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The first country to recognize the US as a sovereign republic was Morocco in 1777. I love this little known fact.
my opinion of morocco just went down a bit.
Friendly relations with Morocco couldn't have lasted long. That was one of the countries that the Barbary Pirates operated out of. They picked on US ships because it was a new, weak country without a real navy. They demanded protection money from the US. That eventually led to the US constructing some powerful frigates, including the USS Constitution, which is still an active, commissioned ship in the US Navy, the oldest active navy ship in the World, I believe, and eventually, a new, very small force of US Marines helped decide the issue on the "shores of Tripoli". Thomas Jefferson was in charge. 25 years earlier, Jefferson wrote the words, "All men are created equal", that motivated George Washington's troops not to surrender on Manhattan Island and to eventually win the Revolutionary War. Those words have shaped the rest of American history in America and in the World as people have become more and more equal since those very prejudiced days.
@@timmethyYeah guess what that first treaty with the United States was. Morocco agreed to not commit piracy against the United States and they would have peace and friendship. But unfortunately the actual Barbary states of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers didn’t agree to peace so the Barbary wars happened.
Arguably it was the Netherlands; the Dutch West India company controlled the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius and in November of 1776:
"First Salute"
The island sold arms and ammunition to anyone willing to pay, and it was therefore one of the few places from which the young United States could obtain military stores. The good relationship between St. Eustatius and the United States resulted in the noted "First Salute".
On November 16 1776, the 14-gun American brig Andrew Doria commanded by Captain Isaiah Robinson[39][40] sailed, flying the Continental Colors of the fledgling United States, into the anchorage below St. Eustatius's Fort Oranje. Robinson announced his arrival by firing a thirteen gun salute, one gun for each of the thirteen American colonies in rebellion against Britain. Governor Johannes de Graaff replied with an eleven-gun salute from the cannons of Fort Oranje (international protocol required two guns fewer to acknowledge a sovereign flag). It was the first international acknowledgment of American independence.
(from Wikipedia's page on Sint Eustatius)
Still, Morocco was the first to recognize the US on paper.
Morocco acutely has a deep history in America many Moroccans werre in the Americas for hundreds of years
This video did not mention the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s, where the economies of many desert states and Midwestern states collapsed because all their crops were destroyed by high winds and sandstorms which lasted weeks and months. Many people from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska moved west toward California, in order to escape the grinding poverty which the "Dust Bowl" weather phenomenon had caused.
Also part of the Dust Bowl were human-made failures, like not applying dry land farming methods, which basically sped up the destruction of the top soil by settlers. Combine that with droughts, then we had the Dust Bowl.
If anyone was wondering, if the the damages from the Boston tea party would have been around $1,700,000 USD had it happened today
*let's cause more*
Asking what happened in Vietnam is like opening a can of worms. Best to research it yourself.
Exactly, it’s best he realizes the amount of war crimes the US committed in Vietnam
@@7blueblood both sides did war crimes in that mess of a war
quickest oversimplification is that it started as a war of independence from France that the US took over for Communism Containment reasons. Which as a "they aren't fighting us" thing didn't really ethically qualify to many for the ongoing military draft and as such faced major backlash from the US civilian population, especially as the news coverage was getting more direct. Support fell apart and the US tried doing the same as what happened with Korea and just have a split, but the ceasefire deal wasn't honored by anyone except the US. (There was no reason or motivation to go back)
@@7bluebloodIt wasn’t just the U.S. War crimes were committed ruthlessly on both sides. That war was a complete bloody mess that the U.S. should’ve never been apart of
The dominate US geo-political theory of the time was called the Dominio Theory. When the French pulled out of Vietnam, it was thought that if South Vietnam fell to communism then all of South-East Asia would fall to communism, like domminos..... Cambodia suffered horribly in the aftermath. We faced Soviet troops & aircraft in Vietnam. [I do not think North Vietnam trusted China] Did this proxy war hold back Soviet & Chinese expansion? I think so. Did we lose? I won't ask that question. My thanks to all the men and women who served & sacrificed.
PLEASE don’t apologize for pausing! As an ancient retired teacher, I love watching your learning(reactions). Since much of this is no longer being taught in schools, you’re providing a great service to UA-cam browsers and your subscribers.
Separation of church and state is a huge part of what makes the United States great! Many people came to America to have religious freedom! I am Christian. However, I believe that people should be free to choose any or no religion. I love your videos, Andre, and I hope people who watch and comment will do so with kindness and respect for other's beliefs. 🙏 We might disagree on political issues, but from one American (who leans left) to another, I would stand and die with you to defend this great country. Don't underestimate the power "We the People" have, and that includes tremendous love for this great nation! We all bleed red, white, and blue.
Be kind, my friends!❤
The Constitution doesn't address the "separation of church and state'"in any way. That stuff was all in the Federalist and anti federalist writings, and the personal corespondents, of people like Jefferson and Adams. The only time religion is mentioned in the constitution is the first amendment, and all that says, is that the State will not establish a religion, like the Church of England, nor interfere in a citizens exercising their preferred religious choice. That's it.
@Xiphos0311 The concept is enshrined in the very first freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Which you have so eloquently point out. This concept has been further established by the Supreme Court. My point is to be accepting of the rich diversity religious or otherwise we have in this great country! 🙌 😊
@@Xiphos0311not to mention we have a treaty that says we aren’t a some religious nation and that stuff with the treaty of Tripoli and not to mention our nations first official friend was Morocco. That’s why the USA and Morocco have decent relations.
That doesn't make America great as removing a core religion that runs the nation kills one of the major pillars of stability history only proves this as we see all the left winging nations that have implemented Albania fell fast soviets had no support China is soon aswell due to this
It removes reasons to work with the government look at France constantly has issues due how distant the government is from the people
You should learn about the Seminole Wars in Florida and Ponce De Leon. Florida has the oldest European established city in the US. St Augustine was established in 1565 by the Spanish.
How did De Leons' search for the fountain of youth turn out🤔
Andre, your enthusiasm for learning about the United States is delightful! Pause all you want!
My ancestor got on a boat in Liverpool and landed in Virginia in 1792. 30 yrs later his son was in Florida and my family has been here ever since.
My ancestor came over on "The London Merchant" in the about 1640s. He, his wife, and their infant son were part of the colonists in Jamestown.
There's a lot of information about him online. So interesting. I'm glad they kept some records/writings.
@OkiePeg411 I know, records can be very hard to find. The only reason I know all this is because my great-aunt was the family historian and she took donations to print copies of a book compiling everything she found on our family. It's actually two volumes. The first is history and the second is just an index with the known names, phone numbers, and addresses of people decended from Henry Isaac Nelson.
To put into perspective how close nuclear war came during the cuban missile crisis. A nuclear sub near Cuba had fully believed that war had broken out. This was not true but they didn't know right then and there.
So the two people in charge of giving the orders to fire their nuclear weapons has given the okay, but one man them "Vasily Arkhipov" convinced them not to fire their nuclear torpedo.
Thank you for this. Stanislav Petrov does not get enough credit for being possibly the only man in history to literally save the world.
Petrov deserves a lot more credit. It says a lot that when Russia agreed to the terms of the deal, they had to shut all traffic down in Moscow so the stupid car carrying the official documents could move around the city, including to Radio Moscow building where the accord was announced to the country. When traffic is now a "risk to world peace", there is more tension than you realize.
You’ve badly mixed up your history. Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who didn’t overreact to a false alarm of an American ICBM attack in 1983. Vasily Arkhipov was the Soviet naval officer who, during the Cuban missile crisis 21 years earlier, prevented the diesel-powered B-59 submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo at American warships that the sub’s captain and political officer thought were attacking them. Arkhipov did not outrank those two. He did, however, have a second duty assignment as the chief of staff of the flotilla of which the B-59 was a part. Because of this very unusual circumstance, all three men had to agree to launch the special weapon, and Arkhipov refused to let that happen.
@@markhamstra1083 yea you right I did mess up the names. I just googled "Soviet that prevented nuclear war" as I didn't know the name my heart and assumed the first one was the person I was thinking of.
As a young boy of 14 yrs old in 1962, I think, that one week in late Oct.1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most harrowing experiences of my lifetime. I remember kissing my mom every morning as I left for school, not knowing if I would see her again that afternoon. I'll never forget, the relief that Sun. morning when we heard on the radio, the report that Russia had ordered their ships to turn around in order to not run the naval block-aid that Pres.Kennedy had put around Cuba to prevent them from bringing more missiles to fortify the island.I pray, with all my heart, that no child would have to experiemce that kind of fear ever again!
If you want to react to US history, the Lewis & Clark expedition is really interesting. They were sent by Prez. Jefferson to map a route to the west coast. The discoveries and overall journey were the first comprehensive documentation about the peoples, landscapes, and animals of the interior US. Ken Burns did a documentary on it for public TV years ago. It was an amazing feat.
Abraham Lincoln stated:
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Lyceum Address - 1838
(an excellent read)
We did not lose in Vietnam. In fact the vier cong were so beaten that it was only left to the north Vietnamese army. Public image is the only thing that prevented us from winning
fun fact The USA actually had pretty good relations with the Russian Empire
Cathrine the Great even partially supported the US war of independence. Russia never got involved but she herself did personally support the revolution obviously fear of her own people doing the same thing she did allow a copy of the declaration of independence into Russia but it was heavily censored.
During the US civil war they even threatened the UK and France that they would go to war with them if they helped the confederacy. They sailed part of their historically lack luster navy to the pacific to show this threat.
And then obviously we can’t forget that just a few years after the civil war Russia sells the US Alaska.
But eventually after the Russian revolution the good relations died with rise of the USSR.
I have to say that this...
The Americans fighting in the Revolutionary War were NOT insurgents. They were people born and raised on this land.
Yes, they did the native Americans dirty. And yes, slavery is a rotten part of our past, but, we wouldn't have become one of the greatest nations on the planet if we were still a part of England.
Edit:
The war of 1812 had more to do with England capturing American ships and pressing American sailors into working on English ships, basically enslaving them.
Being born and raised in a place doesn’t make you “not an insurgent” which literally just means Rebel
insurgent isn't a bad word. it just means a local militia that is violently opposed to an occupying military. we think of insurgent as a bad word because of Iraq, but if you ask an Iraqi they would call them patriots too.
Would that be so bad? Who elected the US as judge, jury, and executioner?
From the US perspective, it was as you say. But it was challenges from European powers led Britain to enhance their navy's crews by capturing the American sailors. 19
they were worse than that.
they were english traitors.
but they arent the ones who fought and won that war were france, spain, india(yes, india) and netherlands.
washington and his rich slaver friends were mostly just symbolic figures with no practical effect on anything.
also we are not "native" americans. we are americans.
I like the historical videos
Andre you should learn about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that took place in new mexico between the spanish and the Pueblo People. The Puebloans we success and driving out the spanish for about 12 years.
Amazing history has taken place in new mexico, including a famous Civil War Battle at Glorieta Pass
19. We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks for the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.
Andre, just to make sure you understand, Louisiana and Louisiana Territory are not the same thing. Louisiana Territory was the area between the Mississippi river and the crest of the Rocky Mountains that the US bought from Napoleon in 1803. As this area became more populated it reached a point where states were carved out of it. The state of Louisiana was the first state that was carved out, in 1812, other states followed as more and more people moved into the territory.
The same thing with the Oregon Territory, and the eventual state of Oregon. I see that it puzzled you.
And same with Dakota territory and North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota
Love the history reactions.
I'm a proud American, but it sickens, and saddens me what happened to the Native Americans! This video also does not tell that the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims what corn is and how to grow it... It saved many lives.
So are you going to go back 1500 years and be upset about the muslims killing Christians in Africa and Spain? OR to the Norman Islands of Great briton and all the wars back and forth? Or ALL the fighting back and forth in Russia? In every migration of one group into another group's territory there is a winner and loser and YES a lot of wrong things.. But bashing America now is silly.
@@creinicke1000I can you tell you don’t have an education.
Absolutely. Biggest tragedy along with enslaved perso.
Excellent video.
2 words for ya
Manifest. Destiny.
4:55 I recently found your channel and really enjoy watching many of the topics you choose. Your reactions are genuine and your questions are intelligent.
My ancestor got on a boat somewhere in France in 1650 and landed somewhere in Canada. I'd like to add more information but that was 374 years ago. The family Bible disappeared centuries ago.
They did not go to Canada because it did not exist until the mid-1800s
I live in Springfield, IL. There is a Lincoln museum here. It shows a really cool video of when the civil war battles happened and who took over what and it’s just really cool. A must see if you like Abraham Lincoln! It’s just a really amazing fluid map showing which side had what at certain times! You used to be able to find it online, but I couldn’t find it just now. If you like Honest Abe, Springfield is one of the places to be!
I've been several times. (From Chicago area) The museum opened in time for my last visit. Absolutely amazing!
Andre, I have to admit I learn more about our U.S. history than I did in high school in the 80s! I enjoy your videos so much. You love the U.S. more than a lot of our own citizens do.
19. I am an American Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran. A retired firefighter of 33 years. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work my friend.
In Vietnam (1965-1973) the US military performed pretty well actually. We took 58K casualties but we won every engagement. In 1968, the Tet Offensive carried out by the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Militia) and the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) was soundly defeated, but the overall shock to the American public at home to the brazen attack turned the public against the war and for the next 5 years the war was gradually lost due to lack of political support.
I was born at the tail end of Vietnam. My father was in the Army, but served in the couple years before the war really kicked off, so he lucked out by being as old as he was. He served from 1963 to 1965, so he got out just as the war heating up.
Some good movies to watch about the Vietnam War are "We Are Soldiers" which details one of the first major battles in 1965, "Platoon" which is a fictional account following a platoon of soldiers from 1967 to 1968's Tet Offensive, "Full Metal Jacket" which b starts out in training camp in the States, but them goes into an urban battle in Vietnam during Tet in the second half of the film. There's several other B-films that are decent, but not as iconic as those three and they are Platoon Leader, "Hamburger Hill" (well, this one is pretty good about the campaign to take a Hill only to give it right back to the enemy), "Flight of the Intruder" about some missions of the A-6 Intruder Attack jet, and then BAT*21 about a surviving crew man of a surveillance plane that gets shot down as he makes his way back to freedom using a Golf Course in his secretive coding to plot way points in his escape route.
Yeah, I can't stand when people say America lostVietnam. America forced North Vietnam to agree to peace before leaving. 3 years later after America wasn't involved the north attacked and took over the south.
Anyone who says America lost either doesn't know that history or is just otherwise lying to try and bash America
As an American I can say it's crazy how much we take our history for granted. I love videos like this because even though I know most of the facts, I don't take into account how amazing they are until someone who hasn't grown up with them talks about them. Thank you so much!
21:02 generally, especially at that time, communism was most likely to be supported by people who stand to benefit the most from the ideals espoused, like the young and the working class.
I really enjoyed this reaction because this is a channel I recently discovered as well and has become a favorite of mine. Their whole channel is similar to this video and they cover plenty of interesting topics/time-periods. My personal favorite is their video on the Cold War (extended version).
11:26 I know the location of the midpoint of the railroad from San Francisco, California to Omaha, Nebraska. It's in Promitory Point and best to go on May 10th since that's when the two rails met for the final track placement.
Bravo Andre it's a good introduction, for United States of America history, there is so much more to learn 🔥🤟 Andre I'm going to give you one recommendation on the civil war history that's historian Shelby Foote! Also there's a PBS special series called the civil war by Ken Burns! 🇺🇸🔥🤟19
Shelby Foote was not a historian but a novelist. His writing makes compelling reading because of that however his “history” of the Civil War is written from the perspective of a southern white man and gives short shrift to (1) slavery as a prime cause of the war (see seceding states’ statements for why they were seceding) (2) contributions of African Americans. He didn’t even mention Frederick Douglass once in a three volume work. Not a good source for a balanced discussion.
@@helenavalentine9718 the sense of history that Shelby Foote had and the grasp of History, his works and his reputation speak louder did any degree or PhD did he have his opinions of course he did, he didn't perport it as anything but that, that, doesn't make him any less of historian than any other one.
Definitely should check out more on Vietnam War wasn’t great for either side. Newer tech vs jungle warfare.
Love these types of videos. I majored in political science in college and took loads of history courses. I find world history in general fascinating. Would love to see more.
As a side note, there are many many many historical stories about America I think you would really love learning about. Some have mentioned the Seminole wars, the war of 1812. The history of the Cajuns from Canada. The gold rush in the Dakotas, California, and Alaska. The panama canal. The Philippines. Jean Lafite the pirate King of the Gulf of Mexico and his lost treasure. The railroad wars and the industrialists that spanned a nation with Iron Horses (trains). So many more in a varied history involving many cultures settling and interacting across a continent. Alot of stories out there hardly told
I went to school in the US and the video you are reacting to is far better than anything in the books or films we had available.
Utah was part of Mexican territory. I still remember learning about Fathers Escalante and Domingez as a student. There's even a location with Father Escalante's name in Utah. Ecalante's Staircase and it's gorgeous there. I can't remember where Monterey is but I suspect somewhere in Mexico near the Arizona and New Mexico borders.
No, Utah and other parts of the American West were not part of Mexican territory. They were Spanish territory. At that time, “Mexico” only meant the areas around Mexico City - essentially the current states of Mexico and Mexico City within the country of Mexico. “Mexico” meaning territory outside of those two states didn’t happen until after independence from Spain and some further political struggle and consolidation, by which time Utah and other former Spanish territories were firmly within the United States.
Puritans were religious pilgrims in the north(Massachusetts)and economic settlers went south(Virginia).
What happened to our Native American people was the darkest part of our history.
America is only strong when we have a strong leader.
They were slavers are warriors for thousands of years before we arrived. They attacked us far more than we them.... Although we did eventually treat them poorly .. it wasn't anything they hadn't done to us 40 times before. We just had more power by the end.
@@rs6730yep... just look at the Jamestown Massacre.
Now, people who are angry about the BRITISH "stealing" Indian land are ok with a foreign invasion at our wide open southern border!!!
19. They fit a lot of history in 20 minutes.I live in Illinois,home of Abraham Lincoln. In fact,he is buried here.One wonders how different things would be had he lived. My maternal grandfather immigrated here as a boy from Belgium. He grew up and founded a greenhouse. I never knew him as he died when my mother was a child.How I would have liked to know him and asked why did he emigrate and why at that time. Two of his sons joined the navy and fought in WWII.I always enjoy your content. Cheers,my friend.
Hi! I like the history summary. Sure, we learn American History, but it takes years and we learn it so young, it’s nice to have a review. You can visit with Native Americans currently. There are special celebrations but also you can call a tribal nation a day ahead and let them know your family would like to meet a family. See what happens. You’ll probably be connected to someone who wants to carry the story of their people to the world. you might have opportunities to hear about history, cooking or art. Whatever interests you.
Andre, you have a very good feel for choosing interesting vids. I don't think you talk too much and your voice is soothing. Please do as you have. 😀
I love watching you react to anything regarding America, and I would absolutely watch you react to anything historical!
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 very well. It was a very scary time to be alive. You are right, it was the closest the US and the USSR ever came to nuclear war. What the video did not explain was that the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey first, and that was why the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Once the US agreed to remove the nuclear missiles in Turkey, the USSR removed their missiles from Cuba. The provocation that almost started a nuclear war began with the US, not with the USSR.
19... just FYI I always watch all the way to the end. I just love when you react to historical videos. I can hardly turn away until it's over. Thank you for sharing your reactions. As an American, I know most of the history but there are always a few details that I just don't remember or learning myself. Also, I learn a lot about the differences in our countries as you react and I think I love that most. Thanks again 😁❤
Thanks for this video.
19 Just wanted to say that I am fairly new to your channel but love your videos. I love seeing how you make sense out of things for yourself. Not always right but usually pretty close. You should not apologize for stopping the video it is a way for you to ask questions and to react to what you have seen this is what it is all about. Keep it up and I would love to watch more of you responding to American History.
23:32 - The Vietnam War was Hell on Earth. I'll try to summarize:
- France was heavily involved in Vietnam before the US, but I don't know much about that. I only know the US took over when France decided to pull out. I sometimes wonder if things might have been different if both countries had worked simultaneously.
- Whenever the USSR tried to support one side during another country's civil war, the US had a policy of trying to balance the scales by providing an equal amount of support to the other side.
- In Vietnam, the USSR started sending weapons to the North Vietnamese, so the US began sending weapons to the South Vietnamese. Then the USSR sent people to train the North, so the US did the same in the South.
- The US tried to negotiate peace between the North and South Vietnamese.
- At some point, the USSR and China decided to send their own troops in to the help the North. President Nixon wanted to do the same, but Congress did not approve a declaration of war. Therefore the US military had very limited money to fight. However, the US President has the authority to do limited fighting without Congressional approval, so President Nixon sent what he could.
- At the same time, the CIA began secretly selling drugs to South America, and the money was used to fund larger military involvement in Vietnam. This didn't come out until the mid 1980's. I'm ashamed that this happened.
- The US tried to set up a heavy defensive line that the North could not breach, similar to the DMZ between North and South Korea, but continuing lack of Congressional approval, and then the Watergate scandal that drastically reduced Nixon's standing and political power, left the US military unable to send the forces necessary.
- When the Americans pulled out, the North overwhelmed the South. Many South Vietnamese were granted asylum, but there were too many. I've read that as the Northern forces reached the southern shore, they lined South Vietnamese up along the shore and shot them so that the last departing US ships would see.
- With the fighting over, the CIA stopped selling drugs to South America. However, the people involved had no interest in stopping, and began what would become the "Cartels" using the knowledge and training the CIA had given them. They then began selling drugs in the US, where the profit was higher.
What's weird is that people actually trust the CIA with their horrific record. And essentially as you said, we abandoned Vietnam because of administrative issues back home and bad press. Toe to toe and by the numbers, we were dominating the North Vietnamese but a wicked government and wicked media proved too influential and the success(though often tragic and at a cost) on the ground proved insufficient.
@@UniqueArtsCostcoPicasso In the end, I suppose the question was whether we could fully win without going to war with Russia and China, instead of keeping it a proxy war. Same problem we had in Korea. Setting up a DMZ in Vietnam could have worked though. The US could absolutely have crushed North Korea, but not without going to war with China, at the time. I imagine China secretly regrets not letting the US finish off North Korea. Anyway, I think perhaps Nixon should have just accepted the decision of Congress. I think it would have been different if the US hadn't just gotten out of the Korean War. It was only a few years before.
The southern states still grow a lot of tobacco and cotton. Cotton processing has become quite industrialized, but tobacco is still very much a labor-intensive hand-processed crop.
A large factor in what made the US Civil war so deadly was the invention of rifling. Suddenly the guns used in these battles were much more accurate but the tactics from previous wars with muskets were still being used. You could line soldiers up to fire muskets at each other because a lot of them would miss. When they did that with rifles a lot more soldiers died.
It was one of the first major wars fought on an industrial scale and foreshadows how deadly the wars of the 20th century would become.
You might enjoy watching a video about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition. Very interesting history.
19! I also found this interesting. There were some things that, as a member of a military family, I remember or understand a bit differently. But as a teacher, I recognize that this was a good representation of our nation's history. I, for one, would enjoy watching more history with you. 🤠
11:06 Fun Fact: Russia tried to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein first before it offered it to the USA. Liechtenstein refused. For those who don't know where Liechtenstein is it's smack in between Switzerland and Austria and border no other country. Directly South of Germany and Directly North of Italy.
We enjoy your reactions to everything! ❤
Love your videos!
For me the Revolutionary War is the most fascinating. In many cases, our first civil war. As we were all citizens of Great Britain. Almost everything about it was the first of it's kind in modern times. We were the first colonies of Great Britain, and the only to win independence by force. The type of government we set up was also the first of it's kind, heavily influenced by the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, along with ideas from the enlightenment. Just take a look around at the architecture of DC, and you'll clearly understand the ancient Greek/Roman influences. These details are easily overlooked. Just the whole colonial, revolution and forging of the United States periods is absolutely packed with amazingly dense history about the plight of natives, exploration, innovation, piracy, architecture.. and so much more that has changed the course of the world in almost every way. From the British colonization of Australia in response to losing the war with America, to France's revolution, to the formation of the european union.. just to name a few. All of it has all stemmed from that one event where we told Britain and their tea to get off our lawn.
The last territorial change was actually only in 2009 when we swapped a few river islands with Mexico.
Just a thought. If you are so interested in early U.S. history, check out Civil War reenactors. There are also Revolutionary War reenactors. These are people who buy uniforms weapons and equipment, and reenact battles from those wars. You might even want to do a video responding to what you see.
PS - I watched until the end.
Interesting video. There was a TV show called "How the states got their shape." I dont know if he can find it.
You’re right. It can be found several places including right here on UA-cam. It gives a healthy dose of history rather painlessly,I think.😊
I love when you react to history videos. You should totally review more especially since you like it.
The Cotton Gin was still around along with the industrialization of industry overall. Even though the Cotton Gin initially led to a growth of slavery as an unintended consequence it was still there to fall back on when the huge labor vacuum hit. With the industrial revolution and the fact that free labor from slavery was no more, it required innovation for those industries that wanted to prosper.
I love history, and I am here for it if you wanted to do the History of every country lol
The Unitef States did NOT fight against France. France was America's first ally to obtain infependence from Britain and starting in 1776 helped in the fight by secretly shipping supplies to the continental army.
By 1803, Thomas Jefferson wanted to get control of the land around the Mississippi river and Napolelon wanted to avoid a confrontation with the British and sold to the US for $15 million their territories from New Orleans in Louisiana, going north all the way across to Canada, nearly doubling the size of the country.
The invention of “Cotton Gin” Could Pick the Seeds from Cotton.
It industrialized the cotton trade without the need of slave labor
Vietnam was the first war that we actually saw with our own eyes every night on the 6 o'clock news, and it wasn't pretty. The young Americans (mostly college students) started the protest movement. Older Americans were outraged, they supported war no matter what. The Vietnam War was not our war. It was rooted in a lot of political moves, France being the main player and we pretty much got roped in. The 60's were the most turbulent times in the US, in my opinion. We had 3 major associations (president Kennedy, Robert Kennedy running for president, and Martin Luther King Jr.), we had the Civil Rights movement, the Women's movement, the sexual revolution because of the birth control pill, the protest of the war, the whole hippie movement, the drug culture, and, most importantly, Rock and Roll. The 60's were intense, but we ended up with the best music EVER, which got us through those troubling times!
Korea also wasn’t our war, should we have done nothing there cause South Korea doesn’t think so? I don’t argue Vietnam wasn’t a mess but in many cases it’s we who view it as bad while the people we helped don’t. Even Japan chose to surrender to us rather than the Russians who were swiftly approaching (they didn’t want what would happen to east and West Germany)
I was commenting on the turbulence of the decade, not looking for petty political arguments. So sorry you were offended by the protest against the first televised war. And had Korea been televised, it might have been protested as well. That is commentary on the times, not the validity of the conflicts. This wasn't intended to trigger you.
@@lauramittler HMMMM... sounds kinda like the pot calling the kettle black. The first comment seems to be just pointing out an opinion. What have we become if when we express an opinion someone who doesn't agree labels us "petty" and "triggered"? Are we as Americans so childish and intolerant that anyone who disagrees with us should remain silent? Without healthy communication and debate, our society is doomed!
I really enjoy your pov! Your reactions teach and explain things. Really great! Have a wonderful day!
My ancestors came from Spain and settled near St. Augustine Fla. During the civil war the Rebel army commandeered their farm and tavern and took everything. My dad still gets mad talking about to this day😂
We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks to the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.
Really love your reactions on this channel during my 23 United States Navy I visited your country at least twice Lisbon Portugal 🇵🇹 beautiful and very friendly people.
Some form of slavery or indentured servitude or forced contract work system continued for nearly a hundred years after the civil war ended. Slavery wasn't immediately ended, it was fazed out slowly over time in gradual steps. Not to mention the police putting black people in jail in insane numbers to perform forced labor with things like mining or road laying just because they were loitering. They'd find any excuse.
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I was three-years-old during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of course, I didn't really understand what was going on, but I knew something serious was up. My mom went into labor with my younger brother when the crisis was at its height, and she was worried he was going to be born in the middle of a nuclear war. Fortunately, the crisis was resolved as he was born.
We just celebrated Juneteenth, commemorating the date that enslaved people in Texas learned that slavery had ended two years earlier. In fact, one reason Texas declared independence from Mexico was that Mexico had abolished slavery and Texas wanted to maintain it.
So you mentioned it as one of the reasons for the Texas Revolution. Please explain the other reasons.
Now let me explain a few things you left out. The last major battle of the Civil War was in South Texas (the Confederates won). Texas only got the news of Lee's surrender from their Union prisoners. The proclamation of the surrender was on June 19th 1865. Hence the date for Juneteenth. Something I'll also point out. During the Civil War, Texas was huge supplier of war materials to the Confederacy via trade with Mexico. The Union tried many times to interrupt this trading but were beaten back every time. What I'm saying is unlike the other states of the Confederacy, Texas was never militarily conquered. Hence there was not the communication network (Telegraph) the Union was putting in where they conquered.
The Emancipation Proclamation was 2 years earlier freeing all the slaves in the states of the Confederacy. What it did not do and this was by design free the slaves in the slave states fighting for the Union. Since the Confederate States of America were trying to be their own country, then no they are NOT going abide by any Amendments or laws passed a country they are fighting against.
My family has been in Texas since the 1820's before Mexico's revolution against Spain.
@@kentdesrochers4052 i don’t want to get into a flame war. You’re obviously a proud Texan and that’s great. I was simply commenting because Andre didn’t seem aware that Texas was part of the confederacy. Texas history is long and interesting but I don’t consider being part Texas the confederacy, undefeated or not, to be its finest hour. Just saying.
@helenavalentine9718 Oh, okay! I misunderstood. I sincerely appreciate your explanation, and I do apologize if I offended. I freely admit I get long-winded just a tad.
Definitely a like for history ! I semi often do the exact thing you're doing now for other parts of the world !
"19"! I always enjoy your reactions, keep it up!!
@ 11:48 you ask if the industries supported by slave labor are insupportable after slavery is abolished. Many former slaves would continue to do the same work as “share croppers”. This was an incredibly unfair system where the laborers produced the products in exchange for living and working on the land. The arrangement left many people in crippling debt and was commonly referred to as “slavery with a paycheck”.
The thing about Vietnam is people always say the US lost the war, but really they kinda just got bored and left lmao.
19 - great stuff dude. Hello from Oregon!!
I always watch your videos all the way through.
I love history. ❤️ keep it up please.
This history summary was great! It reminded me of facts I had forgotten. 19!
The Vietnam war was really a civil war between two Vietnamese factions. It grew out of an independence war to overthrow the colonial power, the French, and a decade later eventually led to civil war between those Vietnamese preferring a communist Vietnam versus those preferring a capitalist Vietnam. Superpowers jumped in to join sides and make it into a proxy war between them, with the US aiding the capitalist faction in the south and the Chinese and Soviets aiding the communist faction in the north. The US aid to the south escalated a little more each year, starting off as just supplying military gear, then later sending trainers and advisors to train Vietnamese troops, and eventually sending US soldiers to take actual part in the fighting. When the US withdrew its soldiers, the war wasn't over immediately. It continued another 2 years before South Vietnam was fully gone. Because, again, it wasn't a war the US started, it was an already existing civil war the US joined. So when the US forces left, that already existing civil war was still there, still going on.
The pilgrims were Puritan, they were persecuted because they had just finished being highly involved in Oliver Cromwell's dictatorship in England. They advocated a Christianity based around "not Catholic."
WWII is my favorite, if you want a good review of the American Civil War watch the documentary by Ken Burns. Everything he has made recently is terrible but that documentary is a work of art yet also true.
Pilgrims were separatists. They wanted to split from the church of England (and the Catholics). Puritans wanted to purify the church. They wanted to reform the church of England. They're actually two different groups with similar religious vibes.
Puritans were Puritans, pilgrims were pilgrims.
Rrad about Christopher Branch, who , with his wife Mary and his infant son, left England because of religious persecution. His story and ancestry is well documented.
You have this very wrong. the Pilgrims were separatists and arrived at Plymouth in 1620. Cromwell began his period of rule in 1853. They were NOT puritans. They came a bit later, settling Boston, etc. Many returned to England to fight for Cromwell against the roundheads and the King.
Ken Burns' multi-part documentary "The Civil War" appears to be available on UA-cam. It's well worth watching.
19! The civil war was about slavery but not only slavery. Some of the states joined the confederacy out of distrust of a strong federal government and loss of state freedoms. But slavery was the key thing for most states. Indiana was not Indian territory. Indiana is east of the Mississippi River. Regarding the persecution of Catholics, that’s been in the USA from the start until maybe the 1950s. My Dad and grandfather dealt with that!
At 12:00, you asked whether the South continued to grow cash crops like cotton and tobacco after the Civil War ended slavery. They did. Although the former slaves were technically free, they often remained economically dependent on their former masters, who used legal and terrorist methods (like the KKK and the Red Shirts) to keep the freedmen in a state of disenfranchised quasi-servitude. The federal government after about 1877 basically abandoned any effort to correct this situation and left the African-Americans to their fates under a system of organized discrimination (known as the "Jim Crow" system) in the South. This did not change significantly until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s.
Meanwhile, cotton (which depletes the soil if not alternated with other crops) ran its course in the Deep South until the 1930s, when large areas of the country saw failed crops due to drought and depleted soil. At that point, many Black Americans simply abandoned the South and headed for factory jobs in the northern cities. Tobacco (also depletes the soil) continued to be grown in many parts of the Upper South into the 1980s and 1990s, when massive court damages and public opinion against smoking vastly reduced that crop as well. You can still find it growing, though, in some parts of North Carolina. Edit: 19.
A couple of things. Indian Territory was and is the state of Oklahoma. (statehood in 1908). Indiana is located between Illinois and Ohio. Yes, the Civil War had more casualties than all other American wars combined.
I read a comment and forgot the number, lol. Always to the end, my friend.
19? 17?
@@graceoreilly7625 19
I always watch to the end, but usually comment about something before he asks for the number lol..
@@jeffhall2411 Same! 😆
Bro they got conjured l! natives were killing natives far before white man touch the land
I posted a short clip of my stay in rural Indiana over the weekend.
I visited A birthday Party of my Native American friends kid.
Though Im not Native, Ive always felt an attachment to this land and to the Natives….Its stronger than any other religion or spiritual belief. The Land And the Natives live in the land and grow in the people around them.
I love history, US history or pretty much anywhere else. Granted I know much if not all of what you cover, I enjoy watching you learn about it and it keeps me from forgetting.
side note, more often than not, I watch to the end :) dogs barked when you were talking about that and missed what you said.
Yes, cotton and tobacco continued to be grown in the South after the war. For the most part the old planter class kept their land and local power, while many of the freed slaves were compelled to continue working that land for poverty wages.
There’s a couple of misleading statements in this video. First, the Boston Tea Party wasn’t about higher taxes on tea; the taxes were part of a broader policy to regulate the colonial tea market on the same terms that English merchants were operating under. The tea merchants of Boston were mad because English competitors were selling tea to Americans at lower prices.
And the US didn’t really get into WWI because of the sinking of the Lusitania or the Zimmerman telegram; the real reason was what the video mentions first: that US banks had been lending tons of money to the UK and France, US corporations had sold tons of arms and supplies to them on credit, and none of that would get paid back if the Entente lost. The American population was generally against getting involved, and Wilson had successfully run for re-election -after the Lusitania had been sunk-on the slogan “he kept us out of the war”. But Wilson probably knew he’d go back on that already, and the same wealthy interests pressuring him were also lobbying Congress, so when the Zimmerman telegraph was publicized most of the politicians rushed for war. There was still lots of resistance to it among the people, especially the draft.
And the US was actually giving support to mujahideen-aligned factions in Pakistan and Afghanistan before the USSR invaded. The Afghan Communist Party stirred things up on its own, and the US hoped to draw the USSR into invading by strengthening the opponents of the Afghan communists, which worked. We then ramped up that money and support once Soviet soldiers were there.
There's so much when it comes to history. You find your self asking why did this happen? And then find out there's a century of history that resulted in one thing of many that helped to cause it. Take WWIII. There's literally dozens of reasons as to why things happened. And then each reason has a century of history that resulted in it. History is can be so complex but also so fascinating.
12:15 the so-called Indian Territory ended up forming the state of Oklahoma, while Indiana is the state west of Ohio and south of Michigan. Amazing video!
I have always loved learning about history. This led to my study of my family's genealogy .In learning my family's history I found out that it is pretty much the story of the history of the USA .The first members of my family to come to America from Europe were French Huguenots who fled France after the catholics massacred more than 100,000 Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in in 1572. They went to Holland , which was by far the most open society in Europe , having been the only Spanish possession which did not participate in the Spanish Inquisition, fought a long war to gain its independence and largely converted to Protestantism . In 1613 my ancestors boarded the Tyger, captained by Adrien Block the first ship to bring Dutch settlers to America . My ancestor Jean Vigne , his French name , Jan Vintje was his Dutch name. ( I am descended from his older sister , 14 generations back )was the first male of European ancestry born in the original 13 colonies of the USA. Of course my Cherokee ancestors had been here for thousands of years .My grandfather , 8 generations back , who fought in the Revolutionary War was already a 6th generation American and the family still spoke Dutch .This is getting long so I will be more brief . My family has among it 3 US Presidents , Thomas Edison , and generals on both sides in the Civil war . We have now been in America for 17 generations
19 - This does a quick look at how the U.S. got its land but it does skip some smaller parts. There is the funny story in the Pacific Northwest called "The "Pig War" that Oversimplified did a video on. It's about how the U.S. and Britain nearly went to war because of a pig.
The Vietnam War was heinous. I suggest watching a couple of documentaries. It caused horrific PTSD for our men. They used a lot of psychological warfare that our men were not ready for.
I love your reactions to history.
The Vietnam War is complicated. Basically, it had been a French colony and the Japanese took it during WWII, took all the rice and let the people starve.
When WWII ended, France came back but the Vietnamese didn’t want anyone ruling over them anymore… understandably.
They wanted a communist system. Their revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Minh, had a western education and was supported by the US, at first.
France in the 1950’s asked President Eisenhower to intervene in Vietnam or France would go communist… so Ike capitulated and started sending troops to help train the Vietnamese who were loyal to France - ARVN, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
So Vietnam is split in two, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government based out of Hanoi in the North, and the Republic of Vietnam out of Saigon in the South.
Ho Chi Minh’s guerrilla warriors, the Vietcong, are allied with the NVA, and the US Army with the ARVN.
But, the ARVN didn’t necessarily want to fight and more and more American troops were sent to fight in their stead.
Jack Kennedy ordered the assassination of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem because he was a brutal leader and it was felt that he was bad for the war and the country, but his assassination led to the destabilization of South Vietnam and the war only got messier.
After JFK was assassinated, Lyndon Johnson went all in on the war, but it just kept getting messier, and it was dragging on, and it had been 50 years of war in one place or another, and people here were sick of it. Tired of sending their sons, brothers, fathers to go die in some country they’d never heard of, in a conflict that didn’t seem to make a lot of sense.
Richard Nixon ran as the anti-war candidate, but didn’t get close to ending it until his second term which, as the whole world knows, he didn’t finish since he was caught spying on his opponent’s campaign office and resigned from office in the face of impeachment.
His VP, Gerald Ford, was sworn in as president and it was Ford who finally got the US out of Vietnam. In the 70’s, after we’d been involved there for close to 20 years.
There are those, including some of the veterans, who feel we were close to victory when we finally gave it up. It’s not clear what benefit victory would have had, but I think for many of the vets there’s a sentiment that it would’ve meant that all the horror and the loss and the trauma might have served some purpose, instead of no purpose at all, which is where they wound up.
But there are others who feel that there never was any purpose and that it was only ever a waste. I was born in ‘76 and it’s only ever been history for me, so the only thing I’m
sure of is I’m glad that in my lifetime there has never been a draft that sent me or my friends off to some damned war. And unless you were there it’s probably impossible to fully comprehend the way it felt.
The USA Civil War was one of the most fascinating wars in human history. The more you study this war the more you understand what being an American means. A nation of emigrants and slaves, combining to became more than the sum of their parts. A struggle to define freedom and government.
The Oregon Territory was jointly administered by the USA and Great Britain until the border was fixed at (49° N) with the Colony of Vancouver Island going to the British. In 1859 the Island was merged with the government on the mainland and the Colony of British Columbia was formed. 12 years later BC joined Canadian confederation.
The Oregon Territory was that part of the northwest shared by Britain & America. It includes tge modern states of Oregon & Washington.
The south is still a big agricultural area, André. Still produces cotton and tobacco. We have machines for harvesting now lol.