AUSTRALIAN HUSBAND AND WIFE watch The American Revolution Part 1 (oversimplified) 

"The shot heard round the world" came from this event.

That first shot at Lexington & Concord is actually called "The shot heard around the world".

With the tax on tea Americans turned to alternatives the most popular being coffee and it just stuck even after the war.

America is such a diverse country, and many people don't realize that there is a lot of "American accents" due to migration. I'd like to recommend this video "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accent - (Part 1)" This is Erik Singer he is a dialect coach, and he is really good at this. He also has a "Part 2" I love "Oversimplified" I agree...if I had been taught like this when I was in high school; I would have enjoyed history and learned a lot more. Nice reaction... (hello from across the pond) Thanks for sharing👍

Side note. Falmouth, Massachusetts is pointed out in modern day Maine. Not a mistake. Maine wasn't a thing yet. In the oversimplified American Civil War vids, they'll explain why the two parts of Massachusetts split apart later to create Maine to make a new state and balance the number of free/slave states. But it was Massachusetts at the time.

Legit laughed out loud at your Dorchester accent, an Aussie who knows "wicked smaat" lmao

Henry Knox is one of the most badass American leaders. Dude grew up a bareknuckle legend before becoming Washington's right hand. He is probably more responsible for victory than most.

Greetings from Philadelphia! Glad yall are checking out our history look forward to more oversimplified reactions from you guys.

U.S. History teacher here! We love the Aussies. Y’all have a shared history of also being a prison colony. The colony of Georgia was started as a debtor prison colony and lots of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, & English criminals were sent there and the Caribbean. Same thing basically happened to Australia! Side note: I’m related to an og pilgrim founder from Hingham, Mass colony: Ralph Smyth. My hubby is a direct descendant of John Adams and his family. Most Americans are related to immigrants from the mid to late 1800s, and it’s a few that are related to original colonists. Most are other things than just English.

Oversimplified is a fun channel. He even has a video about the emu war which might be of relevance to you two as Australians.

An ancestor of mine, Sgt. Benjamin Haskell, had actually fought at Bunker Hill and was supposedly near General Joseph Warren when the general was killed during the battle.

Bro an Aussie guy whipping out the Dorchester accent and even knowing what Dorchester is at all is sending me

Oversimplified is a fantastic channel for all the wars he covers.

You definitely need to finish part 2 and also check out his video on the Civil War

Can't wait to see part 2!

NEED part 2💯

I'm so glad you were able to watch this. This channel will open a lot of doors for content and learning. Another channel good for learning is infographics. It breaks things down so it's easier to understand like this but with more facts and less humor. But they have stuff like... what if these two countries went to war, or what would happen during a zombie apocalypse.

Fun side note, it was said that if the British haven't lost the US colonies, places like Canada and Australia wouldn't be major important countries compared to now. Both Canada and Australia were formed as a result of losing the colonies.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. ~ Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson The hymn was sung at the dedication of a battle monument in Concord on July 4th 1837.

Looking forward to part 2!

Keep these oversimplified reactions coming!! All of them are great!

I didn't think I needed to hear a Australian do a Boston accent but that was awesome hahahaha

One of my ancestors, was the pilot of the Mayflower, who tried to get to Virginia, but missed. He stayed with the ship and went back to England, because the passengers weren't happy being stranded in the wilderness so far from their ticketed destination! In any case, Aussie, Kiwi or Maple reactions are always welcome.

Me staring at my box of English breakfast tea in the USA 🤨

I like watching people learn about American history

You should watch the movie the Patriot. It’s probably not historically 100% accurate but it’s entertaining and puts the story of Independence into perspective.

Love you guys. Your reactions are amusing and refreshing!!😊

First one here !!! 👍

Oversimplified: Emu Wars - set in Australia, phenomenal.

Thanks for reacting to this Video!

The interior of the First Parish Church in Portland, showing renovations done in 1907, including the addition of the Tiffany memorial ministerial tablet on the wall. The church was built in 1825 and dedicated in February 1826. Nine parishioners contributed to buy the 600-pound cut-glass chandelier in the new building. It contains a 12-pound cannonball that was shot into the church during the 1775 British attack on Portland (then called Falmouth). The church incorporated the cannonball into the chandelier of the former church structure and retained it in the new church.

Heres a fact. America named their first aircraft carriers after american battles. Our first official strike carrier was called USS Lexington, then we had USS Saratoga, USS Yorktown, USS Bunker Hill, USS Belleau Wood, etc. even USS Midway and Battan. Beautiful naming convention

I love watching you guys reacting

That accidental shot is "The Shot Heard Round the World" that started the American Revolution. It's rather amazing to consider that, were it not for that accidental shooting, things might have worked out way differently for America.

American here I hope you have enjoyed

And the thing with slaves…we weren’t supposed to have any, anymore as soon as it was ratified…but politics raises its ugly head, as we needed the support of the south, and many of them were dependent on slaves, with no alternative at the time, as it required all the people of the south already and slaves to produce as much as they did. So the part about getting rid of slavery…was taken out.

Some trivia for you. During the war the British blockaded American ports and no tea at all got into the colonies. Blockade runners from Spanish colonies in central and south America brought up something new for the Americans. Coffee. Without tea in the picture coffee soon became the popular caffeine fix drink. And it wasn’t long before the American colonists replaced tea almost completely with coffee. There are accounts of George Washington developing a coffee habit.

I highly recommend the channel Real Engineering. 2 videos I suggest are: The Insane Engineering Of The SR-71 BlackBird The Insane Engineering Of The A-10 Warthog 😁

You should react to oversimplified the pig war

Our history is an open book, good and bad. We learn from our mistakes we hope.

5:40 Interesting thing to note. While the event is known as the Boston Massacre to Americans at the time, in England it was briefly mentioned in a British newspaper as An Incident in Boston.

All this guys videos are great. Pig War is one of my faves about an almost war between US, GB and Canadian colonies and I as an American had never heard of it. So if yell have American friends you can probably know something about our country that most of us don't know

Oversimplified is some real quality content.

Re the Boston accent: My grandmother was from Boston and insisted that she therefore spoke "The King's English". I would often ask myself quietly, King of what?

One issue they didn’t mention is the Quartering Act, which forced colonists to house the occupying British troops in their homes. As you can imagine this was very unpopular and went a long way to turn the tide toward independence.

Boston had a population of about 15,000 at the time so to have 3,000 troops stationed there was daunting.

Great video guys. I learned so much.😄😄😄😄

The important thing about taxes is that the colonists were fine with paying taxes but they believed that if they were paying taxes they were entitled to representatives in Parliament to speak for them rather than only people who were English.

More unsimplified please 👍🏽

One thing he missed, and many Americans don't know, Jefferson originally wrote "life, liberty, and property". It was the 2nd Continental Congress that changed the third term to "pursuit of happiness". They should have left it alone, in my opinion.

All of Oversimplified's videos are excellent. Recommend the US Civil War; WW1 and WW2 after you finish the Revolution. A different guy also uses humor in an amazing video called: The History of the Enotre World...I Guess. Also husky recommend for a reax video.

1:00 Columbus also "discovered" modern day corn 🌽 The word corn previously meant any kind grains: wheat, millet, barley, etc. It wasn't until he visited the Americas and brought back a strange new bumpy yellow vegetable that corn was attached to a specific thing.

And, of course once you finish The Revolution, you've gotta hit up Oversimplified for, The American Civil War. 😉👍🏽😁

The Boston Tea Party, and the real reason most Americans don't drink tea at breakfast is coffee was much cheaper and stronger than tea. We still drink tea, only it's usually iced and comes in a glass instead of a cup. As for the" shot heard around the world," you should look for the 'Schoolhouse Rock" short for it.

Great Reaction!

Fun fact the Tea Taxes and the Boston Tea Party is why Americans drink coffee to this day instead of tea

8:00 this is where the phrase came from, but it didn’t get this frame until much, much, much later on.

Actually yes, it's because of the tea tax that Americans stopped drinking tea and started drinking coffee instead.

Every single person I've ever met who grew up learning history as names and dates -- hated history. But those, like me, who learned it as a set of stories -- love it to this day. I will say one more thing... t The subject of lavery and the founding father's is often misunderstood. Yes, many of them had slaves, but that didn't mean they didn't want to see the practice abolished eventually. These men had the hard tasks of fighting Britain for freedom, creating a brand new country, and running said country. Not only that, but a large amount of people looked at each state in the union almost as a country itself that required more loyalty than the whole. Slavery was ingrained in someparts of the new country, that almost half (the richest and most powerful states were among the slave owning states in the south) of the states would never have joined in the battle or the the union and they could have easily been crushed . The Founders chose to fight to keep the Union together and hoped future generations would abolish slavery. The treatment of slaves was also appalling. As a result if no education, it was believed thay if they were free immediately, their lives would be terrible. Still, some men, like Washington, took steps in their lifetime to work towards abolishing slavery on their own properties. Washington stopped bying slaves, refused to seperate families, and in his will his slaves would be free after his wife's death. The problem came when subsequent generations lacked the intestinal fortitude to actually follow through with the abolition of slavery. But somehow we lay that at the feet of the Founder's. I don't think that's a fair view.

That was actually a pretty good Boston accent ngl.

Hey Roos, this was a great reaction. I just subscribed. I loved the Boston accent. 😂. I have a reaction channel too from an Americans perspective and recently did some Aussie content if you’re interested. Peace from the US.

To Americans, the Boston Massacre were the first shots of the Revolutionary War.

fun fact, there is still no taxes on tea in America to this day... can't imagine why

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Well damn! From the thumb nail I thought you two were reacting to "Dances with Wolves". Maybe some day. Oversimplified is still good.

I just can't anymore. For all I know they'll leave for another year and we'll think one of them died again and worry. I don't need that.

4th of July! Fireworks! Beer! Barbecues! Parties! That is the way Americans celebrate our Independence Day: You have a nice party, fire up the grill, invite all your friends and family over, barbecue some chicken and pork, have some side dishes like salads and corn and potatoes and bread, go swimming for fun, everybody has plenty to eat, you light off some fireworks, then you have dessert. Cake. Pie. Cobbler. Usually fruit-based. Apple pie. Cherry pie. There should be at least three or four desserts at any American 4th of July party! And some beer. And wine. And whiskey. And fireworks. And swimming! And a party! :D :D :D If you're not eating grilled chicken, slow-smoked barbecue pork sandwiches with mustard sauce, sausages, potato salad, green beans, mac & cheese, AND fucking ton of pie, getting drunk, AND shooting off fireworks? You are doing this extremely WRONG! We Americans know how to celebrate our Independence Day. It involves barbecues, inviting all your family and friends over, everybody brings something to the party in terms of vegetables, bread, side dishes, cheese, beer, wine, whiskey,, pies, fireworks... And then we drink and shoot off fireworks for fun! :D :D :D It's great! You should try it sometime! :D

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Awesome

Glad that your learning our history. Dont worry about being smarter back in school. Your getting smarter right now. Lol. One thing about life... we all get smarter everyday. It's never to late to learn something new. I agree this is a fun way to learn. Unfortunately we didn't have this humor to learn from growing up but our kids do now. 😉

If you like "Oversimplified" talking about American history, you should check-out him talking about Australian history: Look-up "The Emu War."

Fort Knox is named after Henry Knox yes but it's actually located in Kentucky and it's more like a installation used for US's gold.

The John Adams HBO series would definitely be worth your time.

Ha! You know the Boston accent

Lol I noticed a lot of Brits and Aussies get the Boston Tea Party wrong. The one you mentioned was the Boston Massacre. The Tea Party was when they dumped tea into the harbor.

We have English Breakfast Tea. And Earl Grey. We just don’t drink it... 😉

Yeah these guys at oversimplified are really funny they go heavy on the real and true history with just enough jokes woven in to keep your attention 😉

8:57 Abraham Lincoln used to tell a story about Ethan Allen. The story went like this: After our war for independence with England was over and we were a separate nation, one of our Revolutionary War heroes Ethan Allen [leader of the Green Mountain Boys] had an occasion to visit England. While he was there, his English acquaintances took great delight in teasing him and making fun of the “Americans” and their war hero General Washington. One day they got a picture of Washington and hung it up in the “back house” [outhouse] where Allen was sure to notice. Allen, however, displayed no reaction when he returned to the main house. Finally, exasperated, they asked him if he’d seen it. Yes, he said, and added that he thought that it was a very appropriate place for an Englishman to keep it. Confused at his reaction - and comment - they asked why. “There is nothing that will make an Englishman s*** so quick as the sight of Gen’l Washington,” he glibly replied. (I think they even had Lincoln's character tell the story in the Lincoln movie.)

Also, the soldiers and their families serving in the Fort . from seven different nationalities But all Americans.

Exactly why we have the 2nd amendment!!!! RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

The part about Washington showing up every day in military uniform before being named commander in chief is true.

please part 2

The one thing about Washington, he knew how to keep an army together while getting their a$$es kicked over and over. He wasn't the greatest general ever, but he was the one that was needed at that time... just long enough to get professional training to the undertrained continental army.

I love Oversimplified because he makes history fun for people that would normally be disinterested. That said, I do have a bone to pick with him concerning this video. The part at the end where he talks about Jefferson having over 100 slaves. He didn't believe in slavery, but freeing your slaves wasn't really a thing then and it would risk losingthe support of the southern colonies. However, when writing the Declaration he deliberately wrote all men in the hope that one day we would live up to those ideas and he was right.

12:58 120 ships carried 9k British soldiers and 2k loyalists to an unknown fate?? That's a lot of people and ships for their fate to be "unknown". I wonder if they just can't figure out who they were through historical documents, or if they actually were never accounted for again after leaving there.

THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD...DUE TO THE FACT GEORGE HEARD IT ALL THE WAY IN ENGLAND.

If you wanted to know whether Americans were always like this, on the day the Declaration of Independence was signed a group of men toppled a statute of the King in New York City, melted it down, and turned it into 30,000 musket balls.

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Technically the United States did not come into being on July 4, 1776. That was the day the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. After the war they became 13 independent "states" but had yet to unify into a single country. It wasn't until 1789 that the last colony ratified the US Constitution and then all 13 colonies became united as a single nation... the United States... of America. "Join or Die", "United we stand, divided we fall", etc.. were slogans used to convince the peoples of the 13 colonies to vote for ratification or the British would soon be back to recapture their former colonies one by one (as they tried to do in the War of 1812).

The shot heard around the world did originate in Lexington, MA. I'm from Boston originally and unfortunately these days the voters/attitude is far different than in the days of 1770-1776. One part of this story that is missing is that John Adams (lawyer) defended the British soldiers that shot the people at Fanuel Hall and got them off. Then he became a member of the continental congress where he also gained great respect. BTW - throwing oyster shells means that they have very sharp edges and can really do damage.

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Y'all have to react to the over simplified Emu war it's hilarious 😂

Nah mates, we've got tea. Lots of herbal, yes, but also black, green, etc. Just isn't as popular over here as coffee.

Ayo you haaaave to watch all of Oversimplified's content. If be here for it. Maybe check out the Emu War. Also, refreshing to find other Australian content reactors. Makes me feel less alone lol

Hope you test that humour theory with his video on the Emu war :)

Yes Americans drink coffee because the Boston tea party and revolution. It became principle to not drink tea. Hence Starbucks. Also Morocco is America's oldest and longest alliance and Morocco recognized US independence even before France. I recommend these two videos I see reacted to a lot "Why is the us military the strongest" by need for knowledge And "top 5 reasons you shouldn't mess with the US" by destiny Both show how far the US has come since the revolution in terms of capabilities

Arnold is buried in London.

This is so hilarious. You don't have to take serious everything but learn history at the same time.

I take issue with the "a huge part of the war was spent protecting you from the French...". No, they were protecting England from the French. They were English colonies, and they were Englishmen tasked with defending it. THAT'S why the colonists were like "this is B.S., we fought on your behalf and at your orders to protect this land and its resources, and now you're taxing *US* about it?!".

The tax on tea is why we to this day drink coffee and not tea we had a little thing known as the Boston tea party where we dressed up like native Americans and tossed all the tea on ships in the harbor into the water 💧 and it was a huge amount of tea in adjusted dollars to today's money it would have been worth $1,700,000 dollars and started drinking coffee ☕