Ten Minute History - Westward Expansion and the American Civil War (Short Documentary)
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Recommended Reading:
A Concise History of the United States of America, Susan-Mary Grant. A fantastic overview of all American history with a solid run down of the lead up to and course of the Civil War (aftermath, too).
The American Civil War, John Keegan. One for the more military-minded historians which covers the generals, tactics etc. in detail that you won't see in the more general texts.
0:11 ‘All of the stars’ Nice save
Doesn't have to bother with the whole "The number of stars changes every few years and they're hard to tell them apart from each other at that distance anyways" thing.
5:25 "Fewer Stars"
Stars Everywhere
In motion.
a lot of stars
Fun fact: A man named Wilmer McClean owned the land on which the first battle of the war, the First Battle of Bull Run was fought. Annoyed by this, he sold the land and moved south to escape the war and bought land in which the last battle of the war, the battle of Appomattox Court House, was fought
Imagine sitting on your front porch, when all of a sudden, two large armies appear at the horizons and start to kill each other. Hell i would've followed them along. Can't imagine entertainment was that good in those days.
For a McClean, a lot of blood was shed on his land.
@@androzani You're so punny you punctured my lungs with that one.
@Wayne Hitchcock What do you mean exactly? Did spectators follow the the army trains to watch them battle?
@@starfoxcity2694 Lol, thats very wholesome.
James Bizenette participated in every single battle. As both a Union and Confederate soldier.
James Bizanette is every soldier.
He’s just that powerful
Rumor is when John Wilkes Booth shouted “Sic semper tyrannis” as he assassinated Lincoln, he was actually referring to James Bisonette
1:46 Jefferson Davis have the Thanos glove
@@FF-qp4xq why can't you just comment your own instead of replying in a very unrelated comment bruh
5:15 "Five minutes at this point" 0:15 (End of the segment about Texas joining) History Matters you perfect creature
Lol 😂
These little Addons and attention to detail make history matters amazing
Well spotted
Lol I never noticed this, hilariojs
Well, he ain't wrong.
Corrections: 1) Buchanan wasn't running for reelection but for the first time in 1856. Apologies for the mix up. 2) Missouri was also a slave state.
Name a tank after me.
@@americana_incarnate1717 Bob Simple?
@@firstcynic92 yes, best tank.
thanks for the correction, had to go straight to the comments to see if i had heard that right.
Hello, TMH. I have a small question: When you started your Britain series, you noted in your twitter that you are going to make the full history of Russia after British series. Given the fact that the British series are now closed, I suppose that Russian series are not planned, are they?
The one thing you've missed that's always taught in American schools is the Union gaining control over the Mississippi and thus splitting the Confederacy in half.
Jan Siolkowski Shit, they did? I was never taught that.
@@LEO_M1 I remember it pretty clearly, I think it was the Battle of Vicksburg that cemented the Union's victory on the Mississippi.
Only got 10 minutes, dude.
@@LEO_M1 Yep. This basically cut Texas off from the rest of the Confederacy, plus it allowed the Union to ship things into the Gulf much more easily. They also took over Tennessee fairly early on and used that to march through Georgia (which is touched upon in the vid with the capture of Atlanta). The Union pushed all the way to the sea, which then divided the Confederacy into three parts - Texas/the West, the Deep South, and the Carolinas/Virginia. That's about the point where the war was seen as a definite Northern victory and it just became a matter of time until it ended.
The Siege of Vicksburg, which ended the day after the Battle of Gettysburg. Another reason why the CSA winning at Gettysburg wouldn’t help them at all in the long run.
Can we all appreciate how he manages to make these exactly 10 minutes long?
Yes. Although I do wish there were many chapters.
Why? That's the minimum limit to have more ads and get more money.
These signs are killing me lol ... " Name a tank after me"...
"...when he ran on the platform of I'M GONG TO CRUSH THEM..."
@nik Bahtin At least he was actually fighting some pretty bad people and not intentionally targetting civilians
Artificial Gravitas You realize a thing called the Arab slave trade still exist as well as many in parts of Africa? And in any war civilians are always killed by both Assad's sides quit acting like it's just trump causing death around the world he's actually trying to pull us out of them
@@thatonemferyaknow3794 If are going to get involved, you should finish the job, Libyan Slave trade has been caused by you. And that pulling out, taking a while, eh? And yes it is not just Trump, but all recent American Presidents
Artificial Gravitas Me? I didn't support jackshit Obama and European countries did to Libya(Btw you do realize france played a bigger role in ousting Gaddafi than us but still it was a fucking retarded decision) and fair Libya was stable and doing better than pretty much any African country. I'm not saying my countries gov ain't shady far from that but don't put it on me or the everyday american.
Shame he didn't. Lee and the other traitorous generals and politicians should have been executed. The Southern states should not have been readmitted until they promised equality to their citizens, which would take... at least 154 years and 4 months as of the time of this comment...
Sherman: "Name a tank after me." I don't know why, but this made me laugh more than I would of thought it would.
would have
The tank made for total war was from the guy who in America is taught as the progenitor of total war Fuck yeah
Georgia howling
The man who gave us the quote "War is Hell."
would *have
Texas: yay let’s join the USA 5 minutes later Texas: lets leave the USA Literally 2 seconds later Texas: yay USA
Paranoid Android lol
No, Texas was never wanted to join the USA they ran up the debt and Mexico wanted their land back so they ran back to USA on the conditions they would stay a single state and the federal government would pay off their debt.
@@BearNDragon I mean, it wouldn't be the last US state to form from American people immigrating to another country, taking all the land for themselves, and conspicuously joining the US with the express statement that that wasn't their plan the whole time.
@@ZechsMerquise73 Texas is literally the only state to have done it that way. Then again France was a bastion of peace during the 1800's
@@BearNDragon Hawaii. Also, Americans colonies were used as various justification for removing native Americans from their sovereign territories in the the West.
"Andrew Johnson now had to create a peace that could heal a broken nation" but fun fact No.
Took a long, long time to heal implies that the healing is past tense. Also no.
@Joseph Gonda He was right about the Second Bank of the US but wrong about slavery and indigenous peoples.
@Joseph Gonda Oh, I suppose I did. 🤭
Well done.
...yeah.
Poor Texas. Owned by Spain, then Mexico, then independent, the USA, then CSA, then USA again. Five swaps in a span of 45 years. Flag manufacturers got rich! Edit note: Yes, France did have a claim on it for 5 years in the late 1600's, but I am talking about a short 45 year period from 1820-1865.
@@nielrelatado3076 Of course. In fact most of their swaps were voluntary.
Yeah, but they got a nifty name for a chain of amusement parks out of it
@@justafaniv1097 *buda buda budah duh duh-duh* (Haha, now you can't get the Six Flags theme out of your head)
Actually they were under... Six flags
Texas:Partcore
“Name a tank after me” These little things make the episodes so interesting. I love it. Keep it up!
That, and the Thanos glove on the politician with the sign "perfectly balanced".
There’s also during Kansas-Nebraska act, there’s a nice reference to the “AHHHH” music meme
I still love how so many foreigners think of texas as the american stereotype when they seceded practically overnight after joining
Yea the people of Texas have basically existed in a state of "barely part of the union" for about forever now lol.
Yet Texas today is more american than the original 13 colonies.
@@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123 So American that four inches of snow kills their whole power grid and shuts the entire state down. Texas? More like Texass.
@@yoloswagtron6920 wish I lived there rather then here in shit hole of California. If it’s not on fire they are turning your electricity off or stripping you of your rights on the daily
Well, we figured we’d just fought and won a war against Mexico for almost the same reasons. Not going to lay down for the federal government just like that.
*History Matters’ John Brown:* Respectfully dressed and nicely groomed. *Oversimplified’s John Brown:* B E A R D
A former businessman who failed at everything he tried and went arguably insane
What are you possibly thinking about?
@@acrispywaffleiron4014 ….a John brown farm
@@karlwittenburg5868 yeah me too
Oversimplified is way too simplified. John brown wasnt crazy and he did wear shirts and he didnt have a HUGe beard but a small one
Sherman:"Name a tank after me."
yoel krisstiawan Sherman, Lee, and Grant would all have tanks named after them.
Everyone else: whats a fucking tank
@@openthinker6562 And Stuart had a tank named after him, the M5 Stuart.
Its funny to me because the concept of a Tank didn't exist yet in the 1860's.
@ISP's Deodorant Hmm.. To me, the base of the entire joke was the guy who they named a tank after, was holding a sign saying "Name a tank after me."
Slavery: _Removed_ Destiny: _Manifested_ Hotel? *_Trivago_*
ThatRandomDude Treaty? Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Scott:Dreaded
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Theatre: Ford
Freedom? *Priceless* There's some things money can't buy, for everything else, there's MasterCard.
It’s amazing at how many Southerners here in America still say “The Civil War didn’t have anything to do with Slavery” still to this day.
Just like their are stupid people in germany that say Equaly stupid thing about ww2😡
No they don't. I live in the south no one says that.
@@jgrj52 Well, I don't even live in the US and I hear "states rights" all the time, so you must walk around with bananas in your ears.
@loneprimate States rights have nothing to do with Slavery. The south used the concept to defend slavery, but the state governments are the bedrock of a union only intended to be one nation for common defense and a select few other things, otherwise separate. Enshrined in the 10th amendment. Born and raised in the North so I hate when the idea of states rights, which are universal in thr United States, gets conflated with slavery defenders
@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle if you want state rights then this clearly isn’t a country.
A minor correction: Lee’s surrender was not signed at “the” Appomattox Court House, as in the courthouse for a place called Appomattox. It was signed in a house, in a village with the odd name of Appomattox Court House. The owner of the house, Wilmer McLean, had previous lived in Manassas, and his house there had been the site of the first pitched battle of the war, Bull Run.
America's first medium tank, the M3, was named after General Lee. The modified British version was named the Grant. Coincidence? *I think not*
Why would the U.S. name a tank after a Confederate general? They stripped J. Davis of citizenship but named a tank after Lee...I don't get it.
@@6862ptc I believe it was the British that gave it the nickname. But don't quote me on that
At the time of his death Lee was the most loved(by both sides) general in American history
m ptc I mean Red Baron, who was pilot of Central Power, get load of respect from The Entente so I don’t see why Lee wouldn’t received those respect
@@6862ptc people can glorify military leaders like "desert fox " nazi general Rommel , but not the political leaders . Men like Napoleon made it quite difficult because they were both military genius and de fecto leader .
*name a tank after me*
awesome steve you saw it too? This guy is good.
awesome steve Fun fact: a variant of the M3 Lee tank that was sold to the British was actually the Grant, a slightly modified but similar Lee which was built for foreign export.
Actually the ‘Grant’ was modified by the British from the ‘Lee’ variant not the Americans. In addition the British are the ones who started naming US tanks after civil war era generals prior to that they only had simple numerical designations such as M2.
Not to mention how hard you get when you watch Atlanta burn... no, just me, ok... (it's joke don't get triggered random slaver watching this video)
Okay, M3 awesome steve
America took manifesting destiny to the next level
I know a certain other world leader who believed his people had a manifest right to lands and riches, and espoused a united national(ist) fever, at the expense of other peoples...
@@37thraven the american manifest destiny morphed into the God given right of every free american to drive their fat asses in their heavy duty mobility scooters to the nearest check e cheese while duel wielding stars and stripes decorated m16s. A true sight to behold 🇺🇸
@@LELANTOS11 Nice imagery there. "Dual wielding stars and stripes to chuck e cheese" 😂 I was referencing Hitler in this case. He coined a term - Volks Gemeinschaft “people's community" - that sounded patriotic & socially conscious on the surface. One people, supporting one another, to manifest the prosperous German empire that they were divinely owed, with jobs and vacations for all! But really, it just meant ratting out anyone that disagreed with the propaganda, or didn't fit in.
@@37thraven humour aside it seems that unsavoury characters packaging their heinous intentions within "for the greater good" or "for the good of the people" have been historically quite successful at convincing large swaths of unassuming people to commit cruel acts in the name of "greater good".
@@LELANTOS11 Yup. Watch Handmaid's Tale if you haven't. Religious-oriented.. But it does a good job of showing how propaganda/ speechwriters reword their agenda to fool the masses. Identical to WW2 Goebbels "Cheap radios for all!" (to brainwash citizens), or Mao/CCP rebranding the starvation of >30M people as a heroic economic revolution. Once enough time passes, our collective memories get hazy anyway.
Can we talk about how the South justified the war by citing Lincoln's supposed extreme tyranny, despite the fact most of the states seceded before he had any power?
The southern states acted like a bunch of drama queens even though Lincoln stated he wasn’t looking to end slavery in the places it already existed.
Lincoln did not have the power to abolish slavery in the south at all, he just hade the power to ensure that all the new states entering the Union would be non-slave states and eventually become a overwhelming majority.
Wait you're telling me that Democrats will hysterically state that someone's a horrible tyrant before they actually have any power based on nothing more than that he's a Republican? Get out! That's nuts. It'll never happen again I'm sure.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe Yeah Southerners wont stop whining about Tyranny where there is none. Kinda wild they've been doing it for over 150 years.
@@TheMightofDab Lets not bring modern politics in because those suck
"All of the Stars" on the flag was so hilarious and made me laugh out loud. Thank you for being an amazing KZheadr.
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"Screaming Cowboy Meme" if the future is confused.
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The armchair historian: very dedicated animations Oversimplified: dotted eyes (unless it’s a very high person) History matters: SIGNS
6:51 “They had many competent generals, most notable of course being Robert E Lee, the confederacy, General Lee speaking….” I see what you did there.
Just want to let you know, Buchanan wasn't running for reelection in 1856. The sitting president in 1856 was Franklin Pierce and he wanted to run for reelection, but didn't win his parties nomination. Buchanan won the nomination and won only one term. He was a one term president. Just wanted to throw that out there. Great video and sorry it got demonetized. :(
Oops.
@@HistoryMatters No worries, just wanted to let you know :D
@Jay Slomine No, it was Bleeding Kansas. At least Shelby Foote thought so.
@Jay Slomine I've heard it called Bleeding Kansas, so there's probably just multiple names for it.
It got demonetised? This is the first time I knew anything about American civil war. Woke youtube literally trying to make the world dumber.
Sherman should have been holding a sign that said "You can TANK me for that"
His was better
Sherman's importance is always was underscored.. they were busy for years playing touch butt in the park.. He showed them all the true face of war..
@@stevenwaller3295 He should have gone further.
(2:48) Thanks for properly including the Gadsden Purchase as separate from the Mexican Cessation. The purchase was pushed for by slave-owning southerners specifically so they could have a train route through the southwestern territories into Texas, connecting the Deep South with the Pacific Coast, thereby expanding their trade opportunities (apparently, the areas north of there were not as geographically favorable for building such a route). Mexico was not exactly in a position to object, having been devastated by the war several years earlier, and took the option of being paid for it rather than the U.S. forcibly annexing it.
"and by died down, I mean got considerably worse" my favorite bit in all of these lol
Lee holding up a sign saying "You Suck At This" just cracked me up lol
He wasn't wrong. McClellan did suck on the battlefield
Agreed, but in their defense, they _were_ up against Lee. And Lee would have made a lot of people look really bad at it. Lol.
@@counterfit5 The main was an organizer, not a general. He definitely prolonged the war. Bad Little mac, bad.
@@RiftZM Until he was against relative competence (Meade) and then genius (Grant).
@@briansheehan3430 The vast majority of historians will rank Lee higher than Grant, with Jackson and Sherman coming in after Grant.
I know you used grant for all the General’s because he’s more recognizable but the head union general was held by like five different people before grant
I suppose that would get pretty confusing for a 5 minute section of the video.
True but including McClellan would have been nice as he was quite important and was commander for a long time
Yeah, should’ve at least put in Mcclellan since he was part of the reason the war lasted as long as it did (cause he sucked)
Sam Lund he wasn’t a dreadful commander and was actually responsible for rebuilding the army of the Potomac after first bull run He fault was that he always thought the confederates had larger numbers due to clever manoeuvring by Lee. This believe made him hesitant hence his ineffectiveness
@@HMB106 His ineffectiveness allowed the Army of Northern Virginia to dig in and for the Confederacy to gird itself for future incursions south. He single handedly neutered the Union army by inflicting it with his indecision and inactivity When he was in combat, sure he could command men. But part of being a good commander is making decisions and taking initiative and he was his own worst enemy in preventing that from happening. The South just needed to wait out the Union and were content to avoid combat. The Union needed constant engagement to wear down the numbers and the morale of the Confederates. McClellan was utterly unwilling to do that, preferring to muster for single great battles which may or may not result in victory if they occurred at all before the Rebs would maneuver away.
7:16 That stop sign can stop anything
9:05 the town was called Appomattox Courthouse. The surrender took place in some guy’s house.
Wilmer McClean's house. His former property in Virginia was the sight of First Bull Run, while he was living there.
That's what he said...but was it someone's house or a courthouse?
Guy at 1:45 is wearing the infinity gauntlet?
Balance. As it should me
The Union: Mr. Lincoln, I don't feel so good.
"You have my respect Lincoln. When I'm done, half of the states will still be in the Union. I hope they remember you"
"Perfectly Balanced" - As all things should be
Lol
5:21 "Fewer Stars", my god you're brilliant
I saw it go from all of the stars to lots of stars, stars everywhere, then to fewer stars, it had me laughing as well.
I’ve been to Gettysburg. It is quite a sight to behold... the fields all around the area are just flat. The battlefields at night are hauntingly quiet, and there are still artifacts and trinkets from dead soldiers being found today.
3:12 That slide just about killed me!! Nicely done working the ‘Big Enough’ Meme into this lesson.
Please do the Korean War
East Korea beast korea
If it isnt the supreme führer
Fuck you all guys. The middle Korea is the best!
Kim Jong-un you should just ask your uncle, he was there when it happ.... Oops. Nevermind.
Kim Jong-un oh is it you wanna see your great grandpa big boy?
1:45 PERFECTLY BALANCED AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE
EVERYTHING
I didnt even catch that omgosh
8:58 the M4 sherman has been born
"And so children, they all lived happily every after, and there was never any division among them again...."
0:11... 1:45... 3:13... I love all the little easter eggs you put in here.
Harrison Shone tfw you're a British historian trying to talk about mid 19th century US lol
I dont see easter egg at 0:11 Is it the US flag? If so, i would'nt call it "easter egg"
@@bawicz0 Maybe the fact that in place of the stars is a text that says "All of the stars".
I love how he says this “died down” then says “by getting a lot worse”
To figure how much worse: More Americans died in absolute terms in the Civil War than died in World War 2. But we were more than 4x the population in WW2.... in fact, we lost over 1% of population from combat alone in the Civil War.
@@hoodaticus its the most devastating war in American history.
Why the annexation of Cuba? Knights of the Golden Circle: *cough* *cough*
A brilliant series, that explains complicated issues in a very clear and straight forward way !
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This channel is so underrated
Agreed
Yup. I kind of wish he had a *slight* animation upgrade. Nothing fancy. The squareguys are funny and all, so keep the little jokes. But maybe an illustrator when the channel gets big enough?
2 years later: 1 million subscribers
I hope you can do a video on Reconstruction (1865-1877). It’s a little known period of US history today. Most students only learn about Grant being drunk, the KKK taking over, and the corrupt bargain that ended it. But there is so much more. Grant for one deserves recognition as one of the greatest Americans. He did as much or more than Lincoln to effectively end slavery in the US. Despite his substance abuse issues (which he struggled with all his life) he was the greatest general in America history and one of our best presidents.
Greatest general? Ehh... Lee was a better field commander. Sherman was far more willing to be ruthless. Ike was a better organizer and POTUS, IMO. And don't get me started on MacArthur, Bradley, and Patton...
Grant was better than most give him credit for, but I Like Ike!
Grant and his successors weren't very nice to Utah.
The idea that Grant was a drunkard is not accurate, and was an invention of bitter historical revisionists who also invented the "Civil War was about states' rights" myth He WAS a heavy smoker however
What made the Confederates angry was because Lincoln said that and I quote "Owning Slaves is kinda cringe"
I always heard it as "the owning of people be nasty my dudebros" but potato potatoe
Lincoln cared more about the union then owning slaves
The Dred Scott decision was not made in Illinois, but in Missouri. We have a memorial in front of the old courthouse dedicated to Scott.
Yes, but the issue was over his claim made in Illinois.
Yes, but the decision was made in Missouri.
I love the fact that Chief Justice Taney who wrote the decision with the idea of ending the slavery debate in all the states forever had to give the oath of office to Lincoln a few years later. :) Side note: When Lincoln got up he had nowhere to put his hat. Stephen Douglas offered and did hold it for him.
1) Dred Scott decision was made by the Supreme Court in Washington DC. 2) Scott's attempts to gain his freedom were made in the state in which he was enslaved, Missouri. 3) Dred Scott v Sandford made the claim that past travel to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, both free, dissolved the bonds of slavery. If nothing else is learned, we see that markers and monuments are not history nor are they necessarily good at teaching history.
3:13 lol nice meme
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3:12 ,,AAAAHHH" God I love this channel
4:26 “Tensions died down. And by died down I mean got considerably worse” 😂
This came at just the right time to help with revision for my a level mocks in January and for finishing my coursework Thanks mate
1:47 See what you did there! 😂
If I were still teaching, I would absolutely using your videos. Great stuff!
Love your videos. You guys should do more videos about history of American Continent and its internal wars such as the Mexican Revolution, the brazilian Cabanagem (when the amazonian peoples tried to form their own contry) and the Guerra dos Farrapos, when the Southern Region of Brazil tried to separate from the empire. All of theese conflicts are present on the new Victoria 3 game, so now is a good timing to do some documentaries about that.
3/10 not enough flames during Sherman's March to the Sea.
OH YEAH SHERMAN DO IT AGAIN!
ProPain You are my new favorite person lol
Strangely enough yes. Sherman pretty razed Atlanta to the ground, a pretty uncool thing to do to fellow Americans.
Waleed Khalid yep not just Atlanta, his whole march was filled with massacre and fire, he sucked.
@@coltonc8562 I believe he did not want war and told them if we're going to war it's not going to be one of those... send your sons to fight, and if we lose we'll just have another war a few years later. He wanted to make sure all the people got to experience the fun and realize war is hell... not glorious. So in a way his reluctant ruthless prevented a 2nd war. Humans tend to like fighting again, particularly if they aren't in the actual fight. So ya... he's a hero
This might be my favorite one you've done so far. History, memes, general un-bias...well done, sir.
Lemme guess: unsubbed?
6:54 "The Confederacy, General lee speaking...."
Exactly 10 minutes of pure history. Nice!
1:47 This guy as Thanos confirmed???
Jefferson Davis
John Brown holding a sign that says “Please Die” just seems correct. John Brown is awesome.
He should have been holding a claymore in the other hand. He had it (and used it) in Kansas during the fighting there.
A M He started the war
John Brown was the 1860's equivalent of the modern-day abortion clinic shooters/bombers... just because you might agree with him that slavery was bad... don't worship him as a hero... his people shot an unarmed Black porter in the back during that armed insurrection against the US government because he was going to warn people that they were there... he was a madman that desperately wanted to start a war in order to bring glory to his own damn name...
Very good for a quick introduction (just as I learned more about the English Civil War from this series). One thing I'd add is that Oklahoma was essentially a "territory" of the Confederacy. The Native Americans had slaves and worked with the South to keep them. As for southern Arizona and New Mexico, the Union soon took them over.
Yeah its always glossed over that the native tribes not only sided with the confederacy but owned slave plantations as well.
3:12 THAT REFERENCE WAS AMAZING
Very informative, good job.
When Sherman had his sign say "Name a tank after me" you should've had another guy come in with one saying "What's a tank?"
This was an amazing and wonderfully nonpartisan review of the factual history of the American civil war. Thank you for this video, it is fantastic!
Thx! You nailed it, as usual!
Great video! However I felt you should have mentioned the Battle of Vicksburg too. You should do a video of the Reconstruction Era
For only being a few minutes long, this video is a very nuanced and well researched take on the American Civil War. Great job, guys.
Ikr? It is so refreshing to see both respect for how long the Confederates managed to fight on and nearly even won an inequal war, and full understanding of why the world was better off with the Union winning out in the end.
I love your channel, and even though I’ve studied the American Civil War for most of my life and taken entire college courses on it, it’s always interesting to watch or read summaries of the Civil War. I’ve lived in Kansas and Missouri and I’ve visited Civil War battle sites in Westport in Kansas City and Wilson’s Creek in Springfield. Highly recommend them.
Everyone talk about the civil war yet nobody talk about how it came to this. Especially when they got new territory from Mexico.
Even if you think you know more or less everything there is to know about a topic... and actually do! This format is still hilariously entertaining! Big Thumbsup!
War over "states' rights" or slavery? Every seceding state's declaration of secession mentions slavery as a (or the) reason. So, it was a war over states' rights to secede over slavery. You can't remove slavery from any of the excuses. The problem was that it was an economic system fought over as a moral issue, not an economic one. Southern, agricultural economic slavery did not vanish until the late 1940's, when mechanical cotton pickers replaced the need for human labor in the fields, thereby removing the excuse for "share cropping."
Slavery is always never mentioned as a reason for declaring independence from Britain either, history is heavily edited. Great comment by the way, it's nice to read a proper one in amongst all the memes and arguments.
Love this channel. Please do a vid about US westward expansion and the Indian Wars.
After much thought, I think my favorite history matters quote is "when he ran on a platform of I'M GOING TO CRUSH THEM."
Love how all his videos are exactly 10 minutes.
You mean 9:59
James Bizenette is a legend of the world
The 'fewer stars' bit got me.
Great video. Should be shown in every school. Thanks.
“On the platform of I’m going to crush them”
Finally a video on the civil war that doesn't have a crippling bias towards the union.
LOL...what do you mean? Even though he only had 10 minutes for the video and tried to remain SOMEWHAT impartial, he still took a few seconds to clearly state that "owning people is WRONG" and that the war was absolutely fought over the issue of sl@very and not the "states rights" melarkey narrative that some people, even nowadays, try to push forward. Of course most historians have a bias for the Union. That's because the Union was...UNEQUIVOCALLY right. This is one of the most black and white issues that a war was ever fought for, dare I say, even more so than WW2 (at least until the camps in Poland were discovered by the Soviets). The CSA was SO WRONG, in fact, that, even though the British had MASSIVE economic interests to support them, even they didn't ever dare to embarass themselves internationally by recognizing the CSA's independence and sovereignty.
he explained this info in a new way it was interesting. it gave me a new outlook on this
Nice catch with Lee being at Harper's Ferry.
Sherman: "Name tank after me!" Omg i laughed so hard xD
and people say he is still say "long long long" to this day...
You done a real good job here, Bub.
I love the visual and verbal gags of this series. 😂
Thank you for saying Illinois right! 3:45
“Fewer stars” had me dead
The most interesting thing about AP US history is that I can come back to videos like this and not only know everything he’s talking about but even point out inaccuracies
I love the "All of the Stars" on the American flag.
Kudos for including the Arizona territory as part of what the Confederacy claimed. But perhaps you should have also included Missouri, which was somewhat divided during the war?
I lived in Kansas City for a few years, and picked up on some of their history. To this day, Missouri doesn’t know which side it fought on.
Oh yes, Missouri was a slave state and was considered a border state, as like Kentucky and Maryland they all had very heavy Confederate sympathies but never were formally able to join the CSA. I’ve lived in Kansas and Missouri all my life, there was tons of guerilla raids between pro and anti slavery settlers and some of this bad blood between Kansans and Missourians were still felt in their college football game rivalries for a long time.
Franklin Pierce is so terrible he is ignored by this video
I love how at 1:29 instead of putting all of the stars he put the words all the stars
Love the stars gag on all the flags
It should be noted that about ten percent of the Union army was made up of African Americans and those units were notoriously stubborn and fought fiercely. African Americans were not just given their freedom, they fought hard for it.
@Nub93 shit takes time to get better but at least black union solders fought for our freedoms
It should be noted that often they were put in the front lines of initial assaults on fortified enemy positions, and they suffered abnormally high casualties because the greys often refused to take black prisoners
@@RobbyGAMEZ yes we know about that part
@@RobbyGAMEZ Better than dying a slave.
@@keitht24 I agree, but they had to fight fiercely and they were forced to develop a reputation for stubbornness because Union planners often used them as sacrificial lambs. It was horrible what was done to them and heartbreakingly noble that they chose to take on the blue willingly to fight under those conditions