Ten Minute History - Westward Expansion and the American Civil War (Short Documentary) 

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

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 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

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.

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?

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.

Yes. Although I do wish there were many chapters.

Why? That's the minimum limit to have more ads and get more money.

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.

@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...

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

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.

@@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

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 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.

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.

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."

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 .

ThatRandomDude Treaty? Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Scott:Dreaded

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Theatre: Ford

Freedom? *Priceless* There's some things money can't buy, for everything else, there's MasterCard.

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

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

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

Hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂

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"Screaming Cowboy Meme" if the future is confused.

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@@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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lol

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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

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.

EVERYTHING

I didnt even catch that omgosh

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.

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".

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 always heard it as "the owning of people be nasty my dudebros" but potato potatoe

Lincoln cared more about the union then owning slaves

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.

Jefferson Davis

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

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OMG ITS EVIL JUSTIN.Y

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.

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.

Yeah its always glossed over that the native tribes not only sided with the confederacy but owned slave plantations as well.

Lemme guess: unsubbed?

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

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...

You mean 9:59

@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

The progress is big, not perfect but big. Compare black americans to anywhere else even we africans are dying to have whsts they have

Everyone talk about the civil war yet nobody talk about how it came to this. Especially when they got new territory from Mexico.

Missouri is very diverse state in civil war terms, a patch work of Southern transplants, New England Yankees and German immigrants. Therefore depending on what part of the state you were in would affect the opinions on the war.

@Cecil Gordon The U.S. was founded on treason, they have no grounds on which to judge. Also the southern monuments are being torn down everywhere (which is stupid) and regardless of slavery or any other details the fact is they wanted independence, something the U.S. was founded on but won't allow others to have. The south was punished and is still being punished for a war that has nothing to do with them. Your resentment doesn't matter when dealing with history, get over it.

@@54356776 no one in the us besides hawaii and puerto Rico wants independence today.

it was about states rights.. states rights to own slaves

Andrew Fishburn tearing down monuments is a good thing