A History Teacher Reacts | Oversimplified - American Revolution (Part 1)

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Terry back here once again to check out another history video I had recommended me another video by oversimplified this one on the American Revolution so we'll go ahead and check this out alright as always when I do a reaction video I would really appreciate if you would go to the original video which a link will be below to make sure they get your likes and views and things like that it's important that these content creators know that people support them so they make more of them and these videos are so great just to expose people to basic historical concepts and things like that so be sure to do that as well okay after the video if you would like to suggest another video make sure you do that down in the comments below and I'll try to get to it but let's go ahead and check out oversimplify the American Revolution part 1 holy smokes Christopher Columbus that is no way to address the king and queen of Spain what is wrong with you ok ok so you know how we're looking for a new trade route to India right right and the earth is round right right so I'm thinking we can just sail the other way around the planet right yeah so I set sail right and I reach India right right wrong wrong I did not reach India I did not all right no all right get to the point did you know there's a whole nother freaking continent out there ok and do you think I should care about this why oh I'm sorry did I forget to mention there's Gold everywhere Gold Columbus landed in Central now from what I understood though you know Columbus makes a few trips to the Americas I was on an oppression I could be wrong that he always thought he was in Asia somewhere that it wasn't necessarily this new continent whatever whatever they mean by here whether it's just not mainland Asia but I was under the oppression and I could be wrong correct me if I'm if I'm wrong that he basically went to his death thinking he had reached somewhere in Asia but that was oppression I had a but I of course could be wrong there so feel free to correct me drill America in October 1492 and he had the time of his life and by that I mean he went on a huge theft and murder spree he stole gold jewelry people and a hammock I only returned to show off all his riches including a few previously undiscovered items such as tobacco the pineapple turkeys and a hammock now I know what you're thinking but oversimplified Columbus didn't discover America the Vikings did and you'd be partially right in the 11th century Leif Erikson was the first European are we ignoring the fact that millions of people already live there so Cara Lee discovers something if millions of people are already there but then we discovered by Europeans of course maybe we're just talking semantics there but you have got to give credit to the Vikings and to land in America but hey if you love biking so much then why don't you check out today's sponsor Vikings Wharf cleanse is a mobile game that was inspired by the famous strategy and RPG games of the 90s like I'm I'll definitely let that happen I'm here do you like building cities the over-singing army people joining a clan and good credit too there's my friend Vikings war yeah I mean we go back it's American history and what makes it so is that more than 20 everything some dogs are constantly changing the way became everything is fighting of resources forging alliances and competing and life trying to get the SPECIAL 200 gold credit fine and about this yield don't forget to look me up simplified now where was I oh yeah basically started Crusaders like trying to find ways to and suddenly the race was on to explore and conquer the new world after a couple centuries of warring with the natives and each other the European powers had claimed quite a lot of land including this area which both the English and the French claimed is there's one the French said I'm gonna build some forts along here and the English were like could you not and the French said sorry but no I could not not and they went ahead and built their forts which pissed off the English so they sent an up-and-coming British lieutenant-colonel by the name of George Washington with a combined force of British troops and Native Americans after a short battle the French commander said alright alright we surrender ok boys pack it up there surrenders oh sorry was I not meant to split his head open with the tomahawk don't worry it's not like this we'll start a seven-year-long major global conflict and what happened next was a seven-year long major global conflicts which Great Britain won at the peace negotiations spigot yes long story short seven years war you could honestly almost make a case that the Seven Years War is the first world war cuz it was fought on many continents in the Americas so I mean in the Western Hemisphere all over the place in Asia back home multiple nations were involved in those United States and France whose United States and their allies versus France and their ID and their allies with the United the United States I'm in Britain sorry Britain and France with Britain and France being the two major powers and here in the seventeen hundreds because the mid seventeen unders are the two biggest colonial powers in the world and the world is kind of a big chessboard that they're all trying to take you know portions of so you got this collision of imperial ambitions here in the West in America as you can see you got it back in India which is probably the really crown jewel this whole conflict in general but yeah you get these two and they are going to just go all-in with this and basically Bank up their Nations which you will see I'm sure they're gonna bring up here but yeah the Seven Years War is one of the most important conflicts in modern history as it is the result of it is basically the reason if you're an American like me then why you're speaking English right now you know what I mean there's so many different outcomes that could have happened you know how to knock on the way and then the short story of course is the British win this war so that's gonna solidify a lot of British dominance around the world about Florida well friends gave up all of its territories in North America but Britain's victory came at a cost a sixty million pound cost they were now broke in a lot of debt and had to come up with pay it so I went to the colonies and said okay listen up so a huge part of the war was spent protecting you from the French and now we have no money because of it so I'm not sure what you're saying here okay so we spent a lot of money protecting you from the French right right and now we're broke that certainly is a pickle listen to me we spend all of our money protecting you and now we need money so can you please pay us back some money no okay we're just going to go ahead and tax you in 1764 Britain introduced the Sugar Act forcing the colonists to import sugar and molasses exclusively from the British and to pay duties on them then a year later they introduced the extremely controversial Stamp Act and it worked a little something like this pillow shopkeep hello mr. bungle berry here's the deed for your new Shack stamp that'll be three pence please wait what was that it's the new tax I get a stamp on any paper documentation I make and you have to pay for it would you like to see this pamphlet that explains everything yes please okay stamp please this is awful you know what just give me a team so late I can go gamble my pain away okay no let's get any printed thing given ya car don't do it damn obviously the colonists were like hey my foods this new tax legislation right here this is BS until now they have enjoyed relative freedom to rule themselves and now suddenly brimmer's war changes every control they were especially unhappy because they didn't have any representatives in the parliament that was levying taxes on them so they protested war raiders gave fire that is a key thing to understand the Americans were not necessarily or at least how they protect nobody wants to pay taxes I mean it's just how people are but the main quarrel that the Americans cited was not the fact that you had these taxes I mean the British could easily justify by saying hey you're part of our Empire and people back in England actually attacks at a far higher rate than people in the colonies like like in America and but that was not necessarily things Americans were saying was their biggest gripe it was the fact that these taxes are being created in Parliament back in back in Britain but there is no representation from the colonies in that government now if they had given because this brings another question if there was representation in Parliament would there still be this justification for what's gonna happen with the Revolution I don't know I mean it's not like they're probably a ton of representatives from the Americas in Parliament but I don't know it would have changed I guess what the Americans would say is of a justification but yet I think big picture too I mean the the colonists feel more and more disconnected from Britain as it's now the mid 1700s and people been coming for decades upon decades and feeling less and less connected back home but there's a lot of different things at stake here but the whole taxation without representation thing of course is the thing that's going to be the most publicized and try to be the the thing that they feel is the most the Americans is the most fair ground to have an objection against all of this British goods were boycotted and anyone loyal to the British family sells increasingly harassed the whole thing actually began to take quite a toll on British business and after just a couple years the British were forced to repeal the Stamp Act but we still desperately need money what should we do we could try taxing the colonies great idea wait didn't we literally just try that in a failed miserably man look at me I look fabulous have you ever seen such a handsome boy no siree Georgie no Wayne you're the handsomest smartest most popular King that ever lived and everybody likes you you're doing your majesty oh you're still here get the hell out so in a 1766 the British made a declaration saying we can do what we want because we're in charge and you can all go suck it then they levied a whole bunch of new taxes on the Americans by import duties glass there's a tax for that let there's a tax for that paper tea oil there's a tax for that and once again the Americans boycotted British goods British business felt the pinch and the British had to back down yeah the the the obvious thing to do is okay the the Britain is powerful right and they can try to enforce things to force these taxes make sure these pay these taxes but the move that the you know the protesters in America said is well then what we need to do is if we can't control what taxes are coming in just stop buying the stuff that is taxed right there's rules you know in laws that the United States can only really do business with the British which is a different story cuz that brought in piracy and tries it always to try to get around it but simply stop buying the British goods because the way in this era if you want to hit the hit the British hit him hardest is to hit them in their wallet right stop buying their goods so they don't get the taxes and as you saw that did make a big impact as revenue was decreasing at this time and the British were very well aware of it so they're gonna have to take another strategy to try to get this revenue all right this is ridiculous they're my colonies and I have to be able to assert my control repeal all the new taxes cept for the one and t also send 1000 troops to Boston to take control oh and make the colonists pay for them and as British troops arrived the tension in Boston was palpable just cut with a knife city and it was all about to come to a head on March 5th a band of local Patriots began heckling a British guard at the Customs House more and more Americans joined in the heckling while more British troops turned up in support of their comrade snowballs were thrown at the British the snowballs turned to rocks the rocks to oyster shells the soldiers outnumbered panic one thing leads to another and you can see where this is going Boston as five civilians were killed the Patriot pressed throughout the colonies declared the Boston Massacre an unwarranted crime committed against the people of Boston by the cruel British and the anger continued to grow a British revenue schooner that rent Boston Massacre was so well publicized this famous picture right here was by one of the richest men and most influential men in Boston Paul Revere you've probably heard of who gave it its name if you can see up here pray can't see very well but the bloody massacre right and and intentionally of course try to make this look really really bad and aggressive for the British with what five people died probably the least massacre E Massacre ever not to downplay the fatalities there but was definitely a publicized in a way to try to get more and more sympathy towards these protests and Boston is the battleground here is the most important city in America it's the busiest port and the most important for sure it's the people of Boston by the cruel British and the anger continued to grow a British revenue schooner that ran aground in Rhode Island was burned by the locals when it came to light that the governor of Massachusetts supported the suppression of the colonists his house was burned by the locals and next the colonists would set their sights on the remaining tax on tea on December 16 1773 a band of patriots known as the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans marched down to Boston Harbor boarded a British merchant ship loaded with tea and in front of thousands of spectators through nearly 10,000 tons with a party arrive board the British were disgusted and they punished Massachusetts with a vengeance they dissolved its General Assembly revoked their charter and sent 3,000 more troops to occupy the city meaning Boston and Massachusetts were now essentially under the Cintiq RT was not a small little thing - as far as damages I mean it would be I think if I've seen the the data on it would be equivalent I think of maybe multi millions of dollars in in destruction of T which was a lot I mean people love their T here in the you know mid 1700s so it was not just a little thing I mean it it it was very destructive with with how much was lost as far as value of that team so you could see the British responded very you know abruptly and want to be even more assertive in their control over here the direct rule of Great Britain and oh boy where the people take away all the other colony I saw what was happening and worried they might be next so they called a brain trust to decide what to do 56 delegates from 12 colonies gathered and met in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress and the roll call read like a who's who of America's finest thinkers I'm talking lawyers extraordinaire Johnny a and Johnny J experienced military commander George Washington businessman and future alcoholic beverage Samuel Adams fiery orator Patti H guy who married a rich lady big J Dickinson and while they weren't present at the first Congress soon names like James Madison Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson and much later Alexander Hamilton would all serve time in the Continental Congress the question now though was what to do about the British after much bitter debate and disagreement they eventually agreed on an amazing solution they would simply ask the British to stop can you stop no it didn't work okay but then tell the local militias to start arming and be ready at a moment's notice and across the colonies these Minutemen stood ready for the beginning of the American Revolutionary War now having your colonies in open rebellion is one thing once they start arming themselves that's when it really hits the fan so British General Thomas Gage ordered 700 troops from Boston out into the rebel controlled Massachusetts countryside to destroy stores of arms and ammunition held by the rebels in Concord the British set out in the middle of the night Patriots including Paul Revere rode ahead to warn that the British were coming giving the rebels time to prepare so when my tech startup needed a new logo that time it's simple just search logo order and that's how you get there the two sides met in Lexington as the Sun began to rise they faced off against each other and in the confusion somebody shot first the shot heard around the world marked the beginning of the American War of Independence battle the rebels were outnumbered and had this hold act at Concord as the British lit up to search for rebels supplies however more and more Patriot rebels kept showing up and this time it was the British who outnumbered as more fighting kicked off in Concord the most professional army in the world was forced to flee back to Boston at the hands of local torn between militiamen and all along the British move back to Boston hatred rebels continued to gather an open fire on the retreating British when the British reached Boston the rebel militias surrounded them Boston and the British were now under siege as small landed naval skirmishes continued around the city and the British would suffer another embarrassing blow this time in upstate New York Colonel Benedict Arnold concocted a plan to take the British stronghold Fort Ticonderoga which held a large amount of guns and ammunition he set off towards the fort alone hoping to recruit men along the way when he came across the Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen who as it turned out had the exact same plan he did so they decided to work together but I'm in charge no I'm in charge no I'm in charge no I'm in charge no I know I'm in charge this went on for sunrise so the Green Mountain Boys threatened to go home through an Arnold has to concede the group rated the fort at night while the Redcoats were asleep and they caught them completely by surprise taking the fort and all of its munitions with almost no resistance wow great job Ethan very impressive by the way what happened to that other guy we sent to take the fort who Benedict Arnold never heard of him Howie what the but nobody knew what was going on the colonies were an open rebellion and for now they even seemed to be winning so King George fired general gage replaced him with General William Howe and ordered the rebellion to be put down immediately okay the British are definitely going to retaliate for all of this so we should probably put together a proper army first we need to pick a commander-in-chief and I think we can all agree that that job should go to the Manning the myth anyone will experience George Washington my friends I am humbled and honored that you would consider me for such an important role I did not expect for this all right you've been showing up in a military uniform every day for the last ten months we all know you wanted this so cut the crap George dude uncool so Washington ganas journey up to Boston to take command of the newly established Continental Army just as the British made their first major attempt to break the siege they made plans to take the high ground on Bunker Hill but spies warned the Continentals of the British plans so they fortified bunker hill and set up defensive positions on nearby breeds Hill the day of the battle came and as the British advanced a barrage of continental gunfire was opened up on them twice they tried to climb the hill twice they were pushed back the battle lasted three hours until the Continentals finally ran out of ammunition and had to retreat allowing the British to take the hill while technically a British victory they suffered nearly 1,000 casualties to the continent is 400 the colonists show the British that this wasn't just a rebellion it was war and they were ready for it but one thing they weren't sure about was why they were fighting well some radicals were starting to throw around the i-word most hope to eventually repair their relationship with Great Britain so they sent a letter to King George sangs and a payment looks like things aren't going your way remove the taxes and let's be friends I'm gonna kick your ass send that to the colonies your majesty your handwriting is terrible are you sure just do it what does it say there's a gun at all a branch lick my grouse so for the remainder of the year small engagements continue to occur around the colonies the British burned down the towns of Falmouth Massachusetts and Norfolk Virginia as revenge for earlier anti British incidents these actions played right into the hands of Patriot propaganda overseas the British were seen as brutes and the French and Spanish would soon begin sending supplies to the rebel cause during this time there was also minor fighting going on between patriot and loyalist militias very important to not gloss over the support that the Americans are starting to get right especially from countries that had been at war recently with with England you got the Spanish of course by far the French right the French had lost the Seven Years War and I'm sure anything they could do to stick it to their old enemy would be very very beneficial so you're to start to see this start to see you know the the some of these foreign countries help the Americans not even necessarily just to help the Americans and some whatever motive but you know they're going after a former enemy so anytime you can you know help there I guess that's that's good at this time so you see that going on and that's course with the royal family what you see with the French and I'm sure they'll get to it is the public right is like why are we giving this stuff to this conflict overseas that we have nothing to do with and we have all of our own issues right foreshadow the French Revolution of course we'll see if they get to that but that is gonna have an indirect effect on the conditions for the French Revolution later on in the southern colonies Benedict Arnold was still on a mission to win some personal glory for himself so he headed up an attempt to invade Canada in a two-pronged attack the Continentals managed to capture some British ports and the city of Montreal but a harsh snowstorm with some smallpox on the side seldom defeated and pushed back at Quebec City and they were forced to retreat all the way to Fort Ticonderoga speaking of which remember all those guns and ammunition well this guy's got a plan for what to do with them he uses oxen to drag a hundred and twenty thousand pounds of artillery for two months through the harsh winter three hundred miles all the way to Washington and his Continental Army surrounding Boston boom Washington's got himself some big guns which is fortunate because up until now his army had been suffering through the cold winter not knowing when the seed would end now they could make him move Washington wanted to launch a full assault on the city but his junior officers felt the British were too fortified and to his credit Washington was great at hearing and taking on board the ideas of others instead the Continentals worked through the night setting the guns up on Dorchester Heights overlooking the city and when Don Brooke and the British saw the guns they knew they were toast their positions were completely exposed it was checkmate they had no choice but to abandon the city a hundred and twenty ships carried 9,000 redcoats and 2,000 lists away to an unknown fate and Washington had his first victory of the war Washington then moved his army to New York knowing that when the British returned they would probably land there in the meantime a friendly looking old man but the name of Thomas Paine had written and published a pamphlet called common sense in which he advocated for total independence from Great Britain it spread across the colonies like wildfire in to this day you're getting because he's British Thomas Paine you're getting like support from some of the British right civilians for this a lot of them see that this is just like a lost cause right that these people the Americans want to be independent you know let them go so when you start hearing that perspective from overseas that's going to fuel you'll feel you fuel you even more since was a best-seller but basically I supporting the Americans in their independence movement so you could see support is definitely getting towards the American and probably a door towards the Americans and Primus importantly slowly public support back in Britain is slowly gonna start to decrease and one thing we know about history is it is very difficult if not almost impossible to win a war without public support they remains the best-selling title in America it was read aloud in taverns and meeting halls and brought the idea of independence into the mainstream Congress began to seriously consider the idea to be homeless Jefferson was selected to write up an official declaration of independence and he went hard writing that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness of course Jefferson had over a hundred slaves but we don't have to talk about that on the 2nd of July Congress voted unanimously in favor of Independence and John Adams declared that the 2nd of July would go down as the most remembered day in American history then a couple days later Independence actually came into effect the United States of America was born there was no turning back now the Americans tore down a statue of King George in New York and melted him down into 42,000 musket balls to the British it was treason and if the king had his way Washington and all of Congress would be hung speaking of the British guess who's back the king sent an intimidating force of 130 warships and 25,000 men huge or not Washington knew that taking on the most powerful military in the world wouldn't be easy the British set up camp on Staten Island as the Americans dug into the various bases around Brooklyn Heights waiting for an attack to come but the British just waited wearing down their opponents nerve while building their own strength at one point they launched a big scary artillery brush and then said you know if I was you right now I'd probably sue for peace but Washington told him to shove it the Americans kept holding out for what was coming and when they finally hit they hit hard 15,000 British troops approached the American position and the two sides fired on each other in massive rows but what the Americans didn't realize was they were only fighting a decoy the main British force was going around to flank the Americans from behind and when they arrived they inflicted heavy casualties the Americans panicked and retreated back to Brooklyn Heights where they then found themselves trapped between the British Army and the river it looked as though the war was already lost but luckily instead of attacking the British decided to dig in for a siege and then a thick fog set in allowing Washington's arm to escape across the river unimpeded the British continued to chase and engage the Americans off Manhattan and the Americans suffered defeat after defeat after defeat it was a disaster Washington's leadership was called into question as thousands of American POWs were left to rot as traitors Washington's army fled through New Jersey all the way there initially rarely had an army being so badly beaten yet survived to fight another day [Music] okay great another video you can see in these early years the Americans were not doing well in the war was not going very well very few victories at this time but there's a topic that I've talked about in my classes before something to think about with this and it's it's kind of this question about strategies and asking the students who benefits more from this war going on longer and gotten pinions on both sides some say the British just for the fact that they can have more resources and that sort of thing to outlast them and some say the Americans because one thing that was already being shown is that maybe the longer this goes on the more it helps Americans as far as making this war less and less popular but the longer this war goes on more British people will lose faith in this Ward start to see maybe the American perspective but you could probably make a case on both sides but usually what I've heard is you know the longer this goes on maybe that helps the Americans in a way so that's hard to say though are hard to think about at this moment because things are not going very well for the Americans here are gonna have to find some other ways and one of the things you're gonna see I'm sure in part two is more reliance or more more help from the French is gonna be really really important here especially when it comes to the Navy because America basically doesn't have a militarized Navy and the British have the best in the world by far but they have a again a professional large professional army where the Americans don't really have such a thing I mean Washington is trying to kind of put one together remember these are ordinary people they're not professionally trained soldiers so it's really not surprising the fact that the Americans are losing these battles early on here but of course they're getting more experience and things like that but again the longer the war goes on possibly the worst this becomes as a PR kind of thing for the British so we'll see that all right we'll definitely do a part two or watch the part 2 episode if you liked this make sure to like it subscribe for more more videos again be sure to visit the original video and I'll make sure to leave a link there so you can give them your likes and subscriptions if you have not done so to make sure these 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Length: 27min 5sec (1625 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2019