A History Teacher Reacts | "The American Wars Everyone Kinda Forgot About" by Alt History Hub

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Terry's I continue my search for stoical knowledge here on YouTube alright today's video comes to you from our patron pledgers and this week they voted on this video which was American wars we all kinda just forgot this is my alternate history hub so interesting for them because they do what if kind of scenarios and I know if that's going to happen in this but it's kind of interesting thing and I guess it continues on with kind of the American history kick we've been on with the last couple videos so seems kind of fitting there to continue with that alright so we're gonna get started in just a sec if you like this original video make sure you go down below alternate history hub is awesome especially if it into what-if scenarios in history they're one of the kind of the top in the game at that on YouTube so there'll be a link down below that you can go to head over there give them a like give them a view give them a subscription if you have not and that would be awesome you havin sub to 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Memorial Day which isn't simply just an excuse to have a longer weekend it's officially the federal holiday to pay respects to those who died and all the wars the United States has fought in you know World War two Vietnam the Civil War the quasi-war the Cherokee Wars the Boxer Rebellion ah Boxer Rebellion America got involved that's the the war in China where they were trying to this group the boxers righteous harmonious fists is what their name were trying to get rid of foreign influence and the Americans amongst a whole bunch of coalition of foreign nations like now we're not leaving China sorry you guys are too important for us economically and yeah you're gonna do what we say and accept our own unfair treaties and all that stuff so okay huh what Americans think about the wars their own country has fought in they often think of just the big ones chair Cold War one Korean War Iraq war ever since the US was just thirteen little States it's been involved in numerous brief Wars both local and abroad and a surprising number of them have kind of just been forgotten about okay so I want to talk about some of the wars we aren't talking about in history class is this alternate history no no it is not I don't teach us history I did early in my career so bees sing to see if they pull up stuff that wasn't part of the curriculum at all or if it was no no the real video I planned about Canada didn't seem too smart to release on Memorial Day weekend call it bad planning I don't care [Music] pirates okay intervention in North Africa is a touchy subject for Americans today it seems like for the last few decades we've done nothing but focus on North Africa in the Middle East so one was not really not - haven't we had a conflict in the Libya cos elbow 1801 yeah when the US was still a young nation and Thomas Jefferson was its president America fought a four-year-long war against pirates off the coast of North Africa these were called the Barbary Ward I don't know about this awesome and yes there were two of them but okay so Thomas Jefferson was very it was definitely into expanding America's borders he's the one that ends up doing the Louisiana Purchase buying originally what he wanted was was was New Orleans but Napoleon was you know hard up for cash so sold all of Louisiana the middle of middle third of America so he was definitely into expanding American influence that way but I had no idea it got involved with this though this early early 1800s the time Muslim piracy was a major issue the coastline of North Africa was made up of a series of pirate States on what was called the Barbary Coast they included regions like Morocco Ottoman controlled Algiers and even Tripoli the main thing that United them was they really liked to raid incoming ships European I mean met at the Mediterranean it's the 1800s this is Imperial age where you get mmm yeah the Mediterranean for grabs you see and like Napoleonic Wars and things like that especially the British were getting involved in places like Egypt because they would like to use Egypt to be able to connect through the Red Sea to get to India right so the early eighteen hundreds was definitely a time of a lot of naval competition big time and now American ships that would cross into the area would often be attacked had a ransom not be paid its sailors would be sold into slavery this was actually a crisis at the time it became a debate whether or not to pay off the pirates or to fight them Jefferson reasoned that paying off the ransoms only would encourage more piracy when Jefferson became president the pirate states tried to force another ransom but Jefferson didn't comply in response Tripoli declared war on the US oh oh did you know that little Tripoli see how that went down it eventually all the Barbary States began raiding American ships we today debate about how the president can use the military without an official declaration of war well this happens all the time it's happened a bunch of times congressional powers for declaration of war are supposed to go to Congress but it's been multiple times I mean there hasn't been a decorate or the declaration of war ever in American history in a lot of mirror and a lot of American wars that isn't some but yeah you'd often don't get it because they find ways to kind of skirt around it or don't call it a war call it something else and you can have military action technically without congressional approval which has been a big controversy in American history of abusing the rights that Congress is supposed to have for declaring war so let's be one of the biggest ones that Congress is supposed to have and to limit the power of the president the president can't just wage wars in some canonical fashion verse Asian kinda began here Congress concluded that Jefferson had the powers as commander-in-chief to stop the Pirates protect Americans and destroyed Barbary vessels effectively this was the 19th century version of intervening against terrorists without a declaration of war battles were few in the period of four years it was really just a naval blockade of North African cities with the occasional raid there was one time the Americans took the city of Derna raised the Stars and Stripes over foreign land after four years of this war Tripoli surrendered and a peace deal was made between the u.s. and the Barbary Coast piracy remained an issue for decades in the region leading to another barber war in 1815 once European naval technology became far more advanced than the Pirates Muslim piracy died in the region yeah I would think most once industrialization kicks in I mean that you know quality of these naval technologies is crazy so yeah I mean it ends the whole Islamic dominance of the Seas - altogether is it in a document behind the strange tale of when Jefferson sent the Navy to fight against North African pirates for four years [Music] that time America invaded Florida before is a state what Americans learn about the relationship between Amyris panicale dative x' well they don't really learn about it we talk about the Pilgrims and natives then skip over to cowboys and Indians in the West so really most Americans only learn about the beginning and the end true we don't teach about the couple centuries of constant and I do mean constant conflict the United States spread very true gets glossed over there are so many conflicts for so long when you get to western expansion all right after the received I talked about Thomas Jefferson with with the whole I guess manifest destiny thing in general which was America having this they believe right to colonize and civilize all of North America and of course that comes to direct conflict with groups that already lived there like Native Americans have been pushed out further and further west through American expansion and that sort of thing and conflicts were constant you get those pioneers and pilgrims and all times of people that were moving out west and the clashes that they had with locals it's it's it was nasty right so yeah I mean I I like how he basically said that basic of just what gets happened is or what gets taught is they have the beginning of the relationships and natives and then the very unfortunate end and you get usually the sad things that come out of there things like the Trail of Tears or something like that writing across the continent wasn't just people in wagons moving in taking empty and yeah it often involved American soldiers fighting against a guerilla style native resistance Florida once used to be Spanish land and in that Spanish land there was a native population mostly called the Seminole they lived there and formed an active military resistance to the United States after the Seminole massacred nearby American settlers the United States wanted retribution and so the military was called in now to show happen if there was attack on white settlers the retribution was total the problem was Spain actually hadn't given Florida to the United States yet but that didn't matter Andrew Jackson a general at the time gathered a force of 3,000 Americans and 1,400 creeks to um yeah President Jackson has been one of the ones that is pretty notorious for his interactions with natives and conducting like the Trail of Tears which saw thousands of Native Americans forcefully and brutally removed from their homes in the southeastern united states and two territories in the midwest one of the things he's known for the most to break the Seminole resistance yes this meant that the Americans had to invade Florida the invasion mostly consisted of village burnings and leaders being hanged the atrocities were condemned but it's Jackson United care there was a period of peace written McAmis state but the Seminole were still a problem to the US well when Jackson became president they weren't an issue anymore the u.s. created the Indian Removal Act which meant all the natives east of the Mississippi had to get out of there yeah get forced in in brutal condition a lot of them died but seen as one of the kind of the black eyes often of American history of how they were treated even when you looked at soldiers that were assigned to remove these people and escort whatever you want to call it these people out of their lands into places like Oklahoma which gets kind of settled as a Native American territory we're very remorseful and there's like letters instead of journal entries of these American soldiers that were like disgusted with it and there aimed to have been part of it the Seminole understandably didn't like this and the Americans knew it and eventually war did come this war lasted wait six years Wow Wow yeah this conflict against natives lasted longer than the US was in World War two so it's not it means but Florida but yeah it's not it's not it Spain has like it looks like I mean at this time nothing to do with with Florida they really care about it I go we have it I forgot about that it's basically a Native American state with you know the Seminole so that's really who it is less than with Spain the Americans could do little against a group which knew their land Seminoles would routinely kill American settlers and Americans would routinely torch Seminole villages but still even after years the Americans would be stuck in that swamp sometimes were so long they had to resort to eating their horses to be honest this war is so interesting it requires its own video in fact most native wars in the East do but to cut it short eventually after years of whittling down native resistance the US was able to drive the Seminole to a reservation in South Florida I feel the war was just so brutal and in such a regretful time in American history it's mostly just been swept under the rug at least in the states that aren't Florida sure yeah let me make sense that kind of sums up American attention to the history of Native Americans alright when we really needed a wall with Mexico secreted the mexican-american war like 1840s more the gap history sure is great a perspective there was a time that Mexico truly was sending their worst and the border was legitimately so dangerous the United States had to fight a war to keep the violence out this was a conflict that raged from 1910 to 1919 simply known as the border war I mean yeah this is I mean way after the mexican-american war in the 1840s but okay a border war so is that like a war in a traditional sense or more just trying to enforce some kind of policy in the nineteen so we got the 19-teens here this is definitely era of big air of American migration from all around the world because America was becoming an industrial power with immense economic job growth which was a huge poll factor for people from all over the world to come to America from all continents from Asia a lot of people coming from like China and Japan a lot of them go to the west of course though and established themselves into groups that we're doing mining or railroad construction and then huge chunks come of course coming from Europe that went to the East Coast for factory jobs or to the Midwest and agricultural jobs but yeah this is the time of American economic growth is huge because of and uh there's American success of industrial industrialization Mexico pretty much collapsed and was in complete anarchic chaos but yeah I mean American Mexican Revolution to of happening so you could see there's push and pull factors here what's going on in Mexico with their revolutions and and political turmoil it's been going around around the turn of the century there but then the pole factor says push and pull factors not even today's violence could come close to how bad it was this was called the Mexican Revolution which is way too complicated to get into right now long story short imagine a far worse Syrian civil war on America's border it lasted 10 years and 2 million Mexicans died this is something that's it's amazing like in America how little is known about actual Mexican history like really they don't know they heard of Cinco de Mayo which really has almost nothing to do with Mexico and it's not really observed and even in Mexico but things like the Mexican Revolution but they're there their long history with colonialism with with Spain and then with with Spain and then with France and then within themselves of groups that were protesting things like land distribution and militarism and dictatorships the war was just complicated and confusing and the United States hated everybody involved so they decided to just secure the border by anybody shudder Diana Ross in at some points revoluta refugium attack American towns in battles raged to stop the Mexican rebels from seizing it sometimes federal Mexicans try to attack in gangs and Germans like I said it was a confusing time in this time period the United States basically just waited for Mexico to get it together to stop people from attacking inside and the Americans invaded Mexican territory at times too this was a back and forth that continued until the Mexican Revolution ended by 1917 was that the most interesting conflict no but it's a little bit of conflict when we imagine how bad Mexico is today and how bad border violence could be history teaches us that it could always be far worse yeah okay no Korean War choo DMZ Boogaloo together if anyone knows it's the electric Boogaloo great great great movie all right so the DMZ the demilitarized zone so maybe here we're talking the the the Korean War ended with an armistice but never a peace treaty what also getting agreed upon is a militarized zone among the North and South Korean border where nobody was able to cross or of course to militarize and technically speaking if you know there is no there has been no peace treaty with the Korean War so technically the war is still going on there just at an armistice now this demilitarized zone in the areas that are loud is havelet's the most militarized border and the planet there's like million troops stationed over there and you don't really get large-scale attacks really on it but you do see little skirmishes especially with people like defecting and then the whole idea - which is interesting about the the DMZ or just kind of the border there which was trying to show up each other so if you've ever heard of this along some of the closer borders between the two sides what North and South Korea will do is build like try to build like impressive structures on the border to impress other side like you're gonna build a flagpole and then the other side is gonna build it even bigger flagpole then you have this big hotel looking building to make it look like each side is better and it gets interesting it's just like border competition but we'll see what they get here if they're gonna get to militarism militarism for the last few months everyone has feared that we would fight with North Korea for the first time in 70 years but that's not true because we actually fought against North Korea far sooner than that there was a timer in the 1960s that America and South Korea fought against the north for three years there was just a tiny conflict against the north in the 60s that never escalated into anything bigger and when I mean tiny I mean 400 North Koreans died 300 South Koreans and 40 Americans the South tried to infiltrate the North and failed the North tried to assassinate the South Korean leader it was just a strange time the North didn't have nukes and the South was still a backwater America was too busy with Vietnam so after three years of not wanting to escalate the fighting it just stopped it was soon just called the Korean DMZ conflict and everybody just forgot that it ever happened the lesson here is you can always stop the war from escalating if you're already fighting a bigger one so in conclusion Jimmy why did I make this video I don't really know it's Memorial Day it's interesting to remember the less popular Wars out there as well [Music] all right it's not much of a I mean I guess a little skirmish here with the DMZ leader I wasn't sure what what other once the war was over what kind of skirmishes if they're semi large-scale on the DMZ actually happened I'm just sort of little things of you know people trying to defect across the border usually from the north to the south side but never some never really military engagements if there is one fight that people have recently began talking about it's the fight for information privacy and that's why the sword will be answered by Nord VPN yeah that's the best segue I could come up with oh well a VPN is a virtual private network by accessing a private network with military-grade encryption you can protect yourself if recent events have shown anything it's that protecting your privacy and information online is extremely important as a content creator on the Internet it's something that I keep in mind every day basically what Nord VPN 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this into a recent events and so I recommend if you want to stay safe online this is a good option to go this is Cody the mole turning mr. hope okay alright well you know more just like skirmishes and stuff like that I guess really like traditional Wars so then I was wondering if that well you know what they would do if would just be more than like major conflict so just don't get talked about much like the ones I was talking about for like maybe eighteen war of 1812 or mexican-american war or maybe even the spanish-american war things that just get overshadowed by the grandeur of the American Civil War and the world wars in Vietnam and stuff like that but they went for yeah a little more a little more skirmishes those are great I didn't really know much about other a lot of those some of the contacts yeah like the Mexican Revolution or something like that but things like like the one in North Africa with the pirates I hadn't heard of that before that was interesting to think about I didn't know that in that F's in the Jeffersonian era that where that involved in that time because for much of colonial American history America stayed out of especially European conflicts because because we know it as Monroe Doctrine where it's like hey stay out of American business and Europe will stay out of your business you know I mean so you get that going there but no cool good little tidbits of history too to remember there all right well what did you think do you think there are major Wars and and Wars and stuff that don't get talked about enough specifically with American involvement what do you think and get a conversation going down below in the comments if you like this original video make sure that you go down below and down in the description will be a link to it sure to like it give it a view definitely sub to alternate history hub they do awesome work and I've done quite a few reactions to them so if you're into that more than alternate history look to my playlists and 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Channel: Mr. Terry History

Views: 99,485

Keywords: react, history, america, united states

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Length: 25min 43sec (1543 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 11 2020