The Most Terrifying President in American History
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Mr. Beat tells the story of Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States.
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Known for his fiery personality and for being the first president to represent the “common man,” he single handedly changed American politics forever. For better or for worse. Nah, actually I’d say mostly for better. Sometimes we need outsiders in there to shake things up and stick it to the elites, and Jackson indeed was a champion for the underdog. Well, the white underdogs. Hey, it was still progress. And folks forget that Jackson, even though he WAS one of the elites by the time he ran for President, truly was a rags to riches story. He was born in poverty and rose up, the first President to represent the somewhat so-called American Dream. Jackson never forgot his humble upbringing, and his populist message and commanding leadership style helped shape the American democratic ideals that many of us take for granted today. That all said, critics called him a demagogue who ignored the law when it was convenient.
Sure, he was terrifying. He was racist….and a little crazy. But I think the United States ultimately ended up on a better path because of him.
Which President should I make a documentary about next?
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I think Mr. Wilson Should be next
Please do John Quincy Adams. One of the best ex presidents ever.
John Quincy Adams
Title: Most Terrifying President
My Brain: WORST PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF THE BANK CRISIS AND THE NATIVES REMOVED FROM THERE LAND!
And Do Chester Arthur Next
William McKinley
You left out one of my favorite anecdotes about Jackson.
At his funeral, his pet parrot kept cursing so much that the bird had to be removed. Where do you think it learned that much profanity?
They should have kept the parrot there. In fact the parrot should've done the eulogy
He mentioned that already in his "All the Presidents' Pets" video.
I wonder how much of that profanity was directed at British people
@@redjirachi1 There could be nothing that would have made Jackson happier.
Well I did mention that in another video. :)
The guns didn’t misfire, Andrew Jackson just scared the bullets.
They were patriotic bullets
He willed the misfire into existence in an instant.
The hand of Satan was at work
@@warlordofbritannia Satan didn't do that as a favor to Jackson, he just wants to hold off Jackson challenging him to a duel
@warlordofbritannia no the hands of Jackson scared the devil.
Andrew Jackson is the definition of “Call an ambulance, but not for me.”
hahahah!!! jackson would love the craziness of tiktok
And F Around and find out
@davidanalyst671 no he wouldn't
That's hilarious!
Andrew Jackson is the definition of "Man Literally Too Angry to Die".
Andrew Jackson sure had a strange way to make lifelong friends, first challenging them to duels and all.
First he threatens to kill you. Then you almost die. Then he hugs you and buys you a shot of whiskey.
Trying to kill your future friends. Strange indeed.
Seems like it comes from a particular style of Southern masculinity: both guys simply showing up to the duel proves their masculinity to the other, and since that form of masculinity is held in such high regard they both score points with each other. This is why duels often ended with both participants shooting their guns into the dirt; simply showing up was a sufficient act of bravery, and unless the other was really pissed off you could consider the debt of honor satisfied. It's not a very healthy system overall but it has its own internal logic.
He was a shonen anime protagonist
He's like an insane drunken goku
True Andrew Jackson haters know that keeping him on the $20 bill is the best punishment to give him!
lol the ultimate way to troll him
@@iammrbeatIndeed.
Amen.
Amen
Too bad that trolling comes to an end soon with plans to replace him with Harriet Tubman.
Andrew Jackson really deserves to have a Peaky Blinders style Netflix series.
A wild, complicated, and paradoxical life. Both good and bad, but important non the less. Like him or hate him, he’s interesting.
Yoooooo this is facts
Lol it wouldn't work cuz trail of tears woud b included
He was an Ulster Scot. The flag of Ulster is a ... Red Right Hand.
A flick of Andrew Jackson directed by Tarantino is one of my dream movies.
Being true to the story but at the same time a bit exaggerated and modified since he's (Tarantino) known for doing that very well, for example, the myth of him being on more than 100 duels and some dark humor sparkled through out.
I like Davy Crockett as he was the only member of the Tennessee delegation to vote against the racist and cruel and even outright genocidal Indian Removal Act and opposed it viewing it as rightfully wicked and unjust. Cherokee chief John Ross sent Davy a letter in 1831 thanking him for voting against the racist bill.
Cry Harder
@@johndough1703 lol weird
@@johndough1703pedestrian
@@johndough1703 💀 get some help
We’re so much more enlightened than those ignorant wacist jerks from back then! I’m glad social media is here today (whomever invented it) so I can reassure everyone how righteous I am
Andrew Jackson is the human embodiment of the American myth. Very obscure moments, major flaws, but goddamn was he one tough bastard.
"obscure moments"? wtf does that mean. Makes no sense in the context you used it.
Being an idiot does not make you tough or anything else it makes you pretty much an idiot. He sounded like a very weak individual who tried to terrorize others. I don't get this thing where weak people admire morons such as Jackson or John Wayne or Clint Eastwood. I'm ever hopeful that men will become me and it stopped being terrified little boys who need really bad examples of Manliness to look up to.
@neo-filthyfrank1347 All the shit about his duels, his injuries, the assassination attempt. These aren't really things talked about in history classes. It does make sense in the context it was used. You just failed to see it. Relax.
@@TheTimeTravelingTwig Literally everyone who knows about Andrew Jackson knows about it.
Donald Trump was worse than any other US president(s)... We only know about half of all his crimes (yet), but those we already know about is plenty. Rapist, inseructionist, traitor, scammer, liar, cheater, a petty excuse for a man, a toddler in chief, egomaniac. He has ruined the American ecconomy (although that is common trait for most republicans in office) and it's value abroad. People hate the US atm. And it will remain so until the orange liar is sentenced and thrown in jail. No fake Nixon pardons for Trump.
Dear Mr. Beat,
I’m a fan of your UA-cam channel and I like your videos. I’m not a US citizen and didn’t take any US history and geography classes before. Your channel is the best resource of mine to explore such huge amount of knowledge and really get to know the history, culture, and politics of this country.
Recently I noticed that you have post several long and detailed videos to introduce the presidents of United States, just like this one, I’m wondering if you have plan to introduce the Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most controversial president of US. There are lots of discussions around him in Internet, most of which are about the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights.
However, as an international student from China, I might have different perspective of LBJ. As you know, China has maybe the biggest government in the world and it really has rather high executive efficiency (of course lots of problems this big government produced). Similarly, LBJ administration, also made US both executive branch and legislative branch really high efficiency. While other Americans still focus on the Vietnam War he expanded, and the Civil Rights he contributed, I think the so many Acts passed during his administration are equally important. It’s even more important to people nowadays since it fundamentally changed people way of life in US. Those are Medicare, Medicaid, Consumer Product Safety, Immigration, Poverty Supporting, Education, etc. Any one of these milestone Acts can be seen as important political legacy of any US presidents, and LBJ just passed tens or twenties of them.
Do you consider to make a video about this president, not only focus on his influence on Vietnam War and Civil right, but also discuss his legacy, his Acts, and how he deeply changes today’s US society?
Thanks! Wish you have a great holiday season!
All the best,
Jianr
This was a great comment. I hope you get your wish
Most terrifying president in my lifetime is Donald Trump, and we need to be terrified enough to not allow him to finish destroying our democracy, if we don't we'll probably be saying welcome to little Russia. VOTE, STOP TRUUMP NOW!!!!!!!!!
He kind of continued the trend set by Kennedy in regards to civil rights
This is the most well thought out comment I've ever seen. God bless you for learning English
He increased the democrat voter base by giving government handouts. He was a staunch racist. He famously said " I'll have those ni$#&rs voting Democrat for the next 100 years"
The fact that he adopted the orphaned Creeks (Native Americans) as his children after fighting them in a war was rather extraordinary. I don't think I've ever heard a story like that
Yeah thats why i think he genuinely thought that the indian removal act was the best way forward for everyone.
@@schultz6622 oh I'm making no excuses for what happened. The Indian Removal Act was one of perhaps the most awful sounding and correctly named acts of Congress I can remember.
At least on paper it bore some semblance of fairness; we'll take your land and give you land elsewhere and you're accepting.
The land elsewhere which was later taken of course. Though did stop the fighting for now.
Native Americans as you probably already know largely believed that chunks of the Earth could not be owned, it was sort of like we see rainwater and air. Though I'm sure they recognized things like turf. The newcomers were territorial to the extreme.
There is a Native American quote: "When your bones return to the Earth, and your blood returns to the sea, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you. It is you who belong to the land."
I don't doubt it is genuinely indigenous, though I'm not surprised its a bit vague where it came from.
Todays indigneous of course have "modern" views of property as its impossible for both concepts to exist together.
There are also claims that the U.S. borrowed a number of things from the Iroquois Confederacy in writing the Constitution, which are probably accurate.
Not taking the points any further to make any kind of argument, just throwing them out there as interesting
True gentleman
By “fighting them in a war” do you mean absolute genocide?
For as wild as Jackson was, there’s all those little things about him which astound me.
So he was a slave owner, yet was the first military general to offer equal pay to all races. Hated native Americans, but he loved adoption and full blown adopted 3 of them. Settled tons of fights with the threat of death, yet became friends with people who survived his duels. All I can think after you explained all that was he was a walking irony.
P.S. great job. Should’ve mentioned his swearing bird though lol
Yeah he adopted three of them because he was trying to assimilate them. Not because of some conflict. It’s very much in line with his world view of the oppression of native Americans.
Give it up.
Things weren't as cut an dry back then... Culture and precedent were way more important.
Jackson would say "well, one is free, another is property."
To the second "my kids, not my kids who also raid."
To the third, we all know what he would say: "no hard feelings?"
Yeah, there was plenty of aboriginal "adoptions" here in Australia, also.. they weren't entirely out of love, moreover out of a desire to "civilise" them.
Look, I think its hard to judge people of the last to harshly, even if i consider their actions wrong. People in the future will likely think we are backwards barbarians for some reason, maybe because we throw people in prisons, destroy our environment or ignore the suffering of others, or maybe because we are sharing videos, who knows what will become unacceptable with more information, but I hope they don't think I'm evil because of my actions.
It's called nuance, something modern brainlets lack
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@@iammrbeat YESSS IT TRULY IS!! ❤️
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@@iammrbeatindeed it is! That’s a Schoolhouse Rock reference right there!
Been watching him for 7 years, got to agree.
How to become friends with Andrew Jackson.
Step 1: *talk trash*.
Step 2: get chalenged by andrew jackson.
Step 3: refuse to fight.
Step 4: become lifelong friends
What’s crazy to me is how I was never a big fan of school and, in turn, wasn’t very big on history but, here I am 7 years out of high school eagerly watching the entirety of a 45 minute video about Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson was very much a mixed character in my opinion, his actions against native americans and his ownership of slaves is indefensible, but his rags-to-riches story and his weird ability to become friends with people he almost tried to kill is kind of admirable and something we almost never see today in politicians.
idk about mixed. He had a flagrant disregard for laws and democracy and destroyed the national economy as the Panic of 1837 happened just after his presidency ended due to his actions against the national bank. The man was extremely dangerous as he did pretty much whatever he wanted, regardless of congressional approval. Plus the genocide thing
Jackson is the embodiment of the phrase “the good, the bad, and the ugly”
Most politicians today don’t duel that’s why they never become friends 😭
I wont hold those things againt him because pretty much every presdient up to that point did those things. But he kinda ruined the economy so theres that
I'm so sick of people breaking up slavery and Indians when they talk about these great Americans from back then it was a different world nobody viewed the world the way people do now this left-wing nonsense of judging these people by modern standards we used to always understand that that was a different time and slavery can't be viewed the same way as it is now of course we hate slavery now but they were born into a world where everybody on earth had slavery in their countries so why is it only white people's slavery European slaver that seemed so bad why don't they go over there and attack at the Arabs where there still is slavery it makes me not even care about slavery which makes me want to say screw them and the Indians I'm so sick of it hearing about the Indians poor old Indians too bad for them a war was fought and they lost That's how history worked all throughout history every land's been conquered we didn't steal any land from anybody there was no place here called America Amerigo Vespucci name this place I'm an Italian and I'm proud of that while I'm American but you don't mean I'm Italian heritage and this country was founded by Italians and Spanish and British and French and African immigrants and all the other countries of Europe that came here too of course I mean all of them and blacks That's who built this country not Indians they didn't do anything for this country they were just here eating each other and smoking pot
You can say a lot of things about Jackson but two things stand out. He loved violence for its own sake. If you look at his life that was the one thing he never tried to avoid. And he correctly anticipated that the slavery issue was gonna blow up eventually.
Most educated slaveowners knew it was going to end. Their goal was to delay the end as long as possible to allow them to make the most money possible. In the end, the Civil War probably only sped up the end by a few decades. Mechanization would have made maintaining slaves economically unsound.
@@diggernash1 The mechanical cotton picker was NOT invented till the 1930s and did not come into widespread use till the 1950s. Thus it was still profitable till the 1960s to pick cotton by hand. Given how long after the US Civil War that the mechanical cotton picker was invented, I see slavery existing till the 1960s, when most cotton was no longer being picked by hand for hand picking cotton had become unprofitable but that is almost 100 years after the US Civil War not just a "few decades".
@@paulmentzer7658 so you believe slavery would have been maintained to perform necessary labor for 3 weeks? That versus paying additional share croppers minimal wages for those few weeks.
@@diggernash1 There is a lot of work on a farm beside picking cotton. In fact it is only in the 1960 census that more horsepower was used on the farm was produced by tractors then actual horses. Even today, it is more economical to use horses on farms of less then 50 acres (Yes most full time farmers, farm much larger farms then farms with 50 acres thus tractors are much more profitable to use by such farmers).
It is only since the 1950s that herbicide have replaced manual hoeing to eliminate weeds on most farms.
This move to larger farms relying on tractors, insecticides and herbicides, while started in the late 1800s, it did not become the dominate method of farming till the 1950s and till then the more modern version of slavery, share cropping, was the main type of farming in the Cotton belt.
Please note the three point hitch was not invented till 1939 and did not come into common use till the 1950s. Without the three point hitch, plowing between the rows of crop to get rid of weeds had still to be done by horses with a man on plow being pulled by the horse till the 1950s.
Farming is more then planting a crop in the spring and harvesting it in the fall, between those time periods work had to be done including removing weeds, making sure wild animals do not harm the crop (i.e. maintaining fences, barns and other structures) and feeding and taking care of the animals used on the farm (unlike tractors, animals have to be feed every day and kept clean, tractors only had to be "feed" gasoline or diesel only when they are used).
Slaves could also be "hired out" to do other work near the plantation, such as digging water drainage ditches, timbering trees for use as lumber and fuel and working on the roads so wagons could haul crops on such roads. Many sharecroppers did such work, involuntarily, while into the 1960s (in the 1926 Mississippi floods, Boy Scouts were given rifles to make sure all the African Americans sharecropper forced to work on the levees holding back the flood waters stayed on those levees rather then permit them to go home to save they own homes).
We live in a very mechanical age, but that move to more mechanical use on the farm started later then in the urban areas, and the change was even slower in the Cotton Belt of the American South thus slavery would have been profitable till at least the 1950s and maybe into the 1960s (Slavery's close cousin, Sharecropping, survived till the 1960s mostly for those same reasons).
@paulmentzer7658 Have you plowed with a mule? I have, beginning at 8 years old. My granddad believed it was a skill to keep alive. I'm glad I had the opportunity to make a garden with him for 5 years. You can work the land with them, but after doing both, I would always choose the tractor.
Much of my family were sharecroppers until WWI. Some of them were sharecroppers because of the after effects of the Civil War. Half or more of my ancestors lived worse than sharecroppers far up in Appalachia. Many of them had no power through the Civil rights movement. They grew subsistence amounts of food, logged, and made/moved moonshine.
Is it your position that slavery would have existed until the 1960s without the Civil War? I say it would have ended by 1900 with the number of slaves systematically reduced between 1880 and 1900.
Love him or hate him, the one thing you don't do is talk trash about him.
This is FANTASTIC! Thanks for taking the time to make this.
Two things I have learned so far: Dueling seems to be a great way to make friends. Andrew Jackson would have to be the most terrifying teacher the world has ever seen.
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In his lifetime, 'Davy Crockett' was always known (and always referred to himself) as David Crockett (1786-1836). It was our good friend Walt Disney who came up with 'Davy' (1:20-30).
I remember visiting The Hermitage for a school trip, and being floored by how wild of a president he was. Now i pass by Hermitage everyday on my way to work. So awesome to learn more about history that is mostly in my backyard
David Crockett never went by Davy. He hated the nickname. Thanks to Disney, that is how he is known.
Huh. The more you know!
Damn this dude lost both his parents, both his brothers, and lost his grandpa. Such a sad life😢
And his Wife days before becoming president.
maybe he had ADHD I lose stuff all the time
@@tryingtotryistrying 😂
And it all led up to him committing genocide lol, nurture is a hell of a force
@@donaldtrumplover2254 or maybe he experienced how impossible it was to live around savages. It says in the video they tried to kill him when he was young, for no reason, and that that was a common thing. Maybe you should look up the evil torture techniques the Indians used on anyone above 12, or that they liked smashing infants’ heads on rocks.
Thank you for the tremendous effort you put in your videos man, i spend my spare time watching your videos
i love that jackson befriends all his enemies after a fight like a shounen anime protagonist
Have you done a deep dive on Quincy Adams? Even though he can come off as the antagonist in Jackson's story, he's very much the protagonist of his own. I have great admiration for him.
Especially his time after the presidency
You should do a Video about every time people claimed the election was rigged
That video would be 3 hours long.
@@iammrbeat we don't care, I would watch anything by you if it was interesting enough
OK, a series then : )
Idk about rigged but it was undoubtedly influenced by big media and big tech such as censoring the laptop prior to the election and the mass censorship of conservative voices on Twitter and elsewhere
Aside from the first two elections won by Washington, has there even been another Presidential election that hasn't had people claiming it was rigged?
You're editing has gotten AMAZING recently keep up the great work as always mr beast
Another job well done, Mr. Beat.
I wish Mr. Beat was my history teacher in school.
I guess he is! Teaching us old dogs... lol
lol it is an honor and privilege to be your online history teacher
@@iammrbeat Welcome
You touched on something important that a lot of people miss when discussing history.
Jackson and his people failed to recognize societal evils like slavery, but we probably never would've gotten moral revolutions like abolitionism, women's suffrage, and so on if his supporters hadn't transformed the U.S. into a far more liberal democracy than it was with those property requirements.
A more balanced perspective on a lot of historical figures can be a good thing.
On the other hand, abolitionists had existed in the Americas since slavery's establishment here and Britain abolished slavery in 1807. We absolutely can and should criticize historical figures for what they did in a time when such things were already being criticized for being self-evidently evil at the time. And there absolutely was opposition to the Trail of Tears in the US when Jackson pursued it, as demonstrated by the Supreme Court deeming what was happening illegal and Jackson ignoring them anyway. We can't let historical figures hide behind the argument that "it was a different time" when the historical record already shows that society did not fully agree on these issues.
It's just baffling to me that our predecessors road horses and fought for the country. Imagine any current government member riding a horse and shooting at people in battle. We'd be smoked. L or R.😂😂😂
The liberal democrats were the slave owners . Do your research . Abraham Lincoln was a republican. The first republican president.
You are a victim kf democrat ljes misinformation .
@@jacobsims8307i’d like to see 90% of our government leaders try to even get on a horse let alone ride one lmao
"every social movement needs a devil"
Bravo! I learned a lot here. Thank you!
Thank you, Mr Beat for fuelling my interest n American history. I'm from Britian, and I've always had a fascination with it, and your channel has been great at fuelling said interest!
Obviously Richard Lawrence had no hope of success: he didn't have 3 names.
Good point
Wow that is odd, John Wilkes Booth, Charles Julius Guiteau, Leon F. Czolgosz and the Central Intelligence Agency
@@MortanAMrkread these books:
Case Closed, by Gerald Posner
Reclaiming History, by Vincent Bugliosi
Oswald's Game, by Jean Davison
JFK Assassination Logic, by John McAdams.
Here's what is not unlikely, that when Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy, in Mexico City, in September, 1963, he may have been ENCOURAGED by the Cubans to try to kill JFK. They would have given him nothing, certainly not anything to link him to them, and told him that if he succeeded, the government of Cuba could never acknowledge him in any way. Especially if you read the Davison book, you'll understand why this would have only made the idea more appealing to Oswald.
I don't think the misfire rates of a man with schizophrenia and the normal population are the same
Schizophrenia wouldn’t increase misfire rates that much…
Yea schizophrenia isn’t Parkinson’s you don’t just uncontrollably shake 24/7 like how it looks in cartoons
Mental disorders don’t affect a technical failure of a gun
They were inspected afterward and found to be in working order. It's just something that happened.
Such a great video, Mr. Beat. Thank you.
Person talks trash about Jackson -> Jackson becomes angry and challenges Person to a duel -> They both duel -> They become friends for the rest of their lives
Jackson is the first President I can think of, that experience in all three branches of government: Military Governor of Florida; Members of both Houses of Congress; and a Supreme Court Justice in Tennessee.
a man of the people not of the corporations!
Although I wouldn't call that few months in congress real experience.
Still arguably the most evil president though, literal native Holocaust so that he could change part of the south from native slave owners to white ones
He experienced them yes, but literally didn't have the temperament or patience to legislate or compromise.
@@aceous99he was against a national bank and paper bank notes. He also had no issues killing natives, expanding slavery and trying to duel anyone who offended him. Seems kinda like a jerk
Shattering a bullet on his breastbone is the most ridiculously badass thing a bad president has ever done.
Teddy giving a speech after taking a chest wound is the most badass thing any president has done, right?
@@warlordofbritannia That bullet would be stopped by thick papers of his speech and a glasses case, I'm pretty sure Jackson just took a bullet right in the middle of the chest unguarded
Fascinating! Great story told well.
Andrew Jackson was my favorite president in ELEMENTARY school. All the face value and elementary textbooks painted him as a generally decent president who did some good things. Afterwards whenever I started to actually learn about him and the horrid stuff he’d done I backtracked.
I was the opposite, lol. George Washington was my favorite President. But after reading so many biographies on Jackson and learning more about him he has become my favorite President by far. Teddy is second. Both had so much crap thrown at them and were able to overcome it all. It takes a strong will to do that. He was complicated, no doubt. But he was honorable and cared for his family and friends and fought for the common man that the elites ignored. If I could meet anyone, dead or alive, it would be Jackson.
Andrew jackson is my 2nd favorite president after thomas jefferson. He took down the evil bankers and helped usher in a long era of prosperity for the united states. He knew how dangerous the bankers were to the freedom and prosperity of the united states and that they had to be stopped. Fast forward today, the united states sold out to the bankers and americans suffer from poverty and inflation.
Meh, the “Horrid.” Stuff is generally blown out of proportion. Indians continually attacked his state. He viewed them as a hostile invading force, and I can’t blame him. Everything else he did was pretty normal and admirable. Best President in U.S history. God bless King Andrew !
@@Iustusxi - Well said. He literally saw white settlements that were attacked by indians where men, women, and even children were scalped and tortured. The Red Sticks tribe and Seminoles literally cut out the fetuses of pregnant women while they were still alive and then smashed their heads against rocks to kill them and then killed the mother. Not one person could see that and think, "Hmm. These indians are peaceful let's destroy their lives."
Even still, he adopted an Indian orphan named Lyncoya and raised him as his own son. He mostly went after those who attacked first. We desperately need an Andrew Jackson in today's world
He’s a legendary American hero, you’re right we need another Andrew Jackson.
For your next video on a US president, you should cover Harry Truman. You are pretty close to Missouri and you read Truman by David McCullough. Shouldn’t be too difficult to make
Yeah I really ought to. Great suggestion!
I recently saw a video on Tom Pendergast, a political boss in Kansas City in the 1920s/1930s, and I’m wondering if he’ll be mentioned at all, since many claim that Truman’s relationship with him was influential in his political career.
If you do, please cover the Potsdam Conference with Truman and Stalin. Why was Truman so subtle about announcing the invention of the nuke? What more could he have done to push for peace with Japan?
I remember he said to Moe Raca of CBS that Truman and John Adams were "exemplars of honour". In that report, saying how time will tell on how history looks back at Presidents, he said that John Adams was still (circa 2019) underrated, still under appreciated. He pointed out that he was the only Founding Father who became President to have never owned slaves and the first President in any era not to have owned slaves.
@@iammrbeatI have a feeling if the video happens, It will be recorded at Truman’s Presidential Library in Independence, no complaints, just saying.
Ah, you're in my old stomping grounds near Nashville. I loved the Hermitage - went many times. It really is a great time capsule and the people working there are just fantastic. Thanks for sharing about Old Hickory. He was a complicated man and did many bad things for which he is rightly criticized today (and even then!), but he also did this country much good and even tried to warn future generations about the pitfalls that awaited them.
One of his most important actions was getting rid of that second central national bank. He was right how a centralized banking system was slanted towards the rich, allowing them to take wealth away from the middle class. Obviously Presifent Trump has studied Jackson and he too wants to get rid of the third central national bank as it is bankrupting this country. Great demonstration on how people should pay attention and remember history so the same mistakes aren't repeated.
Great work Mr.Beat, i dig your style. I would love to see you do an in depth analysis of our last five Presidents, especially our current train wreck, perhaps you can change my mind, or not
I forget which teacher had me learn a lesson from you and now I just watch your videos on my own time to enjoy. Thanks for all your videos
Great Video! I think making a documentary on John Quincy Adams would be great companion piece as Jackon and Adams were rivals. JQA had such a storied life in public service since the Revolution, from his diplomatic service (including negotiating the Treaty of Ghent and the Monroe Doctrine) to becoming a leading antislavery Congressman in the House, even fighting the gag rule for the freedom of petition. A fantastic book to read about him is "The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the transformation of America politics" by William Cooper.
I remember in 2016 when some said Hillar Clinton was the most qualified presidential candidate in history.... Immediately my answer was JQA
Thanks, Mr. Beat! This video is super informative with how well in-depth you went. In history, it's just as important to know someone's whole life as it is to know their evils. Even if that someone is as terrifying as Andrew Jackson.
You got a new subscriber from this video. Thank you UA-cam for putting this in my suggestions
This guys life is like 15 different movies. Just an outrageous character. You can do a whole movie about the inaugural party at the white house. He has a lot of the characteristics I identify with America and the American people. When it comes to presidents, its Him & Teddy Roosevelt, those 2 guys had lives rich with experiences.
With all of his faults, Andrew Jackson is still one of my favorite presidents because of how he dealt with the central bank. We didn't have another one until the Fed Reserve Act was passed in 1913 and it was one of the greatest periods of development and industrialization for our country.
Today as we're dealing with massive interest payments, 100%+ debt to GDP, inflation, and bloated, inaccessible asset classes, it's about time we find Jackson 2.0 to destroy the Fed and bring back a hard currency.
I'm afraid we need hyper inflation and really really really bad times before that will happen. Until then, we can look forward to more Biden vs Trump type presidential races.
I wonder who that will be? 🟧👨47!
@@invictus2336I don’t think we need to go that far. What we need is to get these octogenarians out of office that are nothing but about keeping the status quo and get the new generations that qualify in there. The firmly entrenched oldsters aren’t doing anyone any favors but for themselves, however, try convincing the stubborn older voting bloc of that. They don’t want to even hear of it, nor do they believe the facts when they’re presented to them in their face. Until it affects them personally, of course.
“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States… You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!” - Andrew Jackson to the bankers of The Bank of the United States
One of my most favorite presidential quotes ever and should be read and studied in its entirety.
Sure he was a rabid pusher of genocidal rhetoric and bills, but he reformed the bank! Liberals are fucking insufferable istg
I've never seen your channel. When I heard the first... Talked trash... I choked on my coffee. Scalding hot coffee forcefully exiting my nostrils was unpleasant, however, I found myself wanting more! Seriously, I had a much needed belly laugh! Thank you for that. I can't wait for the next presentation and the... talked trash that I hope accompanies all your shows! It's obvious that I'm easily amused!
Dude…I love your “taaallllked traaaassh”
Hello Mr. Beat!
I would like, if I may, to suggest an idea for a future video:
A decision/scandal that haunted every president during their presidency
he already did that, every presiden'ts worst mistake or something
Thank you for making Fridays my favorite days! I love the presidential biographies and I think they're my favorite video series from you so far.
I like how Mr Beast can go from doing free laser eye surgery to laying a banger history video. Such a breadth of talent.
Mr. Beast is definitely a different guy
@@TonysMusic1974 no, they are completely the same person!!
Beat not beast
nope same person@@dnm3732
@@dnm3732 It’s a joke acc :D
Great video! Excellent depiction of an imperfect yet fascinating figure who made many long term changes for the better while being complicit, and sometimes a proponent, of despicable policies.
“I am going to punish you. Defend yourself!” - President of the United States, wielding a whip
"Andrew [Jackson] never knew his dad" one line explained so much. Dude needed role models, guy was loco.
Pretty sure he survived on pure spite
And we were lucky to have him on our side.
idk didn’t he apparently view his mother as some kinda superhero or something apparently women:(such
as say mothers):can’t be
role models for males but I guess that males:(such as
say dads):can be role models for just about anyone and/or everyone including sons
and/or daughters apparently
@@sputnik5260understandable dislike/distrust you mean
Fantastic video as always Mr. Beat, Jackson really is one of those larger-than-life guys where you will never have a shortage of interesting stories about them. Love him or hate him, he was one hell of a fascinating person and lived an eventful life.
I'd like to see one of these on Coolidge, he's one of the most underrated presidents in my opinion (and I know you're a fan, too)
That was a serious songwriting effort at the end. I liked it.
On one hand, the trail of tears is horrific, but on the other hand, his handling of the nullification crisis is extremely impressive and likely avoided a civil war (for a few decades at least).
Mr Beat's documentaries are pure art
That's really kind of you to say!
@@iammrbeatunfortunately that account is a bot. Regardless of that it speaks the truth
Indeed they are.
@@fruitpigenthusiast120 uhh don't think so
@@Wikkid124 if you see enough of its comments it shows a pattern of keywords it likes to use and sometimes spouts utter nonsense
Hey Mr Beat. I loved many of your vids on favourite things of presidents, their successes & failures, their children, etc...
I was thinking could you do one on every President's parents or even siblings??
Forrest Gump 0.5
The amount of research and editing quality is impressive
Its mindboggling to hear about his genuinely admirable qualities, like his bravery and love for his wife; but then to remember he sold human beings and apparently didnt see an issue with it. How do you look somebody in the eyes and do that to them?
What an idiotic and narrow mindset lacking perspective and any actual understanding of human nature. Stop privileging your values throughout all of history. They are not an aggregation of knowledge but an adaptation to circumstances just like all others.
slavery is history - history. there are yet again slaves among us! you are not a slave and no one is buying or selling you! but that was the history of his time. it was not morally judged wrong, nor was it against any law. in Africa among blacks it was completely the rule for thousands of years. all people in history practiced slavery. slavery was ended by the white race for humanitarian and religious perceptions of injustice. yes, we the people, under God.
Of course he didn't understand issue with slavery, none of the people of his time did, past is shrouded with racist jackasses and Andrew Jackson was one of them thought he was one badass jackass SOB lol
People make the mistake of making morality black and white (pun not intended), people are either good or bad. But people who are truly virtuous or evil are very rare, truth is that most of us are a mix of both. That combined with the fact that slavery was just something that Jackson and people of his time were brought up to believe was acceptable. The same way that a lot of people know that vegans exist but still find meat eating acceptable or just don't care one way or another. And then people will come at with the whole "well he still should have known better" and all you can say to that is that hindsight is perfect.
Easily, because it was legal and if you are raised in a society where things like this are legal, just like how women and children are treated in currently in Saudi Arabia, one of the richest countries on the planet, you don't think it's wrong.
You don't see the pain, you see them as cattle that need your protection and are bought and sold like anything else.
Do you think a rancher looks into the eyes of cows or pigs and worry about the pain they may endure during transportation or execution so that we can have hamburger and bacon?
Yes that's how they thought of those people.
They were raised that way, they believe that in most cases, and obviously it is wrong by today's standards but you cannot judge people in history by current-day principles.
Otherwise, practically every major or minor figure in history would be a criminal using today's standards.
You simply cannot take modern-day ideals and paste them over what was normal and very acceptable at the time (and for the vast majority of human history) and judge him, it simply isn't right to do that.
Just like now we understand slavery is wrong, and so wouldn't take their opinions and slap them on us, we can't take modern-day thoughts and apply them to history.
And furthermore, opinions continue to change over time so current-day opinions are just that, opinions of today... down the road people may decide that eating meat of any kind is wrong or owning animals as pets is wrong or disciplining children is wrong or anything else that now we think of as "just part of everyday life" is wrong, so think of that next time you try to harshly judge someone that far back in history according to the standards of this week.
Moral standards change very frequently do not deceive yourself.
It wasn't that many years ago that it was considered "normal and legal" to abort children all the way up until birth, now we obviously know that is wrong, laws and opinions have changed, and most people today have trouble understanding people thinking otherwise decades ago that it was no problem, just like people during those times had no issues with slavery, but that is how human moral evolution works.
We get better over time, hopefully.
always have loved your production style mr beat, keep it up!!
Excellent Video. Thank you very much.
I love the video thank you for posting it
Great video! Reminds me so much of the one you did on Ike (which might be my favorite.) I'd like to see you do Woodrow Wilson next, especially since you've turned The Cynical Historian yelling his name into a meme. 😆😆😆 (And he's also very controversial nowadays.)
The Creature from Jekyll Island; Wilson's Folley.
Pay Day, It’s Friday, and Mr. Beat dropped a mini documentary…that’s how you start a weekend ladies and gentlemen! Thank you Mr. Beat!
No it’s not. Dudes gay
@@BrandonDBaxter I’m sorry you spent 10 seconds of your day typing that
GREAT WORK, THANK YOU
I always find it weird looking at photos of Jackson, not just because we see his portrait on the $20 bill all the time, and it's a picture of a strong, vibrant president, contrasted with an actual picture an old, frail man, but also because he lived so long ago. The history of the United States prior to the Civil War might as well be mythological to most people, with characters such as Washington and Jefferson and Madison taking on these larger than life tasks of founding and creating a country. From the 1860s onward the country we learned about in US History is the modern United States, more or less. They had the same political parties we have today, different iterations of the same issues we debate today, and thousands of photos accompany those lessons. To see a photograph of someone, and the president no less, who lived in the time we're taught was so different from our own, it gives you an 'uncanny' feeling.
No matter how many times I’ve read or watched his biography. It still always blows my mind. What a bad ass
He was a genocidal monster.
@@Cherokie89 A BADASS genocidal monster.
@@shawnellesmithlmao i love your response
@@Cherokie89 Dude he was President like 300 years ago. Three living during that time period and then try acting all morally righteous.
@@Cherokie89 Yall never fail to make me laugh acting like youre morally superior because youre living in a more progressive era when he wasnt even all that bad when it came to racial relations relative to his era. His opinion on slaves were very meh and for the natives, it wasnt all that different. But yes, take one act and just overblow it like everyone does with presidents. Even though that act was a compromise with people who wouldnt budge in an era where natives wouldve been killed over just resettling them westward
Thanks for the upload Mr. Beat! I always enjoy your videos, no matter which channel they're posted on. Hope you're having a great day!
I'm new to watching this channel so let me ask: what's up with switching camera angles in rapid succession?
I guess I'll go back to audio (the regular way :-) ).
You're the great source of knowledge, thank you for this.
Great documentary. Thank you
and here I thought Cheney was the most terrifying president
Most apropos first name in history.
He was never really a president
Drinking game: one shot every time he mentions a duel
Or every time I sing 🎶talk trash🎶
26:31 "And some might argue that the strongest defense is a swift and decisive offense"
-Obi-Wan Kenobi
Great production---but I don't see the link for doing the surveys, Thanks!
Chapter Selection:
0:05 - 1. Lawrence’s 1835 assassination attempt at Jackson
1:58 - 2. YouGov Sponsor
2:43 - 3. Start of the Story (Raised on the Frontiers)
11:53 - 4. Unlikely politician
14:13 - 5. Fighting wars
28:54 - 6. Champion of the common man
34:13 - 7. A President like no other
40:27 - 8. Ol’ Hick’s Retirement and Last of years for Life
41:16 - 9. The legacy of Old Hickory
44:08 - 10. Jackson’s The Hermitage Museum Advert and Closing Credits
That’s all of the chapters I could find in this video (I was kinda skimming through it because I didn’t want to watch it a second time in a row), so if I missed a chapter, please reply with a chapter so I can add it, Thanks Mr. Beat for the Video.
He already made the chapters lol
@@paulwaswalrus5956 You responded late, the comment I made was before Mr. Beat added the chapters
I didn’t wanna watch it a first time so still gay
We didn't need that....only morons try that
I really love this channel and all you do. Thanks for making politics and history so interesting and accessible for young people.
Good video thank you very much 🙏👍
I'm really enjoying this series on American Presidents. A very in-depth look at the life and legacy of Andrew Jackson. Kudos to you for visiting his residence too, really added to the video. Big thumbs up!
The _Indian Removal Act_ was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed because it lead to the _trail of tears._
Haven't finished the video yet, but I hope you mentioned his campaign methods. He was the first presidential candidate to campaign on personality and his own mythology, and not anything of any real substance, running with the standard fear mongering that gets many populist leaders elected.
Oh good you did!
Very entertaining history here. I liked this very much! Answered all my questions after reading "Creek Mary's Blood" by the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", by Brown, which I have yet to read...
Thank you Mr. Beat. As always I love your videos.
P.S. I am someone from India 🇮🇳 living in the U.S. (not an immigrant) who is a big fan of your channel. It's a daily supper for me. I even watch your videos more than once.
Hey there, friend! When you say you're not an immigrant--are you saying you were born here? If not, you should consider becoming a citizen, if you like it here well enough. 🙂
From india but not an immigrant? What do you mean?
Glad to know that i was not that terrifying!🫣
Great documentary!
Informative and interesting. Thanks!🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is a very enjoyable and informative analysis of a great man, President Andrew Jackson. He was an extraordinary combination of practicality combined with energy and wisdom.
Mr Beat can you do a video of the guy who did the cross of gold speech. William Jennings Bryan in my opinion one of the most underrated politicians in our country.
Mr. Beat, that was an excellent video. I thought I knew a fair amount of Jackson's history but you added so much more. Thanks.
Thanks buddy
Note: No, Jackson did not cause the Panic of 1837, the Bank of England did by calling in its loans, which caused a decrease in the quantity of currency in North America of about 1/3rd. Like every quick change in such things, this caused a bunch of people to have to sell, at a loss, the common definition of "depression". However, since this was not caused by any destruction of capital equipment or people, like a war would do for example, the "depression" lasted little more than 1 year and never had any wave of high unemployment. This is in direct contrast to "depressions" like 1919, 1933, 1975, 1981, 1992, 2001, 2008, and 2020-23.
Meh I would say he caused the Panic of 1837 to be as bad when it hit as it did because of his monetary policies (like the Specie Circular which caused widespread inflation) and encouragement of state-pet banks to go crazy in their lending/credit habits to cause a market bubble
moral of the story: never talk trash about Old Hickory or his loved ones or be obliterated