The civil war part of video also ignores that almost all of the border states had troops on both sides, and also had to enact martial law in a few to ensure they stayed loyal to union, Lincoln also said fuck the constitution a few times and got rid of habeas corpus and arrested political opponents and anyone who suggested just letting the southern states leave. Calling it a civil war isn't even really accurate as they were trying to leave the union to form a new nation, not take over usa as a whole. Lincoln purposefully reinforced forts in the new confederate states to get them to fire as federal troops weren't leaving their nation. He than proceeds to use the firing on fort sumter to declare war, one which many thought would end quickly even having picnics in first major battle, which csa wins. Also it saying Lincoln was anti slavery was a lie. He was more neutral on the matter. Lincoln was pro union more so than anything, with everything he proposed being to keep union alive, he states on multiple occasions he wouldn't free a single black if it kept the union together, even the emancipation proclamation expressly frees only slaves in rebelling states after a certain date, in other words if every slave state decided to rejoin union on day he said emancipation proclamation than slavery still exist. Only 13th amendment bans slavery except for prisoners and that is after war. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and west Virginia all had troops fight for confederacy, so reasonable should be marked as both. The territories out west were mostly unpopulated so didn't matter, also native americans fought for both sides, though those from Indian territory usually aligned with confederacy.
Thank you for your interest our history & for not judging us for the mistakes of our past. We’re far from perfect people or a perfect country, but we try to elect good, decent & genuinely honorable people, who reflect what the majority of us believe our country should represent: the desire to make up for the sins of our past & to do our best for those who consider us a partner & a friend. Although we haven’t always succeeded, we’ll never stop trying. Thank you again & all the best to you. Respectfully, an American friend & fellow citizen of the world.
@@ks9610 Speak for yourself. I do not feel that we made any mistakes to made up for. Wars happen. To the victor go the spoils. We were the second only to Great Britain in abolishing slavery. We did not create slavery, we just used it as ALL the rest of the world did. I do not feel that we owe apologies to the American Indians. They should be assimilate into all of our society and not set aside. Time to be a true part of this great nation.
@@dallasarnold8615 I did speak for myself & I am a “true part” of this country - whatever that’s supposed to mean. Part of being a truly great nation means having the ability, capacity & decency to recognize its mistakes & make amends for them for the benefit of the country. Despite the fact that I said nothing about the wars in our country’s history, they’re a perfect example of those exact qualities. We fought multiple wars w England at the birth of our nation, but they ultimately became 1 of our most important & steadfast allies; the same is true of Germany, who was the primary aggressor & our adversary in both WW1 & WW2. Also, our country has apologized to the people of Japan for dropping atomic bombs in Hiroshima & Nagasaki for the 1st & only time in human history, & has gone to great lengths to create & strengthen diplomatic ties w Japan, as well as South Korea & Vietnam - all former war combatants. As for our country’s 400 year history of upholding & propagating the institution of slavery, it was unequivocally wrong, regardless of how you try to justify it. The same applies equally to the attempted genocide of Native Americans - rounding people up, forcibly removing them from their ancestral homeland & marching them off to reservations in the desert w small pox-infected blankets, is NOT “assimilation”. To say that those are historical mistakes is kind - they’re atrocities that we would condemn any other country for having done (Germany is still being judged for the Holocaust, 80 years after WW2). & Just from a common sense perspective, American society is made up of people from all over the world, that’s why we’re called a “melting pot” - we’ve assimilated all of those cultures into our multicultural society. Perhaps instead of trying to chastise me for my opinion, you should learn/acknowledge our country’s actual history, instead of just whitewashing it for your own personal sense of superiority. No country is w/out its faults, pretending otherwise is a fool’s errand. Time to wake up … & grow up!
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.
It also caused the crash of the US agricultural industry, which in turn caused the market crash that caused the Great Depression. MASSIVE omission on the part of the original maker of the video.
yep, this was a big part of history classes in middle school. anyone else have to read into the dust? maybe it was out of the dust.... not sure. It is a freeverse poetry book written about that time, potentially by someone living through that time? I can't really remember.
more specifically, the Dust Bowl was caused by the weather but also was caused by poor agricultural practices because there was a lack of crop rotation happening. it ended up with crops draining the soil of nutrients and causing the soil to become dry and loose, thus resulting in the plague of dust that gave that era its name. Dust was literally so terrible, there are stories of people choking and suffocating on it. many died from the dust getting into their lungs and causing illness, as well. so not only did they have a plight of lack of crop yieldings which caused the agricultural industry to collapse, but combining the hardships of the Dust Bowl with the Great Depression meant that there was a wave of deaths that pushed people to migrate to other regions or big cities.
Wasn't there also a problem with locusts at the time? I was pretty sure a lot of crops were destroyed via insect infestation. Also, one of the big contributors was horrible tariff policy (levying bigger tariffs on imports)
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.
I get so confused when people say these things are no longer being taught because I learned all of this when I went through school... and I don't see any indication that things have changed. There's definitely things to be fixed about our educational system, namely funding, but the "kids aren't being taught anything anymore" is so vastly over exaggerated.
@bulletsandbracelets4140 I didn’t say “kids aren’t being taught anything anymore.” I said, “much of this” is no longer being taught. By “much of this,” I meant some of the specifics of our history. The problem is educators(administrators & teachers) are burdened with so much material that is legislated to be taught time doesn’t allow for some things, that used to be considered basic, to be taught. Funding isn’t as much of the problem as time and prioritizing what’s important. Don’t be confused; consider yourself lucky that you were taught the story of the National Anthem.😊
@@courtneyraymer6586 I still feel this really depends on the school and district. We not only had that, we had a full class walking through the history of the state, from the tribes that lived here pre-colonial occupancy to and through the early settlers. US history is still a huge focus of schools - tbh, I think a lot of what we are missing is history of other places (like south america, a place close enough to be highly relevant and still not really explored). We had one optional course in high school, "world cultures", but other than that all we learned about was US history. I get the focus, but I still don't think learning about WW2 from a purely american perspective is as important as maybe exploring some other countries' roles in the situation. I get what you are saying, but I don't see it. Things aren't really dictated on a national level - school districts decide, at the end of the day, what they teach. And that's going to vary widely. Everyone has to do science, math, etc... but aside from that, nothing has changed from 2010 (when I graduated). Most kids, at least in the schools I attended, are still going to learn the history of the anthem.
@@bulletsandbracelets4140I agree, when I went through a few years ago I was taught of American History in great depth, but at the same time many people I've spoken to haven't been taught at the same level. It completely depends upon the school district and school itself for what it teaches. Every school in America varies on what they teach in their curriculum, besides the required material, but even then that can vary state to state.
I live in Florida. To answer your question about tobacco and cotton still being grown in the South: Yes, it is still grown, through today most of the South is fully industrialized. Back in those days after the civil war, though, it was still grown often by the same former slaves who once worked those fields as "sharecroppers," or laborers who were paid an extremely low wage and tied to their lands. It wasn't direct slavery, but because of Jim Crow laws, many African Americans who worked those fields were unable to leave because they couldn't afford it.
@@Tentites It's not really the same as serfdom. There's no rules or obligations preventing a sharecropper from leaving, unlike what was often the case for serfs. Instead, the term "sharecropper" comes from the very literal practice of workers being paid via a share of the crop that they harvest. This may be quite similar to serfdom, I'm not totally sure. Of course, the laws and their enforcement at the time very practically puts many black sharecroppers at the level of serfs, and also as slaves in many cases as well (through other processes, often involving law enforcement).
@@rovsea-3761it was like serfdom. The reasoning being that often the land owners would offer a deal where workers would be able to work with a roof over there heads and food on their Table but in turn, everything they use would be a debt they’d owe money for………for example, you would be allowed to work on their farm with their tools and live in their buildings but you would need to pay off a debt on your borrowing of their folds, roof, food, etc. that’s where the “share” in the name sharecropper comes from. Additionally, many farms offered very very small amounts of wages with huge amounts of debt that these people wotld have to pay off. Basically, it was a impossible task to get out of your debt and is basically slavery by default
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.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 the original US navy was essentially made up of pirates -my parents' house was built by a privateer captain from the American revolution.
To answer your question at the 12 minute mark, the South has still kept the cotton and tobacco plantations. During this time after the civil war, they changed the face of slavery, marking many African Americans, Natives, Hispanics and Irish as "indentured servants" with debts that couldn't be paid off or arbitrary criminal charges leading to a life of servitude. As machinery became more widespread, these groups were freed from their servitude for the most part, however external factors and a consequence of their financial destitution led these groups to live in poverty for most of American history. To this day, the South still has a heavy influence in agriculture producing tobacco and cotton however there is also corn, beans, and squashes that are farmed here at large. I live in North Carolina and this is the case here. It seems pretty similar down to Georgia however I can't speak much about other southern States as I haven't been.
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.
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.
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. Edit: the reason I mentioned the Russians having a “historically lack luster navy” is because the message means a lot more. “Those who have the least to give often give the most”
there was this big theory by most political projectionists prior to WWI that the US and Russia would become close allies with the US helping Russia industrialize and liberalize, and with Russia providing the US with greater international political sway as well as a reliable trade partner, and that such an alliance would be one of the strongest ever seen due to the lack of competing zones of influence and similarities in culture and history in how both consolidated their respective bordering frontiers. all of this of course never happened due to a certian communist revolution
Alaskan here, the relationship between the USA and Russia was not really that of any type of 'friendship' that 'good relations' implies. Russia was only interested in plumbing the richness of seal oil and fur-bearing mammals from Alaska and northwest. Which is why they were not particularly worried about letting it go at less than 2 cents an acre.
Russia was also pivotal in supporting the US in the civil war. They threatened Britain and France with war, if they even recognized the Confederacy as legitimate. This was accomplished by Cassius Clay, ambassador at the time, and one of the greatest slavery abolitionists in American history.
I live in Baja, Mexico, south of Tijuana in Rosarito Beach. There is a HUGE statue of President Lincoln in Tijuana on the Avenue of Heroes. He's holding broken chains in each hand and it's a very grand statue. I'm always proud to be an American when I pass by that statue.
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.
Actually it is the second closest the closest we came was in the 80s faulty wiring in the ussrs early warning system showed the u.s as launching nukes at russia if it wasn't for 1 person refusing to launch until he had conformation we would've been in ww3
12:02 A practice known as 'Sharecropping' took hold. Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This encouraged tenants to work to produce the biggest harvest that they could, and ensured they would remain tied to the land and unlikely to leave for other opportunities. Its a very dry explanation - conditions were harsh and sharecroppers were often kept in staggering amounts of debt by the landholder. A sort of economic slavery, though the system always seemed closer to a sort of monopolistic serfdom. *Edit: It did end. Eventually.
My granddad must have been blessed. He was able to raise 9 kids as a sharecropper. When the owner sold the land he gave my grandfather enough money to buy a house.
There is an old saying that goes, We used to make weapons to end wars, but now we make wars to test and sell weapons. That was the Vietnam War. The first true showcase of the military industrial complex absolute dominance in American politics
I would argue that the Korean War was the first example of the modern MIC, though Vietnam was the first time it was widely televised and people were aware of what was happening on the ground.
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.
The best framing for us history starts with (what little) we know of the pre Columbian native history, to set the stage for Spanish involvement in central America because European disease did as much (or more) to determine the course of colonization as fire arms did.
my brother got married in St. Augustine! It is such a beautiful place and many of the original buildings are still around to be seen, with some still being used to this day! It feels like stumbling upon a European city in the jungle♥
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.
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!
Bear in mind that it was the great powers of Europe: Spain, France, UK, Portugal, that began slavery in the Americas, both North and South America. Spain was the first to import African slaves and the last to free them (1899). Their sole intent was to take the natural wealth of the two continents for themselves, enslaving the natives as well as importing African slaves. Slavery was institutionalized for more than two centuries before the United States even existed.
A point about the people leaving Europe to flee religious persecution: The English Puritans who formed the Massachusetts colony made a law which allowed them to execute any Catholics who refused to leave the colony. They left England because they believed that the Church of England was too heavily influenced by the Catholic church. Other puritans stayed in England to reform the church of England (and to a certain extent succeeded). My point being that while American history classes teach the line "fled religious persecution," the reality is a little more complex, because the point of divergence between them and the church of England was essentially that their desire to persecute Catholics (or what they considered catholic-adjacent faiths) was greater.
And people also left for Profit, to get land and build shops and provide services. As you say a more complex issue than forced out of Europe due to religious persecution.
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.
19, great vid! Glad you found it interesting, as an American, child of immigrants from Brazil, I am also fascinated by America's early history and its founding.
Yes, south still grew cotton/tobacco etc w/o slaves… with the development of the sharecropper! A bit like medieval feudalism, share croppers would have to lease their land and buy seeds from the landowner and often times at the end of the season end up in debt instead of earning a living from their work.
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.
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
@@Xiphos0311 The Constitution also expressly prohibits any religious test be applied to candidates for governmental positions, elected or appointed. The Founders knew damn well how Catholic/Protestant enmities had wracked Great Britain's history, and didn't want religio-political purges of former administrations' essential staff and bureaucrats every time control switched hands between sectarian rivals.
19 Always watch your videos from start to finish! Thank you for refreshing our memory of the US history. Your summaries of the US history are much more interesting to me, now as an older adult interested in world history and world events...than I was as a teenager in high school who was much more interested in what was going on with me and my friends than the droning and sleep inducing voice of my history teachers. Little did I know at that time as a student, that I would later become a teacher...who enjoyed bringing the past to life for my students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since you didn't specifically mention what the Lewis and Clark expedition was...On the video it was after the Purchase of Louisiana from the French. The L&C expedition departed from St. Charles, Missouri up the Missouri River to find a better route to the west. And it is fascinating. There are several documentaries I'm sure you can find in the subject.
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.
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.
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)
Andre,one point that isn't mentioned is that the American Indians were no saints. They were ferocious fighters and very warlike. They fought huge, vicious wars between themselves both before and after the Europeans arrived. And they attacked the Europeans just as energetically as the reverse. The only real reason the Europeans prevailed in the end was that they had better weapons and organization than the Indians did. Plus the Indian tribes suffered greatly from diseases accidentally introduced by the colonists. Had the Indians had guns and stuck together, they could have easily pushed the Europeans right back into the ocean. It was pure accident that the two sides differed greatly in technology; it could have easily gone the other way. And in fact, it did, when the Norse Vikings landed in about 1000 AD. The natives then fought back hard enough that even the war-toughened Vikings decided it wasn't worth it, and turned around and sailed home.
No offense but, your notion that the natives didn't fight us with guns, sounds like you learned history from a Spaghetti Western. The Comanche, and other tribes, very quickly adopted guns and horses, and dominated the areas ahead of our conquest. Most of the lands we took from Natives in wars, were already recently taken from other Natives.
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
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.
I'm 70 and have lived in Florida since 1970. I remember seeing a museum in Collier county along Florida's west coast that showed artifacts of the Seminole War back in the 1830s. Letters written by soldiers spoke of how terrible the conditions were as they were fighting the native Americans and there was nothing here but terrible heat, mosquitos and disease. How thankful we all are that air conditioning was invented and that we live in modern times.
@BlahBlahBlahBlah69 Just curious why, I see it as other people saying it because they think I'm too dumb to defend myself, and also for discrimination against the other half of my heritage, white
Here in Alaska most use just “Native” in conversation. Usually people don’t say “Alaska Native” or “Native Alaskan” in full. No one uses “Indian” up here. So for example “I’m native” rather than “I’m native Alaskan”
This is really interesting, I would love to see you, examine some American historical events in depth, I would love to see the perspective you bring to them
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.
This was such an interesting program. My husband is from the Far East, where his point of view is quite different; definitely not a European viewpoint, so it is so interesting to see this from others' eyes. History is often told from the viewpoint of where a person grew up in the world, and the time period involved. Even I, living through the late 50s and various decades and born in the Alaska Territory, has a different point of reference than others in the USA who grew up in other regions of the country, as well as a different lifestyle, and wealth status. As a relative of French Canadian fifteen generations ago, I look at history from a different point of view of English domination, as I consider the French arriving in the 1500s prior to the English to the North American continent. It was of typical policy and a French-Canadian point of view, these folks worked together with the original Indigenous people. The daughter of my original ancestor to North America attended a boarding school in Quebec. It is a fact the earliest boarding school for girls was established in Quebec in which pupils were both French and Indigenous. From Wikipedia, "The Ecole des Ursulines, is among North America's oldest schools. Still operating as a private school for both girls and boys, it was founded in 1639 by French nun Marie of the Incarnation and laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie." The earliest school in the USA was Boston Latin School founded in 1635 for boys, and only became co-ed in 1972.
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.
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 1653. The pilgrims were NOT puritans. The puritans came a bit later, settling Boston, etc. Many puritans returned to England to fight for Cromwell against the roundheads and the King.
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 was at work in Germany on 9/11 and listening to the radio, it was a bit after lunch due to the six hour time difference so I only had a few hours left at work for the day and got home just in time to see them collapse. I will never forget what my coworkers asked me when it came across the radio as I was the only American working there "What does that mean" and I replied "War". I returned to the U.S. the following spring.
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.
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 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.
The Vietnam war was an absolute disaster for many, many reasons... not the least of which is that much of our military personnel had not volunteered but were drafted and had to go. So imagine you are an 18yr-old kid, sent to war against your will, in an environment that makes warfare extremely difficult, directed by commanders who led from behind, against an enemy that looked exactly like the people you are trying to defend (who don't really want you there anyway) and the government that insisted you go fight doesn't want to fully engage in fear of ending up in an all-out war with Russia, but lies to its citizens about how badly things are actually going. Except, oops... there were reporters and cameras capturing horrendous footage that exposed all this mess on the 6pm news each night. --- Yeah, not our best era as a country.
It marks a change in the nature of warfare. Fighting guerrillas, that is, keeping a country, is much more difficult than the initial invasion of a country. Problem was, the military leaders were veterans of World War 2, and warfare was different then. As an aside, the threat of nuclear weapons in more recent conflicts really keeps nations from making more decisive action even in the initial stages, especially if a country with nuclear weapons is trying to defend their home territory.
@@craigplatel813 A little misleading. 65% of them would have been drafted but the ones that knew they were going to be drafted could volunteer ahead of time to pick where they would serve.
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!
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
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!
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.
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
I grew up on a tovacco farm in NC, it's a huge (regulated) cash crop to this day. Tobacco was centered mostly in North Carolina. Cotton was more throughout the South and did suffer from the cheap labor from slavory. Then in the 1920s the cotton crop collapsed decimated by the boll weavil. It's slowly coming back to the south due to government led control measures.
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.
It's really cool to see Europeans take interest in American history and being abler to see your reaction for the first time. You said you love learning about our History and I feel the same about learning about European, Asian, etc. history. Love to see the interest
I am not sure if someone else has mentioned it or not but I figured I would say it anyways. Abraham Lincoln was opposed to slavery but he wasn't "hostile" as it is said in the video. In fact, Lincoln didn't even want to repeal slavery because it could cause a civil war and after the war started he was afraid that doing so would both legitimize why the South left and change the nature of the war. "In a public letter of August 22, 1862, Lincoln replied to Greeley, writing that while he personally wished all men could be free, his first obligation as president was to preserve the Union." - taken from Wikipedia Edit: Grammar
Not really true, Lincoln wanted slavery gone, but only under the rule of law. Which meant a constitutional amendment. Furthermore, the dumping of millions of intentionally under-educated and abused people with clear superficial differences into a free society was obviously going to have consequences, real world problems all of America would have to deal with, and Lincoln did not have palatable solutions for this. Pretending political statements he made to gain the power necessary to end it once and for all were his real feelings on the matter is just plain naive. You can cherry pick quotes and pretend he wasn't often "talking diplomatically" to twist Lincoln's intentions, but I prefer reality. "I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist." --July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago
@@Chief1YYZ I never said that he made political statements to gain the power to end slavery once and for all. I simply mentioned that he didn't want to repel slavery at the time of his presidency. Yes, he had good reasons for it but that doesn't change the fact that it happened. Also that Lincoln wasn't "hostile" as was put in the video. The quote was simply to mention that at the time of the civil war, he cared more about the future of the US than about stopping slavery.
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!!!
@@rs6730 Everything you said is a lie, ecept for the incredibly vauge statement of "they were warriors before Europeans arrived." Not all tribes had slaves. It's still debated if most did. Also, some tribes owning slaves doesn't justify America'a genocide against the entire native population.
@@MisterRaro Then you clearly did not pay attention to the video or what Andre said during it. History/facts when it comes to videos like this are always relevant. You have a great night.
It is always about who has the most advanced technology. When the settlers came from England they had guns and gunpowder, the most advanced technology at the time. It has been the same throughout history.
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
"Remember the Main." was the best known battle cry during the Spanish American War because of the mistaken belief that the Spanish blew up the ship. In actuality, it was a coal dust explosion because the designers weren't smart enough to separate the coal bunkers from the boiler fires with a bulkhead. (Or the navy or congress were to cheap to install safety devices?) They left out a few misc. rocks and coral atolls in the acquisitions from Spain. History through rose colored glasses.
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.
If you were to read the book on communism most people would think it's full of good ideas. The issue is if it works in pracise or not. And a lot of bad things many communist nations did aren't part of communist philosophy. Nowhere in das kapital does it say that everyone should install steel producing blast furnaces in their backyard.
It's never a good idea, even on paper. It requires a faction to seize the means of production, which includes the labor force. That's why the barbed wire faces the wrong way, in Communist nations. Their populations are captives.
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 It's not what is told to the people being seized, but it completely was and is the plan, in any Communist government. They don't start out good, then turn bad. It's bad from day one.
My favorite historical period is the rise of Macedonia under Phillip II which gave way to my all time favorite historical figure, Alexander the Great. Much of civilization as we know it is directly attributable to the scope and breadth of Alexander’s achievements.
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!
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.
That spot on the map that was labeled 'Indian Territory' was where they forced many Native Americans to go. Most of that became 'Oklahoma', the 46th state, in 1907. The state called 'Indiana' is much further east (and a bit north), and it became the *19*th state in 1816.
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.
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.
Yes, plantation owners still owned farms without slaves and had to do it themselves. Some slaves even stayed int eh South and inheritors their owners land making it their own 11:52
"Do it themselves" is a laughable notion, when considering a plantation with literally thousands of acres of tilled land. Nah man they just had to pay the workers, and there was plenty of profit all along, to do so.
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.
Yeah, Alaska was a purchase. It was known as Seward's Icebox or Seward's Folly for a long time. Seward was our secretary of state who arranged the purchase on our end.
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.
Personally, I like the history videos much better than the food ones. Regardless of how you may feel about communism and capitalism, our behavior in Central America during the Cold War can really not, by any stretch of the imagination, be characterized as "noble." We were pretty terrible.
Yep, pretty cutthroat. We just did whatever we thought would benefit us the most in the immediate short term future. And by we I mean the politicians and unelected officials.
11:45 great question! One of the most common ways plantation owners survived after slavery was abolished was through “sharecropping” which was basically renting out their plantation land and in return getting a share of the crops harvested. This deal was most commonly made with freed black men, as they knew how to farm already and needed money and food
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The civil war part of video also ignores that almost all of the border states had troops on both sides, and also had to enact martial law in a few to ensure they stayed loyal to union, Lincoln also said fuck the constitution a few times and got rid of habeas corpus and arrested political opponents and anyone who suggested just letting the southern states leave. Calling it a civil war isn't even really accurate as they were trying to leave the union to form a new nation, not take over usa as a whole. Lincoln purposefully reinforced forts in the new confederate states to get them to fire as federal troops weren't leaving their nation. He than proceeds to use the firing on fort sumter to declare war, one which many thought would end quickly even having picnics in first major battle, which csa wins.
Also it saying Lincoln was anti slavery was a lie. He was more neutral on the matter. Lincoln was pro union more so than anything, with everything he proposed being to keep union alive, he states on multiple occasions he wouldn't free a single black if it kept the union together, even the emancipation proclamation expressly frees only slaves in rebelling states after a certain date, in other words if every slave state decided to rejoin union on day he said emancipation proclamation than slavery still exist. Only 13th amendment bans slavery except for prisoners and that is after war.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and west Virginia all had troops fight for confederacy, so reasonable should be marked as both. The territories out west were mostly unpopulated so didn't matter, also native americans fought for both sides, though those from Indian territory usually aligned with confederacy.
Thank you for your interest our history & for not judging us for the mistakes of our past. We’re far from perfect people or a perfect country, but we try to elect good, decent & genuinely honorable people, who reflect what the majority of us believe our country should represent: the desire to make up for the sins of our past & to do our best for those who consider us a partner & a friend. Although we haven’t always succeeded, we’ll never stop trying.
Thank you again & all the best to you.
Respectfully, an American friend & fellow citizen of the world.
@@ks9610 Speak for yourself. I do not feel that we made any mistakes to made up for. Wars happen. To the victor go the spoils. We were the second only to Great Britain in abolishing slavery. We did not create slavery, we just used it as ALL the rest of the world did. I do not feel that we owe apologies to the American Indians. They should be assimilate into all of our society and not set aside. Time to be a true part of this great nation.
@@dallasarnold8615 I did speak for myself & I am a “true part” of this country - whatever that’s supposed to mean. Part of being a truly great nation means having the ability, capacity & decency to recognize its mistakes & make amends for them for the benefit of the country. Despite the fact that I said nothing about the wars in our country’s history, they’re a perfect example of those exact qualities. We fought multiple wars w England at the birth of our nation, but they ultimately became 1 of our most important & steadfast allies; the same is true of Germany, who was the primary aggressor & our adversary in both WW1 & WW2. Also, our country has apologized to the people of Japan for dropping atomic bombs in Hiroshima & Nagasaki for the 1st & only time in human history, & has gone to great lengths to create & strengthen diplomatic ties w Japan, as well as South Korea & Vietnam - all former war combatants.
As for our country’s 400 year history of upholding & propagating the institution of slavery, it was unequivocally wrong, regardless of how you try to justify it. The same applies equally to the attempted genocide of Native Americans - rounding people up, forcibly removing them from their ancestral homeland & marching them off to reservations in the desert w small pox-infected blankets, is NOT “assimilation”. To say that those are historical mistakes is kind - they’re atrocities that we would condemn any other country for having done (Germany is still being judged for the Holocaust, 80 years after WW2).
& Just from a common sense perspective, American society is made up of people from all over the world, that’s why we’re called a “melting pot” - we’ve assimilated all of those cultures into our multicultural society. Perhaps instead of trying to chastise me for my opinion, you should learn/acknowledge our country’s actual history, instead of just whitewashing it for your own personal sense of superiority. No country is w/out its faults, pretending otherwise is a fool’s errand. Time to wake up … & grow up!
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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.
It also caused the crash of the US agricultural industry, which in turn caused the market crash that caused the Great Depression. MASSIVE omission on the part of the original maker of the video.
yep, this was a big part of history classes in middle school. anyone else have to read into the dust? maybe it was out of the dust.... not sure. It is a freeverse poetry book written about that time, potentially by someone living through that time? I can't really remember.
more specifically, the Dust Bowl was caused by the weather but also was caused by poor agricultural practices because there was a lack of crop rotation happening. it ended up with crops draining the soil of nutrients and causing the soil to become dry and loose, thus resulting in the plague of dust that gave that era its name. Dust was literally so terrible, there are stories of people choking and suffocating on it. many died from the dust getting into their lungs and causing illness, as well. so not only did they have a plight of lack of crop yieldings which caused the agricultural industry to collapse, but combining the hardships of the Dust Bowl with the Great Depression meant that there was a wave of deaths that pushed people to migrate to other regions or big cities.
Wasn't there also a problem with locusts at the time? I was pretty sure a lot of crops were destroyed via insect infestation. Also, one of the big contributors was horrible tariff policy (levying bigger tariffs on imports)
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.
I get so confused when people say these things are no longer being taught because I learned all of this when I went through school... and I don't see any indication that things have changed. There's definitely things to be fixed about our educational system, namely funding, but the "kids aren't being taught anything anymore" is so vastly over exaggerated.
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I didn’t say “kids aren’t being taught anything anymore.” I said, “much of this” is no longer being taught. By “much of this,” I meant some of the specifics of our history. The problem is educators(administrators & teachers) are burdened with so much material that is legislated to be taught time doesn’t allow for some things, that used to be considered basic, to be taught. Funding isn’t as much of the problem as time and prioritizing what’s important. Don’t be confused; consider yourself lucky that you were taught the story of the National Anthem.😊
@@courtneyraymer6586 I still feel this really depends on the school and district. We not only had that, we had a full class walking through the history of the state, from the tribes that lived here pre-colonial occupancy to and through the early settlers. US history is still a huge focus of schools - tbh, I think a lot of what we are missing is history of other places (like south america, a place close enough to be highly relevant and still not really explored). We had one optional course in high school, "world cultures", but other than that all we learned about was US history. I get the focus, but I still don't think learning about WW2 from a purely american perspective is as important as maybe exploring some other countries' roles in the situation.
I get what you are saying, but I don't see it. Things aren't really dictated on a national level - school districts decide, at the end of the day, what they teach. And that's going to vary widely. Everyone has to do science, math, etc... but aside from that, nothing has changed from 2010 (when I graduated). Most kids, at least in the schools I attended, are still going to learn the history of the anthem.
@@bulletsandbracelets4140I agree, when I went through a few years ago I was taught of American History in great depth, but at the same time many people I've spoken to haven't been taught at the same level. It completely depends upon the school district and school itself for what it teaches. Every school in America varies on what they teach in their curriculum, besides the required material, but even then that can vary state to state.
I live in Florida. To answer your question about tobacco and cotton still being grown in the South: Yes, it is still grown, through today most of the South is fully industrialized. Back in those days after the civil war, though, it was still grown often by the same former slaves who once worked those fields as "sharecroppers," or laborers who were paid an extremely low wage and tied to their lands. It wasn't direct slavery, but because of Jim Crow laws, many African Americans who worked those fields were unable to leave because they couldn't afford it.
That’s what I tried to say…much more eloquently put, thank you.
Oh, that sounds like serfdom.
@@Tentites It's not really the same as serfdom. There's no rules or obligations preventing a sharecropper from leaving, unlike what was often the case for serfs. Instead, the term "sharecropper" comes from the very literal practice of workers being paid via a share of the crop that they harvest. This may be quite similar to serfdom, I'm not totally sure. Of course, the laws and their enforcement at the time very practically puts many black sharecroppers at the level of serfs, and also as slaves in many cases as well (through other processes, often involving law enforcement).
@@rovsea-3761it was like serfdom. The reasoning being that often the land owners would offer a deal where workers would be able to work with a roof over there heads and food on their Table but in turn, everything they use would be a debt they’d owe money for………for example, you would be allowed to work on their farm with their tools and live in their buildings but you would need to pay off a debt on your borrowing of their folds, roof, food, etc. that’s where the “share” in the name sharecropper comes from. Additionally, many farms offered very very small amounts of wages with huge amounts of debt that these people wotld have to pay off. Basically, it was a impossible task to get out of your debt and is basically slavery by default
@@Tentites Essentially yes, that is what it was.
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.
Morocco acutely has a deep history in America many Moroccans werre in the Americas for hundreds of years
@@kylezdancewicz7346 the original US navy was essentially made up of pirates -my parents' house was built by a privateer captain from the American revolution.
To answer your question at the 12 minute mark, the South has still kept the cotton and tobacco plantations. During this time after the civil war, they changed the face of slavery, marking many African Americans, Natives, Hispanics and Irish as "indentured servants" with debts that couldn't be paid off or arbitrary criminal charges leading to a life of servitude. As machinery became more widespread, these groups were freed from their servitude for the most part, however external factors and a consequence of their financial destitution led these groups to live in poverty for most of American history. To this day, the South still has a heavy influence in agriculture producing tobacco and cotton however there is also corn, beans, and squashes that are farmed here at large. I live in North Carolina and this is the case here. It seems pretty similar down to Georgia however I can't speak much about other southern States as I haven't been.
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.
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.
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.
Edit: the reason I mentioned the Russians having a “historically lack luster navy” is because the message means a lot more. “Those who have the least to give often give the most”
there was this big theory by most political projectionists prior to WWI that the US and Russia would become close allies with the US helping Russia industrialize and liberalize, and with Russia providing the US with greater international political sway as well as a reliable trade partner, and that such an alliance would be one of the strongest ever seen due to the lack of competing zones of influence and similarities in culture and history in how both consolidated their respective bordering frontiers. all of this of course never happened due to a certian communist revolution
Alaskan here, the relationship between the USA and Russia was not really that of any type of 'friendship' that 'good relations' implies. Russia was only interested in plumbing the richness of seal oil and fur-bearing mammals from Alaska and northwest. Which is why they were not particularly worried about letting it go at less than 2 cents an acre.
Russia was also pivotal in supporting the US in the civil war. They threatened Britain and France with war, if they even recognized the Confederacy as legitimate. This was accomplished by Cassius Clay, ambassador at the time, and one of the greatest slavery abolitionists in American history.
I live in Baja, Mexico, south of Tijuana in Rosarito Beach. There is a HUGE statue of President Lincoln in Tijuana on the Avenue of Heroes. He's holding broken chains in each hand and it's a very grand statue. I'm always proud to be an American when I pass by that statue.
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.
Interesting. Did not know this.
Actually it is the second closest the closest we came was in the 80s faulty wiring in the ussrs early warning system showed the u.s as launching nukes at russia if it wasn't for 1 person refusing to launch until he had conformation we would've been in ww3
I wasn't yet born but my Mom, who worked at DOJ at the time, told me about how scary that time was.
12:02 A practice known as 'Sharecropping' took hold.
Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This encouraged tenants to work to produce the biggest harvest that they could, and ensured they would remain tied to the land and unlikely to leave for other opportunities.
Its a very dry explanation - conditions were harsh and sharecroppers were often kept in staggering amounts of debt by the landholder. A sort of economic slavery, though the system always seemed closer to a sort of monopolistic serfdom.
*Edit: It did end. Eventually.
Share cropping is a form of indentured servitude/debt slavery
My granddad must have been blessed. He was able to raise 9 kids as a sharecropper. When the owner sold the land he gave my grandfather enough money to buy a house.
There is an old saying that goes, We used to make weapons to end wars, but now we make wars to test and sell weapons. That was the Vietnam War. The first true showcase of the military industrial complex absolute dominance in American politics
I would argue that the Korean War was the first example of the modern MIC, though Vietnam was the first time it was widely televised and people were aware of what was happening on the ground.
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🤔
@@johnvaccaro7022Sorry, people in Florida can't tell you unless you want to end up like Ponce De Leon.
The best framing for us history starts with (what little) we know of the pre Columbian native history, to set the stage for Spanish involvement in central America because European disease did as much (or more) to determine the course of colonization as fire arms did.
my brother got married in St. Augustine! It is such a beautiful place and many of the original buildings are still around to be seen, with some still being used to this day! It feels like stumbling upon a European city in the jungle♥
Andre, your enthusiasm for learning about the United States is delightful! Pause all you want!
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!
Bear in mind that it was the great powers of Europe: Spain, France, UK, Portugal, that began slavery in the Americas, both North and South America. Spain was the first to import African slaves and the last to free them (1899). Their sole intent was to take the natural wealth of the two continents for themselves, enslaving the natives as well as importing African slaves. Slavery was institutionalized for more than two centuries before the United States even existed.
A point about the people leaving Europe to flee religious persecution:
The English Puritans who formed the Massachusetts colony made a law which allowed them to execute any Catholics who refused to leave the colony. They left England because they believed that the Church of England was too heavily influenced by the Catholic church. Other puritans stayed in England to reform the church of England (and to a certain extent succeeded).
My point being that while American history classes teach the line "fled religious persecution," the reality is a little more complex, because the point of divergence between them and the church of England was essentially that their desire to persecute Catholics (or what they considered catholic-adjacent faiths) was greater.
And people also left for Profit, to get land and build shops and provide services. As you say a more complex issue than forced out of Europe due to religious persecution.
Yeah, they loved them some persecution of their own.
You should absolutely do more videos like this! I love history and I’ve learned so much from watching these videos with you!😅
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.
19, great vid! Glad you found it interesting, as an American, child of immigrants from Brazil, I am also fascinated by America's early history and its founding.
Yes, south still grew cotton/tobacco etc w/o slaves… with the development of the sharecropper! A bit like medieval feudalism, share croppers would have to lease their land and buy seeds from the landowner and often times at the end of the season end up in debt instead of earning a living from their work.
I’ve watched all the videos I’ve started of yours to the end. I enjoy your perspective on our country.
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.
I love when you react to history videos. You should totally review more especially since you like it.
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
@@Xiphos0311 The Constitution also expressly prohibits any religious test be applied to candidates for governmental positions, elected or appointed. The Founders knew damn well how Catholic/Protestant enmities had wracked Great Britain's history, and didn't want religio-political purges of former administrations' essential staff and bureaucrats every time control switched hands between sectarian rivals.
19 Always watch your videos from start to finish! Thank you for refreshing our memory of the US history. Your summaries of the US history are much more interesting to me, now as an older adult interested in world history and world events...than I was as a teenager in high school who was much more interested in what was going on with me and my friends than the droning and sleep inducing voice of my history teachers. Little did I know at that time as a student, that I would later become a teacher...who enjoyed bringing the past to life for my students.
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.
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. 😀
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.
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.
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.
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.
You might enjoy watching a video about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition. Very interesting history.
Since you didn't specifically mention what the Lewis and Clark expedition was...On the video it was after the Purchase of Louisiana from the French. The L&C expedition departed from St. Charles, Missouri up the Missouri River to find a better route to the west. And it is fascinating. There are several documentaries I'm sure you can find in the subject.
"19"! I always enjoy your reactions, keep it up!!
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.
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.
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)
Fun fact, he was a pro wrestler and a poet on top of being an extremely successful lawyer
Lincoln clearly was not anticipating what the ex-slaves would turn in to.
Thanks for this video.
Andre,one point that isn't mentioned is that the American Indians were no saints. They were ferocious fighters and very warlike. They fought huge, vicious wars between themselves both before and after the Europeans arrived. And they attacked the Europeans just as energetically as the reverse. The only real reason the Europeans prevailed in the end was that they had better weapons and organization than the Indians did. Plus the Indian tribes suffered greatly from diseases accidentally introduced by the colonists. Had the Indians had guns and stuck together, they could have easily pushed the Europeans right back into the ocean. It was pure accident that the two sides differed greatly in technology; it could have easily gone the other way. And in fact, it did, when the Norse Vikings landed in about 1000 AD. The natives then fought back hard enough that even the war-toughened Vikings decided it wasn't worth it, and turned around and sailed home.
No offense but, your notion that the natives didn't fight us with guns, sounds like you learned history from a Spaghetti Western. The Comanche, and other tribes, very quickly adopted guns and horses, and dominated the areas ahead of our conquest. Most of the lands we took from Natives in wars, were already recently taken from other Natives.
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
I really enjoy your pov! Your reactions teach and explain things. Really great! Have a wonderful day!
Love the history reactions.
Great reaction video! Love the accent and the history😄👍🏻
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
I'm 70 and have lived in Florida since 1970. I remember seeing a museum in Collier county along Florida's west coast that showed artifacts of the Seminole War back in the 1830s. Letters written by soldiers spoke of how terrible the conditions were as they were fighting the native Americans and there was nothing here but terrible heat, mosquitos and disease. How thankful we all are that air conditioning was invented and that we live in modern times.
An American Indian here and I say that the preferred term is Indian, unless you're trying not to get confused with India Indians
It just depends on the person. My husband and his family prefer native American. My cousin prefers Indian just like her father preferred it.
@BlahBlahBlahBlah69 Just curious why, I see it as other people saying it because they think I'm too dumb to defend myself, and also for discrimination against the other half of my heritage, white
Here in Alaska most use just “Native” in conversation. Usually people don’t say “Alaska Native” or “Native Alaskan” in full. No one uses “Indian” up here.
So for example “I’m native” rather than “I’m native Alaskan”
@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 that's understandable as the natives on islands are usually called natives
@@BlahBlahBlahBlah69I like first nations but as a white I don't get a vote.
This is really interesting, I would love to see you, examine some American historical events in depth, I would love to see the perspective you bring to them
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.
This was such an interesting program. My husband is from the Far East, where his point of view is quite different; definitely not a European viewpoint, so it is so interesting to see this from others' eyes. History is often told from the viewpoint of where a person grew up in the world, and the time period involved. Even I, living through the late 50s and various decades and born in the Alaska Territory, has a different point of reference than others in the USA who grew up in other regions of the country, as well as a different lifestyle, and wealth status.
As a relative of French Canadian fifteen generations ago, I look at history from a different point of view of English domination, as I consider the French arriving in the 1500s prior to the English to the North American continent. It was of typical policy and a French-Canadian point of view, these folks worked together with the original Indigenous people.
The daughter of my original ancestor to North America attended a boarding school in Quebec. It is a fact the earliest boarding school for girls was established in Quebec in which pupils were both French and Indigenous. From Wikipedia, "The Ecole des Ursulines, is among North America's oldest schools. Still operating as a private school for both girls and boys, it was founded in 1639 by French nun Marie of the Incarnation and laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie." The earliest school in the USA was Boston Latin School founded in 1635 for boys, and only became co-ed in 1972.
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 1653. The pilgrims were NOT puritans. The puritans came a bit later, settling Boston, etc. Many puritans returned to England to fight for Cromwell against the roundheads and the King.
We enjoy your reactions to everything! ❤
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!
I was at work in Germany on 9/11 and listening to the radio, it was a bit after lunch due to the six hour time difference so I only had a few hours left at work for the day and got home just in time to see them collapse.
I will never forget what my coworkers asked me when it came across the radio as I was the only American working there "What does that mean" and I replied "War". I returned to the U.S. the following spring.
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.
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 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.
This history summary was great! It reminded me of facts I had forgotten. 19!
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
Definitely a like for history ! I semi often do the exact thing you're doing now for other parts of the world !
The Vietnam war was an absolute disaster for many, many reasons... not the least of which is that much of our military personnel had not volunteered but were drafted and had to go. So imagine you are an 18yr-old kid, sent to war against your will, in an environment that makes warfare extremely difficult, directed by commanders who led from behind, against an enemy that looked exactly like the people you are trying to defend (who don't really want you there anyway) and the government that insisted you go fight doesn't want to fully engage in fear of ending up in an all-out war with Russia, but lies to its citizens about how badly things are actually going. Except, oops... there were reporters and cameras capturing horrendous footage that exposed all this mess on the 6pm news each night. --- Yeah, not our best era as a country.
It marks a change in the nature of warfare. Fighting guerrillas, that is, keeping a country, is much more difficult than the initial invasion of a country. Problem was, the military leaders were veterans of World War 2, and warfare was different then. As an aside, the threat of nuclear weapons in more recent conflicts really keeps nations from making more decisive action even in the initial stages, especially if a country with nuclear weapons is trying to defend their home territory.
and all the tunnels. US would capture areas just to have hostile troops pop up out of nowhere behind them.
weird that you point out how "ineffective" your soldiers were, but not their atrocities.....
The vast majority of troops in Vietnam were volunteers. Only 25 percent were draftees. It is a trope that they were all drafted.
@@craigplatel813 A little misleading. 65% of them would have been drafted but the ones that knew they were going to be drafted could volunteer ahead of time to pick where they would serve.
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!
The invention of “Cotton Gin” Could Pick the Seeds from Cotton.
It industrialized the cotton trade without the need of slave labor
Great video and your reactions were a ton of fun!
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
58K casualties for absolutely nothing.
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!
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.
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
I like the historical videos
I grew up on a tovacco farm in NC, it's a huge (regulated) cash crop to this day. Tobacco was centered mostly in North Carolina. Cotton was more throughout the South and did suffer from the cheap labor from slavory. Then in the 1920s the cotton crop collapsed decimated by the boll weavil. It's slowly coming back to the south due to government led control measures.
This jumps over many historical points and drew some crazy conclusions.
Yes, it was very clearly biased on several topics.
"19". Wonderful video, as a German myself, it was fun to learn about the US 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.
It's really cool to see Europeans take interest in American history and being abler to see your reaction for the first time. You said you love learning about our History and I feel the same about learning about European, Asian, etc. history. Love to see the interest
I am not sure if someone else has mentioned it or not but I figured I would say it anyways.
Abraham Lincoln was opposed to slavery but he wasn't "hostile" as it is said in the video. In fact, Lincoln didn't even want to repeal slavery because it could cause a civil war and after the war started he was afraid that doing so would both legitimize why the South left and change the nature of the war.
"In a public letter of August 22, 1862, Lincoln replied to Greeley, writing that while he personally wished all men could be free, his first obligation as president was to preserve the Union." - taken from Wikipedia
Edit: Grammar
Not really true, Lincoln wanted slavery gone, but only under the rule of law. Which meant a constitutional amendment. Furthermore, the dumping of millions of intentionally under-educated and abused people with clear superficial differences into a free society was obviously going to have consequences, real world problems all of America would have to deal with, and Lincoln did not have palatable solutions for this. Pretending political statements he made to gain the power necessary to end it once and for all were his real feelings on the matter is just plain naive. You can cherry pick quotes and pretend he wasn't often "talking diplomatically" to twist Lincoln's intentions, but I prefer reality.
"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist."
--July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago
@@Chief1YYZ I never said that he made political statements to gain the power to end slavery once and for all. I simply mentioned that he didn't want to repel slavery at the time of his presidency. Yes, he had good reasons for it but that doesn't change the fact that it happened. Also that Lincoln wasn't "hostile" as was put in the video. The quote was simply to mention that at the time of the civil war, he cared more about the future of the US than about stopping slavery.
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.
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!!!
@@rs6730 Everything you said is a lie, ecept for the incredibly vauge statement of "they were warriors before Europeans arrived." Not all tribes had slaves. It's still debated if most did. Also, some tribes owning slaves doesn't justify America'a genocide against the entire native population.
Im also one of the many proud Americans and I just love learning about everyone’s world history! I would watch this over any other educational film
One thing people never learned or forget about north American history is Native Americans did the same or worse to other tribes for thousands years.
Irrelevant.
@@MisterRaro It's very relevant.
@Mr_Raro every single land has been conquered. Rise up and take it back. It's happened countless times. Stop crying
@@revtoyota Not even remotely.
@@MisterRaro Then you clearly did not pay attention to the video or what Andre said during it. History/facts when it comes to videos like this are always relevant. You have a great night.
It is always about who has the most advanced technology. When the settlers came from England they had guns and gunpowder, the most advanced technology at the time. It has been the same throughout history.
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
Yes, the public image of tens of thousands of dead young American men.
"Remember the Main." was the best known battle cry during the Spanish American War because of the mistaken belief that the Spanish blew up the ship. In actuality, it was a coal dust explosion because the designers weren't smart enough to separate the coal bunkers from the boiler fires with a bulkhead. (Or the navy or congress were to cheap to install safety devices?) They left out a few misc. rocks and coral atolls in the acquisitions from Spain. History through rose colored glasses.
Definitely should check out more on Vietnam War wasn’t great for either side. Newer tech vs jungle warfare.
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.
If you were to read the book on communism most people would think it's full of good ideas. The issue is if it works in pracise or not. And a lot of bad things many communist nations did aren't part of communist philosophy. Nowhere in das kapital does it say that everyone should install steel producing blast furnaces in their backyard.
It's never a good idea, even on paper. It requires a faction to seize the means of production, which includes the labor force. That's why the barbed wire faces the wrong way, in Communist nations. Their populations are captives.
@@Tijuanabill thats not the idea
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 It's not what is told to the people being seized, but it completely was and is the plan, in any Communist government. They don't start out good, then turn bad. It's bad from day one.
My favorite historical period is the rise of Macedonia under Phillip II which gave way to my all time favorite historical figure, Alexander the Great. Much of civilization as we know it is directly attributable to the scope and breadth of Alexander’s achievements.
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!
The Oregon Territory was that part of the northwest shared by Britain & America. It includes tge modern states of Oregon & Washington.
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
@@jeffhampton2767 omfg they went to modern day canada
That spot on the map that was labeled 'Indian Territory' was where they forced many Native Americans to go. Most of that became 'Oklahoma', the 46th state, in 1907. The state called 'Indiana' is much further east (and a bit north), and it became the *19*th state in 1816.
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.
I love watching you react to anything regarding America, and I would absolutely watch you react to anything historical!
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.
Yes, plantation owners still owned farms without slaves and had to do it themselves. Some slaves even stayed int eh South and inheritors their owners land making it their own 11:52
not really, indentured servitude persisted until WWII
"Do it themselves" is a laughable notion, when considering a plantation with literally thousands of acres of tilled land. Nah man they just had to pay the workers, and there was plenty of profit all along, to do so.
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.
Yeah, Alaska was a purchase. It was known as Seward's Icebox or Seward's Folly for a long time. Seward was our secretary of state who arranged the purchase on our end.
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.
19! Subscribed because of your exceedingly positive outlook! I enjoy your energy, my friend 🙌
Personally, I like the history videos much better than the food ones.
Regardless of how you may feel about communism and capitalism, our behavior in Central America during the Cold War can really not, by any stretch of the imagination, be characterized as "noble." We were pretty terrible.
Yep, pretty cutthroat. We just did whatever we thought would benefit us the most in the immediate short term future. And by we I mean the politicians and unelected officials.
11:45 great question! One of the most common ways plantation owners survived after slavery was abolished was through “sharecropping” which was basically renting out their plantation land and in return getting a share of the crops harvested. This deal was most commonly made with freed black men, as they knew how to farm already and needed money and food