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The first country to recognize the US as a sovereign republic was Morocco in 1777. I love this little known fact.

This video did not mention the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s, where the economies of many desert states and Midwestern states collapsed because all their crops were destroyed by high winds and sandstorms which lasted weeks and months. Many people from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska moved west toward California, in order to escape the grinding poverty which the "Dust Bowl" weather phenomenon had caused.

If anyone was wondering, if the the damages from the Boston tea party would have been around $1,700,000 USD had it happened today

Asking what happened in Vietnam is like opening a can of worms. Best to research it yourself.

Separation of church and state is a huge part of what makes the United States great! Many people came to America to have religious freedom! I am Christian. However, I believe that people should be free to choose any or no religion. I love your videos, Andre, and I hope people who watch and comment will do so with kindness and respect for other's beliefs. 🙏 We might disagree on political issues, but from one American (who leans left) to another, I would stand and die with you to defend this great country. Don't underestimate the power "We the People" have, and that includes tremendous love for this great nation! We all bleed red, white, and blue. Be kind, my friends!❤

Andre, your enthusiasm for learning about the United States is delightful! Pause all you want!

You should learn about the Seminole Wars in Florida and Ponce De Leon. Florida has the oldest European established city in the US. St Augustine was established in 1565 by the Spanish.

PLEASE don’t apologize for pausing! As an ancient retired teacher, I love watching your learning(reactions). Since much of this is no longer being taught in schools, you’re providing a great service to RU-vid browsers and your subscribers.

My ancestor got on a boat in Liverpool and landed in Virginia in 1792. 30 yrs later his son was in Florida and my family has been here ever since.

If you want to react to US history, the Lewis & Clark expedition is really interesting. They were sent by Prez. Jefferson to map a route to the west coast. The discoveries and overall journey were the first comprehensive documentation about the peoples, landscapes, and animals of the interior US. Ken Burns did a documentary on it for public TV years ago. It was an amazing feat.

Abraham Lincoln stated: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Lyceum Address - 1838 (an excellent read)

To put into perspective how close nuclear war came during the cuban missile crisis. A nuclear sub near Cuba had fully believed that war had broken out. This was not true but they didn't know right then and there. So the two people in charge of giving the orders to fire their nuclear weapons has given the okay, but one man them "Vasily Arkhipov" convinced them not to fire their nuclear torpedo.

19. We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks for the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.

I have to say that this... The Americans fighting in the Revolutionary War were NOT insurgents. They were people born and raised on this land. Yes, they did the native Americans dirty. And yes, slavery is a rotten part of our past, but, we wouldn't have become one of the greatest nations on the planet if we were still a part of England. Edit: The war of 1812 had more to do with England capturing American ships and pressing American sailors into working on English ships, basically enslaving them.

Andre, just to make sure you understand, Louisiana and Louisiana Territory are not the same thing. Louisiana Territory was the area between the Mississippi river and the crest of the Rocky Mountains that the US bought from Napoleon in 1803. As this area became more populated it reached a point where states were carved out of it. The state of Louisiana was the first state that was carved out, in 1812, other states followed as more and more people moved into the territory.

Andre you should learn about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that took place in new mexico between the spanish and the Pueblo People. The Puebloans we success and driving out the spanish for about 12 years. Amazing history has taken place in new mexico, including a famous Civil War Battle at Glorieta Pass

19. I am an American Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran. A retired firefighter of 33 years. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work my friend.

Andre, I have to admit I learn more about our U.S. history than I did in high school in the 80s! I enjoy your videos so much. You love the U.S. more than a lot of our own citizens do.

In Vietnam (1965-1973) the US military performed pretty well actually. We took 58K casualties but we won every engagement. In 1968, the Tet Offensive carried out by the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Militia) and the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) was soundly defeated, but the overall shock to the American public at home to the brazen attack turned the public against the war and for the next 5 years the war was gradually lost due to lack of political support. I was born at the tail end of Vietnam. My father was in the Army, but served in the couple years before the war really kicked off, so he lucked out by being as old as he was. He served from 1963 to 1965, so he got out just as the war heating up. Some good movies to watch about the Vietnam War are "We Are Soldiers" which details one of the first major battles in 1965, "Platoon" which is a fictional account following a platoon of soldiers from 1967 to 1968's Tet Offensive, "Full Metal Jacket" which b starts out in training camp in the States, but them goes into an urban battle in Vietnam during Tet in the second half of the film. There's several other B-films that are decent, but not as iconic as those three and they are Platoon Leader, "Hamburger Hill" (well, this one is pretty good about the campaign to take a Hill only to give it right back to the enemy), "Flight of the Intruder" about some missions of the A-6 Intruder Attack jet, and then BAT*21 about a surviving crew man of a surveillance plane that gets shot down as he makes his way back to freedom using a Golf Course in his secretive coding to plot way points in his escape route.

21:02 generally, especially at that time, communism was most likely to be supported by people who stand to benefit the most from the ideals espoused, like the young and the working class.

We did not lose in Vietnam. In fact the vier cong were so beaten that it was only left to the north Vietnamese army. Public image is the only thing that prevented us from winning

I like the historical videos

As an American I can say it's crazy how much we take our history for granted. I love videos like this because even though I know most of the facts, I don't take into account how amazing they are until someone who hasn't grown up with them talks about them. Thank you so much!

fun fact The USA actually had pretty good relations with the Russian Empire Cathrine the Great even partially supported the US war of independence. Russia never got involved but she herself did personally support the revolution obviously fear of her own people doing the same thing she did allow a copy of the declaration of independence into Russia but it was heavily censored. During the US civil war they even threatened the UK and France that they would go to war with them if they helped the confederacy. They sailed part of their historically lack luster navy to the pacific to show this threat. And then obviously we can’t forget that just a few years after the civil war Russia sells the US Alaska. But eventually after the Russian revolution the good relations died with rise of the USSR.

Love the history reactions.

My ancestor got on a boat somewhere in France in 1650 and landed somewhere in Canada. I'd like to add more information but that was 374 years ago. The family Bible disappeared centuries ago.

I live in Springfield, IL. There is a Lincoln museum here. It shows a really cool video of when the civil war battles happened and who took over what and it’s just really cool. A must see if you like Abraham Lincoln! It’s just a really amazing fluid map showing which side had what at certain times! You used to be able to find it online, but I couldn’t find it just now. If you like Honest Abe, Springfield is one of the places to be!

4:55 I recently found your channel and really enjoy watching many of the topics you choose. Your reactions are genuine and your questions are intelligent.

11:06 Fun Fact: Russia tried to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein first before it offered it to the USA. Liechtenstein refused. For those who don't know where Liechtenstein is it's smack in between Switzerland and Austria and border no other country. Directly South of Germany and Directly North of Italy.

For me the Revolutionary War is the most fascinating. In many cases, our first civil war. As we were all citizens of Great Britain. Almost everything about it was the first of it's kind in modern times. We were the first colonies of Great Britain, and the only to win independence by force. The type of government we set up was also the first of it's kind, heavily influenced by the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, along with ideas from the enlightenment. Just take a look around at the architecture of DC, and you'll clearly understand the ancient Greek/Roman influences. These details are easily overlooked. Just the whole colonial, revolution and forging of the United States periods is absolutely packed with amazingly dense history about the plight of natives, exploration, innovation, piracy, architecture.. and so much more that has changed the course of the world in almost every way. From the British colonization of Australia in response to losing the war with America, to France's revolution, to the formation of the european union.. just to name a few. All of it has all stemmed from that one event where we told Britain and their tea to get off our lawn.

Vietnam was the first war that we actually saw with our own eyes every night on the 6 o'clock news, and it wasn't pretty. The young Americans (mostly college students) started the protest movement. Older Americans were outraged, they supported war no matter what. The Vietnam War was not our war. It was rooted in a lot of political moves, France being the main player and we pretty much got roped in. The 60's were the most turbulent times in the US, in my opinion. We had 3 major associations (president Kennedy, Robert Kennedy running for president, and Martin Luther King Jr.), we had the Civil Rights movement, the Women's movement, the sexual revolution because of the birth control pill, the protest of the war, the whole hippie movement, the drug culture, and, most importantly, Rock and Roll. The 60's were intense, but we ended up with the best music EVER, which got us through those troubling times!

I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 very well. It was a very scary time to be alive. You are right, it was the closest the US and the USSR ever came to nuclear war. What the video did not explain was that the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey first, and that was why the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Once the US agreed to remove the nuclear missiles in Turkey, the USSR removed their missiles from Cuba. The provocation that almost started a nuclear war began with the US, not with the USSR.

As a side note, there are many many many historical stories about America I think you would really love learning about. Some have mentioned the Seminole wars, the war of 1812. The history of the Cajuns from Canada. The gold rush in the Dakotas, California, and Alaska. The panama canal. The Philippines. Jean Lafite the pirate King of the Gulf of Mexico and his lost treasure. The railroad wars and the industrialists that spanned a nation with Iron Horses (trains). So many more in a varied history involving many cultures settling and interacting across a continent. Alot of stories out there hardly told

I really enjoyed this reaction because this is a channel I recently discovered as well and has become a favorite of mine. Their whole channel is similar to this video and they cover plenty of interesting topics/time-periods. My personal favorite is their video on the Cold War (extended version).

19. They fit a lot of history in 20 minutes.I live in Illinois,home of Abraham Lincoln. In fact,he is buried here.One wonders how different things would be had he lived. My maternal grandfather immigrated here as a boy from Belgium. He grew up and founded a greenhouse. I never knew him as he died when my mother was a child.How I would have liked to know him and asked why did he emigrate and why at that time. Two of his sons joined the navy and fought in WWII.I always enjoy your content. Cheers,my friend.

A large factor in what made the US Civil war so deadly was the invention of rifling. Suddenly the guns used in these battles were much more accurate but the tactics from previous wars with muskets were still being used. You could line soldiers up to fire muskets at each other because a lot of them would miss. When they did that with rifles a lot more soldiers died. It was one of the first major wars fought on an industrial scale and foreshadows how deadly the wars of the 20th century would become.

We do kind of learn this history in school in bits and pieces, but the way it’s presented here is awesome! Thanks Andre for bringing all of this information to us. And thanks to the original creator. I’m definitely going to subscribe to his channel.

Puritans were religious pilgrims in the north(Massachusetts)and economic settlers went south(Virginia). What happened to our Native American people was the darkest part of our history. America is only strong when we have a strong leader.

The pilgrims were Puritan, they were persecuted because they had just finished being highly involved in Oliver Cromwell's dictatorship in England. They advocated a Christianity based around "not Catholic."

Definitely should check out more on Vietnam War wasn’t great for either side. Newer tech vs jungle warfare.

I went to school in the US and the video you are reacting to is far better than anything in the books or films we had available.

The southern states still grow a lot of tobacco and cotton. Cotton processing has become quite industrialized, but tobacco is still very much a labor-intensive hand-processed crop.

The Cotton Gin was still around along with the industrialization of industry overall. Even though the Cotton Gin initially led to a growth of slavery as an unintended consequence it was still there to fall back on when the huge labor vacuum hit. With the industrial revolution and the fact that free labor from slavery was no more, it required innovation for those industries that wanted to prosper. I love history, and I am here for it if you wanted to do the History of every country lol

Bravo Andre it's a good introduction, for United States of America history, there is so much more to learn 🔥🤟 Andre I'm going to give you one recommendation on the civil war history that's historian Shelby Foote! Also there's a PBS special series called the civil war by Ken Burns! 🇺🇸🔥🤟19

The Unitef States did NOT fight against France. France was America's first ally to obtain infependence from Britain and starting in 1776 helped in the fight by secretly shipping supplies to the continental army. By 1803, Thomas Jefferson wanted to get control of the land around the Mississippi river and Napolelon wanted to avoid a confrontation with the British and sold to the US for $15 million their territories from New Orleans in Louisiana, going north all the way across to Canada, nearly doubling the size of the country.

Hi! I like the history summary. Sure, we learn American History, but it takes years and we learn it so young, it’s nice to have a review. You can visit with Native Americans currently. There are special celebrations but also you can call a tribal nation a day ahead and let them know your family would like to meet a family. See what happens. You’ll probably be connected to someone who wants to carry the story of their people to the world. you might have opportunities to hear about history, cooking or art. Whatever interests you.

19! I also found this interesting. There were some things that, as a member of a military family, I remember or understand a bit differently. But as a teacher, I recognize that this was a good representation of our nation's history. I, for one, would enjoy watching more history with you. 🤠

Love these types of videos. I majored in political science in college and took loads of history courses. I find world history in general fascinating. Would love to see more.

23:32 - The Vietnam War was Hell on Earth. I'll try to summarize: - France was heavily involved in Vietnam before the US, but I don't know much about that. I only know the US took over when France decided to pull out. I sometimes wonder if things might have been different if both countries had worked simultaneously. - Whenever the USSR tried to support one side during another country's civil war, the US had a policy of trying to balance the scales by providing an equal amount of support to the other side. - In Vietnam, the USSR started sending weapons to the North Vietnamese, so the US began sending weapons to the South Vietnamese. Then the USSR sent people to train the North, so the US did the same in the South. - The US tried to negotiate peace between the North and South Vietnamese. - At some point, the USSR and China decided to send their own troops in to the help the North. President Nixon wanted to do the same, but Congress did not approve a declaration of war. Therefore the US military had very limited money to fight. However, the US President has the authority to do limited fighting without Congressional approval, so President Nixon sent what he could. - At the same time, the CIA began secretly selling drugs to South America, and the money was used to fund larger military involvement in Vietnam. This didn't come out until the mid 1980's. I'm ashamed that this happened. - The US tried to set up a heavy defensive line that the North could not breach, similar to the DMZ between North and South Korea, but continuing lack of Congressional approval, and then the Watergate scandal that drastically reduced Nixon's standing and political power, left the US military unable to send the forces necessary. - When the Americans pulled out, the North overwhelmed the South. Many South Vietnamese were granted asylum, but there were too many. I've read that as the Northern forces reached the southern shore, they lined South Vietnamese up along the shore and shot them so that the last departing US ships would see. - With the fighting over, the CIA stopped selling drugs to South America. However, the people involved had no interest in stopping, and began what would become the "Cartels" using the knowledge and training the CIA had given them. They then began selling drugs in the US, where the profit was higher.

Utah was part of Mexican territory. I still remember learning about Fathers Escalante and Domingez as a student. There's even a location with Father Escalante's name in Utah. Ecalante's Staircase and it's gorgeous there. I can't remember where Monterey is but I suspect somewhere in Mexico near the Arizona and New Mexico borders.

Yes, the plantations were JUST FINE without slave labor. They just weren't making as much profit as before. 🙄 In fact, there are still tons of old southern families that are STILL profiting off of the generational wealth from slavery.

too right, re: native americans. even still, just a few years ago, there was never a treaty written between our government and any particular people -- the sioux, navajo, chippewa, choctaw, cherokee, apache ... any of the 400+ federally recognized tribes still extant -- that has not been violated. broken. each treaty out of hundreds, rendered worthless. by us. by the leaders of our nation. not a single agreement that we couldn't burn holes into. i don't know how many (if any) new treaties have been written since, but it's my fervent hope that we stop. screwing. these. people. over. and start working on relations in true good faith, if that could be said about any government

Some form of slavery or indentured servitude or forced contract work system continued for nearly a hundred years after the civil war ended. Slavery wasn't immediately ended, it was fazed out slowly over time in gradual steps. Not to mention the police putting black people in jail in insane numbers to perform forced labor with things like mining or road laying just because they were loitering. They'd find any excuse.

Just a thought. If you are so interested in early U.S. history, check out Civil War reenactors. There are also Revolutionary War reenactors. These are people who buy uniforms weapons and equipment, and reenact battles from those wars. You might even want to do a video responding to what you see. PS - I watched until the end.

11:26 I know the location of the midpoint of the railroad from San Francisco, California to Omaha, Nebraska. It's in Promitory Point and best to go on May 10th since that's when the two rails met for the final track placement.

Yes, cotton and tobacco continued to be grown in the South after the war. For the most part the old planter class kept their land and local power, while many of the freed slaves were compelled to continue working that land for poverty wages. There’s a couple of misleading statements in this video. First, the Boston Tea Party wasn’t about higher taxes on tea; the taxes were part of a broader policy to regulate the colonial tea market on the same terms that English merchants were operating under. The tea merchants of Boston were mad because English competitors were selling tea to Americans at lower prices. And the US didn’t really get into WWI because of the sinking of the Lusitania or the Zimmerman telegram; the real reason was what the video mentions first: that US banks had been lending tons of money to the UK and France, US corporations had sold tons of arms and supplies to them on credit, and none of that would get paid back if the Entente lost. The American population was generally against getting involved, and Wilson had successfully run for re-election -after the Lusitania had been sunk-on the slogan “he kept us out of the war”. But Wilson probably knew he’d go back on that already, and the same wealthy interests pressuring him were also lobbying Congress, so when the Zimmerman telegraph was publicized most of the politicians rushed for war. There was still lots of resistance to it among the people, especially the draft. And the US was actually giving support to mujahideen-aligned factions in Pakistan and Afghanistan before the USSR invaded. The Afghan Communist Party stirred things up on its own, and the US hoped to draw the USSR into invading by strengthening the opponents of the Afghan communists, which worked. We then ramped up that money and support once Soviet soldiers were there.

I posted a short clip of my stay in rural Indiana over the weekend. I visited A birthday Party of my Native American friends kid. Though Im not Native, Ive always felt an attachment to this land and to the Natives….Its stronger than any other religion or spiritual belief. The Land And the Natives live in the land and grow in the people around them.

The Vietnam war was really a civil war between two Vietnamese factions. It grew out of an independence war to overthrow the colonial power, the French, and a decade later eventually led to civil war between those Vietnamese preferring a communist Vietnam versus those preferring a capitalist Vietnam. Superpowers jumped in to join sides and make it into a proxy war between them, with the US aiding the capitalist faction in the south and the Chinese and Soviets aiding the communist faction in the north. The US aid to the south escalated a little more each year, starting off as just supplying military gear, then later sending trainers and advisors to train Vietnamese troops, and eventually sending US soldiers to take actual part in the fighting. When the US withdrew its soldiers, the war wasn't over immediately. It continued another 2 years before South Vietnam was fully gone. Because, again, it wasn't a war the US started, it was an already existing civil war the US joined. So when the US forces left, that already existing civil war was still there, still going on.

12:00 While slaves were freed and the South didn't have any forced laborers to run the plantations, a decent amount of African Americans didn't know any other life style and so looked for work similar to what they had been doing and became paid workers. The importance of the crops the South produces didn't change (and still hasn't, really) and they still needed workers. There was still a lot of discrimination and most of the time they were not paid a fair wage, but because they had no money they felt it was better to do what they knew where they new what to expect then to try and find a new place to live. This led to the younger generation going and searching out places to live and work in the North or West before bringing their families to live in the new place. For some people this meant waiting up to one generation (~20 years) before being able to move.

19... just FYI I always watch all the way to the end. I just love when you react to historical videos. I can hardly turn away until it's over. Thank you for sharing your reactions. As an American, I know most of the history but there are always a few details that I just don't remember or learning myself. Also, I learn a lot about the differences in our countries as you react and I think I love that most. Thanks again 😁❤

@ 11:48 you ask if the industries supported by slave labor are insupportable after slavery is abolished. Many former slaves would continue to do the same work as “share croppers”. This was an incredibly unfair system where the laborers produced the products in exchange for living and working on the land. The arrangement left many people in crippling debt and was commonly referred to as “slavery with a paycheck”.

19! The civil war was about slavery but not only slavery. Some of the states joined the confederacy out of distrust of a strong federal government and loss of state freedoms. But slavery was the key thing for most states. Indiana was not Indian territory. Indiana is east of the Mississippi River. Regarding the persecution of Catholics, that’s been in the USA from the start until maybe the 1950s. My Dad and grandfather dealt with that!

Andre, you have a very good feel for choosing interesting vids. I don't think you talk too much and your voice is soothing. Please do as you have. 😀

At 12:00, you asked whether the South continued to grow cash crops like cotton and tobacco after the Civil War ended slavery. They did. Although the former slaves were technically free, they often remained economically dependent on their former masters, who used legal and terrorist methods (like the KKK and the Red Shirts) to keep the freedmen in a state of disenfranchised quasi-servitude. The federal government after about 1877 basically abandoned any effort to correct this situation and left the African-Americans to their fates under a system of organized discrimination (known as the "Jim Crow" system) in the South. This did not change significantly until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s. Meanwhile, cotton (which depletes the soil if not alternated with other crops) ran its course in the Deep South until the 1930s, when large areas of the country saw failed crops due to drought and depleted soil. At that point, many Black Americans simply abandoned the South and headed for factory jobs in the northern cities. Tobacco (also depletes the soil) continued to be grown in many parts of the Upper South into the 1980s and 1990s, when massive court damages and public opinion against smoking vastly reduced that crop as well. You can still find it growing, though, in some parts of North Carolina. Edit: 19.

The Vietnam War is complicated. Basically, it had been a French colony and the Japanese took it during WWII, took all the rice and let the people starve. When WWII ended, France came back but the Vietnamese didn’t want anyone ruling over them anymore… understandably. They wanted a communist system. Their revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Minh, had a western education and was supported by the US, at first. France in the 1950’s asked President Eisenhower to intervene in Vietnam or France would go communist… so Ike capitulated and started sending troops to help train the Vietnamese who were loyal to France - ARVN, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. So Vietnam is split in two, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government based out of Hanoi in the North, and the Republic of Vietnam out of Saigon in the South. Ho Chi Minh’s guerrilla warriors, the Vietcong, are allied with the NVA, and the US Army with the ARVN. But, the ARVN didn’t necessarily want to fight and more and more American troops were sent to fight in their stead. Jack Kennedy ordered the assassination of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem because he was a brutal leader and it was felt that he was bad for the war and the country, but his assassination led to the destabilization of South Vietnam and the war only got messier. After JFK was assassinated, Lyndon Johnson went all in on the war, but it just kept getting messier, and it was dragging on, and it had been 50 years of war in one place or another, and people here were sick of it. Tired of sending their sons, brothers, fathers to go die in some country they’d never heard of, in a conflict that didn’t seem to make a lot of sense. Richard Nixon ran as the anti-war candidate, but didn’t get close to ending it until his second term which, as the whole world knows, he didn’t finish since he was caught spying on his opponent’s campaign office and resigned from office in the face of impeachment. His VP, Gerald Ford, was sworn in as president and it was Ford who finally got the US out of Vietnam. In the 70’s, after we’d been involved there for close to 20 years. There are those, including some of the veterans, who feel we were close to victory when we finally gave it up. It’s not clear what benefit victory would have had, but I think for many of the vets there’s a sentiment that it would’ve meant that all the horror and the loss and the trauma might have served some purpose, instead of no purpose at all, which is where they wound up. But there are others who feel that there never was any purpose and that it was only ever a waste. I was born in ‘76 and it’s only ever been history for me, so the only thing I’m sure of is I’m glad that in my lifetime there has never been a draft that sent me or my friends off to some damned war. And unless you were there it’s probably impossible to fully comprehend the way it felt.

A couple of things. Indian Territory was and is the state of Oklahoma. (statehood in 1908). Indiana is located between Illinois and Ohio. Yes, the Civil War had more casualties than all other American wars combined.

You might enjoy watching a video about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition. Very interesting history.

Really love your reactions on this channel during my 23 United States Navy I visited your country at least twice Lisbon Portugal 🇵🇹 beautiful and very friendly people.

The Vietnam War was heinous. I suggest watching a couple of documentaries. It caused horrific PTSD for our men. They used a lot of psychological warfare that our men were not ready for.

I love watching you react to anything regarding America, and I would absolutely watch you react to anything historical!

The USA Civil War was one of the most fascinating wars in human history. The more you study this war the more you understand what being an American means. A nation of emigrants and slaves, combining to became more than the sum of their parts. A struggle to define freedom and government.

The South States did still grow their crops. Several freed slaves were offered land and equipment and worked as Share Croppers where they shared in the income of the harvests.

19 Just wanted to say that I am fairly new to your channel but love your videos. I love seeing how you make sense out of things for yourself. Not always right but usually pretty close. You should not apologize for stopping the video it is a way for you to ask questions and to react to what you have seen this is what it is all about. Keep it up and I would love to watch more of you responding to American History.

Andre,one point that isn't mentioned is that the American Indians were no saints. They were ferocious fighters and very warlike. They fought huge, vicious wars between themselves both before and after the Europeans arrived. And they attacked the Europeans just as energetically as the reverse. The only real reason the Europeans prevailed in the end was that they had better weapons and organization than the Indians did. Plus the Indian tribes suffered greatly from diseases accidentally introduced by the colonists. Had the Indians had guns and stuck together, they could have easily pushed the Europeans right back into the ocean. It was pure accident that the two sides differed greatly in technology; it could have easily gone the other way. And in fact, it did, when the Norse Vikings landed in about 1000 AD. The natives then fought back hard enough that even the war-toughened Vikings decided it wasn't worth it, and turned around and sailed home.

If you were to read the book on communism most people would think it's full of good ideas. The issue is if it works in pracise or not. And a lot of bad things many communist nations did aren't part of communist philosophy. Nowhere in das kapital does it say that everyone should install steel producing blast furnaces in their backyard.

19 - enjoyed the history summery and your take on it. The Vietnam war was complex politically and a regrettable affair to say the least. One large issue is China was interested in the success of communist North Vietnam and provided supplies. The strategic solution for the US would have been to cut off the supply lines, however there was dwindling support at home for US involvement as it was, risking war with China as well was out of the question. So, the American forces battled on with poor support till costs and casualties became too much, prompting a complete withdrawal in '73.

We enjoy your reactions to everything! ❤

19. I was three-years-old during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of course, I didn't really understand what was going on, but I knew something serious was up. My mom went into labor with my younger brother when the crisis was at its height, and she was worried he was going to be born in the middle of a nuclear war. Fortunately, the crisis was resolved as he was born.

My favorite historical period is the rise of Macedonia under Phillip II which gave way to my all time favorite historical figure, Alexander the Great. Much of civilization as we know it is directly attributable to the scope and breadth of Alexander’s achievements.

The invention of “Cotton Gin” Could Pick the Seeds from Cotton. It industrialized the cotton trade without the need of slave labor

We just celebrated Juneteenth, commemorating the date that enslaved people in Texas learned that slavery had ended two years earlier. In fact, one reason Texas declared independence from Mexico was that Mexico had abolished slavery and Texas wanted to maintain it.

Thanks for this video.

My ancestors came from Spain and settled near St. Augustine Fla. During the civil war the Rebel army commandeered their farm and tavern and took everything. My dad still gets mad talking about to this day😂

Fleeing from religious persecution in Europe is part of the reason why the separation of church and state exists in the United States. A good majority of the constitution was inspired by millennia of events that happened in Europe, from many centuries of government, interpreting religious authority and oppressing other religious groups, inspiring the separation of church and state to then recent events involving taxation without representation thus creating the house of representatives and the senate.

One thing is for sure the United States did come to terms with the natives, by recognizing them as having their own Nations within the United States. A precarious situation in which has and hasn't happened with any other native tribe in Europe, nor in Asia. As an American I could argue that Britain isn't British because they aren't native, I could argue that Aussie's aren't Australian because they took the land from the Abronese*. Cro-Magnons versus the neanderthal. In reality natives in the sense in which we perceive natives of having a Right doesn't really exist, if we were to consider Portugal in itself became Spaniard, via a Spanish army under the Duke of Alva of which invaded Portugal. After their victory at Alcantara, near Lisbon, in 1580 Philip was accepted as King of Portugal. For the next sixty years Portugal was under Spanish rule and her interests subordinated to those of Spain. So here we can start to understand a better picture of Europe in regards to the association between Spain, Britain, and France, as well as a slew of other national entities bestowed under some treaty, alliance, or marriage as a unification reward option for peace. By the time Spain had been supposedly removed from South America, the peoples in essence became Spanish, and had long removed a vast majority of their nativity. There is little if no other language other than Spanish from Mexico throughout central America as well as South America, as well as the Carribean. While one may argue there are Natives, in reality the natives were absorbed into a new history. The same is applicable to the United States, but with a special exception the native languages and dialects of the native tribal language in the United States still exists. (It was with this preservation that helped the United States during WWII, via the Wind Talkers, in which the Navajo language was used to transmit critical information that neither the Japanese nor Germany could translate/decode). It didn't get erased because of some absolute depotism forced on native North American tribes. While the United States did have a stern stance of teaching the 5 civilized nations English, they still provided for tribal linguistic preservation. This English teaching was to rid the tribes of broken languages already being incorporated into tribal languages from both Spain, and France. Despite the fact that Spain was ravaging across North America a century before the British Europeans even started to settle the continent, the better outcome was and is still remaining the best outcome, under the circumstances, especially after the colonies fought for Independence. It is with this mutual interaction the United states allows a recognized tribe to purchase land, then turn the deed over to the Federal government, it becomes tribal land, and non taxable by the state. Although at some point this agreement will have to be renegotiated as it cannot be forever sustainable to the states, considering the tribes have recently over the last 20 years moved towards gambling casinos, which aren't subject to the same gambling payout structure requirements of most states such as Nevada. Currently purchases on tribal/reservations they collect taxes for both the federal and state government as well as tribal taxes. 100% of the tribal taxes collected which is rather reasonable usually around 2%, is allocated to help the specific tribe/reservation. While both the state and federal government also allocate payments to the tribal nations from the over all state and national budget.

The Vietnam war was an absolute disaster for many, many reasons... not the least of which is that much of our military personnel had not volunteered but were drafted and had to go. So imagine you are an 18yr-old kid, sent to war against your will, in an environment that makes warfare extremely difficult, directed by commanders who led from behind, against an enemy that looked exactly like the people you are trying to defend (who don't really want you there anyway) and the government that insisted you go fight doesn't want to fully engage in fear of ending up in an all-out war with Russia, but lies to its citizens about how badly things are actually going. Except, oops... there were reporters and cameras capturing horrendous footage that exposed all this mess on the 6pm news each night. --- Yeah, not our best era as a country.

The Oregon Territory was jointly administered by the USA and Great Britain until the border was fixed at (49° N) with the Colony of Vancouver Island going to the British. In 1859 the Island was merged with the government on the mainland and the Colony of British Columbia was formed. 12 years later BC joined Canadian confederation.

Glossed over how California was an independent nation for ~13 days Also used to be way bigger like texas (they shared a border)

Interesting video. There was a TV show called "How the states got their shape." I dont know if he can find it.

19. I love me my history reactions. It is so interesting to see how so many of the assumptions we have about "the way things have always been" are incorrect. One important thing to understand about communism is that, in the early 20th century, many parts of the world had never known any economic system other than feudalism where working class people had few to no rights and no democratic elections. To them communism promised a world where everyone would be equal and the government would care about their well-being. It typically failed to deliver this because, the thing was, Karl Marx himself would have said that you shouldn't try to transition directly from feudalism to communism. Most of these countries had no previous history of peaceful transition of power or democratic rule, so they just ran their communist state the same way they would have run a feudal state. Marx suggested that societies had to evolve through a liberal democracy phase before they could be ready to keep the promises of communism to treat all people as equals with a voice in society. A lot of Americans think that one reason the U.S. was so afraid of communism spreading was that it looked possible at a certain point that communism actually worked better than capitalism, and all the rich people in America were determined that communism couldn't be allowed to win for that reason. Communism put a satellite in orbit before capitalism managed it, and managed to industrialize Russia and China extremely quickly where previously they had been feudal agrarian societies. They were more feminist and anti-racist than the U.S. was at the time as well. There were actually many famous Americans in the early- and mid-20th centuries who were members of the American communist party, and they were often blacklisted from Hollywood and other professions. Some people believe that part of the reason the U.S. had such good public services and worker protection laws in the mid-20th century was that the American government was determined to show that it was better to its people than the communists. Unfortunately since the USSR fell, the American middle class has almost disappeared because many worker protection laws have been repealed and the government has stopped funding many public services under the influence of rich people who don't want to have to pay taxes to fund those services and who no longer see a real threat that many Americans will decide communism is better than capitalism. One thing that is interesting about the Vietnam War is that the U.S. military learned a lot and became much stronger because of it. One major weakness of many militaries around the world is that they tend to underestimate enemies who have inferior technology, which is what we did in Vietnam. But we learned just how effective guerilla warfare can be, and now the U.S. builds in much more redundancies to ensure we can still fight and save our soldiers even if the enemy is able to do a lot of damage using low-tech solutions. This is one reason we are now so far ahead of other global militaries, because we learned that it would take much more than we had assumed, and much more than other world powers continue to assume, to become unbeatable.

19 The slavery issue was the proverbial straw for the South. With industrial advancements just ahead, labor costs would have greatly reduced. Why did we lose these wars? Politics

I love when you react to history videos. You should totally review more especially since you like it.

Europeans were being persecuted because of their religions, and the kings/queens/emperors were the ones who were persecuting them. The Pilgrims, Quakers, and people from other persecuted religions studied what happened during the Spanish Inquisition of the 1400's-1500's, and they decided it was better to flee Europe for America, than to be imprisoned, enslaved, or executed due to their beliefs. That is one of the main reasons why America's Founding Fathers were so adamant that the USA should not live under a particular state-sponsored religion.

I really enjoy your pov! Your reactions teach and explain things. Really great! Have a wonderful day!

It’s a good overview of American history but of course doesn’t mention a lot, treatment of Native Americans, Philippine American War, overthrowing democracies and replacing them with dictators during the Cold War. Like everything, there’s a lot of history that can’t just be in one video.

19 - This does a quick look at how the U.S. got its land but it does skip some smaller parts. There is the funny story in the Pacific Northwest called "The "Pig War" that Oversimplified did a video on. It's about how the U.S. and Britain nearly went to war because of a pig.

The south is still a big agricultural area, André. Still produces cotton and tobacco. We have machines for harvesting now lol.

Saying the US didn't do well in Vietnam is actually not true in fact we did pretty well, the majority of victories were Us victories. The problem with Vietnam was it was just such a brutal War and people back in the US weren't big fans of the war which is why we pulled out.

It turns out, the Viet Nam War could have been avoided. Ho Chi Min begged the U. S. for food and support for independence from France. France was apparently starving the people to death. Literally. We were allied with France after WWII. We were NOT taught any of this. I was a young child during the conflict and in fact went to school with Thai and Viet Namese exiles. Our soldiers did their duty and have my eternal gratitude for the freedoms I enjoy. But I have learned to look a little deeper than just what he politicians choose to tell us.