The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1) - Reaction
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"No Taxation Without Representation" was such a brilliant rallying cry.
Firstly it rhymes, has a poetic rhythm, and is easy to remember.
But each class heard in that what they needed to hear. The poor, who were needed as cannon fodder, heard the "taxation" part.
The wealthy elites, who would have to bankroll and organise all this, heard the "representation" part. They wanted a seat at the table... which they'd use to carve out tax loopholes for themselves and enrich themselves further like the nobility in the motherland had done for centuries.
John Adams' defense of the Boston "Massacre" soldiers is one of my favorite parts of the Revolutionary War narrative. Even those accused of the most heinous crimes are entitled to presumed innocence, effective counsel, and due process in America.
Supposedly
@@BWeb wdym?
Allegedly. Mwahahaha.
Liberty's Kids, a children's historical cartoon, actually had a surprisingly in-depth explanation on the horrors of being tarred and feathered. In particular they visit a victim whose bedridden and in horrible pain after the tar burned his clothes onto his body.😬
It's also free on TH-cam.
I REMEMBER THIS. Every single time I see a reference to tarring and feathering I *immediately* think of that scene.
oh hey I jsut brought that up!
That literally traumatized me as a kid. Good history 👍
It didn't touch on the fact that the poor guy probably died a while later. Tar and Feathering was a very agonizing way to go. Like what Charles said about scalping in RDR2: "I mean you can live a week without a scalp. It's not a good week."
Oh boy, a redux of a Sam Nixon classic! Very nice!
I love this joke
I’m so glad this became a joke
His expert level knowledge of Indian history is what made me subscribe in the first place. Always nice to see Mr. Nixon return to his roots.
Yes! i am so incredibly happy to see him re-reacting on the video which covers the creation of the Mughal Empire,truly fascinating.
(Man,we really need a video on Sam Nixons supposed connection to Richard Nixon on April 1st,this would be phenomenal)
Viva La Texas!
Fun fact, Alexander Hamilton’s Artillery unit, The New York Provincial Company of Artillery, was never disbanded after the revolutionary war. That unit is still serving as an artillery battalion, 1-5 FA IN 1st ID out of Ft Riley Kansas
20:39 “The Ohioans are coming!”
Now officially my new favourite phrase.
I'm a German living in the US for 8 years now, still learning as much about US history as possible, and I really appreciate the additional context you're providing for these kind of videos. Much appreciated.
You're a franconian, thats not even bavarian! 😂😂😂❤
@@pyrdacorsrollenspielarchiv3747 I would never call myself a Bavarian. That would be a massive step down from being Franconian. 😂
I cant describe how happy i am to see a re-reaction of Oversimplified,your reactions to Oversimplified are always a treat.
Even though this might seem a bit weird,this actually makes me feel nostalgic as the Oversimplified reactions are what originally led to me discovering my passion for history,the stories and characters of history and expanding my knowledge in general. I am truly grateful for this channel.
But did it help you get through tough times??
@@jamesmiller5331
It actually did. Discovering this channel and history in general was what helped me cope during a devastating breakup last year
@@jamesmiller5331 The classic "your channel helped me through x" youtube comment
@Ice Gube It's weird to me. Like if you're going through depression you're probably watching TH-cam all day.
So you're going to go tell all of the creators that they helped you?
I'll bet the average TH-camr with traffic gets this once a week or at least once per month. Fishing for a reply/reaction.
To each their own I guess 🤷♂️ but you got *yourself* through tough times. Sack up.
@@boopdino8053 Sorry to hear brother. Hope you're doing better.
As a Brit, it's nice to hear you giving us a shout in this topic properly. Even being British, what we learned about the Revolution was surprisingly pro-American. Obviously we were out of order in places, but we were trying to be more reasonable than I think most people realise
And as an American, I don't think the reasonableness applies. For starters, they're the ones who created the colonies in the first place, and then gave them the autonomy. They didn't have to send troops to defend the colonies, nor did the colonies ask.
And then they want to tax the colonies, but not give representation as well? Talk about having their cake, and eating it too. We were 200% justified in the revolutionary war, and the victory is one of the greatest victories in human history.
And as an American i can say that we were also out of order in places
We definitely have the MURICA Patriot version taught to us in the US. When you get older and dive deeper into the war, it's actually more about slave owning rich white men didn't want to pay their taxes than anything else. Plus without foreign intervention of the French, also glossed over, we lose quickly
@@toreeadams9873 u seem like u wanted Britain to win
@@collinmclaughlin6876 no lol. It's just I never heard Britain's side at all until i did my own research. I do think we had some good reasons for leaving but the propaganda machine was still in full gear 200 years later. For instance, I live in the area where Benedict Arnold was from. Never learned anything about him except being a traitor. Now I know he was screwed over. Not condoning treason but he had his reasons
There’s often an assumption that the Americans knew the ground better because they’re local, but the British were successful at Brandywine because they did know the ground better than the Continentals, and were able to make use of fords over the Brandywine that Washington didn’t know were there. Most of the Americans fighting were just as unfamiliar with the ground as the British, just depended on who best utilised the intelligence
As a Brit the American Revolution is one of my favourite subjects, currently working on an article for the Journal of the American Revolution; think I saw your reaction to this previously, looking forward to the update - always enjoy your take on the Revolutionary period
As an American currently taking APUSH, I’m mildly surprised, but also really glad you encouraged us to look at this from Britain’s point of view, because I can confirm that we were only taught from the colonies’ point of view. What you say actually does make complete sense. I never tried to consider that the British were actually kinda right with their intentions, just… their execution of the taxes could use some work. Thanks for that :)
Well I think the main issue was Lord Nord an the people in Parliament at the time bout sides wanted a better outcome it just wasn't going to happen with those kind of people weilding power. And from recent history I think we can all agree some people do not need to be in a power position whatsoever. Now we may disagree on who those people are but I mean it's pretty damn clear throughout history you got people who take advantage in America just had enough of them people.
That's so wild. Sorry about your school system
I love your commitment to providing us the best quality you possibly can, even if it means going back to old stuff you've already done. Thank you for always making some of my favorite history videos even better.
Brady Crytzer’s War Time podcast series on the Revolutionary War is one of the best summaries out there, well worth a listen, and supplemented with the Revolutions podcast
Great video! I’m so glad you’re getting this out! I went to watch it a while back and couldn’t find your old version. Good to see another Oversimplified reaction update!
In my history classes, they’d lump subjects into one without going in depth, so I enjoy watching you, I’ve learnt so much.
this is the best history channel on youtube in my opinion. the quality of every video is top notch keep up the great work!
I really appreciate you telling the British side of the story. So many things I never considered from their perspective. They really do teach a lobb sited narrative of what went down in America.
It happens in every country, don't worry.
@@skindred1888 it sure doesn't
@@lamontviolante I mean it does...
@@skindred1888 not every country is as manipulative as the USA
@@lamontviolante doesn't matter if they're on the same level...it still happens. Every part of history taught is rife with bias
Yoooo! This content is amazing! I love history and love the way you describe things. You clearly unerstand it on a deeper level. Very easy to understand and learn from this! So glad I stumbled into this channel! Keep them coming
So happy you reacted to this one! You're the reason I've taken more of an interest in history and have started reading more history books. As it so happens, most of them are about the American Revolution. Keep up the good work!
Everything is a result of earlier 'incidence', right?
I've been waiting for the Remastered Reaction video to Oversimplified!
Thank you!
It’s funny I was trying to look for your older videos on this. Glad you updated.🤙🏼
I recently been binge watching all your video’s and I’m stuck on endless loop now.
omg I found your channel with your first reaction to this oversimplified video. I´m so excited that you're doing another rectiong of it!! Love your channel
Yay!! I’m so glad you’ve done this one again, been waiting for it!
Glad your revisting it . Anytime we cover videos we have already done you add even more context and information. Keep up the great work Chris 👍👏
I've been looking for this video since i enjoy rewatching your videos, glad it exsists and I wasn't imagining things.
I'm currently studying about this time in history right now. I actually have just recently decided to become a history teacher and some of your videos are part of the reason why I've decided that. Thank you for your content and your genuine love for history!
I like watching these kinds of reactions, because there's so much more to history than what I learned when I was in school. I only learned the basic things but was never told anything more that showed both sides of the story, so to speak. Some of the stuff I learned was instead through history TV shows, or videos like these. I also watched the musical 1776, which I find is a great started to how America began away from the battlefield, and how they just talked about issues like the declaration of Independence and other issues. I don't know how historically accurate it is, but it gave me more of a human view of the founding fathers, rather than the myths we're always told they were.
Something I just noticed: at 16:00 there's a sign saying "Days since last revoked charter: 32850." I always figured that was just a random number, but it turns out it's not! 32,850 days is equal to 90 years if you forget to account for leap years, and at that point it had been 90 years since King Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter in 1684.
I think this was before the calender recognised the need for leap years, m8
"Earlier people" had seen the need before, but earlier people were not the ones who decided on our calender
@@dsxa918 Our calendar was put in place by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, and he definitely recognized the need for leap years.
@@Monkeyslinger123 But the British didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752.
i love you and oversimplified, together is just amazing
I can’t explain the twinge of excitement hearing about you revisiting sites and hopefully getting rewalks through history with new information and everything you’ve learned filming and editing
Terrible grammar that my old history professor would be proud of but still excited that at 25 I have another historian to make my girlfriend listen to while we cook dinner
I love these reaction videos because I get to enjoy Oversimplified content again with expert commentary.
Always a treat. Thanks for your content 😁
Hello, greetings from turtle creek, Pennsylvania. 20min drive to the city of Pittsburgh. 10 minute walk to Braddock PA, across the River from Kennywood!
I've been to Turtle Creek! I did a concert at a church there 10 years or so ago.
Haha sounds about right there are 4-5 down the hill in town. My Pap actually served at St.John’s Orthodox Church up the hill.
What a wonderful video to put on while I finish out my workday. Thanks!
I don't have time to watch this right now but I already know it's gonna be entertaining and informative 🙂
I'm so glad you're finally redoing the Revolutionary War video by Oversimplified
Where have you been!!!!??? Love me some Oversimplified and definitely enjoy the extra details!! You sir, are awesome!
I love how involved you are with your viewers. Thank you for always listening to us
The British were like “you can mess with our money, you can mess with our soldiers… but don’t you dare mess with our tea”
Accurate.
I went and walked the Freedom Trail again on my birthday this past year. Might have to check out some of your videos from your visits. We have lots of lovely history up here
I'm so grateful to you for your amazing content, I've learned so much from you
God bless you
Yay! I was looking for your original video just the other day! Glad to have this back.
Also, just gonna recommend J.J. McCullough's channel. Does a lot of Canadian socio-political commentary, but also has some videos on Canadian history you may find interesting.
As a descendant of one of the hessian soldiers sent over during this time, I’m glad you revisited this topic.
King George III was the first monarch of the House of Hannover to be born in Great Britain and he was also the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to speak English as his first language.
Fun fact, the first American casualty of the revolution was Crispus Attucks, the first of five Americans to die after the Boston Massacre. Attucks was of Native American and African descent and may have even been a runaway slave at that time.
I was going to say this was already done. Nice idea updating this.
You aren't the only one who thought so. I swore up and down he did it already and sure enough he did.
Alright. A blast from the past. I wanted you to redo this one. Ty brother.
I was wondering where this video was in your Oversimplified reaction playlist. Glad its here now though!
Great video! Been watching your channel for probably 2 months now, and it’s the majority of what I watch. Your videos are fun, entertaining, interesting, informative and your viewers are always so civil, even when a controversial topic comes up which I find quite rare nowadays. I’m a Canadian viewer, so we only learn Canadian history in school really (I’m going to be 14 this year) so your channel compensates what I don’t get in school and helps keep my love of history and politics alive and well. Love your Oversimplified videos and keep up the good work!
The additional info is great, gonna have to go look for some more from you.
I’m from Pittsburgh, and I find it so awesome when you mention stuff around here or in eastern Ohio. I always say “Oh I’ve been there!” I’m not sure people realize how much history is just in this area alone.
Live closer to Philly.
I will see tour groups come in and say "while we're here we'll go to Valley Forge!" And I'm like why? It's right here. It's nothing special. But I have been there so often that's how I see it. It's weird.
Yes it becomes routine.
One thing that seems to get overlooked is that Thomas Paine was British-born and lived in the UK until late 1774; in the US the Revolutionary War seems to be cast as a national war between the US and Britain, rather than a complex civil war that sits within a context of British politics and philosophy it has now become disconnected from
Yeah good point. My Canadian town was landing for many American "loyalists" and Americans apparently did war on stuff along the river in my town, previously.
I was amazed to learn how much of modern Boston is reclaimed land. It literally looks nothing like it did during the war, yet at the same time manages to preserve a surprising amount of the history from that time all the same. Quite a interesting place to visit.
Nice to see Sam Nixon branching out. Although Columbus was looking for another way to India so I can see how he might have been confused !!
Otherwise great video. Nothing wrong with revisiting and already done topic. Look forward to part 2!
I am SO HAPPY you explained that Maine was part of Massachusetts, that Falmouth thing has bothered me about this over simplified video for years!
I went to Boston a few years , the reenactment the event of throwing tea overboard was fun !
A cool thing for anyone who is planning on visiting newfoundland, we still have the old viking settlements in the northern peninsula, but maybe wait until late spring or summer lol
Cool to see how far the channel has come!
During the retreat from Manhattan, one of the rivers George Washington and the Continental Army had to cross was the Hackensack River. The bridge the crossed was called New Bridge. It's in River Edge, where my girlfriend is from. I love the many pieces of revolutionary history in New Jersey, alone. I'm from the Texas, so living in NJ for 7 years was an amazing opportunity to see so many historical places. Even I'm other, nearby, states.
Hell yeah. Was wondering when you'd finally do this one.
Hi, Chris, we can never have too much Oversimplified. Very interesting and your comments are so useful. You mentioned George III and you're right one of the longest reigning Monarchs, ( he's in third place) but he is still actually the longest reigning KING.
Hopefully we'll soon have a new Oversimplified, I hope you have been studying the second Punic War so you're ready for that.
I thought Louis XIV was the longest reigning monarch
@@kirancox6123 Hi, you are quite right Louis XIV is the longest reigning monarch. I should have said I was talking about British Monarchs, Elizabeth II then Victoria then George III are the longest reigning British Monarchs. Hope that clarifies this.
@@stephenparker6362 Oh cool
The Sun King?
Great video. Big fan from Turkey. I'm a high school student and your videos make me like history.
Can I say that I love the daily content? I’ll admit I don’t watch everyone of your videos but it does make it nice only having to wait a day for “part 2” instead of weeks like other channels. Keep up the work man.
I’ve been waiting for this
Omg I’ve been looking for the American revoloution reaction and now it’s hereeeeee
Regarding the taxes: Brandon F. did a great video on it. The TL;DR version: The Americans were basically expected to help fund the troops stationed to protect them... which was basically a non existing force (~8k people for all 13 colonies I think)
I knew it! I remembered your old video great to see it again.
Personally, I think it’s always important to try and see things from different perspectives-when studying history-of a conflict, so I don’t mind your defense of the British in the beginning whatsoever.
Always love your Reactions VTH!!!
Still enjoyed the original but this much better 🇺🇸
Yes!!!! Love this. You’re the man!!!
Just watched Turn: Washington's Spies, and now this video.. Perfection..
Glad you did this again. 👏
I LOVE YOUR OVERSIMPLIFIED REACTS BRO
Im taking American History pre civil war and post civil war right now in college. It was fun to hear an expert weigh in!
in regards of the Olive Branch... I think part of the reason the british went "nope", was that not long after, and before a call was made, just that call to arm the volunteers was made, which made the Olive Branch feel quite insencere.
On first impressions alone: I truly appreciate someone who can self-criticize themselves in a meaningful way; especially if it offers new and refined reflections - Bully for you Sir!
Fun fact: King George 1st in order to communicate with his advisors who didn’t speak German, he instead spoke to them in French
I have been rewatching WW2 in color on Netflix, and one part stands out to me. The decision to relieve Paris by the allied forces. I am very grateful to have been born in America. I am of the opinion that we as a country had to save Paris, as we may not have a country if the French hadn't cleared the Chesapeake and assisted during the Revolutionary War.
Legend has it that when General Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War, he proclaimed "Lafayette, we are here."
great to have two of my favouriteTH-cam channels in 1 video
Something that Christopher Columbus can be given credit for as a first, he was the first person in recorded history to sail across the ocean without being within view or quick access of land. Everybody else prior in the recorded history of sailing had always been in view of or never more than a couple dozen nautical miles of land.
not to mention his re-discovery marked the first time any permanent european settlement was formed in the americas. While Leif Erikson did land up somewhere in canada he left after a few weeks to months max. And Thorfinn Karlsefni another viking from iceland heard of his travels through Leif's father, Erik the Red, and attempted to actually set up a village there but after about 3 years and increasingly frequent battles with the increasingly less friendly natives they decided they would rather live back in peace with their kinsmen in greenland than try to permanently take over "Vinland" (named as such because its said they arrived at a forest in which every tree bore grapes). But hey, Thorfinn's son Snorri became the first person of european descent to be born in the America's which is cool at least
@oldeskul I think that depends on how you want to define "recorded history".
If we're talking about events we know for certain happened, I'd argue that the Austronesian exploration and settlement of the pacific islands outranks Columbus' journey in both earliness (Beginning well in the thousands BCE) and in impressiveness (They sailed just as far as Columbus did in small canoes, memorised star maps that changed with the seasons, could triangulate the locations of islands that they didn't know existed by observing the behaviour of birds, could take bearings by dipping their hand into the water and checking currents, etc).
Of course, if when you say "recorded" history you literally mean history of which we have detailed records regarding specific expeditions, then I think you're totally right that Columbus was the first.
So glad he is doing this. I thought i watched this before
Every time I hear Daniel Boone, the TV show theme starts playing in my head.
And we’re back where we started. Oversimplified is the 🐐
Hey! Glad to watch your reaction on this again. Love this community so much.
I hope the situation with your daughters channel worked out.
When I reported it on Twitter- TH-cam checked MY ACCOUNT and gave me a lot of strikes on my channel.. had to delete 380 videos/streams spanning 6 years.
I try to do a good thing and it bites me back 😅
Sad to hear it was taken down!!! I understand that it may have interfered with the algorithm but I would've gone back to watch both versions for sure.
absolutely loving the US history content lately!
i loved the og reaction now we get it remasterd
There is always 2 sides to history.
As a Canadian who grew up in New Jersey, i always in my head questioned the way the British were portrayed as evil, history needs to be taught flaws included.
The American revolution is one of my favourite tales.
I’ve watched the original a good few times so still welcome this.
I'm from that area of Pittsburgh. I grew up there miles from Bushy Run Battlefield.
aaaahhhh so that's why they have a Viking tomb in Red Dead Redemption 2
John Adams was a man to whom fairness and justice was extremely important. to him, what right did the colonists have to demand it if they did not see even their enemies had it from them?
Ironic considering he passed the Sedition acts and threw those who wrote bad things about him in Jail.
Yo this a pleasant surprise I was just about to watch the old one
This reminds me of American Revolution by Oversimplified. Guy I used to watch…went by VTH I think; he uploaded a reaction to it quite some time ago. The good old days
Dawes and Revere were also not shouting the entire time during their rides - as that would have drawn undue attention to them. They were going to safe houses that they knew to alert the militia and trying to warn Adams and Hancock and others.
Guten Abend, gut das du zu Diesem Video eine Neue Reaktion machst.
Hey VTH, there’s a really good video shows the Canadian perspective during the American Revolution. It’s called “Why didn’t Canada join the American Revolution?” by Your Canadian Guide. It’s a highly underrated video.