The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1)Reaction

hey man you're hella ugly brought beard or something to hide that face good idea is that how you do it yeah hey guys i'm adam i'm ryan and this is two neighbors ryan what do we got going for these lovely people today all right guys very excited we are back with another oversimplified this one the american civil war so we've done world war one we've done world war ii now we're going back in time to american civil war and i'm excited because i'd say like i i know a little bit about world war one i know like i guess a fair amount about world war ii civil war not so much so very excited to check it out and uh anything to add no let's hit it rock and roll okay mrs lincoln this is it one last push and we're done he can't put the hat on nine months and four days ago my father brought forth upon my mother himself and gave to her a child conceived in a shack in kentucky and dedicated to the proposition that i would drink num nums from a bottle and do little poo poos in my pants for the next two to three years now what is it babies do again oh yeah [Applause] i am not touching that [Music] interesting opening abraham lincoln grew up with his relatively poor family in kentucky eventually moving to indiana and finally illinois he read a lot of changes into history wrote some questions despite being self-taught he turned out to be a pretty clever and astute lawyer in one case a guy claimed he witnessed a murder at night and lincoln was like how could you have seen anything in the dark there was a bright full moon a what a bright full moon can you say that again please there was a bright full moon a dim half moon no a bright full moon that's funny because according to this almanac there was a dim half moon that night which makes you a liar you almond well i got a bright full moon for you all right here now that's what i call a rebuttal lincoln and his cheekbones weren't he also dabbled in the world of politics serving as a legislator in both local and national assemblies and what a time it was not even a hundred years after the founding fathers wrote all men are created equal politicians were already asking yeah but what does that mean exactly it means all men yeah but what does that mean exactly and not just that states rights versus the federal government what are the executive powers of the president is cereal a suit the founding follies left some of these questions perhaps a little too open to interpretation and the biggest question of them all was slavery an ugly mark on what should have been a revolutionary new nation based on liberty and democracy thomas jefferson had written a condemnation of slavery in the declaration of independence but out of fear of losing southern state support it was removed hey guys do you think leaving this a little vague will create any unforeseen problems in the future cannonball and those unforeseen problems were now beginning to rear their ugly heads as the nation developed the north and the south developed along two very different ones greatly two very different cultural economies emerged northern cities began rapidly industrializing while the southern climate allowed for large plantations of labor-intensive crops as a result one half of the country didn't rely on slaves while the other half had become economically dependent on them in 1793 eli whitney's cotton gym caused the slave trade in the south to explode while in the north a growing abolitionist movement was taking root a general mistrust began to develop between the north and the south as northerners felt the south were hell-bent on expanding slavery and fear spread throughout the south that the north wanted to take their slaves away in 1819 there were 11 free states and 11 slave states a perfect balance a happy medium a harmonious relationship hey guys nice to meet you i'm missouri and i would like to become the 23rd state hey buddy welcome to the nation we'll be happy to accept you as a free state oh no you don't you're trying to get one over on us missouri's going to be a slave state okay listen why don't we just ask missouri what it wants to be and we say allow me to introduce to you the newest freshest state on the scene maine hey you can't do that and you can't have any more slaves about this line what the issue of slavery is sold and it will never come up again a few years later it came up again as america expanded westward each new state or territory that was added threatened to offend the delicate balance between the slave and free states if one faction managed to outnumber the other it could gain an easy majority and force its own ideals on the opposing side leaving a huge portion of the population feeling spiteful and oppressed for a while compromises kicked the can down the road and kept the volatile balance in check as slave states were roughly added in pairs but then one lab mass state just had to barge in and ruin everything as usual the edition of texas saw the united states enter into a war with mexico which they want gaining a huge amount of land out west and creating even more problems hey guys nice to meet you i'm california and i would like to become the 31st state hey buddy welcome to the nation we'll be happy to accept you as a southern slave state oh no you don't you're trying to get one over on us california is going to be a free state okay listen why don't we just ask california what it wants to be and we can free state well then uh allow me to introduce to you the territories of new mexico and utah able to freely vote for slavery themselves hey you can't do that and we can enter northern territory anytime we want to recapture escaped slaves what the issue of slavery is solved and it will never come up again a few years later it came up again in 1854 a democratic senator from illinois wanted to build a really cool choo-choo train here and propose that the territories of kansas and nebraska be created open to slavery even though they were clearly above the missouri compromise line obviously the northern states were like hell no but the southern democrats who controlled congress at the time were like well if you love liberty and democracy so much then you should let them vote on whether slavery should be legal or not and so it was huge numbers of pro and anti-slavery settlers rushed to kansas to sway the vote in their favor and while they were all there they began to beat the crap out of each other one of those settlers was a man named john brown a former businessman who failed at just about everything he tried and went arguably insane he was a radical abolitionist and dedicated much of his life to the underground railroad and free crazy eyes one night in revenge for an earlier rape by pro-slavery forces he and his sons killed a number of pro-slavery settlers in the territory helping to kick-start years of violence known as bleeding kansas kansas and nebraska both eventually voted in favor of outlawing slavery but from here the tension began to grow at a rapid pace in 1852 author harriet beecher stowe and uncle tom's cabin a best-selling novel that exposed the terrible cruelty of slavery to the world oh how awful how morally corrupt a nation must be to allow such things to happen your majesty what should we do about all the starving children nothing in 1854 the republican party was formed southern democrats viewed the new republican party with mistrust believing it to be radical and abolitionist if slavery was a woman she'd be an ugly one and the senator from south carolina would like to boinker representative brooks do you have a rebuttal oh i have a rebuttal all right yeah here's a rebuttal for you oh come on surely this isn't allowed i don't know i'll have to consult the rulebook i can't find anything about gaining a political opponent but it says here i'm not allowed to wear a woman's underwear news of the violence on the senate floor took the nation by storm southern slavery one and on the floors of congress politicians carried weapons in self-defense which is never a good sign in 1857 the supreme court ruled in the dred scott case that all people of african descent slave or free could not be citizens and therefore could not sue for their own freedom under any circumstances undoing years of progress with the strike of a gavel now within all this bitter debate over slavery there were many nuances north versus south republican versus democrat states versus the federal government but let's strip all of that away for four million individuals living in america this wasn't about political intrigue or party alignment it was about the basic human right to be free men women and children were stolen from their homelands and brought to the american continent where for generations they were considered to be property forced to live in poverty and work from sunrise to sunset plantation overseers did whatever they felt was necessary to get the most out of their slaves punishments were often barbaric families were regularly separated and parents could often only watch as their children were auctioned off never to be seen again thousands of slaves took the treacherous risk of running away and abolitionists in the north helped many escape by the underground railroad as bounty hunters entered the north to chase them down leading figures within the abolitionist movement included many significant free black men and women but it's important to note that for many of the anti-slavery white individuals in the north opposition to slavery was often an economic issue not a moral one as many worried large plantations would take their lands and livelihoods away abraham lincoln knew that slavery was a moral evil and he regularly spoke out against it in powerful speeches that helped him rise through the ranks of the new republican party he lamented at the hypocrisy of a great american nation meant to stand as a shining beacon of freedom while also enslaving 4 million men women and children he most famously declared in 1858 that a house divided against itself cannot stand that one day slavery in america would end however even lincoln was cautious in his opposition he didn't want to outlaw it entirely but simply prevent its expansion so that given enough time he believed it would naturally die out thankfully history would force his hand in october 1859 one abolitionist decided he tried to single-handedly take down slavery by force who would be crazy enough to even attempt such a thing good friend john brown he planned to seize arms from an army in the town of harper's ferry free the slaves there and continue south inciting a major slave uprising along the way and noble cause a bad plan and terrible execution brown's men took the armory and some hostages but were quickly surrounded by one robert e lee and his u.s marine brown was captured and a couple of months later he was executed for treason northerners sympathized with brown but southerners were like you see this they're coming for us soon there will be a million john browns a million john browns on brown farm yeah me too to make matters worse new northern free states meant now the southern states really were outnumbered and they were beginning to feel bitterly spiteful and oppressed further fear began to spread in the south when news broke that a relatively unknown thank you to the republican party nomination for president abraham lincoln mostly well-liked among anti-slavery northerners had made some of the most powerfully worded speeches against slavery of any politicians in the 1860 election lincoln's name didn't even appear on the ballot in 10 southern states but much to their horror when the final results came in lincoln had won by an electoral college landslide lincoln himself tried to calm their fear how many times do i have to tell you i'm not gonna take away your slaves yeah right honest abe we've had enough of you northerners we're gonna go form our own country you can't do that why not well if if you had won the election would it be okay for us to leave of course not well why not because that's not how victim mentality works join the union they always withheld the right to leave it whenever they pleased many people living in 19th century america often felt more loyalty to their state than to the nation and now with the south feeling like it had lost its voice in the federal government they were out of here south carolina was the first to go and over a period of six months one by one eleven slave states officially seceded from the union with just four contested border states opting to remain the seceding states issued a number of official documents justifying their secession northern states hostility to slavery that rendered the federal government illegitimate mississippi declared that their position was thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery and in a speech the confederate vice president stated that the new confederate government rested upon what he called the great truth of racial inequality revered american generals such as robert e lee opted to side with their states over the union and with all the chaos one new york lawyer wrote that rather than a bold eagle america's national bird should be a debilitated chicken and hey i kind of like that one man watching the crisis unfold knew it would be his job to solve it lincoln was just about to hop on the train and become the president of the united states of america hey man you're hella ugly draw a beard or something to hide that face good idea is that how you do it lincoln had to travel to washington dc under heavy disguise and protection all along the way he received stacks of threatening letters may the hand of the devil strike you down you are destroying this country damn you every breath you take love from grandma that is an inauguration speech that's going to take my emails from now i do not want to take away anyone's slaves but for lincoln he did want to preserve the union he declared secession to be nothing but an illegitimate rebellion in your hands and not in mine he said is the momentous issue of civil war you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors we are not enemies but friends it was clear lincoln was ready and willing to get freaky and open up account of scat man john if he had to whether he had the support of the people however was in question in the end it was the confederates that fired the first shot as they seceded the confederate states began seizing federal u.s property throughout the south off the coast of charleston south carolina was one such federal property fort sumter held by a measly under-supplied u.s force the confederate militia there demanded the fort surrender a request which was quickly denied and any remaining hope for a peaceful solution to the secession crisis probably then died when the confederates did this the battle of fort sumter is considered to be the beginning of the american civil war many of the confederates there also considered it to be the end of the american civil war old ape would just sigh and say okay you win unfortunately for them lincoln actually said you're about to get a roundhouse to the face lincoln sent out five thousand [Laughter] hopeful for some adventure and good old-fashioned f-u-n in the new confederate capital of richmond virginia confederate president jefferson davis and his cheekbones had also sent that people for a hundred is it over yet no jimmy it's been one week is it over now no how about now if you ask that one more time i swear i will turn this army around and you'll all have to go back home to your wives and children but in particular the south knew the conflict would pose a bit of a challenge how can we expect to win with a population of only 5 million against 22 million in the north if you count us four million slates you'd have nine million great idea and these rifles i told them [Laughter] the problem for lincoln was that many of his top generals were getting old and were being a bit too cautious the commanding general was a man named winfield scott a veteran of the mexican-american war and by now he was too fat to even mount a horse okay we need to come up with a plan hit me we could wait for the confederates to come and apologize maybe we should all sit in a circle and discuss our feelings crossing the delaware into new jersey worked for me those are all terrible ideas and you wrong video in the history of this nation yeah we'll see about that dingus eventually lincoln's generals came up with a multi-pronged strategy first a blockade would cut off and starve the south of supplies by sea secondly taking control of the great mississippi river would sever the south's economic artery while splitting it in two and finally a main union force in the east would move south and take the confederate capital ending the war skirmishes began to break out across the nation and the union army in the east began to move south towards richmond everything seemed to be going well until they reached manassas where they came upon a large confederate force it's almost like they were waiting for us how did they know as it turned out spies in dc had sent a coded message to the confederates warning of the invasion two sides encountered each other at manassas and both geared up for the first major battle of the civil war the first battle of bull run the confederates rapidly brought in support by a rail and the two sides were about equal in numbers however they were also equally inexperienced a large number of civilians also rode out by carriage from dc to picnic on the nearby hills and watch the excitement unfold nobody seemed to quite understand how destructive this war was going to be the union forces pulled up flanking maneuver to hit the confederates on their left and the two sides fired on each other in rows farm families living in the area were forced to flee the fighting including a man named bloomberg mclean hurry up martha there's a war out here the more you tell me to hurry up the slower i will go the union force saw initial success back to henry hill but one as of yet fairly unknown general thomas jackson had arrived and he took a defensive position standing firm like a stone wall holding the union army off and finally sending them running back to washington dc with heavy casualties the sobering reality of war hit both sides hard and the north having just lost the first major battle had to face the serious prospect that they may not actually win this war president lincoln general jackson whipped us so hard the confederates are calling him stonewall jackson wait that's why they're calling him that not because he looks like he ran face first into a stone wall the north had also lost the first major battle out west giving away control of southwest missouri all of this was terrible news for abraham lincoln especially since many of his generals and cabinet already didn't have much respect for him they felt he was incapable of running a war because he seemed a bit like your friendly old grandpa he famously loved a long-winded story and a good pun i've been so busy my wife is missing me but her aim is starting to improve but deep down do you realize he could also be incredibly shrewd oh wait you're so funny funny how laughs i was just not funny how his administration suppressed the free media from printing articles sympathetic towards the south some southern sympathizers were even arrested without a trial lincoln's criticizers began accusing him of being a tyrant but to quote the man himself hey it's war baby what are you gonna do by the end of 1861 with things already looking bad for the north abolitionists such as frederick douglass couldn't believe that the union army weren't enlisting black men he continued to put pressure on lincoln to make the war about emancipation mr president it's time to make the war about emancipation i don't want to ruffle any feathers the feathers are already ruffled but lincoln hanging on to hope for a quick end to the conflict continued to fight only for the preservation of the union it was decided however that escaped slaves from the confederacy could be held as enemy contraband and many of these men were put to work bolstering the union's infrastructure and supply lines hoping to get things moving lincoln made young general george mcclellan the new commanding general and mcclellan began to train up his men he thought a lot of himself however and believed he was going to be the nation's great savior and like many others he didn't approve of the president's handling of the war on one occasion lincoln went to mcclellan's house to meet with him but mcclellan was late returning home he kept the president waiting and when he finally got there he just straight up went to bed now that's what i call disrespectful mcclellan talked to talk but could he walk the walk no like lincoln's other generals mcclellan was maddeningly cautious hey man could you move south and attack the enemy what are you crazy what if they have a big scary army down there they probably do what oh my gosh mcclellan worried that he did not have the numbers he needed to fight effectively what if they have like ten thousand men okay no problem we'll get you 20 000 men well what if they have 30 000 i'll need 40. okay you can have 40. well what if they have 50 i'll need 60. lincoln tried but it was all in vain mcclellan would not make a move for the rest of the year the north's one saving grace for now was a general outwest fighting in kentucky and tennessee general ulysses s grant cool collected methodical and a big fan of whiskey his chief of staff took it upon himself to keep grant sober one officer said that brent habitually wore an expression as though he were determined to drive his head through a brick wall and was about to do it and that determination led him to score a number of key victories when others around him were failing at the battle of fort donelson grant was like why does stonewall jackson get a cool nickname and i don't i want a cool nickname sir the confederates say they're ready to surrender and want to know your terms no terms just unconditional surrender hey unconditional surrender grant that's a pretty cool nickname right guys right later in april 1862 confederates launched a sudden attack on grant's army at shiloh but the determinate unconditional surrender grant threw his lines of the rebels and sent them running the battle resulted in the heaviest casualties in us history so far and despite his victory grant found himself under fire you have to get rid of grant why didn't he win yes but he just threw his man at the enemy isn't that the point also he's a loony drunk well what does he like to drink i believe whiskey sir then send him more lincoln as his cabinet his generals did nothing but then we're still catching butterflies tragedy struck lincoln's young son willie very much loved by the president died of typhoid fever at the age of 11. he was a sensitive man and was heavily affected by the loss his wife was inconsolable but one of lincoln's greatest traits what made him such a great leader was in the darkest of times with composure and determination he kept moving forward he knew it was his responsibility to hold himself and his family together and by doing so he hoped to hold the nation together and he had had it with mcclellan's inaction lincoln decided he was gonna take control in march 1862 lincoln firmly ordered mcclellan to once again move south towards richmond mcclellan insisted instead they move by seat to the virginia peninsula and attack richmond from the south east yes said lincoln okay anything lincoln held on to some of mcclellan's men to defend dc from a nearby stonewall jackson wreaking havoc in the shenandoah valley and he sent mcclellan south mcclellan landed on the peninsula and he began to move inland he came up against a small confederate army that had dug in at yorktown mcclellan vastly outnumbered the force but it's said that confederate general magruder deceived mcclellan by cleverly maneuvering his smaller force and making mcclellan believe he faced a huge army no you have way more men than them move forward no mcclellan settled in for a month-long siege giving time for johnston to move south from manassas and magruder time to retreat when he finally entered the city and found it deserted he declared it a victory calling his success brilliant some resistance at williamsburg mcclellan moved to within just 20 miles of richmond his army is able to hear the church bells ringing in the enemy capital you still outnumber them go give him hell no mcclellan once again held back moving slowly and defensively and with his army split in two the confederates saw an opportunity to strike back mcclellan's advance was halted and now the confederates pulled an ace out of their sleeve generally you're right do you think we should evacuate richmond no mr president no need general robert e lee one of the most brilliant military commanders of the time was now in charge one of his biggest strengths was his ability to read the mind of his enemy and he knew mcclellan was cautious and weak after moving stonewall jackson south to join him and even though he had a smaller army lee hit mcclellan in a series of fast-paced close combat battles that had mcclellan spooked mcclellan retreated the union army back again and again and again escaping the peninsula and returning to dc lee had defeated mcclellan and the campaign had failed well that was a major success a success tell me exactly what was successful about that well we successfully retreated you lost i didn't lose i merely failed to win things just kept looking worse for the north at least their navy had seen some success capturing a number of key port cities notably when they steamrolled past confederate forts to take new orleans and speaking of the navy both sides had begun using iron clads so that's pretty cool but in the east coast after mcclellan's disastrous campaign lincoln briefly sent that one general john pope to attack northern virginia hey man just checking in how's it going well the confederates kicked my butt at cedar mountain then they raided my account and ran off with my money and closed also i appear to have been wedgied lee defeated pope and yet another battle at bull run in which nearby farm families once again got caught up in the fighting hurry up martha there's another war out here i'm waiting for my hair to dry willmar mclean sick of war moved his family south where he knew the war would definitely absolutely never touch him again but lincoln had yet another problem to contend with european powers in particular the uk were looking increasingly like they may intervene diplomatically on the side of the confederates they were missing their precious supply of southern cotton because of the union blockade and they wanted to see a swift conclusion to the war the tension between america and great britain had been increasing especially after confederate diplomats were discovered on a british ship now after mcclellan's failure to take richmond the uk declared it impossible for the north to win lincoln needed something to prevent europe from getting involved and after more petitioning from abolitionists he decided maybe the time was finally right to make the war about ending the institution he hated slavery if the north had a noble cause to fight for europe would be less likely to intervene but lincoln and his cabinet knew before they could declare something as radical as emancipation they needed a victory especially now that the confederates were about to go on the attack aware that he had a limited number of men and supplies lee now hoped that if he could just threaten washington dc militarily he would gain europe's recognition and crush northern morale in time for the midterm elections forcing the north to negotiate with confidence at an all-time high for the first time robert e lee invaded the north but on september 13th the north finally had some luck oh boy it's my lucky day a cigar in a field hey what's this wrapped around oh my god the north had discovered general these battle plans wrapped around some cigars and in them they saw that lee had split up his forces mcclellan headed out from dc and the two sides met in the battle of antietam a crucial battle that would decide the course of the war it saw the most vicious fighting to date and still remains the single bloodiest day in american history but for once the north came out victorious and lee was forced to retreat he's on the run chase him down and finish him off no you know what old buddy old pal you're fired the north had won their crucial victory lincoln breathed a huge sigh of relief and with that win he was prepared to take a huge step on september 22nd the emancipation proclamation was issued in january all slaves held in the confederate states would be as far as the us government was concerned officially free throughout the north free black men and women rejoiced knowing that if the north were to win their brothers and sisters would no longer be held in bondage the proclamation also had the intended effect on europe who were not willing to oppose a pledge to end slavery an outraged confederacy knew that lincoln had given the war a new meaning it was no longer just about the preservation of the union now it was about creating a new union washed clean of its original sin a union without slavery all right well lots to learn there yeah a lot of things i did not know very cool silver really excited for part two now absolutely i i mean lincoln bearded man i totally understand the whole bearded thing like you know you fill in your beard to whatever shape of face you want you know if you guys saw our previous videos i have my beard down to here i can just like nice and tight my if i took my beard off right now you guys would be like what the hell i don't trust people with beards you have a beard a little bit i got a little bit whatever that's not a beard it's like that's just that's laziness is that up here um yeah so very good part one um we are going to do part two tomorrow so uh check us out tomorrow guys and we'll be back posting part two absolutely thank you guys so much for joining us ryan if they have a request what should they do guys put hashtag my request along with the actual link that you want us to watch that way we don't mess it up also guys if you wouldn't mind do us a little favor like share and subscribe guys we really appreciate it that was a long video and we'll have another long video tomorrow so check us out we'll see you next time guys adios [Music] you

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Published: Thu Nov 12 2020