USA USA YEAH!!! | OverSimplified React [American Revolution] 

Traveling from Philadelphia to Boston in a carriage, yah right. Unless you were a high ranking officer you were walking that distance with a backpack full of your personal supplies and personal ammo. The buggies were used to carry large amounts of supplies, not troops.

I always find it funny that America was built on the idea of "no taxation without representation", and then America went and did basically the same thing to their territories and D.C. It has real "it's alright when I do it" energy.

From what I read and a couple of historians have talked about, there was a fire in Boston up the road from the British soldiers. Someone was yelling fire trying to warn people so they could help fight the fire.

I saw this comment somewhere and posted in before. I'm not sure how accurate it is on everything but it's a good read Because much of the fighting in the Seven Years War was in North America, the Members of Parliament were reminded of the existence of the colonies. Up until then most of Parliament simply gave the colonies no thought. And the colonies had been thriving due to that benign neglect. As others have stated, there was a tax issue. In general, the serious taxpayers in Britain were Members of Parliament. They had to be; they were the ones with the money. They were looking for other revenue sources, and they hit on the idea of taxing the colonists. The problem was, at this time everyone in Britain thought of wealth in terms of species; that is, gold or silver coins. But due to Parliament’s own previous policies, there was very little space in the American colonies; most transactions were a combination of barter and credit. Some colonies issued limited paper currency, which basically made the barter-and-credit economy a bit more convenient. To make matters worse, the colonial governments had gone into debt during the war, and they were already collecting local taxes (in specie) to repay the debts. Thus the new taxes from Parliament hit when the colonies had an even worse than usual cash shortage. It is interesting that Mr. Hanover (a.k.a. George III) privately observed just this problem with the Stamp Act, but publicly he did nothing about it. What Parliament ought to have done was to assume the colonies’ war debt, and then tax the colonies for repayment but accept barter/credit/ colonial paper currency. It would have been cumbersome and time-consuming for the British government to convert goods to cash, but it would have been taxation in a form the colonists could actually have paid. Indeed, by eliminating the need to find rare species Parliament would have been praised by most colonists. In hindsight, we can see the souring of relations starting in 1763, but in reality, things had basically been worked out until the tea crisis of late 1774. That was caused by both sides’ escalating overreactions. *taken from some guy on quota In regards to Washington's leadership, we have to remember that the Americans were fighting a much better trained, much larger Army with much more supplies.

GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸

theres an entire song about john john paul jones by johnny horton

"USA is the greatest country in the world. We did nothing wrong" Lybia, Syria, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and dozens of other decimated countries: yeah, sure

If ya wanna get really mind blown look up the ages of the revolutionaries at the time of the revolution they are a lot younger than you would think

No Ethan Allen is NOT the character source for The Patriot. The Patriot is mostly based on Francis Marion in South Carolina. 41:00 Cornwallis was the British general in the movie. Tarleton was the basis for Cornwallis's Colonel Tavington in the movie. The Battle of Cowpens was the battle at the end of the movie.

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Ok, so a grain of salt because, you know, Over simplified, but there are some issues that the American education system causes with this video. To start with Columbus, no, he didn't just land and start slaughtering natives willy-nilly. He landed and greeted the "Indians," whom were actually the Taino, and started a trade teport with them. Eventually, they gained enough report that the tribe asked for Columbus's help to defend them from the Carib tribe, who would attack, enslave, and cannibilze them. "I saw some who had marks of wounds on their bodies and I made signs to them asking what they were; and they showed me how people from other islands nearby came there and tried to take them, and how they defended themselves..." (My guy, have they not invented the full stop yet? Entire sentence is a paragraph, and goes on to talk about different ideas not relevant to this part of the quote, about how he believes these "Indians" would be good Christians and that he would take six back to Spain to learn Spanish) I'm not going to pretend that Columbus was a perfect man, no one is, but the Howard Zinn interpretation of him as this monster who kills for fun is patently absurd and based soley on accounts of Columbus from his political rival. It's the same amount of historical accuracy as if you had a biography written about Hillary Clinton from Donald Trump. Moving on, Thomas Jefferson is one of the staunchest slavery abolitionists. While drafting the Declaration if Independence, he was staunch supporter of including slave trade amongst the issues. However, the terms required all delegates to agree, and a number of Southern states refused, so it was not included. Yes, he owned slaves; he inherited them from his family and marriage. So why didn't he just release them? It was illegal to do so for inherited slaves. Beyond that, someone else would just find them, accuse them of being escaped slaves, and re-enslave them. At least under his house, he could teach them to read, have skills, and other things to prepare them for the day he could free them. During his time as president, he got rid of a large number of laws like that. Next, the 3/5ths Compromise is an Anti-Slavery measure. During this time, the Slave states were trying to make all of their slaves count for census data, which would mean they would have far more voting power than non-slave states. However, the slave states made sure to attack the Northern states with lines like "If they don't count as people, then there is no reason not to use them as slaves," and other such rhetoric. As such, the 3/5ths Compromise satisfied, at least enough to ebate war for a time, both sides, giving Southern states a little more voting power while not denying the humanity of the slaves and ensuring Northern states has enough power to continue to fight against slavery.

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Lmfao... "who took this picture?" [Washington on the Delaware] Marty McFly took the picture.... camera's werent invented yet. That's a painting and George was only "posing" because the artist painted him that way. Look how majestic.. F that he was probably huddled in the boat with a blanket around him if he wasnt actively rowing.

And for all their help with this, the French had their own quasi-successful revolution barely two decades later, we scuttle one of our own ships and blame it on Spain a century after, we remove native tribes from their ancestral lands and force survivors into bum style settlements. And Russia outlawed slavery thirty years before we did. But we also were successful in ending a three hundred year long reign of Arabic pirates who captured and sold multiple different ethnicities, including white Europeans and black Africans, into hard slavery, so…

16:55 The movie you’re thinking of is “The Patriot” and it’s purely a work of fiction. The character Mel Gibson plays is a fictional character, not a real person. With the exception of some historical figures, just about every character in that film is fictional. It’s also not the most historically accurate in a lot of ways. Mostly by exaggerating the villainy of the British. The British were by no means squeaky clean during the American Revolution, the shit they have them do in that movie to make sure the audience knows they are the villains is mustache twirling villain shit that if they had done would probably be more infamous than the Boston Massacre. The battle scenes are pretty good though.

Tossing a vote for some 'Drawn of History'

You missed out, could've had the United County's of Americashire

Ben Franklin was the biggest deadbeat in history... Literally every year Ben Franklin would promise his wife he would return home... and then simply WOULDN'T... Every. Single. Year... Franklin's wife literally died wishing to see her Husband... Meanwhile Franklin simply didn't want anything to do with them... There's a... Specific... Reason for why this is and the way he was... But... That's for some other time...

Columbus did not go on a murder spree. His first voyage had 3 ships and 100 sailors. He wasn't attacking anyone with numbers like that

How did you not pass out from drinking so much?