The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1) (Royal Marine Reacts)
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You go, “I’ll probably split these into 15 min parts” i check the time to see it’s a 40 min video. I love it
I enjoyed it too much haha
@@OriginalHuman it's okay my guy. I've never met anyone who didn't like longer videos, we love them
@@OriginalHuman you should react to the Napoleon Wars from Oversimplified or Prohibition. when you have the time i know you have a bus to work on lmao
@@OriginalHuman we did too! Keep up the good content!
@@OriginalHuman We all glad you did. Great video
A quote I find incredibly interesting when talking about John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry was one from Frederick Douglass: "His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was a taper light, his was the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave"
The word "Zeal" exemplifies it.
To find something so axiomatically abhorrent that it drives you to frothing rage...
Douglass was a smart man doing a life's work.
Brown was a maniac following his heart.
One interesting thing to note is how at the start of the war the north mostly saw slavery as an economic issue. This was because most never had actually seen it and by the end of the war the young men that actually went south and fought and saw the horrors of true slavery changed there minds and supported Lincolns abolishianism
you're also forgetting that just about all Americans were Racists at the time.
@@Genesis50000 Not just Americans, racism was/is a global thing regardless of the status of freed men vs slaves during that era. Still to this day though it is steadily dying out.
Including General Sherman. He became a big advocate of voting rights for African Americans after the war.
They also saw the huge loss if the South actually left/succeeded . It evolved to become about more than just secession but at the start of the war it was more about keeping the country together/protecting profits(sounds bad but its part of the governments job to keep the country strong/getting as much taxes).
@@captaindestruction9332 I mean, what sounds better and "more" morally upright. Fighting over slavery or over economics.
I like how he says “ what would happen if “we” didn’t win this war?” Glad to see that you are fully embracing American patriotism, we love to see it❤️
That's the beauty of being American. It's for everyone lol
@@BenJoverwe’re a nation made of immigrants afterall.
He must be a Republican
that changed once he moved back to England.
@@TripleDinLV no he doesn't. Hés a clown who gets most of his views from his Indian followers.
When you mentioned that it was crazy how quickly they formed an army, it was because Before World War One, there was no standing unified army. It was essentially every state would have their own army that would fight under the banner of the republic during war time. This was why there were often armies in this war called thing like “The Massachusetts 2nd” or “The Texas Fifth Regiment” because they were formed by a state by state basis
That's not entirely correct. There was a small standing US Army (USA), often referred to as the "Regular Army". (Who do you think was manning Ft Sumpter and running West Point?) There were 16,400 members of the USA at the start of the Civil War. States did, however, contribute the numbered militia units you mentioned, which were known as United States Volunteers (USV). Officers leading these units were referred to by their rank, followed by the title "of Volunteers." (For instance, "Captain of Volunteers." ) Also regular army officers often had 2 ranks, their regular/ actual rank and their rank in the volunteer army. (George Armstrong Custer was a Lt. Col in the regular army/ USA and a Major General in the USV during the Civil War.)
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 thank you for the clarification!
To add another angle to this, the US, despite even recent shifts in priorities at the federal level, has long had a cultural identity revolving around the notion of "you fight for your own place in the world" which makes it so that finding people motivated enough to enlist when our sovereignty is directly threatened very easy and this is also one of the reasons that effectively disarming the entire civilian population of the US is functionally improbable if not impossible
Huh, that's pretty much like the old "tribal" territories
for example early medieval scandinavia and east europe
(welp... all the non-feudal territories I guess)
never knew that, thanks for sharing lad
My 4th great grandfather was in the 49th regiment of Tennessee infantry for example.
When you travel down to Virginia, visit some of the battle sites because they are all over the state. I’ve lived here for several years and moved 3 times and have always had a battle site, skirmish, or encampment within 15 miles
As a Virginian. I live 15 minutes from at least 3 battle sights.
I live about 30 minutes away from Manassas and have found Civil War bullets in my backyard
Facts. I used to live in VA (NN represent!) and history sites/museums/etc is literally everywhere.
Smack Dab in the heart of VA (between Cville and Richmond.) I wonder why history is my favorite subject. lol
Yea we got cool historical stuff all over the place here. I love VA so much.
Funny enough, general McClellan actually did say "I didn't lose! I merely failed to win!" after his campaign.
He was the William Howe of the Civil War: good general, but way to skittish about pursuit.
Also when people called us grant a butcher Lincoln did ask what did he drink. And then said give him more whiskey.
@@snakyYT Paraphrasing: "If it would make them fight like Grant, I would send all of my generals a barrel."
@@snakyYTexcept Grant was the furthest thing from a “butcher” that war had. He gets called that and yet had some of the lowest casualty rates whereas Lee (who’s treated like a god) had the highest.
Also, all those who died so McClellan could get nowhere? It’s self defeating. Sure Grant may have lost more in a battle but difference being, *he advanced* so it wasn’t for nothing.
@marquisdelafayette1929 it makes sense Lee had the most casualties though. The north switched their generals so many times. Lee replaced a southern genral early in the war.
Don't forget that Abe was slaying vampires behind the scenes of all this👌
And also traveling through time with Bill and Ted.
Charles Sumner (the senator who was hit with a cane) was really a man ahead of his time. He spent his entire career fighting not only for an end to slavery, but also an end to exclusionary immigration laws, an end to imperialism, advocated for women’s rights, and tried to pass a civil rights bill a full 80 years before the country finally got around to implementing one. Most of his contemporaries shunned his efforts at granting full land ownership and voting rights to the newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. A shame he’s only remembered for being hit with a cane.
He was very badly injured, too, and ended up with what we would now call PTSD.
Love your reaction, but I think you missed the idea of what they meant by economic issue. The people worried about it economically were already dirt poor farmers in the north who didn't have slaves and were worried about their land getting bought out by rich plantation owners, leaving them both dirt poor and then homeless. Like another comment said, they also had almost no idea about the details of slavery, most never travelling outside their small towns and information coming slowly if it came at all. The quote "never attribute to malice what you can to ignorance" is very fitting for this.
Yeah, people need to stop vilifying economics and acknowledge it as a legitimate concern. They are far too quick to dismiss economic concerns these days probably because in many ways we, at least in the US, live in what is probably the closest thing possible to a post-scarcity world and are so far removed from survival that we just don’t realize how much has to be done to not starve especially in a world without safety nets. Which leads to us forgetting that economic interests especially in historical settings are in many cases actually just concerns about being able to acquire/produce things like food. I mean that’s why historically theft was punished so severely because in many cases you were effectively threatening the victim with starvation.
Yeah he was quick to label them as rich farmers who we’re worried about losing their wealth, but they were poor farmers with very little income or property, so the large plantations would destroy their livelihoods entirely 😊
Willie and his younger brother Tad were considered "notorious hellions" when they lived in Springfield. Their father's law partner William Herndon said they pulled books off their shelves while their father appeared oblivious.
When Abraham Lincoln took office as President of the United States, Willie and Tad moved into the White House. To give them playmates, Mary Todd Lincoln asked Julia Taft to bring her younger brothers, 14-year-old "Bud" (Horatio Nelson Taft Jr., 1847-1915) and 12-year-old "Holly" (Halsey Cook Taft, 1849-1897) to the White House.
Willie and Tad became ill in early 1862, possibly with typhoid fever. Tad was relatively lightly affected but Willie gradually weakened; his parents spent much time at his bedside. He died on February 20.
Both parents and Tad were deeply affected. Lincoln said, "My poor boy. He was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so much. It is hard, hard to have him die!"; after the burial, he shut himself in a room and wept alone. Mary Lincoln remained in bed for three weeks and was unable to attend Willie's funeral or look after Tad. Abraham Lincoln took solace in caring for and comforting Tad, who remained very ill and was grieving himself for his brother's death. Tad also lost the companionship of Bud and Holly, whom Mary refused to allow in the White House anymore, as they reminded her too much of Willie.
Willie was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, he was re-interred at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, first in a temporary tomb and in 1871 in a state tomb alongside his father and his brother Eddie. Tad and Mary Todd Lincoln were also later placed in the crypt of the Lincoln Tomb.
What I love most about watching your channel is how intelligent you are and how seasoned your perspective is. You've got a deeper understanding of how the world works than the typical person, and it shows in the insights you raise.
If your wondering how the confederates were able to make an army so fast, it's because of national and state guard. Essentially each state has its own mini army of sorts. Idk if other countries do this, or if they just have reserves.
A late reply but most European countries at the time had standing armies of various sizes alongside a sizeable reserve that could be called up. As wars were less common near the USA they had a smaller standing army, but the national guards of the various states could be called up if needed, a lot of officers who would get to lead armies in the civil war came from the pre-war army and a lot of them knew each other to some degree. Even Lee and Grant had met before the war began, back during the American-Mexican War. This is why Lee was such an effective general, as he not only knew tactics and strategy, but also most of the enemy commanders personally or by reputation, and thus had a good grasp on how they would act.
When you travel the US, you HAVE to come down to the Gettysburg battlefield. I live about 45 minutes away from it and it’s such a nice place to tour for a full day. And yes, it will take nearly a full day to go through all of it, there’s so much history and sites to travel to and visit just in that one battlefield.
I second this. It’s one thing to read about the battle, but actually walking the battlefield makes you understand better why certain decisions were made, and why some areas were absolutely critical to turning the tide of battle.
About an hour and a half or so for me, but I've done many school trips, family trips, and Scout trips to Gettysburg. With the Scouts, we camped there and walked a lot of battles, including Picket's Charge which is over a field that seems so much bigger in person than it ever has on a screen.
Well he's already living in Maine as he said. But he should totally check out these historic battle grounds.
It seems like the rebels formed an army very rapidly, but they had spent the better part of a year building up, seizing armories and forts, and recruiting throughout the South. I think it was something like half a dozen forts had already been taken by the time Fort Sumter was taken. The South knew a war was coming and had been preparing long before they attempted to leave.
“Do you know what the southern states were up to before the war?”
“Chillin. Yearnin for freedom from yankee tyranny.”
“Not exactly.”
God I love checkmate Lincolnites.
@@DongusMcBongusidk how they pretend like their VP didn’t straight up give a speech about the “Cornerstone” of their “new great nation is the fundamental truth that African Americans are not equal to whites”.
9:50 child labour was pretty commonplace all over the world at this time, including in the USA. It just was more visible in industrialised nations with kids working in horrible conditions in mines and factories. But kids had been working on farms and plantations for centuries too. It was just considered normal.
And if you were a slave, child or not, you had no choice but to work... Slave children were defacto free labour. At least non slave children got paid even if it often was a pittance. Slave children were sold and traded like livestock often taken away from their parents and sold off.
I wanted to comment "stop, you've already done this video". Then I realized I've seen so many Brits react to this I questioned my own motives.
I'd love to see you play more strategy games like Total War or anything Paradox, don't think the viewership would be there though.
Paradox games will get da viewssssssssssssssssss XD
@@stratosk2864 I agree
Britain abolished slavery in 1833, around 30 years before the outbreak of war. Canada, like most imperial dominions, followed suit quickly after the UK's law was passed, abolishing slavery in 1834.
I grew up in the UK too. I had a module in GCSE History on American History, although not much about the civil war. As ever, each school uses different exam boards and some don't cover it.
Britain through several hundred years unleaa im mistaken were one of the few with the ships capable of getting the slaves into the slave trade. The british east india company. They dominated the global trade they traded apices sugar, slaves. They needed the slaves to farm the crop. It was rough. Same thing is happening today apple uses china to put the factory there and china will promise bonuses that dont show up and they get welded in a camp because their covid forced mutation vaccine lab is leaking. Its still happening they just moved rhe slaves to where its harder to free them
Another fun fact is that Lincoln was a wrestler and won 299 matches and lost 1 but even then was questionable so it got him into the national hall of fame for wrestling.
As of people a lot of the people where related to the founding fathers. Like Robert E. Lee was related to George Washington by marriage and his land in Arlington was captured the union on the outskirts of DC and was later turned in the national cemetery.
Reading generals minds: another thing about Lee is before the war he was the headmaster at West Point (the officer training school) and was even offered the position of commander of the army of the Potomac and again most of the generals on both sides had been friends and colleagues for decades
While Lincoln was a good political leader he wasn’t the best general and made a lot of calls where he should have just let his generals do his thing
You should watch Ken Burn’s civil war documentary if you want to better understand the US civil war.
To answer a couple questions you asked in the video: the Northern US states had small numbers of slaves in the 1700s but starting with Vermont they all made chattel slavery illegal in the decades immediately following the American revolution (although debt slavery and indentured servitude still existed to some extent). Britain was one of the first European countries to make chattel slavery illegal in 1833, although with the major exception of Jamaica and a couple other British colonies who's economies depended on cheap labor mainly for sugar cultivation. In 1808 the US had banned the importation of new slaves, but not the keeping and sale thereof and slavery was widespread from Maryland and Delaware all the way down through the south-eastern quarter of the continental US, although the largest enslaved populations were in the cotton producing states of South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. In the 1830s onward the British navy had a dedicated anti-slavetrade fleet which patrolled the Atlantic and intercepted mostly Portuguese and Spanish slave ships traveling from West Africa to Central and South America. However, the motivation for this antislavery action was perhaps more to undermine the economies of their Catholic rivals than out of any altruism for the Africans. On the question of slaves escaping during the war, many did and made their way North where they were eventually allowed to join the Union army. In Jones county Mississippi, escaped slaves, fugitives and Confederate deserters hid in marshlands and using hit and run tactics, starting a counter-rebellion and by wars' end had liberated the county and susceded from Mississippi declaring their own free soil state. However the Union didnt support them and the state of Mississippi renamed the county and supressed knowledge of them.
General Robert E Lee was a very interesting individual. I did a history report on him back in high school and uncovered a few things I wasn't expecting. Many biographies gave me the impression that, although he was a general that fought for the Confederate States, he personally didn't care for slavery and was a very upstanding & honorable man. It made me sad to hear about his statues being torn down because of history recording him as "the bad guy"
I did a similar project. However the moment he turned traitor he lost all "honorable qualities"
Robert E Lee didn't care about slaves yet owned slaves.
Anyone who takes up arms against his country is a traitor.
He's lucky people remember him as fondly as some do.
Perfect balance of saying "wow" and laughing, and actually adding something to the video
Fun fact: Tom hanks is related to Abe Lincoln, because Abe’s mothers maiden name was hanks
Not saying he isn't because I don't know, but not everyone named Hanks is necessarily related.
@@7heSlime Fair point, but apparently his genealogy can be traced back to Lincoln's grandparents, making him roughly a third cousin several times removed. He's also a sixth cousin of Mister Rogers.
On a different note, Barack Obama is a descendant of Robert E. Lee through his mother.
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As many times as I watched reactions to this, I just now noticed Lincoln reading "Vampire Hunting for Dummies" at 2:19. ROFL
England, arguably got rid of slavery long before the US, though you could say their slavery went from having slaves from Africa to having slaves from their own people.
Oyy mate you can’t being saying that without a license
So fun thing with the ironclads is that they had breach loading cannons rather than muzzle loading which brought up the fire rate to 10 rounds per minute rather than 3, also also the first fight between 2 ironclads took 3 hours and ended in a draw with no significant damage to either ship and no deaths and only a handful of injuries
35:36 "The Civil War was the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by photography. During the war, dozens of photographers--both as private individuals and as employees of the Confederate and Union Governments--photographed civilians and civilian activities; military personnel, equipment, and activities; and the locations and aftermaths of battles." - US National Archives
My great great great grandfather was from New Hampshire and fought for the Union in the Civil War. He died near Camp Parapet in Louisiana. His son was my great great grandfather, whose son was my great grandfather, whose son was my Grandpa Wally, whose son was my dad.
Most of the Northern states had abolished slavery in the 1780s, whereas the Civil War takes place in the 1860s. So half the nation was 80 years behind, like if half the nation still resembled the 1940s today. However, there were 2 different approaches to ending slavery. In the New England states, they just abolished it completely and freed everyone. But in the Mid-Atlantic states, they instead made a law that the children of slaves could not be slaves, and no more slaves could be brought from overseas. So once the last remaining slaves died off naturally, that would be it. That approach was likely Lincoln's hope for the South, and why he kept saying he wasn't going to take away their slaves. He wasn't. He was going to take away their ability to create new slaves, with the last remaining living slaves giving the South a couple generations to adjust. That unfortunately wasn't good enough for the South. By this time in history, every major Western nation had abolished slavery except the American South and Brazil. Brazil would peacefully end it about a decade later, as it wasn't much in practice by then anyway.
The picture of the two iron clads fighting was during the battle of Hampton roads. It was the first time iron clads were used and it happened 2 minutes away away from my house.
YES I WAS WAITING FOR YOUR REACTION FOR DAYSS😅😌
The American Civil War was the first "modern war". The first military use of repeating firearms, the Spencer & Henry rifles, the first use of "machine guns", with galing guns. It also featured the first use of aerial surveillance, with the use of balloons. Telegraph networks were set up, allowing near instantaneous communications across hundreds of miles. The first combat used of submarines, naval mines, and, armored warships. Large numbers of troops were transported rapidly by railroad for the first time. And, there were European military observers from all the major powers there for all of it, taking notes. In that way, it really was the breeding ground for the horror of WW1.
“Why don’t I know about this?” That’s how I feel when I learn about England and Frances history. Fun fact, most Americans don’t even know this about the civil war.
Just a heads up @OriginalHuman the reason the confederacy was able to mobilize so fast is because each state still had their own state militia at the time, however I think it went out of practice after the civil war
I was about to sleep then I saw this uploaded and watched all of it then crashed as soon as it finished
P.s I been up for like 26H
I live about an hour and a half away from Antietam. Walking on those bloodsoaked grounds is like nothing else.
Antietam wasn't exactly a Union victory. The Union army had more casualties by around 2,000+ and the Confederates simply withdrew. It was more akin to a draw. However, because the Confederate army withdrew Lincoln could mark it as a Union victory to push forward his Emancipation Proclamation. Which was good but sadly wasn't the crippling blow to the Confederates he wanted to happen. Hell, there was even a single cornfield the two armies fought over and it exchanged hands many times and resulted in hundreds if not thousands dead on both sides. From ONE. cornfield that one unit the 12th Massachusets suffered ~67% casualties of their force. The morning phase of the battle alone saw ~13,000 casualties of both Union and Confederates.
Except that "victory" and "defeat" in military terms are referring to whether goals were accomplished, not recourses expent to achieve said goal.
That's why the concept of a pyhric victory exists (if your not familiar with the term a pyhric victory is a battle where an army is victorious (IE they achieved their objectives) but at such a high cost that the victory is meaningless (or even detrimental) to the war in the longterm.
That cigar with the battle plans.. it was deposited by a time traveler.
Nice vid man hope you enjoy more oversimplified content
Several of the Southern States had Military Colleges and a good part of the Armies they formed were comprised initially of Cadets. Incidentally it was Cadets from the Citadel (The Military College of The South) who opened fire on Ft. Sumter. That's right folks; frigging Under Privates, College Students, started it all.
I live in Tennessee and we saw quite a lot of the Civil War, just 10 minutes away from my apartment is the Stones River Battlefield which actually saw a higher percentage of casualties on both sides than any battle in the war. My 4th great grandfather also served for the Confederacy, 49th infantry regiment of Tennessee at the Battle of Ft. Donelson. That's where Grant got his "unconditional surrender" name.
1000% you should watch the second part! It's so fun watching these videos of yours
Its awesome that he’s checking out the history of the united states now that he lives here.
Fun fact: Ulysses S Grant isn't his real name. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but his initials spelled HUG and he hated that. When someone made a documentation error and wrote Ulysses S Grant, he just decided that was gonna be his name and went with it.
There’s some pretty nice letters to Lincoln from worker organisations in Manchester, and yeah workers refused to work with cotton picked by American slaves - at the time this lead to a lot of economic hardship on top of the already existing issues. The USA send some aid and a statue as a tanks.
Lots of pretty cool statues here, there’s one on Engles that we got after the collapse of the USSR as Manchester was where him and Marx did a lot of their work. Also on that note there are also some pretty neat letters to Lincoln from Marx, always cool to hear how historical figures interact.
They never mentioned that we sent Cassius Clay to Russia as an ambassador and almost got them involved before the signing of the emancipation proclamation which also basically forced Lincoln to sign it prematurely.
31:04 if you ever make your way down to virginia, richmond is a really cool place to check out. tons of civil war history here, including the confederate white house, nearby battlefields, chimborazo hospital, etc. also has some cool revolutionary war history, including the church where patrick henry gave his “give me liberty or give me death” speech - st. john’s church in church hill.
Обожаю смотреть твой канал, так как приятно видеть, насколько хорош в этом мире обычный мужчина.
This war wasn't about slvry, though it was later introduced as an aspect and tactically used to keep the British from giving aid to the south.
The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free anyone. It only applied to southern states, which Lincoln didn't control, and it specifically excluded places in the north where slv ownership was still legal.. It was for political optics.
This is probably one of the top tier oversimplified video if not the best.
oversimplified is great
One thing about the fugitive slave act. Although the law was to return any slaves caught back to their masters it was actually very rare that it happened. Most slaves were never returned and either allowed to stay or moved into Canada. It was because the people's morality wouldn't let them do it so they broke the law and mostly said they never saw the escaped slave in the first place.
As far as “will America ever be divided into to country’s?” my answer is no. The events of the Civil War showed that secession would not be a welcome option, then with the events of WW2 and the Cold War, the enormous surge of nationalism within the US basically has assured that no such divide will take place anytime soon. However, the societal and cultural divides that existed during the Civil War still persist to this day, hiding below the surface. The recent divides you speak of have always been there, we just ignored them until now; now the problems are too big to ignore any longer. With secession off the table, the US must now undergo the difficult task of deciding the fate of its soul, something we neglected to do in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Especially considering all of the details often neglected in snappy education videos like this one, such as how Reconstruction did a lot to keep the South's economy devastated in order to create a poverty system that prevented them from rebelling again, or how the North was just as racist as the South and didn't want the freed slaves coming up there and taking jobs, or the fact that endemic racism and indentured servitude was rife in the North against Scots and Irish that were brought over as economic slaves or the same with the Chinese in California, or the abusive corporate practices that saw thousands of freed black, Irish, Scottish, and Chinese railroad workers killed to create the Transcontinental Railroad, the endemic and abusive corporations that killed thousands of workers, the civil war that almost happened as soon as the Revolutionary War was done, the Whiskey Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion, the use of the US Army to stampede over the protestors of the Bonus Army in 1932....
The list goes on and on and on. America has never truly been united, either economically, religiously, culturally, or racially. I don't think that's a bad thing, really, because it's our diversity which makes us stronger as a nation. But it's also that diversity that leads to conflict.
I love how the speech bubble lines up with his facecam at 11:13
some amusing quotes by president Licolon
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”― Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”― Abraham Lincoln
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg." --President Abraham Lincoln
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." --President Abraham Lincoln
“The problem with quotes on the internet is that nobody knows if they’re real” -Abraham Lincoln
"But id rather chop it down in 30 seconds if the chain saw was invented"
Wilmer McLean famously stated that “the war started in my back yard and ended in my front parlor”.
Bro they don’t teach half of the events leading to through and past the civil war in US schools. It seriously needs its own subject
So at the end of the video Lincoln decrees the Emancipation Proclamation which to shed some light on it did not ban slavery in America but just in those slave states currently rebelling. The four slave states that hadn't succeeded continued slavery it would not be until near the end of the war that the 13th amendment to the constitution was voted on by congress and signed by Lincoln that slavery would be ended in America (This is also what the movie Lincoln by Spielberg is about fantastic movie 10/10 would recommend). Also after that came the 14th and 15th amendments which made all freed slaves citizens and guaranteed that black men had the right to vote however this did not include women, white or black and they would have to wait until 1919 when the 9th amendment was signed that they would get the vote. The work to treat all people equally hadn't stopped then and the work continues even now.
About the cheekbones, not sure about Davis but Lincoln probably had Marfan syndrome, which caused his bones to be much larger than normal, which means that his face was much more pronounced and probably contributed to his height
19:36
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
This quote being the ending of Danny Vineyard's paper in American History X, and narrated as the outro post-mortem, has always stuck with me.
Second part of this one is soooo much better too.
This whole first part is basically context.
We did learned about American Civil War in my country (Vietnam) and each stage in 5 years and aftermatch too, it quite interesting but didn't talked about some other stuff during the war, we showed different heroes from each countries that started and ended the dark age, i also remember that read about UK did used to slavery and still have hatred to the France Empire too
What interest me learning more about history the most are the unusual characters that are not talked about but made big impacts. It's so interesting how they came to be and where they were coming from in their life when they made an impact.
The UK considering interceding on behalf of the Confederacy was largely an economic thing (although, while the British proletariat and middle class largely favored the Union, there was also a tendency among the aristocrats to favor the Confederacy).
In 1860, the United States produced 5,387,052 bales of ginned cotton, of which 4,419,215 were exported to be consumed by the European textiles industry, 3,037,762 of those going to the UK. This represented 80% of all British cotton imports at the time. 40% of British exports in 1860 were cotton textiles, and approximately one fifth of the entire British workforce was directly or indirectly involved in the textile industry.
The economic importance of cotton from the southern US to the British economy was such that, when the Anaconda Plan was put into effect and the exports from Dixie slowed to the not even a trickle that could be shipped by blockade runners, the North of England fell into a deep economic depression.
That said, there were some other crops that the UK was importing from the US at the time that even more strongly discouraged the UK from angering the Union: grains. Wheat and maize from the Midwest were vital to keeping Britons fed; in the end, a cotton shortage was better than angering Washington bad enough that the UK ended up with a food shortage on top of the cotton shortage.
Everyone quotes Lincoln as saying "A house divided against itself cannot stand," but Lincoln was quoting Jesus.
If you want a quintessential education on the American Civil War please watch the PBS series The Civil War. They use to play it every summer. It's long, but is well written and thorough.
If you are talking about the Ken Burns documentary then you are going off false and outdated material. Like the “Lost Cause” BS.
this is hilarious, i’ve seen this video before and never noticed the Queen’s servant’s teeth 🤣
The reason why the UK and other European powers looked like they were going to get involved is because at the time, the UK was the sole super-power in the world. They had the largest army, navy and the largest empire. Hearing that the US CW was being fought just to preserve the territory of what Europe saw as a second-rate world power, Parliment debated about intervening (i.e. invading) to stop what they saw as a senseless slaughter. If you want to learn more about the UK version of the Civil War, read "A World on Fire" by Amanda Foreman. It's an awesome read.
When watching a subject that is OverSimplified it is wise not to jump to conclusions. While it is true the north had mixed reasons for being against slavery that is only a partial truth. As a direct descent of an English Clergyman who Fled England for his life I take great exception to this generalization and your indignant response. The Civil War was going to be a thing from the get-go. The tobacco growers settled Virginia (the South) and a few years later the Pilgrims settled Massachusetts (the North) So we had the plantations in the south, the Christians who fled religious persecution in England in the North. The pilgrims, (Puritans) never were for slavery. My 10th great grandfather was one of the clergy who fled due to threats from the Bishop of Norwich and landed in Watertown MA. Many years later my 2nd great grandfather fought for the Union in the Civil War, had his eardrums blown out at Antietam.
Early US history is really dominated by two things that are deeply intertwined; Slavery and expansion.
DO THINE EYES DECEIVE ME?! A 40 min upload??
Finally the gods have answered my prayers.
I genuinely would love it if you made longer videos man lol.
A thing that fascinates me about the civil war is Robert E. Lee arguably the most infamous confederate. He was not a secessionist nor in favor of slavery. He was a West Point graduate, second in his class, a Colonel, and even fought alongside Ulysses S. Grant during the Mexican-American war. He resigned his position in the union army after Virginia, his home state, seceded. Lee stated he would not fight his own friend and family. The more I read about Robert E. Lee the more amazed I was, he was not at all this monster everyone had painted him to be, and if there is one reason to betray your country, I would say refusing to fight your friends and family is a pretty damn solid one.
5:50 man was in part massasheutes and the other part was actually New-Brunswick Canada until they chose the Saint-John river valley has the boarder this is why you have many Acadians and French speaking Americans living in Main.
I just started watching your channel when you were doing ‘Oversimplified the American Revolution’. Your reaction was great to those so I am excited to see this one. You just asked about having slaves in the north. There were some slaves in the north but almost all northern states had banned it before the Civil War started. England emancipated all of their slaves in the empire in the 1830s. When it was mentioned that a lot of the opposition to slavery in the north was based on economics, you missed that that meant losing your land and your lively hood. At this time even though the north was more industrial, a majority of the populace was still agricultural. So farmers in the north were worried about competing with slavery subsidized crops from the south. It’s hard to beat free labor. The reason Lincoln’s original plan was to stop the expansion of slavery and to let it eventually die out in the near future wasn’t for “money“. He wanted it to die out so that it wouldn’t cause a catastrophic Civil War that would kill 100s of thousands of people, destroy the lives of millions, and affect the country to the modern day. In the long run his way would’ve been better. Even his plan of letting it wither was too much for the south. The American Civil War lasted four years. The drawing of the ironclads shows the Monitor from the north and the Merrimack from the south. There are great videos on TH-cam about the first battle between ironclad ships.
9:06 Statue of Lincoln in Manchester, relating to Manchester (1st) not to accept cotton picked by slaves...good mentions--informational.-Ernie Moore Jr
A little girl actually did ask Lincoln in a letter to grow a beard because she thought it would make him look better and that is why he grew one
I'm British and are history teacher when ever there's a new oversimplified video it's our class and we watch it
Grant's full name was Ulysses Simpson Grant, and he often went by U.S. Grant and he picked up the nick name after a battle and the other side asked for terms, he replied with "no terms, only unconditional surrender"...the press went from there.
His real first name was Hiram, wasn't it?
My great-grandmother met my gx2 grandma during reconstruction. And boy oh boy. The stories they had. I was still very young but lucky my grandmother still remembers how they had 3 families in one house down south, I never got to meet my great-grandparents but I can't imagine being someone on a steamship and finding love
16:59 To answer your question, I have no idea. But the movie "Civil War" by Alex Garland accurately portrays what were to happen if it were to happen again.
One thing that was kind of glossed over here was the fact that the emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in areas still rebelling against the union. This was, of course, not seen as legal by the confederacy, and was used as a military tool. Slaves in the border states needed to wait until later to be freed, because Lincoln didn’t want to lose those states.
To be fair, it's not as if Lincoln had the authority to free them in the loyal states. And to also be fair, he got the 13th Amendment passed when it was time to do so.
Fun Fact a 11 year girl did write a letter to Lincoln telling him he would look better and more electable if he grew a beard a month later he started letting it grow and close to 200k slaves joined the Union Army to fight the confederates
Yes watch the rest of it, it’s really good.
By the time the Constitution was ratified half of the states ha abolished slavery. The federalist system of the U.S. is often overlooked on historical overviews. Even on current political issues people forget there is meant to be a balance between states and federal power.
The US Civil War is an anomaly for at least civil wars in the last few centuries, because due to de-centralized representative government each state was basically a country. The the US divided, it did so relatively cleanly, and saw pitched battles of uniform soldiers of both sides. Most civil wars are absolutely devastating and messing and all around a country like the recent, still sorta going? Syrian Civil War, where due to centralized government, the infrastructure for autonomous states joining together for causes doesn't exist. This makes the fighting much more widespread and inseperable from civilians. We've lost that in the US during the early 1900's with the continued centralization of power delegated to the states into the centralized federal government. This is also a solid reason things are so polarized in the country, because to get anything done policy wise it has to go through the Federal system for even relatively local policies that don't apply most other places, and especially when most things require taxes that would apply to the whole country, barely anything goes through. It wasn't meant to operate this way. You can centralize power, but history is the story of every government centralizing power until they either relent (never happens), or collapse. Just like oppressing the natural rights of people, sure you can suppress rights, but the consequences of doing so will kill any power that tries in the end.
In the 1980s there was 2 nini series on TV one called the North and the South and the other the Blue and the Gray. In the late 1970s was a miniseries called Roots . If you can find them and watch them you will lean a lot . I would look to a bull moose store and see if they sell them there
Your insights into how the war effected the rest of the world are interesting and add to the video!
on slaves escaping one general Gen Butler actually really made a good arguement that if slaves were considered by the confederacy as property then their capture was not stealing but the capturing of material vital to the confederate war effort and he then quickly let this idea spread and i use the term capture but in most cases the union just let them go in union controlled territory
Theres a place I like to go fishing about 5 minutea from my house where the union marched through and burned down an entire town EXCEPT for the facilities necessary to keep the whiskey mill running and the whiskey mill itself. It's called Jolly Mill, I still find musket balls, cannon balls, knives, and belt buckles ( so far) and ive been walking these woods for 2 decades. Cool stuff.
Okay this wasn't what I was taught in school. I was taught that the civil war was fought over states power vs federal power, slavery being one of those topics of states vs feds. Child labor was another, as we also had children working in labor intensive jobs all over the country back then.
After John Brown's death, a song was written: "John Brown's Body Lies a Moulderin' in the Grave."
35:38 There is an actual Ironclad at the Vicksburg Battlefield National Park.
What a tease! Of course we love it!
In general slavery ended in the mid 19th century for the UK and France. I wanna say the 1840s or the 1850s. I recommend reading the speech made Alexander Stephen, it’s called The Cornerstone Speech and it outlines what the Confederacy wants and why they seceded.
Yes, definitely throw in some military strategy games. Also I am loving these oversimplified reaction videos, so proud to see how far you've come Luke.
There was an (I think) amish abolitionist who kidnapped the child of a slave owner for a day or something to teach them what their slaves felt when they were forcefully separated from their families
I knew General McClellan's great great great great grandson, Matthew McClellan. He was a teacher's aid in my German language class and Matt, despised the man.
To answer your question, the UK had already abolished slavery some 60 years before the American civil war (1806 vs 1861) and even had a section of the Royal Navy dedicated to blockading Africa and stopping slave ships called the West African Squadron. I'd recommend looking into it. We also pressured a lot of nations (including African nations who were heavily involved in the slave trade) into stopping. There were additional reasons beyond moral ones for this of course, like it made a really good stick to beat our rivals with. But it's still something to be proud of as a Brit.
UK abolished slavery in 1833, not 1806. That only ended the slave trade (I think it was actually 1807), which the U.S. officially did in 1808.
@@vizzy9302 True. When I said abolished slavery I meant entirely. As in, throughout the Empire with the efforts to actively blockade the slave trade starting in 1808. I suppose I should have been clearer.