Great Presentation of the Historical Truth as well as your last statement regarding the Comments. The only people that will Burn the Truth are those that do not accept the Truth because it goes against what they already believe; Thanks again for bringing the Truth.
@@nill5217 "people who cant speak proper Roman Latin dont deserve better" -some guy probably Languages change over time my guy or people learn more than one language or god forbid they dont care on the internet. *shrugs*
@@dylan2478 are you asking what a Superfund site is or just more about my question in general? I can tell you a superfund site is were we just throw a bunch of hazardous chemicals or materials and lock em away. Sorry if I'm being redundant if you already know the definition. :v
One quick quibble: Lincoln and Johnson didn’t run on the Republican ticket, but a fusion “National Union” ticket in 1864. This was due to a split in the Democratic Party between peace Democrats who advocated a rapid end to the war and war Democrats, who supported Lincoln’s war policies (ironically, the peace Democrats nominated a war Democrat, McClellan, as their standard bearer). And no mention of the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour, which resulted in two of the impeachment articles...
Except that the articles relating to the Swing Around the Circle tour weren't even brought to the Senate floor when it was time to vote. It was mainly the violation of the Tenure of Office act that kicked off the impeachment proceedings.
I don't think you can call McClellan a 'war Democrat' if a war Democrat is one that supported Lincoln's war policies. By that point McClellan hated Lincoln, and believed that the war was unwinnable. And if Lincoln hadn't sacked him, he may have been right; McClellan was a political general who thought he was Napoleon's equal but really... wasn't.
Boo Bah He supported prosecuting the war to its conclusion, and he didn’t support the Democratic platform of an immediate end to the war. He accepted the nomination because, as you say, he REALLY hated Lincoln and thought he was God’s gift to the Army...
The purchased music is alphabetically arranged on the "by song" tab on my Apple music account. So "We didn't start the fire" is followed by NOFX's "We threw gasoline on the fire!". I always found that an interesting anecdote
I just want to say the animation on this was amazing. I don’t know if you’ve been working on this video for a while, but the quality even compared to the last one is incredible.
I will say the most amazing thing about impeachment is that so many people don’t realize that just because the house votes to impeach doesn’t mean that the president is immediately removed. Civics has really failed in this country.
Lincoln:Alright Andrew If I die you can play *Dies* Andrew:I barely know the controls Andrew:Hmmm what does this button do? Game:Are you sure you wanna veto Lincoln's Achievements? Andrew:Hmmm What's that mean? *Destroys Lincolns Achievements* Congress:You have been banned from the game.
Infectious Legume that’s not completely true the biggest problem with Andrew Johnson he didn’t do as much as Abraham Lincoln would off done after the war for blacks I feel like his precidency really set us back
Johnson could have been that cool president that showed unity and respect in a post-Lincoln Union. But instead, he became the guy almost everybody hated.
I enjoyed this video quite a bit. it kept to the topic (johnson's impeachment, and no one's else), it was a pretty good run down on how the process has always been a bit wishy washy, defined by the contemporary house/senate, instead of something set in stone (which isn't what the forefathers imho had intended it to be). the only thing i would've like to have seen was a bit better explanation on what is a simple and super majority, a lot of people seem to think everything in congress is done via simple majority.
@@lindseyfrancesco4 Didn't Sherman do this deliberately to use up the supplies in the south while on his march? Also, what @bigredwolf6 said is in a meme format not meant to be serious XD
Whatever the result for the impeachment is, I think we can all agree that it's going to set a some crazy precedence that might come back to bite this country in the ass. What a strange time in history to be alive.
@@drheusmann805 I mean ... he is *accused* of using his power to benefit himself, among other things, so it's not really political gain. Actually this will probably hurt the democrats more if Trump doesn't get removed
@@drheusmann805 not to sound like a Ass but how will both Party even use this as a Leverage, I'm pretty sure this will fly by as we are freaking out about the impending apocalypse
@@JoseMendoza-JAM hopefully, in the US impeachment never becomes just another tool for politicians. (here in Chile impeachments are getting shot at everyone, bruh.)
@@deutan4390 It most certainly could be used as a political gain. No matter what your political views are, it's a political event, not a law-endorsed one. As someone previously said, Trump really hasn't done anything wrong, and it's just a drain on taxpayers money. It'll backfire.
Shoot I would rather see Trump/Stormy Daniels... I mean at least he is in government still. Maybe do a piece on the rumored 8 abortions Trump has paid for?
@@swirvinbirds1971 A common practice for historians is to stay away from the recent past. Recent could range from 10 years to 20 years. They do this so that they can avoid any bias they may harbor. The Trump/Stormy debacle is too young in our memory to analyse it objectively.
I can't help myself... A supercomputer would malfunction trying to calculate the number of hot dogs stormy has had in her buns... if you stacked them all tip 2 tip you could make a hot dog ladder to the moon, or beyond. Okay jokes aside, Your speculation at #8 is probably less than tenth or hundredth of a percent of the actual number defective lil wieners ole stormy prevented from becoming big wieners. Another way to explain this... your trying to apply standard mechanics to quantum mechanics and everyone knows an elephant and a pig can't make hot dogs.
I wonder how American history would have been different had Johnson been convicted and removed. Would it have set a precedent making future Presidents easier to impeach, given that Congress had already done so once? Would the Presidency have been a weaker institution, more subject to domination by the House and Senate?
It's one of those events that probably isn't even spoken about in history class, and yet could've result in some states seceding again and maybe having more countries than one in this huge piece of the world.
The general conversation I've seen is it would of brought in a lot more civil rights laws and we wouldn't of had the dramatic rise of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. That being said, there would of been riots and civil unrest for a lot longer and the South would basically be under a military governorship for over a decade.
If the politicians don't need the voters to do what they want (make room at the top), they'll want to accrue more powers that'll let them negate voters. Eventually, they won't bother with voting at all.
No Jim Crow, no end to reconstruction after the election of 1876 and more Civil rights. Basically, if Johnson had been impeached in 1868, Rosa Parks and MLK would not have had much to do in the 1950s and 1960s.
Probably at least a little, although that probably would have faded over time away from the intensity right after the Civil War. Nobody really cared much for keeping the Tenure of Office Act and system after Johnson left and presidential power would have still increased with later wars. Nixon was not outright impeached but resigned from the start of impeachment proceedings-and presidential power still pretty quickly increased after him.
They're both impeachment. The verb is the same for drawing the articles of impeachment as well as removing an official from office. So, technically, both houses vote on impeachment.
There's a GREAT podcast series about this called "1865" it's based on a play so it's not 100% accurate but the writers are huge history nerds and the have a episode where they explained what changes they made and why. I cannot recommend it enough 💕
In a very Shakespearean way, Andrew Johnson is basically American Iago “Do you mock me?” “I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a man!” -Thomas Nast‘s Othello Political Cartoon
I have grown to love history so much more since high school and to be honest after watching the present day circus impeachment and learning about the impeachment of Johnson I really wish my teachers would have gone into more detail about this event in American history. We as citizens need to pay more attention to the things which have transpired to get us to where we are today.
So this can be sumed up like: Andrew: no I want this person Congress: no we have this person Andrew: *removes person Congress: dick move bro Andrew gets impeached
"Fighting Slavery" was not intended to give everyone equal rights. But renaming slaves "Wage Earners" (AKA Sharecroppers), allowed the Union to increase taxes in the South. Lincoln's Federal Income Tax Act considered 1/3 of the sale of cotton "wage earnings", or "taxable income". Which means every former slave "got" $1000 per year, hypothetically. Meanwhile, factory workers in the North made less than $800 per year, so they were exempt from the Federal Income Tax. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 kept blacks in the South until the Civil War. The Sharecropper's Debt Laws which followed, kept blacks in the South after the Civil War. So the slaves were never really set free by the Civil War. Which is odd, considering the Land Runs of the late 1800's, where land in the West was given away for free. "How many blacks participated in the land runs will likely always be a matter of debate. The 1890 Territorial Census of Oklahoma listed roughly 3,000 black residents. Of that number, only 42 were recorded as having entered the territory in April 1889 to file a claim."
This was mostly because of Johnson. Abe had the vision of, putting it in simple terms. giving everyone what they wanted. The slaves were freed and given land, the south would be unpunished and allowed in the Union in exchange for that and reconstruction of the south, the conservative republicans would have a end to the war and the radical republicans could create new anti slave legislation and help integrate them into America as brothers and sisters. But with Lincoln dead, Johnson took the plan and as a Kentucky democrat that had sympathies with the rebels, sided with them and undid all of that. So then the republicans went hard on the south, reconstruction was a disaster and only improved because of president Grant. But even then most of the progress that had been made was undone by Woodrow Wilson who serrated not only the south but the ENTIRE government, helped build the 2nd kkk and rewrote the history of the civil war to favor the south.
@@deutan4390 No, UA-cam is part of Alphabet (Google) and they have openly stated that they do everything to keep Trump from winning again in 2020 like "the disaster of 2016". Not being American and not being a fan of Trump, I still have to agree with Charles here, UA-cam has been demonetising any videos that speak moderately or even favourably about the man
The tenure of office act would be considered unconstitutional today. Stanton was clearing doing executive duties when leading the war department. Even if Stantons functions had been entirely legislative or judicial it’s still unconstitutional to have one man leading an executive agency independent of the president.
That was actually very informative. I had no idea why Johnson was impeached in the House but now it seems like they were looking for any excuse to get rid of him period.
If I remember correctly, after impeachment failed, the Congress basically ignored Johnson and every time he tried to veto a law, they overrode the veto.
i hate the argument when people say "the democrats supported slavery!!!" not only was that centuries ago and has anything to do with modern day politics besides racism but at the time the democrats were conservativer and much more closer to todays republicans with their views. and the reoublican party at the time was more closely resembling todays democrats
@sailing smooth15 Generally, it’s said that the parties swapped because of the southern strategy, which allegedly made the south republican and the north democrat. Now google Nixon’s election results. He overwhelmingly won most states in both elections; no swap occurred. If that’s not sufficient, name even one issue that the parties swapped on.
@sailing smooth15 what do you mean “progressive?” Both parties have done progressive and conservative things in recent history and the Democrats have been consistently progressive since Woodrow Wilson, way before the 50s. Also, what do republicans conserve?
“The Democratic and Republican parties as they existed in the 1860s bore almost no resemblance to the ones that are active today”. Can we print that on hats for all the MAGA people to wear? Since they’ve never read/studied history otherwise.
0:11 (bottom left corner) *Presidents of the past using SquareSpace may be a slight over exaggeration. We cannot confirm whether or not they did with absolute certainty, so we have taken a few creative liberties. Thank you for your understanding.
The video overlooks one of the most bizarre and consequential confrontations in US political history that occurred the night before the May 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial. In the early hours of May 16, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house. The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, accomplished diplomat who succeeded in introducing New York's most accomplished prostitute to Queen Victoria, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, past and future lover of the Spanish Queen, future recipient both of the Medal of Honor and the highest rank in France's Legion of Honor, and as of 1868, the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at her house at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving Andrew Johnson's presidency in a video entitled "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird": www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment
One party is trying to strip rights away using children and propaganda while the other party is upholding the constitution and fighting degenerative culture norms.
@@donaldtrumplover2254 The educational system in the US is run by the Democrat party. If anything you would think the dems in that time were radical. So he probably learned that from college. 🤦♂️
@@meonlybro bruh you need to go learn some history. He said they were radical because they were considered radicals at the time compared to the dominant ideology of the party. And even if he had meant radical in that sense he wouldn’t be wrong. To say the republicans of that time period matched anywhere near the republicans of our time would be pure stupidity. I mean come on man they didn’t even believe in woman’s right to vote. Your blind loyalty to the Republican Party has made you way to biased towards them.
@@meonlybro "The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals" because of their goal of immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise." Radical doesnt have to mean bad. In this context, being radical is a good thing.
I really struggle to see how anyone can think "high crimes" is vague, especially since the founding fathers further described it as "crimes akin to treason and bribery."
Whether perjury, especially if about an arguably (and arguably not) immaterial matter, non-compliance with Congressional subpoena about arguably privileged matters (as obstruction), as with Johnson openly challenging a law qualify are good examples of it's very open to interpretation.
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Dude... How do you keep your skin so nice and smooth looking!? Or is it the Camera/ Lighting!?
@Layne Staley omg 😂😂
Great Presentation of the Historical Truth as well as your last statement regarding the Comments. The only people that will Burn the Truth are those that do not accept the Truth because it goes against what they already believe; Thanks again for bringing the Truth.
The poor Armchair Historian was up all night working on this. Give the man a like, dangit!
Austin Gilbert hmm no
@@nill5217 "people who cant speak proper Roman Latin dont deserve better"
-some guy probably
Languages change over time my guy or people learn more than one language or god forbid they dont care on the internet. *shrugs*
@@cristianvillanueva8782 To abandon language ties is to also abandon cultural ties.
@John Which one?
Jai Shri Ram bruh
50% of the comments are people expecting a comment war while the other half is just here for history
literally why i opened the video. didnt even watch it
I'm here for the jokes
And I’m here for the history part of this
Why not both
Just about
Lincoln used SquareSpace, that’s why he was safe at the Ford Theatre. Oh wait
I see you everywhere man...
Do you live in Cuba?
Too soon 🤣
Dudes wtf, how are you literally everywhere?
Maybe if he stayed home on Squarespace and didn't go to a play he wouldn't have been killed.
"I'm really hoping the comment section isn't on fire"
So far it's not like Australia, but it ain't Canada either
Canada is a failing state and in national unity crisis and I cannot wait for us to separate.
@@underfire987 Argentina: Hold my crippling debt
@ALSO-RAN ! welp, it was worth a try
@@underfire987 Same I cant wait for Quebec to leave so I can move outta here
@@underfire987 Baloney. Canada has been through worse than Justin Trudeau.
"prove your innocence"
That's not how it works.
Exactly. The state has to prove your guilt (well in this case it's the Senate)
@Omar 11112 hello loyal follower. 😃
It's not a court of law, it's a political process.
It can work very much work like that if those are the parameters.
yep that is why impeachment is a political, not a judicial, process
In a legal trial, it is "innocent until proven guilty".
In a political trial, it is "suspicious enough until proven innocent enough".
Honestly I'm glad the comment section has not descend intra a super fund site yet
Pannekoek has it?
@Jack Me-Hoff yes god forbid them..... yes......
*looks around the room nervously*
@@dylan2478 are you asking what a Superfund site is or just more about my question in general?
I can tell you a superfund site is were we just throw a bunch of hazardous chemicals or materials and lock em away. Sorry if I'm being redundant if you already know the definition. :v
Cristian Villanueva Nono, it’s okay. Thanks man!
TRUMP 2020! Cthulhu isn't running and a greater evil would be any Democrat!
One quick quibble: Lincoln and Johnson didn’t run on the Republican ticket, but a fusion “National Union” ticket in 1864. This was due to a split in the Democratic Party between peace Democrats who advocated a rapid end to the war and war Democrats, who supported Lincoln’s war policies (ironically, the peace Democrats nominated a war Democrat, McClellan, as their standard bearer).
And no mention of the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour, which resulted in two of the impeachment articles...
Except that the articles relating to the Swing Around the Circle tour weren't even brought to the Senate floor when it was time to vote. It was mainly the violation of the Tenure of Office act that kicked off the impeachment proceedings.
Wow, this I never knew about, I ride 100% w/T A HISTORIAN but I think you should put something up or give a lil sidebar each Friday
Originally he was but until the democrats broke off and formed the confederates
I don't think you can call McClellan a 'war Democrat' if a war Democrat is one that supported Lincoln's war policies. By that point McClellan hated Lincoln, and believed that the war was unwinnable. And if Lincoln hadn't sacked him, he may have been right; McClellan was a political general who thought he was Napoleon's equal but really... wasn't.
Boo Bah He supported prosecuting the war to its conclusion, and he didn’t support the Democratic platform of an immediate end to the war. He accepted the nomination because, as you say, he REALLY hated Lincoln and thought he was God’s gift to the Army...
Seems like only hours ago I was watching him hurriedly edit this and then fall asleep in his chair when he uploaded it
That title... I never knew that George Washington was impeached.
It could be worded better but it would need to be much longer. Technically speaking it's a correct sentence but easily misunderstood.
The title is a little misleading though
Same
@@pakde8002 it should have been who not why
@@Sergedfabre the
This is where the fun begins....
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Oh way down south in the land of cotton
The purchased music is alphabetically arranged on the "by song" tab on my Apple music account. So "We didn't start the fire" is followed by NOFX's "We threw gasoline on the fire!". I always found that an interesting anecdote
I just want to say the animation on this was amazing. I don’t know if you’ve been working on this video for a while, but the quality even compared to the last one is incredible.
Gotta love watching this
😂
Especially seen as Trump is about to be equitted and this whole absurd impeachment garbage is about to end.
Lynchy The Classical Liberal lmao moron
@@jackscotchland8947 this comment didn't age well
Elias Pinero *are you sure about that*
I will say the most amazing thing about impeachment is that so many people don’t realize that just because the house votes to impeach doesn’t mean that the president is immediately removed. Civics has really failed in this country.
Part 3 of Oversimplified series
Oversimplified is overrated
@@Wickedonezz Forgot when I listened to people who replace their "s" with a "z"
@@shronkler1994 oh yeah dude definitely did that cause im "edgy" right?
@@Wickedonezz yes, very edgy
@@shronkler1994 oh that's why you changed your name to a rebel state of the ROC so you seem way more edgy
Lincoln:Alright Andrew If I die you can play
*Dies*
Andrew:I barely know the controls
Andrew:Hmmm what does this button do?
Game:Are you sure you wanna veto Lincoln's Achievements?
Andrew:Hmmm What's that mean?
*Destroys Lincolns Achievements*
Congress:You have been banned from the game.
Basically
Like how did he destoy them thou
Infectious Legume that’s not completely true the biggest problem with Andrew Johnson he didn’t do as much as Abraham Lincoln would off done after the war for blacks I feel like his precidency really set us back
Johnson could have been that cool president that showed unity and respect in a post-Lincoln Union. But instead, he became the guy almost everybody hated.
Weird. Armchair and Emperor Tigerstar posted at the same time. A suprise to be sure,but a welcome one.
Oh really.
I enjoyed this video quite a bit. it kept to the topic (johnson's impeachment, and no one's else), it was a pretty good run down on how the process has always been a bit wishy washy, defined by the contemporary house/senate, instead of something set in stone (which isn't what the forefathers imho had intended it to be). the only thing i would've like to have seen was a bit better explanation on what is a simple and super majority, a lot of people seem to think everything in congress is done via simple majority.
Fair point, but I hope you know that it not being set in stone, being instead defined by the contemporary Congress killed Antonin Scalia. Again.
2:56
*hears While We Were Marching Through Georgia*
me, a georgian: *screams in Burning of Atlanta*
Ethan Mullen Me, an immigrant from Germany: Hold on, thats a war crime! To gallows!
The fact american sometimes seem to celebrate the march through georgia gives me the creeps.
@@bigredwolf6 It wasn't in the 1860s, standards were different then because armies were expected to forage for supplies
Michael Francesco Foraging supplies is not burning and killing everything in your path. Even back then.
@@lindseyfrancesco4 Didn't Sherman do this deliberately to use up the supplies in the south while on his march? Also, what @bigredwolf6 said is in a meme format not meant to be serious XD
Whatever the result for the impeachment is, I think we can all agree that it's going to set a some crazy precedence that might come back to bite this country in the ass. What a strange time in history to be alive.
@@biglemon5069 A political party being able to use impeachment for political gains. It's a thing Hamilton warned about in the Federalist Papers.
@@drheusmann805 I mean ... he is *accused* of using his power to benefit himself, among other things, so it's not really political gain. Actually this will probably hurt the democrats more if Trump doesn't get removed
@@drheusmann805 not to sound like a Ass but how will both Party even use this as a Leverage, I'm pretty sure this will fly by as we are freaking out about the impending apocalypse
@@JoseMendoza-JAM hopefully, in the US impeachment never becomes just another tool for politicians. (here in Chile impeachments are getting shot at everyone, bruh.)
@@deutan4390 It most certainly could be used as a political gain. No matter what your political views are, it's a political event, not a law-endorsed one. As someone previously said, Trump really hasn't done anything wrong, and it's just a drain on taxpayers money. It'll backfire.
That tried and true Vicky 2 soundtrack is still glorious after a decade.
So they voted to put Andrew Johnson in a peach, how did they fit him in tho?
Maybe they used the peach which James would later use to go to New York
This joke will never get old
Could Taft fit in the same peach?
By crushing him with such a bad joke
@@terryaltherr2481 James "Jimmy" Carter
Interesting branching out. Like how some of the music is versions of I'm A Good Ol Rebel, and Marching Through Georgia.
Some of the music in the video was from the paradox Game victoria 2 i think
Jack Mercer, for sure
Please do Clinton Monica Levinsky legal proceeding ... I just want to see how "reimagining animation" would look like
Shoot I would rather see Trump/Stormy Daniels... I mean at least he is in government still.
Maybe do a piece on the rumored 8 abortions Trump has paid for?
@@swirvinbirds1971 A common practice for historians is to stay away from the recent past. Recent could range from 10 years to 20 years. They do this so that they can avoid any bias they may harbor. The Trump/Stormy debacle is too young in our memory to analyse it objectively.
I can't help myself...
A supercomputer would malfunction trying to calculate the number of hot dogs stormy has had in her buns... if you stacked them all tip 2 tip you could make a hot dog ladder to the moon, or beyond.
Okay jokes aside,
Your speculation at #8 is probably less than tenth or hundredth of a percent of the actual number defective lil wieners ole stormy prevented from becoming big wieners.
Another way to explain this... your trying to apply standard mechanics to quantum mechanics and everyone knows an elephant and a pig can't make hot dogs.
@@swirvinbirds1971 While a video on that would be interesting, I'd hate to see the political shitstorm of a comment section that it would create.
@@swirvinbirds1971 Ehh.. well that fell flat.
*I sure love SquareSpace!*
why tho…
Griffen Johnson looks so young.
His presentations are very informative.
He would be a great professor or trial attorney.
Good work.
I wonder how American history would have been different had Johnson been convicted and removed. Would it have set a precedent making future Presidents easier to impeach, given that Congress had already done so once? Would the Presidency have been a weaker institution, more subject to domination by the House and Senate?
It's one of those events that probably isn't even spoken about in history class, and yet could've result in some states seceding again and maybe having more countries than one in this huge piece of the world.
The general conversation I've seen is it would of brought in a lot more civil rights laws and we wouldn't of had the dramatic rise of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. That being said, there would of been riots and civil unrest for a lot longer and the South would basically be under a military governorship for over a decade.
If the politicians don't need the voters to do what they want (make room at the top), they'll want to accrue more powers that'll let them negate voters. Eventually, they won't bother with voting at all.
No Jim Crow, no end to reconstruction after the election of 1876 and more Civil rights. Basically, if Johnson had been impeached in 1868, Rosa Parks and MLK would not have had much to do in the 1950s and 1960s.
Probably at least a little, although that probably would have faded over time away from the intensity right after the Civil War. Nobody really cared much for keeping the Tenure of Office Act and system after Johnson left and presidential power would have still increased with later wars. Nixon was not outright impeached but resigned from the start of impeachment proceedings-and presidential power still pretty quickly increased after him.
The arguments at 6 AM were fantastic btw
The thumbnail aged like fine wine
Yo why trump in da peach
Bad mario times
😳😳
Learn to spell.
@@itsblitz4437 peach was spelled right bro. Trump in da 🍑
Rick Sanchez whoosh
After hearing the music at the beginning I thought ther would more comments about vic 2.
#MakeVic2GreatAgain
Exactly
Honestly I'm a a fan of this man's work. I seen every single video of the armchair historian. And Evan rewatched some
The Senate does NOT impeach; they vote to remove. The House impeaches ... dang dude.
😉
Does justice brancj even enter this process?
Dunno how he screwed that up
They're both impeachment. The verb is the same for drawing the articles of impeachment as well as removing an official from office. So, technically, both houses vote on impeachment.
@@mastoner20 😴
Oh wait ... you're serious ?
😏😆😆😆😆😆
@@timvanrijn8239 the Supreme court justice acts as the Judge of the trial for removal.
I think you did a great job.
There's a GREAT podcast series about this called "1865" it's based on a play so it's not 100% accurate but the writers are huge history nerds and the have a episode where they explained what changes they made and why. I cannot recommend it enough 💕
That Vicky II background music brought me back to some real old memories.
Who is Vicky
@@glassbottlemenacesyou8323 it’s a video game where you rule a country in the 19th and 20th centuries
This animation is *CRISP*
Great video, really connects to the news.
That Vicky 2 OST... Nostalgia.
Victoria 2 soundtrack. Armchair Historian has some good taste in music.
Take a shot every time Griffin refers to them as "radical republicans" lol
It was the actual name of the faction at that time in history.
Explaining government to the common man is your gift, our country needs it....
In a very Shakespearean way, Andrew Johnson is basically American Iago
“Do you mock me?”
“I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a man!”
-Thomas Nast‘s Othello Political Cartoon
Yes! Please do more videos about political history
Good video, Griffin! It's nice to see a documentary presentation about a political topic that doesn't spiral off into the political bias weeds.
1:10 That's because BOTH sides were Americans. That's the definition of a civil war!
My buddy won’t be removed from office, I’ll make sure it won’t happen
we don't need your help, kim
Lol
@Neon Noir Are you joking?
Neon Noir yo, are you tripping?
Neon is high as hell, ignore em
I have grown to love history so much more since high school and to be honest after watching the present day circus impeachment and learning about the impeachment of Johnson I really wish my teachers would have gone into more detail about this event in American history.
We as citizens need to pay more attention to the things which have transpired to get us to where we are today.
Best part of your vids are the hoi4 graphics. You know your target audiance.
dang it's hard to write online, let alone make animation of writing with pens and actual words trailing them. Nice work
Nice Victoria II music
Wow! That was very cool video.
I know you mainly focus on military History, but can we expect more content like this?
An outstanding video, a nice change especially in times like these.
So this can be sumed up like:
Andrew: no I want this person
Congress: no we have this person
Andrew: *removes person
Congress: dick move bro
Andrew gets impeached
Wow I saw you were working on this video, LIVE last night and now it's here already!
Title makes it sound like George Washington was impeached.
You don't even admit that "Free States" (such as Illinois) came VERY CLOSE to voting for Secession. EXCELLENT re-History!!!
at least ulysses s grant righted the ship the best he could when johnson was gone. a great president he was
I have no small amount of admiration for Grant, He really stepped up to the job!
"Fighting Slavery" was not intended to give everyone equal rights.
But renaming slaves "Wage Earners" (AKA Sharecroppers), allowed the Union to increase taxes in the South.
Lincoln's Federal Income Tax Act considered 1/3 of the sale of cotton "wage earnings", or "taxable income".
Which means every former slave "got" $1000 per year, hypothetically.
Meanwhile, factory workers in the North made less than $800 per year, so they were exempt from the Federal Income Tax.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 kept blacks in the South until the Civil War.
The Sharecropper's Debt Laws which followed, kept blacks in the South after the Civil War.
So the slaves were never really set free by the Civil War.
Which is odd, considering the Land Runs of the late 1800's, where land in the West was given away for free.
"How many blacks participated in the land runs will likely always be a matter of debate. The 1890 Territorial Census of Oklahoma listed roughly 3,000 black residents. Of that number, only 42 were recorded as having entered the territory in April 1889 to file a claim."
This was mostly because of Johnson. Abe had the vision of, putting it in simple terms. giving everyone what they wanted. The slaves were freed and given land, the south would be unpunished and allowed in the Union in exchange for that and reconstruction of the south, the conservative republicans would have a end to the war and the radical republicans could create new anti slave legislation and help integrate them into America as brothers and sisters. But with Lincoln dead, Johnson took the plan and as a Kentucky democrat that had sympathies with the rebels, sided with them and undid all of that. So then the republicans went hard on the south, reconstruction was a disaster and only improved because of president Grant. But even then most of the progress that had been made was undone by Woodrow Wilson who serrated not only the south but the ENTIRE government, helped build the 2nd kkk and rewrote the history of the civil war to favor the south.
How does UA-cam demonetize this
Simple. They HATE History that does not conform to their views.
@@charlessapp1835 to...their views? How come? You just pulled that out of your ass in regards to this video. They just dislike political topics
@@deutan4390 No, UA-cam is part of Alphabet (Google) and they have openly stated that they do everything to keep Trump from winning again in 2020 like "the disaster of 2016". Not being American and not being a fan of Trump, I still have to agree with Charles here, UA-cam has been demonetising any videos that speak moderately or even favourably about the man
@@Bacontruffle I mean...the video kinda didn't mention trump right? so does it still apply?
@@deutan4390 It mentioned him indirectly, and he's in the thumbnail so that's enough for UA-cam
The tenure of office act would be considered unconstitutional today. Stanton was clearing doing executive duties when leading the war department. Even if Stantons functions had been entirely legislative or judicial it’s still unconstitutional to have one man leading an executive agency independent of the president.
That was actually very informative. I had no idea why Johnson was impeached in the House but now it seems like they were looking for any excuse to get rid of him period.
If I remember correctly, after impeachment failed, the Congress basically ignored Johnson and every time he tried to veto a law, they overrode the veto.
Revisiting for impeachment #4 in 2021!
I am also an armchair Historian. Greetings.
@Colonel Muammar Covfefe LOL
@Colonel Muammar Covfefe What???
Nice to see some elegance and intelligence, on a political topic. Something I haven't seen in a long, long time. Nicely done, bud.
I’m sure the comment section will be civil.
The Robed Reviewer *Civil War
It actually is somehow
Dean Cutler Well, whaddaya know. I’ve been involved in a pretty reasonable debate, otherwise that’s it. Gg bois
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 I think it speaks to AH's audience, we are all history nerds here and as such are aaaaaalll about dat context
Looking back at this 0:37 like "third impeachment SO FAR"
When OverSimplified comes out with a video right when this video comes out so no one really pays attention to this one
lol
wut
@@smokedoofman4763 You're about 6 months too late to understand this buddy
This was a nice video. Nice job guy.
the comments section is gonna be fun...
Very good job !
just got impeached AGAIN
@@sakushadurante6229 bro??? its been a month????
Great video, very interesting.
Grabbed a snack for the comment section...
1 min in and I found a Nazi and a trump supporter
@@calebs4755 given any 12 year old with distasteful sense of humour can get that title, not really an achievement.
I'm proud to have been on the live stream while Griffin made this. 😔
i hate the argument when people say "the democrats supported slavery!!!"
not only was that centuries ago and has anything to do with modern day politics besides racism
but at the time the democrats were conservativer and much more closer to todays republicans with their views. and the reoublican party at the time was more closely resembling todays democrats
The party swap is a historical myth, Plz stop peddling it
@sailing smooth15 Generally, it’s said that the parties swapped because of the southern strategy, which allegedly made the south republican and the north democrat. Now google Nixon’s election results. He overwhelmingly won most states in both elections; no swap occurred.
If that’s not sufficient, name even one issue that the parties swapped on.
@sailing smooth15 what do you mean “progressive?” Both parties have done progressive and conservative things in recent history and the Democrats have been consistently progressive since Woodrow Wilson, way before the 50s. Also, what do republicans conserve?
@sailing smooth15 neither party accepted lgbt or trans rights until very recently though so how does that indicate a party swap?
Love your vids, this one was great
I hate when I get impeached It happenes every weekend for me how do I stop this from happening to me?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?.
I dunno man, have you tried turning the Senate off and on again
@@desertranger3199 I've tried
This man marketing his sponsor to the president.
This needs to be retitled, it offers the impression that George Washington was impeached.
Yeah
Great job! Excellent
big thanks for making this i had never heard of it
“The Democratic and Republican parties as they existed in the 1860s bore almost no resemblance to the ones that are active today”. Can we print that on hats for all the MAGA people to wear? Since they’ve never read/studied history otherwise.
They would be total dumbasses even in Lincoln/Johnsons times.
What happened to the invasion of Afghanistan video?
Please do battle of grozny
Or the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s.
0:11 (bottom left corner)
*Presidents of the past using SquareSpace may be a slight over exaggeration. We cannot confirm whether or not they did with absolute certainty, so we have taken a few creative liberties. Thank you for your understanding.
I don't really have a lot to say...
Well animated keep up the good work
What happened to the Afghan war video!!?! I wasn’t finished watching yet !
Great episode!
Griffin Johnes president!!!!!
The video overlooks one of the most bizarre and consequential confrontations in US political history that occurred the night before the May 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial. In the early hours of May 16, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house.
The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, accomplished diplomat who succeeded in introducing New York's most accomplished prostitute to Queen Victoria, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, past and future lover of the Spanish Queen, future recipient both of the Medal of Honor and the highest rank in France's Legion of Honor, and as of 1868, the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at her house at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving Andrew Johnson's presidency in a video entitled "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird": www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment
This video was quite unexpected
The new Afghanistan video was great but later turned private
No one seems to want to admit the obvious, which is both political parties are equally corrupt.
It's a shame. Both parties were founded on upholding ideals. Now it's about who can make the most money and hold power like it's a game.
@@jacobbaker4695 equally? Naw
One party is trying to strip rights away using children and propaganda while the other party is upholding the constitution and fighting degenerative culture norms.
The Victoria 2 soundtrack is gold
“The radical republicans” oop there’s the college in ye
I’m very confused as to what this comment is trying to say
@@donaldtrumplover2254 The educational system in the US is run by the Democrat party. If anything you would think the dems in that time were radical. So he probably learned that from college. 🤦♂️
@@meonlybro bruh you need to go learn some history. He said they were radical because they were considered radicals at the time compared to the dominant ideology of the party. And even if he had meant radical in that sense he wouldn’t be wrong. To say the republicans of that time period matched anywhere near the republicans of our time would be pure stupidity. I mean come on man they didn’t even believe in woman’s right to vote. Your blind loyalty to the Republican Party has made you way to biased towards them.
@@meonlybro "The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals" because of their goal of immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise."
Radical doesnt have to mean bad. In this context, being radical is a good thing.
More government officials should be held accountable. There should be an option to hold a referendum on the impeachment of any elected official.
The Comment section is on fire!!!
Joke.
I really struggle to see how anyone can think "high crimes" is vague, especially since the founding fathers further described it as "crimes akin to treason and bribery."
Whether perjury, especially if about an arguably (and arguably not) immaterial matter, non-compliance with Congressional subpoena about arguably privileged matters (as obstruction), as with Johnson openly challenging a law qualify are good examples of it's very open to interpretation.