhand way the history was presented. This was like a thorough high school history course in a couple of minutes!
Louisiana the state I live in is the only state that kept a lot of the French ways. In America a few city's and towns form things we call Counties but in Louisiana we call ours Parishes like the French
Those cliffs you speak of visiting are here in Colorado - southwest by Durango called Mesa Verde. went camping there last year - hit me up if you wanna see some pics.
I had to pause video at 9:59 and to tell you that i am born raised American and this history was so true... There is a lot of "Inner" History of USA that most of people overlooked in small parts of history... now, I am unpausing this video.. by the way, I really enjoyed watching ur videos lately... Mississippian
Being from southern Ohio, there are Adena mounds galore. The most famous being Serpent Mound. Serpent Mound is an internationally known National Historic Landmark built by the ancient American Indian cultures of Ohio. It is an effigy mound (a mound in the shape of an animal) representing a snake with a curled tail. Nearby are three burial mounds-two created by the Adena culture (800 B.C.-A.D. 100), and one by the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000-1650). In 1991 site excavation used radiocarbon dating to determine that the mound was approximately 900 years old. This would suggest that the builders of the Serpent belonged to the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000-1500). In 2014, another team of archaeologists presented new radiocarbon dates for the Serpent suggesting that it was built by the Adena culture at around 300 B.C. The mound is 1348 feet long (411 meters). In all, the snake stretches a quarter of a mile (402 meters) and ranges from 1.2 to 1.5 meters (3.9 to 4.9 feet) in height and 6.0 to 7.6 meters (19.7 to 24.9 feet) in width. It’s on the site of an ancient meteor impact dating to around 300 million years ago; the crater, measuring 8 to 14 km (5.0 miles to 8.7 miles) in diameter, is known as Serpent Mound crater. Serpent Mound is the largest snake effigy mound in the world. You really need to see pictures, that's if you don't visit on your trip to the states. Sorry for the unsolicited history lesson. ruclips.net/video/x9c511-DXN0/видео.html
The Louisiana Purchase was approximately 18 dollars per square mile. You're probably thinking per acre, which it was four cents per acre. Total of 15 million dollars in then money, but in today's money it'd be over 300 million dollars. Definitely a bargain deal
The civil war was also about the north using the wealth that came from slave labor to fund their cities while leaving the south behind and patting themselves on the back for being “free states” Plenty of slaves in New Jersey worked illegally. That isn’t discussed much.
A good experiment would be to watch this video then spend 3 to 6 months studying the topic and then re-watch the video taking a survey after each. The difference in the opinions would be massive.
The oversimplified is a great series and lots of good humor dotted throughout, but also trying to be as historically accurate as possible with the facts.
Yes, absolutely you guys should cover the Over Simplified series together! I'm surprised you both haven't tackled those together yet, would be great content
Yes, it was. Lay off the Lost Cause Revisionism. It was involved in most of the major issues of the sectional crisis in the decade and a half before the war and had been lurking as a major issue for decades beforehand. Actually read the secession documents. They were very clear about why they were fighting. The idea that it wasn't about slavery was made up after the war because they wanted to frame themselves as being a forward-looking place(called The New South) while sweeping the slavery issue under the rug. Also, it gave them a reason for a war that killed 620k people that was more noble than the reality: that all those people died because the South was paranoid and, thought the North was going to ban slavery, and seceded.
FYI, you can read each southern states declaration of secession....slavery is the first item mentioned in most of those declarations...but random comment on youtube is more credible than the actual declarations.........
direct quote from Texas: "the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time"
2nd sentence from Georgia: "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding States with reference to the subject of African slavery."
@@waffles824 From Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
History at warp speed. One thing though, Columbus never put as much as one toe on the continent of North America. What he landed on was the Caribbean Islands. The first European to find America was Leif Ericson, a Norseman, long before Columbus was born.
Even as an American who knows about all this stuff it flashes by so quick that I'm all "Hey, yeah, I think I kno-" and then I'm already 5 subjects behind.
I'm from Pennsylvania and honestly I thought this video ( the history of the United States I guess) would be alot like the history of the entire world I guess, but this video is actually more difficult to follow for me for some reason. The other video was so much easier to follow and was more entertaining. I love watching ur videos beesleys and I'm not bored with ur videos at all. They cheer me up alot and make me smile and laugh from time to time. I wanted to make sure to add that last bit because I didn't want people to think I was saying this bout y'all and ur videos. I just think that the creator of the video y'all are doing a reaction to did something different in this one compared to the other one and it made it more difficult to follow in my opinion. I don't know what it could be exactly that's causing that but if anyone else feels the same bout this please let me know because I'm definitely curious. By the way I'm sorry for the crazy long comment
Pueblo cliff dwellings? Where are the cities under the rocks? Look at Millie's shirt! Colorado, that's where they are. Well, some of them. There are also pueblo remains in Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah. But, I think the most are in Colorado. There's also the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as well as a whole bunch of other interesting stuff in the landscape.
I have been loving your videos, if you ever make it back over and want to see all of America I suggest DC (my home), Florida (party state), Texas (Americana), and Colorado (middle beauty)
You guys should make a list of the sections you dont understand.Then look up clips on each 1 and do a reaction to each as a series like you do with Lost in the pond material.
You both are lovely people and I enjoy watching you both. I could only get 3 minutes into that video, it seems like a much more disjointed approach piggybacking off of the Oversimplified craze. You both are great, this video was not, and you are not to blame at all.
The video does lead you around very fast😂 but as someone born & raised in nyc, I can attest that essentially everything here was in my history classes.
The Pueblo Native Americans (i.e. The cities in the rocks) was a green fertile valley area in the Southwestern US until the climate changed further and made it a desert region. They have one of the oldest culture in America and some of them are still around.
Buildings under the cliff, is called Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde national park. It's more than a thousand years old, so much for only 245 years of history.
🙌💯 I hope James and Millie (@The Beesleys) go to Mesa Verde!! It’s extremely interesting to learn how the Anasazi lived, how they survived and thrived in the desert (which still gets plenty cold in the winter,) etc. 💐
Mesa Verde is not the only "Cliff Dwelling" example. Mesa Verde National Park is the largest and is located in the far southwest corner of Colorado (near the Four Corners). There are many in Canyon DeChelly National Monument. Also near the Four Corners but in Arizona (a long canyon with Native American farming the bottom of the canyon and several ancient communities in the Cliff walls all around them). There is a series of 5 caves in a remote cliff called "Gila River Cliff Dwellings" (Gila is pronounced "He-La"). This in north-central New Mexico North of Silver City. There is an excellent example of Cliff Dwellings in Arizona between Phoenix and Flagstaff, called "Montezuma's Castle". This place is very very easy to get to but just like DeChelly you can only observe. At Mesa Verde and Gila River you can walk around, in and on the property.
I understood 90% of this stuff, mainly because US history is short. If you view important events in history in linear fashion, it all makes sense and is pretty easy to understand.
It’s largely believed to have a short history; however, Not True! The native Americans, Eskimos, Mayans and other south of the border groups, not to mention the Vikings ……. were all roaming and settling in America before Jesus was born!!
The Louisiana Purchase worked out at ax proximity 18 dollars per square acre. Unfortunately many Native Americans lived on the land.bought by the Us. Andrew Jackson’s policy of moving Indian tribes forced many tribes from the east to the west where it was not populated on land that was not considered valuable for example Oklahoma. They were moved thousands of miles on what is called the Trail of Tears.
wow. There's no such thing as a "square acre". The Louisiana Purchase worked out to about $0.03 per acre in 1803, which is about $0.71 today, while that land today could be worth $5000 an acre.
You would have to be a very serious history Geek to follow all these (often oblique) references. As Kim Jong-un said: Portugal definitely did not get shorted by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
As an American it all made sense because we know our own history.
Yup. I'd have been very confused if I didn't know our history.
I love how every American followed it perfectly
Hell I think it could have been easier to understand if it was more detailed
With "as an American", do you mean like a person from Chile? Brazil? Mexico? Canada? They are all in America. America is a continent, not a country. South America, Central America, and North America. The US is exactly that. "The united states OF America".
Sorry, I'm European.. Oh Wait! No! I'm Norwegian... My bad!
@@TerjeSkuggen you're offended for what reason?
@@mermaid1717 Offended? Not in any way. Just being factual.
these comments are fun to read
Thanks for checking out the video. This was meant to be a quick-study version of US history since this was a final project for my class. I really enjoyed Bill's style and I used him as an inspiration to make this video by putting my creative hobbies together. As for the future, I'll pursue to be more stylistic, since I do want to make more of these history videos, but instead putting more of my spirit.
To be fair, cramming an entire year's worth of high school U.S. history class into 15 minutes is pretty difficult and he at least mentioned all of the important stuff
As a United States Of American I can confirm this is our history
The city in the rocks town in America ur talking about is called mesa verde 😂 I’ve been there twice it’s amazing
The Property of Louisiana when Napoleon sold it to Thomas Jefferson was roughly, the size of 828,000 Miles. He sold it to Jefferson for 4 cents per acre, so 0.4 x 828,000 = $331,200, which nowadays would be somewhere around 15Million
I'd love to see your reaction to the Oversimplified videos about the Civil War, World Wars I and II. I think those are the best, although the one about the Cold War is pretty good, too.
This history takes about a year of American high school to do no wonder it was confusing
I know how you feel about being confused. I watched a video about all of the British monarchs, and I was completely lost for most of it.
All you need to really know about is the horny one that kept killing his wives and set off a bunch of religious wars, the ones that lost all the colonies so the empire collapsed.
Fun fact: Abraham was actually raciest he just did,nt like slaves, he didn’t want black people to be EQUAL
As an American, this all made perfect sense. 😋
Go see the cliff houses at Mesa Verde National Park in SW Colorado.
You can't get the whole history in 17 min.Need a series of at least 30 hours a program
Idk about 30 hours but the series “America, the story of us” is great
Only 30hours ? 😂 lol it’s nothing . Maybe because your country exist since 200 years
A penny for each acre actually still a steal
Having taken many history classes, this is very accurate...but very fast. Check out the decision about making Kansas a slave state or not (very important in the spark of the civil war). If you know the history, you get all this.
For perspective, we bought 8 acres of land this past winter for $130,000. That's around $16,000 per acre, which is the going rate for rural land that is usable for development or agriculture. Raw land (heavily wooded or rocky) usually goes for about $5,000 per acre, while suburban land with various amenities in a great school district can reach upwards of $200,000 per acre.
Ours came with a lake, farmland, woodland, a spring, coal seam, clay, etc. Pretty good deal for homesteading land.
yeah that is still based on location so it depends where in the USA
Not all americans suck at geography for me but sum of them say idk history bcuz they cant name any country out of North america and some enemys
I watched this video on my own at double speed and it made sense the whole time
Just one thing though, I’ve lived in the south for 8 years and I never met a southerner that denies the civil war or believes that the south losing was a bad thing
Whereas I know someone born and raised in California who will argue that the Civil War was not about slavery. When I was at uni I did meet someone from Texas who swore that Texas did not ever lose the Civil War, that Texas is not actually a State in the Union, and that Texas born residents have their own citizenship cards.
@@nathanforrest2061 I sometimes encounter people who say the Civil War wasn't about slavery. Slavery and the protection of it is mentioned in the articles of secession in the states that seceded so I don't see how anyone can believe that. When I post links to it many don't even realize this until they read them.
@@Anon54387 Oh, yes, I read out Texas' the articles to him and he just kept insisting that they were just talking about State's rights.
@@Anon54387 It was about slavery for some of the slaveowners, no doubt, but very few in the south owned any slaves and the average Confederate soldier didn't give a crap about slavery one way or another. For them it was about self-governance, and the right to secede if they didn't agree with the federal government. It definitely wasn't about slavery for the north either, for the north it was about keeping the union together. If you asked any regular Union soldiers about why they were fighting they would not have mentioned slavery at all, until quite late in the war when it became policy to free slaves in the south to disrupt the wartime economy of the south (while doing nothing about slavery in the north or border states). The issue of slavery was the issue that split the states into two camps, which led to the secession of the southern states, which led to the war. But saying that means the war was over slavery is missing a lot of context and doesn't accurately portray the motivations of the two sides. It was a war about the right to secede, whether that was secession to keep slavery around or for any other reason. Slavery would have ended pretty soon regardless and everyone pretty much knew that.
To quote Lincoln: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
The video forgot to mention the earliest American people - The Solutreans
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
He said that.
Good lord, I have ADD and now I think I'm gonna have a seizure! I live here and had trouble following that! Lol
I love how everyone puts slavery in a red reoublican thing when it was technically democratic parties owning slaves. A true republican cares about the nation as a whole. LINCOLN WAS A REPEPUBLICAN BTW. This shit is so skewed, missing context, and historically inaccurate by like ten years?
I followed the video but he's glossing over issues and events that could all have their own videos. I wouldn't think many, not familiar with US History, would follow this well.
Plus some things are mixed with other stuff and conflated. Its not entirely true. But it was more a timeline than a history lesson.
Portugal got more than a tiny chunk in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Sure they got a tiny bit of South America which would eventually expand and become Brazil, but because of the treaty, Portugal won influence over Africa and especially the Indian Ocean, which was what they wanted.
Hey you're that famous Korean idol right?
That’s why central US cities have French, not English names. St Louis, Nouvelle Orleans (New Orleans), Detroit, Des Moines, Eau Claire, etc etc.
Well DUH! It was the Louisiana purchase. All the tributaries of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers.
@@garycamara9955 What’s with the attitude? I’m saying because Millie thought we “copied” British place names so I was clarifying the settlers from wherever they came from named them. Relax
@@garycamara9955 They weren’t speaking to you, they’re speaking to James and Millie 🤦🏿♂️
@@garycamara9955 Don’t DUH people if you didn’t even know Spain conquered La Louisiane and named it Louisiana. We literally use the Spanish name for it to this day lmao
Little Rock was La Petite Roche. It’s a French settlement of course, founded at the first rock of any real size that the French explorers saw on the trek up the Arkansas River from the Mississippi River.
Little Rock is basically where the flat Delta farmland of east AR starts to become the foothills of the Ozark and Ouachita mtns in W/NW AR.
Edit: See, Gary Camara? That’s an example of one appropriate way to make a comment on someone’s post. Just showing you what it looks like, since you seem to be unaware of how to function appropriately when it comes to basic social skills.
That lands still hurts 🇲🇽💔
We are taking it back one illegal at a time 🤣
Thanks!
That looked like Mesa Verde in Colorado. Its a National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage site. You can literally take a tour and go them there. Most are restricted and you can't go in but Mesa Verde you can if you take the tour. There are a lot of other ones in that general area but if you can only pick one that's the one you want.
That place is on my bucket list. I learned about it as a kid and have been intrigued since.
10 or more states were once a part of Mexico.. including California, FL, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada.. those are only I can remember but there's more
Are you sure about Florida?
Still hurts 🇲🇽💔😢
Louisiana Purchase was extremely inexpensive, as was the purchase of Alaska from the Russians. The debate on the abolition of slavery began during the Colonial period, well before George Washington was born. It was pivotal in the ratification of The Constitution, in that the Southern States would not have joined The Union without a provision allowing slavery.
You have to watch The Goonies
I could follow it, but I'm American with an interest in history.
There are a couple of different sets of preserved ruins of the type you wish to see.
They are all in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado - most are relatively close to the borders between these three states.
Canyon de Chelly (National Monument) is in north-eastern Arizona (Technically within the Navajo Nation);
The Gila Cliff Dwellings (National Monument) is near Silver City, New Mexico;
Mesa Verde (National Monument) is in southwestern Colorado
There are also -
Aztec Ruins (Nat Mon), near Aztec, New Mexico,
Bandelier (Nat Mon), near Los Alamos, New Mexico.
There are many more in the area, I've only listed the "flagship" sites.
But also, if you are in that part of the US, there are the Taos, and Acoma Pueblos -
which have been occupied dwellings for around 1000 years (and are still in use)
Santa Fe, New Mexico also has 2 of the oldest building in continuous use from the Colonial era.
The "Palace of the Governors" dates to 1610, and the San Miguel Mission predates 1628.
As an American and a retired teacher who taught American History, I think one of the biggest reasons the US has so much history packed into just a few hundred years is its sheer size. Being almost as big as all of Europe and 40 times the size of the UK means that a lot of history was being made simultaneously in numerous parts of America. Also, with immigrants coming to America from colonial times to the present, things are in a constant state of flux. In the US, history and literature are taught simultaneously. For example, you can't teach Shakespeare in a British Literature class without teaching about what was going on in Elizabethan times, otherwise, there is no context. Conversely you can't teach about Elizabethan times in a history class without teaching about what was going on in science, the arts, and literature-- Shakespeare, Spencer, etc. As a Literature teacher, I had to teach mini lessons on American History in American Literature classes, British History in British Literature classes, and World History in World Literature classes. At the same time, the history teachers were touching on literature through the ages in their History classes. That meant teachers had to consult each other. For example, a history teacher colleague had her kids read "The Miller's Tale" from Canterbury Tales when she was teaching the late Middle Ages, so I avoided that tale when teaching Chaucer to my British Literature kids and taught other tales from Canterbury Tales instead. When I planned to teach The Grapes of Wrath in an American Literature class, I consulted the same colleague as to when she was covering the Great Depression in American History class so that we'd be somewhat in sinc.
we get spoonfed american history until you're 18, every bit and scrap
Being an American who likes history, none of this was new to me -- just amusing the glib, offhand way the history was presented. This was like a thorough high school history course in a couple of minutes!
Louisiana the state I live in is the only state that kept a lot of the French ways. In America a few city's and towns form things we call Counties but in Louisiana we call ours Parishes like the French
The history of us stealing your names! Jk lol
Yes, the civil war
The houses under the rocks is Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. SW corner by Four Corners.
That was a tough one to watch… so much is not said
Those cliffs you speak of visiting are here in Colorado - southwest by Durango called Mesa Verde. went camping there last year - hit me up if you wanna see some pics.
I had to pause video at 9:59 and to tell you that i am born raised American and this history was so true... There is a lot of "Inner" History of USA that most of people overlooked in small parts of history...
now, I am unpausing this video.. by the way, I really enjoyed watching ur videos lately...
Mississippian
Being from southern Ohio, there are Adena mounds galore. The most famous being Serpent Mound. Serpent Mound is an internationally known National Historic Landmark built by the ancient American Indian cultures of Ohio. It is an effigy mound (a mound in the shape of an animal) representing a snake with a curled tail. Nearby are three burial mounds-two created by the Adena culture (800 B.C.-A.D. 100), and one by the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000-1650). In 1991 site excavation used radiocarbon dating to determine that the mound was approximately 900 years old. This would suggest that the builders of the Serpent belonged to the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000-1500). In 2014, another team of archaeologists presented new radiocarbon dates for the Serpent suggesting that it was built by the Adena culture at around 300 B.C. The mound is 1348 feet long (411 meters). In all, the snake stretches a quarter of a mile (402 meters) and ranges from 1.2 to 1.5 meters (3.9 to 4.9 feet) in height and 6.0 to 7.6 meters (19.7 to 24.9 feet) in width. It’s on the site of an ancient meteor impact dating to around 300 million years ago; the crater, measuring 8 to 14 km (5.0 miles to 8.7 miles) in diameter, is known as Serpent Mound crater. Serpent Mound is the largest snake effigy mound in the world. You really need to see pictures, that's if you don't visit on your trip to the states. Sorry for the unsolicited history lesson. ruclips.net/video/x9c511-DXN0/видео.html
The Louisiana Purchase was approximately 18 dollars per square mile. You're probably thinking per acre, which it was four cents per acre. Total of 15 million dollars in then money, but in today's money it'd be over 300 million dollars. Definitely a bargain deal
And the biggest thing is they balanced the budget by design! When they made the purchase.
Alaska was a huge bargain. The us made that money back many times over with the resources there.
I bet britsh people hate when we say brish
The civil war was also about the north using the wealth that came from slave labor to fund their cities while leaving the south behind and patting themselves on the back for being “free states” Plenty of slaves in New Jersey worked illegally. That isn’t discussed much.
A good experiment would be to watch this video then spend 3 to 6 months studying the topic and then re-watch the video taking a survey after each. The difference in the opinions would be massive.
I love these history videos!!
I have a degree in history, and ADHD and this video drove me insane. I hope this isn't how people are learning history.
I took AP US History studying 3hours per day and for the entire year and this guy compressed that into 13 minutes.
Yes, you should check out all of oversimplified's history videos. Lots of interesting stuff to learn.
It's a lot to unpack!!
Oversimplified makes it simple
The oversimplified is a great series and lots of good humor dotted throughout, but also trying to be as historically accurate as possible with the facts.
Yes, absolutely you guys should cover the Over Simplified series together! I'm surprised you both haven't tackled those together yet, would be great content
Together with who?
@@MeanJohnDean whar 💀
the US Civil War was not primarily about slavery
Yes, it was. Lay off the Lost Cause Revisionism. It was involved in most of the major issues of the sectional crisis in the decade and a half before the war and had been lurking as a major issue for decades beforehand. Actually read the secession documents. They were very clear about why they were fighting. The idea that it wasn't about slavery was made up after the war because they wanted to frame themselves as being a forward-looking place(called The New South) while sweeping the slavery issue under the rug. Also, it gave them a reason for a war that killed 620k people that was more noble than the reality: that all those people died because the South was paranoid and, thought the North was going to ban slavery, and seceded.
FYI, you can read each southern states declaration of secession....slavery is the first item mentioned in most of those declarations...but random comment on youtube is more credible than the actual declarations.........
direct quote from Texas: "the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time"
2nd sentence from Georgia: "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding States with reference to the subject of African slavery."
@@waffles824 From Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
I got every bit of that. It was pretty cool. I like it please do more.
History at warp speed. One thing though, Columbus never put as much as one toe on the continent of North America. What he landed on was the Caribbean Islands. The first European to find America was Leif Ericson, a Norseman, long before Columbus was born.
Even as an American who knows about all this stuff it flashes by so quick that I'm all "Hey, yeah, I think I kno-" and then I'm already 5 subjects behind.
I'm from Pennsylvania and honestly I thought this video ( the history of the United States I guess) would be alot like the history of the entire world I guess, but this video is actually more difficult to follow for me for some reason. The other video was so much easier to follow and was more entertaining. I love watching ur videos beesleys and I'm not bored with ur videos at all. They cheer me up alot and make me smile and laugh from time to time. I wanted to make sure to add that last bit because I didn't want people to think I was saying this bout y'all and ur videos. I just think that the creator of the video y'all are doing a reaction to did something different in this one compared to the other one and it made it more difficult to follow in my opinion. I don't know what it could be exactly that's causing that but if anyone else feels the same bout this please let me know because I'm definitely curious. By the way I'm sorry for the crazy long comment
Lmfao. As a history nerd I was following right along and laughing my butt off the whole time.
Ikr same. Was pretty good at History in school too. 😅
ahhh this like all high school history in like 1 minute! hahaha
Coldplay fly on react please.
Pueblo cliff dwellings? Where are the cities under the rocks? Look at Millie's shirt! Colorado, that's where they are. Well, some of them. There are also pueblo remains in Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah. But, I think the most are in Colorado. There's also the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as well as a whole bunch of other interesting stuff in the landscape.
I have been loving your videos, if you ever make it back over and want to see all of America I suggest DC (my home), Florida (party state), Texas (Americana), and Colorado (middle beauty)
Have to teach this in school lol
You guys should make a list of the sections you dont understand.Then look up clips on each 1 and do a reaction to each as a series like you do with Lost in the pond material.
Hes telling us Americans we're lost about our own history
We have a lot condensed in a short period of time. Lol.
I understood it all. 😂😂
You both are lovely people and I enjoy watching you both. I could only get 3 minutes into that video, it seems like a much more disjointed approach piggybacking off of the Oversimplified craze. You both are great, this video was not, and you are not to blame at all.
The title suggests that it mimicks "History of the entire world, I guess." Which is an amazing video.
Louisiana purchase: about 18 cents / square mile.
Not that anyone actually new exactly how big it was at the time... just BIG.
Ok so this is crap!
There’s also speculations that there were people in America before the Clovis people came
Chilean rugby team who ate their dead became a movie 1993 Alive
Check out "10 Reasons Not to Move to Hawaii by Briggs"
There will be a comprehensive pop-quiz in five minutes consisting of true or false, multiple choice and essay questions (no cheating now!).
The video does lead you around very fast😂 but as someone born & raised in nyc, I can attest that essentially everything here was in my history classes.
there are facts and falsehoods in this.
The Pueblo Native Americans (i.e. The cities in the rocks) was a green fertile valley area in the Southwestern US until the climate changed further and made it a desert region. They have one of the oldest culture in America and some of them are still around.
I think I got a headache watching whoever made that video 😆😆
One of worst videos on history I've seen. I mean, really. :)
I live in New Mexico where there are the Gila Cliff Dwellings (houses under rocks) and its pretty cool to see.
The Oversimplified videos rock, you definitely should check out the Civil War one!
Buildings under the cliff, is called Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde national park. It's more than a thousand years old, so much for only 245 years of history.
🙌💯 I hope James and Millie (@The Beesleys) go to Mesa Verde!! It’s extremely interesting to learn how the Anasazi lived, how they survived and thrived in the desert (which still gets plenty cold in the winter,) etc. 💐
Mesa Verde is not the only "Cliff Dwelling" example. Mesa Verde National Park is the largest and is located in the far southwest corner of Colorado (near the Four Corners). There are many in Canyon DeChelly National Monument. Also near the Four Corners but in Arizona (a long canyon with Native American farming the bottom of the canyon and several ancient communities in the Cliff walls all around them). There is a series of 5 caves in a remote cliff called "Gila River Cliff Dwellings" (Gila is pronounced "He-La"). This in north-central New Mexico North of Silver City.
There is an excellent example of Cliff Dwellings in Arizona between Phoenix and Flagstaff, called "Montezuma's Castle". This place is very very easy to get to but just like DeChelly you can only observe. At Mesa Verde and Gila River you can walk around, in and on the property.
If you live in the US and know your history this makes perfect sense.
Oversimplified Cold War is good too.
Yea. The cold War was fun.😄🖕 🔫😄
Cliff Notes version of USA is Live Free or Die and Don't Tread on Me !!!
I understood 90% of this stuff, mainly because US history is short. If you view important events in history in linear fashion, it all makes sense and is pretty easy to understand.
It’s largely believed to have a short history; however, Not True! The native Americans, Eskimos, Mayans and other south of the border groups, not to mention the Vikings ……. were all roaming and settling in America before Jesus was born!!
The "little city under the rocks" is Mesa Verde National Park, in southwestern Colorado.
I get bits and pieces, but not in order.
The Louisiana Purchase worked out at ax proximity 18 dollars per square acre. Unfortunately many Native Americans lived on the land.bought by the Us. Andrew Jackson’s policy of moving Indian tribes forced many tribes from the east to the west where it was not populated on land that was not considered valuable for example Oklahoma. They were moved thousands of miles on what is called the Trail of Tears.
wow. There's no such thing as a "square acre". The Louisiana Purchase worked out to about $0.03 per acre in 1803, which is about $0.71 today, while that land today could be worth $5000 an acre.
Beesley's can y'all do a reaction video to Oversimplified's Pig War 🐖 video?
It's basically three years of high school U.S. history in 15 minutes.
Inaccurate in many ways lol. Didn't even point out that WV separated from VA and became a new Union state during the Civil War.
Original furteen states🤣🤣🤣 love the accent
The Louisiana Purchase from France pretty much included the vast majority of premium farming territory.
The Louisiana Purchase cost $15 million
You would have to be a very serious history Geek to follow all these (often oblique) references.
As Kim Jong-un said: Portugal definitely did not get shorted by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
You guys should react to each episode of Crash course American history 👍
yall arent the brightest huh