Just wanted to say that Khan Academy is such an admiral institution. Your videos are so informative and well done. Hopefully people(especially kids) will take advantage of such a wonderful tool. Keep on making these videos!
What's interesting about watching vids like this one is that when I was in HS, I hated history. In fact, I flunked it badly. But now, I'm all curious about it, partially because I got really good at genealogy. I want to know what was going on when my ancestors were trying to make a go of things in new territories. The more I discover about my roots, the more I find that direct ancestors of mine were involved in Great Things. Civil War? Members of my ancestral line saw the conflict break the back of family in that there were members on both sides of the war, blue and grey. Two were even murdered for their beliefs and men hung for the crime. War of 1812? Three ancestral brothers were in on that deal,, and two of them were survivors of the awful Battle of Dudley's Defeat in northern Ohio. Many vivid accounts of that conflict exist to fill in the grisly details. Mexican American War? Yep. At least one, who made it as far as the Colorado River. Oh, and Henry Clay? Isn't he related to Green Clay who was involved with Dudley's Defeat? My ancestor had a commander named Clay, I remember that much. As regards slavery, my ancestors did own them, as far as I can tell. I also know that when freedom came, the slaves were required to take last names. Many chose to use the names of the families they felt close to, or whom had treated them kindly. I like to believe this is the reason that families of former slave ancestry have appeared with the last name I share with them. If that is so, I am pleased and proud they are numbered in my tree today. The ill-fated battle of St. Clair, the Revolutionary War, Loudoun County Virginia, the formation of Kentucky and Indiana, the infamous Botany Bay expeditions (second wave, and the Martyred Three), the early history of Maryland and it's Kent County governmental efforts, all had members of my family present. As I discovered each of these things, the one thing I kept wondering time and again was, what was the "world" like for them? Getting up each morning, trying to keep a farm, raise children, survive, while all the upheaval, territorial changes, calls to military action, fevered disagreements, and so forth ebbed and flowed all around them. Above it all, how awful it must have been to be the ones to bear the brunt of Native American anger at betrayal of treaties? To also know that war, with all the bloodshed, terror, fear, and rhetoric were taking place so very close to home and hearth! Just reading old military records from that time is sobering, given what the soldiers had to endure while leaving their families to kill other people, with no training, or experience to draw from. It makes me appreciate where we are now. and the many ways we've matured as nation, both with respect to human rights and medical science. (Don't get me going about how far we've come in THAT regard!!) So here we sit, banging out our thoughts on the Internet, while looking back at what has gone before. My first ancestor came to the US in 1725 to look into running a tobacco plantation. That takes me from 1725, to 1825, to 1925, and soon to 2025, just ten years from now. In just 300 short years. It's a small cup to carry so much spirit in, I have to say. All this, and when I was in HS, I couldn't find one bit of information regarding my family origins. As far as I could tell, we just appeared in the US out of nowhere. A perception that I know now is false. It's the Internet that's made all the difference, that and videos like this one. Thanks for that.
Mexico abolished slavery well before the US, so by the time Texas was taken from Mexico, it was a slave-free territory. Then American settlers and farmers eventually returned slavery to Texas.
You comprimise with evil, you get *everybody* really angry at you; you effectively set yourself in the middle in a game of "both sides against the middle"; it is not a smart thing to do, ever., aside from if you want to be a peacemaker, but if you do that: don't make any deals with evil.
About where slavery would likely exist: if I were a plantation owner, I'd see almost no reason to go to any area I can't get a large fertile farm; otherwise I'd be forced to turn to industry by and large, that's why the Appliatian mountains was an area that had considerably more support for the Union in the Civil War: the locals by and large saw no reason to side with the big plantation owners in that area, even in the deep south... they appear to have kind of resented them in fact.
Slave-owners weren't logical at all, not only was their system of labor approximately 1/6 as effective, even cost effective total; they also thought that breaking their "human farm/labor equipment" as they saw their unpaid servants would *increase* the quality and rate of the work?! Come on! Not you, Mr. Khan, but these fools who thought they had any right to own other human beings to begin with; especially as their sources, including the bible, expressly condemned such behavior with the passages about stealing and the "wages withheld from the workers" parts to begin with.
Some historical context missing... specifically the Kansas - Nebraska Act-- importance of Dred Scott decision... the Constitutional argument on slavery as a 5th Amendment right for the owners of slaves.. the content person was more or less "winging" it without organizing the presentation of the facts-- you should revise this and do it again... California not even covered in the discussion of 1850 Compromise!
is it true, that Texas Revolution happen because of slavery? because Texans were afraid that Mexico would outlaw slavery. which it had since independence but, keep it legal in their territory, (which Texas was a mexican territory at time and not a state. )
It *was* done almost all throughout human existence, Mr. Khan, no doubt even in prehistoric times, for that's approximately 99% of the time the human species has been in existence at least! And historical records also confirm that the Amerindians regularly did that to their captives as well at that.
In addition, the fugitive slave act was unconstitutional, and thus not binding on anyone, due to it requiring people to violate their religions' requirements and regulations. It therefore violated the first amendment completely and thus it was a crime for the government to produce it, so thus the federal government became a criminal when it wrote that as a direct result- and thus would *have* to go to prison, for the remainder of the time of the existence of the federal government as a body, heedless of who it consists of; or simply executed for violating the Constitution to begin with.
Southern territory, but not very fertile at all, no planter would have any sense to move out there unless he wants to go comparitively bankrupt reasonably quickly. Nevada is a desert; effectively worthless for growing crops on large-scale; you'd want an area in the Great Plains with good water quantity and drainage to grow your trade-goods, somewhere like Kansas or Nebraska, or Arkansas, not at all Nevada. Good for potential gold mining, but effectively worthless for cotton growing, and rice would do even worse in that climate. I've been there, I should know it is not the type of landscape you'd want to have a large plantation for growing cash crops.
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Just wanted to say that Khan Academy is such an admiral institution. Your videos are so informative and well done. Hopefully people(especially kids) will take advantage of such a wonderful tool. Keep on making these videos!
What's interesting about watching vids like this one is that when I was in HS, I hated history. In fact, I flunked it badly. But now, I'm all curious about it, partially because I got really good at genealogy. I want to know what was going on when my ancestors were trying to make a go of things in new territories. The more I discover about my roots, the more I find that direct ancestors of mine were involved in Great Things. Civil War? Members of my ancestral line saw the conflict break the back of family in that there were members on both sides of the war, blue and grey. Two were even murdered for their beliefs and men hung for the crime. War of 1812? Three ancestral brothers were in on that deal,, and two of them were survivors of the awful Battle of Dudley's Defeat in northern Ohio. Many vivid accounts of that conflict exist to fill in the grisly details. Mexican American War? Yep. At least one, who made it as far as the Colorado River.
Oh, and Henry Clay? Isn't he related to Green Clay who was involved with Dudley's Defeat? My ancestor had a commander named Clay, I remember that much.
As regards slavery, my ancestors did own them, as far as I can tell. I also know that when freedom came, the slaves were required to take last names. Many chose to use the names of the families they felt close to, or whom had treated them kindly. I like to believe this is the reason that families of former slave ancestry have appeared with the last name I share with them. If that is so, I am pleased and proud they are numbered in my tree today.
The ill-fated battle of St. Clair, the Revolutionary War, Loudoun County Virginia, the formation of Kentucky and Indiana, the infamous Botany Bay expeditions (second wave, and the Martyred Three), the early history of Maryland and it's Kent County governmental efforts, all had members of my family present.
As I discovered each of these things, the one thing I kept wondering time and again was, what was the "world" like for them? Getting up each morning, trying to keep a farm, raise children, survive, while all the upheaval, territorial changes, calls to military action, fevered disagreements, and so forth ebbed and flowed all around them.
Above it all, how awful it must have been to be the ones to bear the brunt of Native American anger at betrayal of treaties? To also know that war, with all the bloodshed, terror, fear, and rhetoric were taking place so very close to home and hearth! Just reading old military records from that time is sobering, given what the soldiers had to endure while leaving their families to kill other people, with no training, or experience to draw from.
It makes me appreciate where we are now. and the many ways we've matured as nation, both with respect to human rights and medical science. (Don't get me going about how far we've come in THAT regard!!)
So here we sit, banging out our thoughts on the Internet, while looking back at what has gone before. My first ancestor came to the US in 1725 to look into running a tobacco plantation. That takes me from 1725, to 1825, to 1925, and soon to 2025, just ten years from now. In just 300 short years. It's a small cup to carry so much spirit in, I have to say.
All this, and when I was in HS, I couldn't find one bit of information regarding my family origins. As far as I could tell, we just appeared in the US out of nowhere. A perception that I know now is false. It's the Internet that's made all the difference, that and videos like this one.
Thanks for that.
Can you explain the war of 1812 someday please and ty
Great video history is awesome 👏
Mexico abolished slavery well before the US, so by the time Texas was taken from Mexico, it was a slave-free territory. Then American settlers and farmers eventually returned slavery to Texas.
You comprimise with evil, you get *everybody* really angry at you; you effectively set yourself in the middle in a game of "both sides against the middle"; it is not a smart thing to do, ever., aside from if you want to be a peacemaker, but if you do that: don't make any deals with evil.
About where slavery would likely exist: if I were a plantation owner, I'd see almost no reason to go to any area I can't get a large fertile farm; otherwise I'd be forced to turn to industry by and large, that's why the Appliatian mountains was an area that had considerably more support for the Union in the Civil War: the locals by and large saw no reason to side with the big plantation owners in that area, even in the deep south... they appear to have kind of resented them in fact.
Slave-owners weren't logical at all, not only was their system of labor approximately 1/6 as effective, even cost effective total; they also thought that breaking their "human farm/labor equipment" as they saw their unpaid servants would *increase* the quality and rate of the work?! Come on! Not you, Mr. Khan, but these fools who thought they had any right to own other human beings to begin with; especially as their sources, including the bible, expressly condemned such behavior with the passages about stealing and the "wages withheld from the workers" parts to begin with.
Some historical context missing... specifically the Kansas - Nebraska Act-- importance of Dred Scott decision... the Constitutional argument on slavery as a 5th Amendment right for the owners of slaves.. the content person was more or less "winging" it without organizing the presentation of the facts-- you should revise this and do it again... California not even covered in the discussion of 1850 Compromise!
is it true, that Texas Revolution happen because of slavery? because Texans were afraid that Mexico would outlaw slavery. which it had since independence but, keep it legal in their territory, (which Texas was a mexican territory at time and not a state. )
It *was* done almost all throughout human existence, Mr. Khan, no doubt even in prehistoric times, for that's approximately 99% of the time the human species has been in existence at least! And historical records also confirm that the Amerindians regularly did that to their captives as well at that.
In addition, the fugitive slave act was unconstitutional, and thus not binding on anyone, due to it requiring people to violate their religions' requirements and regulations. It therefore violated the first amendment completely and thus it was a crime for the government to produce it, so thus the federal government became a criminal when it wrote that as a direct result- and thus would *have* to go to prison, for the remainder of the time of the existence of the federal government as a body, heedless of who it consists of; or simply executed for violating the Constitution to begin with.
Southern territory, but not very fertile at all, no planter would have any sense to move out there unless he wants to go comparitively bankrupt reasonably quickly. Nevada is a desert; effectively worthless for growing crops on large-scale; you'd want an area in the Great Plains with good water quantity and drainage to grow your trade-goods, somewhere like Kansas or Nebraska, or Arkansas, not at all Nevada. Good for potential gold mining, but effectively worthless for cotton growing, and rice would do even worse in that climate.
I've been there, I should know it is not the type of landscape you'd want to have a large plantation for growing cash crops.