Morocco was actually the first country to recognize our independence. Our Treaty of Friendship with them is the longest treaty with another nation in our history and it has NEVER been broken in 2 and a half centuries 😊
AAAAACtually, they were the first and longest we went to war with. The Marines were born out of it. It is called The Barbary Coast War, which was finally won by Stephen Decatur. We only signed a contract to keep from paying their jizyah tax, but they did what all them do and broke the contract, kept raiding ships and taking people hostage. Sooooo, wanna try again?
Many of the colonists were 5+ generations in the colonies, but they still considered themselves British. It is important to remember that at the outbreak of the war they were NOT fighting for independence. They were fighting to be treated as full English citizens, with a voice in how they were governed. They were willing to lay down their lives for liberty, but were not seeking independence (yet). The taxes were offensive to them not for how high they were (they were not that high), but because English common law guaranteed a person being taxed the right to help decide how they were taxed. But as a colonist they didn't have representation in parliament. Representation was a difficult matter. With the American population approaching 50% of that of England and growing fast adding the American colonists representatives directly to parliament would be a major shake-up in the balance of power. And to make matters worse, if land ownership was used in any formula for calculating representation the massive amount of land in the American colonies could turn them all into voters. Intelligent people foresaw an England where the population at home would become a minority dominated by British citizens living outside of the homeland. There were attempts at compromise, but they were poorly designed and failed. Another thing to understand is that each colony was effectively a corporation from the English point of view. They often treated each separately and the colonists themselves had little loyalty collectively. When dealing with the post-7 Years War issues Franklin advocated that the colonies needed to negotiate collectively. Many of the images used during the war were based not on rebellion, but on failed attempts at collective bargaining, like the chopped up snake "Join or Die" isn't about joining the army. George Washington was an officer in the colonial army, not the redcoats. After the 7 years war (We call it the French and Indian War in the U.S.) Washington wanted a commission in the royal army, but was rejected... again, 2nd class citizen. It is very important to understand that George Washington did not join the continental army to fight for independence. He and most others felt that they were fighting for their rights as English citizens when the conflict started. Kill each other for a few months and the idea of independence became more popular - but it never became extremely popular. Most people just wanted the fighting to stop regardless of outcome. I do living history presentations and sometimes portray a loyalist. It is surprising to Americans today to learn that the idea of independence wasn't popular at first - they're fooled by the modern media into thinking we hated England. We didn't - we hated parliament - and who doesn't at any point in history? This was a civil war, with families being very split on the issues. Brothers fought brothers, literally at times. Side note: The Boston Tea Party actually had invitations... the 1000s of on-lookers knew it was going to happen... it was a real party.
It was a completely different circumstance for my ansctors in India at the time India during the American Revolution was a Brtish colony ruled by the East India Trading Company. But they only ruled Bengal Subah province which includes Bhair Odisha Jharkhand and the Modern Indian state of West Bengal and Bengal Bangladesh. Also in India we where not white Westerners but Hindus Sikhs Punjabis Indian Muslims Bengals Tamils Marathas or brown Asian people In a Asian land
@@Dvsnb here's John Dickinson of Pennsylvania one of the Singers of the Declaration of independence and an American Revolutionary. Comparing the American colonies with India saying that unlike the people of India. But thank God we are not sea poys nor Marrrattas but Brtish subjects who are born to liberty and know its worth and prise it high. So obviously the American Revolutionaries had white supermisist ethnocentric views. And didn't see the people of India or other Asian countries under Brtish rule as equal to them
OK, so we've done this before, and I think we can do it again. I need everyone in on this, so nobody be a spoil sport. Don't tell them who wins! Don't do it! I know you're all just dying to tell them, but don't. I think it'll be more fun for them if they wait to watch the 2nd video to find out, so let's keep it a secret for now.
A detail that I think is worth remembering, is that John Adams was the Lawyer who represented the British soldiers - who were charged with Murder after the Boston Massacre. All were acquitted. In the US we learn about the shooting - but not that they were acquitted of any criminal charges - or that a signer of the Declaration of Independence was a man willing to risk his livelihood on a matter of principle, by defending British Soldiers in court.
Actually two were found guilty of manslaughter because they fired into the crowd. However their punishment was reduced to branding of their thumbs in court.
Adams was our first lawyer President. He knew the paramount importance of the rule of law in the new nation. In throwing off the yoke of Britain, its common-law foundation, codified and clarified in writing, was retained.
15:06 I remember watching a documentary and it said that as the Americans took up defensive positions, they made sure to cover four routes that they believed the British would likely attack from. However, only one of these routes was lightly defended (I think it was literally FIVE soldiers that were guarding said route) and after being informed of this by _loyalist_ Americans, the main British force captured these five men and then were able to take the Americans by surprise completely unopposed.
One of the biggest grievance was that England wouldn't let the Colonies manufacture anything. The Colonies had to send all raw material to Britain and buy goods from them and ship them back.
1) The Seven Years' War ended in 1763. That £60 million debt is equivalent to £15.2 billion today. 2) One thing not mentioned by OverSimplified was that, according to the royal charters of most or all of the colonies, Parliament did not have the authority to tax the colonies. That power was held by the colonial legislatures. Parliament did have the authority to regulate trade between the colonies and the UK. The taxes that Parliament levied were tariffs on trade. Aside from the principle of "no taxation without representation," there was a legal disagreement as to whether Parliament had the authority to create these tariffs. Another objection to the taxes was that the colonists felt that the mercantilist system provided sufficient payment to Great Britain for their defense. Under a mercantilist system, colonies are established by the mother country as business enterprises, as well as for political and military power. The colonies produced raw materials--food, lumber for the Royal Navy, wool for clothing, et cetera--and the mother country provided the manufactured goods. The colonies were required to sell to and buy from only Great Britain. This monopoly produced high profits for the British and high amounts of smuggling and disregard for British authority in the American colonies. My state of Rhode Island, mentioned at 6:13, had so much smuggling that the British referred to it as "Rogues' Island." I've read some of the essays and letters written by still-loyal Americans (before the fighting began) in protest of the actions by the King and Parliament. They did not understand why Great Britain was risking unrest and increased smuggling at best, outright civil war at worst, over some taxes. They made the argument that the disruptions to trade would cost Great Britain far more in lost profits than they hoped to gain from the taxes, and it's difficult to disagree with that. 3) You seemed not to notice that the British Loyalist being tarred-and-feathered at 4:34 is wearing a Team GB jersey (kit). 4) The Boston Tea Party is often incorrectly described as a protest against any Americans having to pay a tax on tea. It was actually in protest of the British-owned East India Company, which had been granted an exemption from paying the tax that everyone else had to pay. 5) At 15:36, there is an illustration of a "prison ship," which were used to hold prisoners of war. Early in the war, the British captured many thousands of the untrained American soldiers. The British considered them criminals, not POWs deserving of humane treatment. Old ships that were no longer seaworthy were anchored in New York Harbor and filled to overflowing with POWs. At least 11,500 Americans died onboard these rotting ships, from disease, contaminated water, starvation, and heat exhaustion or exposure to the cold. That's more Americans than were killed in all the battles combined. I read that sharks were observed to congregate near these ships because of the frequent corpses thrown overboard.
An American didnt officially exist until after (agreed by both sides) independence. British subjects fought British subjects & a new nation formed from it. America copied the British East India flag to form the Stars & Stripes. Complete with the 13 red/white stripes representing the 13 English (later British colonies) & keeping the red/white & blue of the British Union flag. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@Paul-hl8yg Your first sentence is correct from a diplomatic standpoint, but this argument is a bit pedantic. By the 1770s, the people of the British colonies of North America were a separate nation in all but name. (I have read that many colonists who protested against the acts of Parliament remained loyal to the king and still considered themselves Englishmen, at least until the fighting began.) Many families had no members who had ever been to Great Britain going back several generations. The distance contributed to the mother country and the colonies developing different identities. The British government treating the colonists as second-class citizens further widened the separation. I wonder if some colonists considered themselves both American and British, similar to how those in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland today have two nationalities within the UK.
@@JPMadden Not only in Scotland Wales & Northern Ireland. In England too we consider ourselves English & British. Nations within a nation. So i believe those in the colonies would have had a very strong feeling of 'duel citizenship'. Also looking at the US flag, it is obvious that in the beginnings the people wanted to keep their heritage & links with the mother country. Remember Britain was global superpower & most trade came from Britain. A lifeline that those back then wouldn't want to sever. Or at least very hesitant to. To break from such a powerful global nation back then must have been very daunting. Also knowing their families dating back generations were back in their 'home country'. They were considered their own people. I also know that the people of Britain at the time had an understanding of the wishes of the colonies concerns. I suppose being at the bottom of the class system gave them this understanding. It was the rich & government that made all the decisions. Knowing hardships themselves & harsh laws, the lower classes must have felt a bond with their lower class fellow countrymen overseas. There are so many links over all that time that has kept a bond between Britain & America. It is a shame negative propaganda by governments got in the way & divided a once common people. The second world war for instance, when America stood & watched her mother nation being bombed & did not militarily get involved. Not only for Britain there but for France too. Although today we still share so many things genetically, historically, linguistically. To think that English/British history was/is still many Americans history too. The magna carta, Parliamentary Democracy, birth of the English/British protestant church & much more paved the way for not only what Britain stands for today but what America, Canada, Australia etc stands for also. As George Bernard Shaw/Churchill famously stated: "British and Americans are two countries/people separated by a common language." lol.
The second President of the United States, John Adams(1797-1801), defended the 8 British soldiers charged with murder for the Boston Massacre. He got 6 soldiers acquitted and the other 2 reduced to manslaughter and given reduced sentences. It was a Jury in the US and it did not hinder his political career which is crazy. John Adams died on July 4, 1826 at 90, 50 years at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. His last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." Jefferson had actually died 5 hours earlier at 83. Both had made it to 50 years after the signing, and overcome a bitter extreme bitter political rivalry to become great friends.
That's how my family ended up settling in Canada from the late 1700s until my great grandfather moved to the US in 1920... they backed the wrong horse.
I graduated high school in 2016 and oddly enough we would watch these kinds of videos in our History classes. Along with the shows you can often watch on the History Channel and Crash course videos.
Gaynor, you would have made a wonderful teacher. Your enjoyment of fast paced , cartoon style learning would resonate so well with children. There's nothing more beautiful than an active and engaged mind no matter the age.
The British tea tax is the reason coffee is FAR preferred in the U.S. instead of tea. Funny how the simplest of things can result in such a long-lasting (and lucrative) effect.
Early Americans wanted to still be part of England, it was just the English seeking to control too much, tax everything without representation and attitude at the time that caused the split. George Washington famously tried to become an officer in the British Army in his early career, but the British didn't want any Americans for some reason. He quit and later became Britain's biggest thorn in the side. In the end we were always a British colony and always have a soft spot for our progenitors and friends.
An 'American' did not officially exist until after independence. The war of independence was fought between British subjects fighting British subjects.
Probably the one thing that gets over-hyped and is not told very accurately is the Boston Tea Party. First, it was not widely celebrated. The Sons of Liberty were considered hooligans by most of Boston who saw the destruction of private property to be criminal. The city fathers insisted that the tea be paid for and even a lock (a fairly expensive item at the time) which was broken during the raid was replaced. The Tea Tax as well as the other Townshend Acts were repealed and were not the trigger for the revolution. Instead it was the act which virtually dissolved the ruling council for the Massachusetts Colony which was the real instigation for revolution. The colonists were law abiding Englishmen (and women). And since the Magna Carta Englishmen were guaranteed representative government. By putting Boston under direct Crown rule and a military occupation leaders in EVERY colony saw this as an assault upon the very laws which guaranteed their lives, property and rights as Englishmen. In other words, if King George could do this to Boston then what would prevent him from doing it to the rest of the colonies? And that was the real instigation for the American Revolution. It started out less of a rebellion than an assertion of the rights Englishmen had enjoyed since the Magna Carta.
It doesn't help that the King told all the leaders he was going to hang them all for treason early on (before any fighting had started). After that, they either had to win independence or they would die. So there was the fact that the King was basically forcing them to do this or die as well.
@@liarwithagun That was certainly true once the Continental Congress voted out the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776. As Franklin is credited with saying, "we must all hang together, or ... we shall all hang separately." But when the Boston Tea Party occurred In December of 1773 there was no such threat hanging over the Founding Father's heads. Most of the more egregious taxes and levies as a result of the Townshend Acts had been repealed. It was specifically the reaction of the Crown and Parliament in passing the "Intolerable Acts" of 1775 which pushed the colonies toward rebellion. Included with them was the Massachusetts Government Act which specifically and unilaterally took away the colony's charter and put it under the rule of a Crown appointed governor. This is what most outraged the other colonies. If the King could strip Massachusetts of its rights under the Magna Carta then no colony was now safe. And these actions would be specifically mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as the right cause for rebellion.
All 3 are wonderful students. Aiden & Sophie are a teacher's dream & their mom is a great parent. Over here in NY, we love people like this. Having a separate military 🪖🎖️ history course for them would be so good! 😁
The issue was not the taxation ut the representation. Parliment claimed it could raise taxes and no colonist could vote an MP out. Infact they abolished some taxes in England, where they could lose votes.
It's more complicated than that. The French lost their territory in North America to England and Spain in 1763. Napoleon conquered Spain after that and forced them to give back the French territory. Then Napoleon realized that the English were going to invade his territory in North America so he sold it to the Americans instead.
I’m thinking to myself ‘is it my ear buds or a huge echo sound in my ears & head’. Plus right now we’re dealing with some major wind gust 💨 here in the Foothills of the Smokey Mtns in the Appalachian. So I’m glad to see in the comments someone else is hearing the same echo. ✌🏻
In Portland Maine there is a cannonball that was shot into the First Parish Church. That ball was made into a chandelier .That ball was one of Many fired into Falmouth burning it to the ground. In 1692 Falmouth was part of Salem Massachusetts , and 4 witches are buried in unmarked Graves .
I love that in response to being over taxed and having a punch of people shot the colonists thought “how can we hit them where it really hurts, what do they love more than life?….. TEA!!!” 😂😂😂
It’s because of the XX chromosomes for girls and the XY chromosomes for boys. The father’s genes determine the sex of the child. There is more genetic material on the X chromosome. This is why girls tend to look more like their fathers. Since the Y chromosome has less of the father’s genetic material, the X chromosome of the mother tends to dominate, boys tend to look more like the mother. Notice I say TEND. It isn’t 100%. I have three sons and the middle one looks exactly like his father.😅
When I was in school, my history teacher told me to write a report about the English Civil War. So I wrote about the civil war between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians in the War of the Roses. But it turned out that he wanted me to write about the one with Oliver Cromwell. It turns out that England had too many civil wars. I was used to America which had just one.
one note - Alexander Hamilton never served in the Continental Congress (he was born in 1755 or 57). He did serve in the Continental Army and became Washington's chief of staff.
There were several issues. The colonists wanted to take all the land west to the mississippi river and wanted to make war on the natives and continue the slave trade ... The king didn't want them to do that ... Unless the king told them too. The colonies were taxed, but they had no hard currency to pay it with. Previously hard currency had been obtained by piracy against the Spanish and French, but the king had also outlawed piracy.
@@itz_otto GB has been on a we-were-woke-first rehabilitation tour. To the extent GB wanted to limit Western expansion, it had nothing to do with caring for Natives or Africans.
@@williambranch4283 The basic things you said in your original comment are false is why i commented. King George didnt want colonists going past the ohio river valley because of treaties they had with the natives. the land west of the Mississippi belonged to the french at the time. the mississippi wasnt the boundary colonists werent supposed to cross. it was the ohio river valley
For some added context. During the 7 Years War, much of the fighting in North America was carried out by colonial militia. And the British interest was in protecting their land holdings for the sake of influence, prestige, crops production, furs, etc not really to protect the people living there. So when the British started talking like "we selflessly protected you from the French so give us money", the colonies were like "Bruh, you only cared about protecting your assets and we did a lot of the fighting so no, plus you give us no say in all these taxes so yet again no." I mean people think the US revolution was "against taxes" but it was against having to blindly follow laws and pay taxes to a government we had no say in how it worked.
If this had been handled differently, the 13 colonies would have remained British for a while longer. The expansion westward might not have happened as quickly (or at all) and if the 13 colonies were still British in 1833, slavery would have been abolished without a civil war. Without the bitterness left after the war of independence, with many loyalists moving to Canada, the current country might include the territories of what is now Canada and the United States. Lots of fun alternate history possibilities here.
Yeah Ireland and Scotland fought a lot longer to separate themselves from the English and were devastated many times during it. Literally hundreds of years the Irish fought to just get most of the country. So it does seem inevitable that separation happens there if they fought that long and america is even further away and harder to maintain control over. The English ended slavery but not tons of child labor so a version of slavery was still going on in England, wether the civil war would happen is up in the air maybe like so many other things could happen.
6:10 Second US president John Adams was a lawyer at this time. He was the only person willing to defend the soldiers in court and won. The soldiers fired in self defense to protect themselves.
It's always interesting. Enjoy the humor, but definitely can see its history through modern politics rather than simply telling history in a fun way at points. And it's sort of like how I had a very rough know of a lot of European history outside of the World Wars, Rome, and Greece until college. I love history, so I don't need the fast pace or cartoons to get me into it, though.
I'm surprised it's never mentioned that all the defeats is why Washington is defined as such an important and amazing leader. He was able to keep moral high enough to not to submit to defeat even when losing so many battles. This is why he is regarded so highly, if not for him, the revolution would have easily fallen apart, plus I actually love how the maker did him dirty and in portraying his actual character hahaha.
So is King George remembered as a good King in the UK? So many Brits are taught that the American Colonies weren't a priority, so you just let us go, and that's why this isn't taught in schools. But it kinda looks like they mattered to King George and the war only ended- after several years- due to pressure from Parliament.
He’s definitely not the villain they make him out to be in our elementary school curriculum He was the first of the Hanover Kings to speak English without a German accent - King George I, his great grandfather, and King George Ii, his grandfather , all didnt speak English as their first language. After Queen Anne’s death the throne was passed onto the House of Hanover, and George I was ruling Hanover already as the Elector of Hanover when he became King of Great Britain and so he definitely cared more about his German possessions than the UK George III had some…interesting quirks in personality however and he did meddle in politics a lot more than his grandfather and great grandfather, like almost screwing up the 7 yrs war by firing William Pitt the elder But overall a decent king before he developed mental issues late in life (historians think it may have been porphyria, a hereditary condition, though there is also research that suggests it WAS a mental illness like bipolar disorder) - but by then his son was old enough to serve as regent
No king George fell off the wagon pretty quickly. We could have taken all of north America but his greed cost us. Along with us preserving the rest of the empire around the world.
@jkjkjk are you saying that the English think he was a good king based solely on the fact that he did not gave an unacceptable accent? That is bizarre.
Okay I’m from Boston and I of course knew in detail about the Boston tea party (there’s literally a ship in Boston harbor that’s a museum of this event and you can go on the ship and throw cartons of tea off it😂) the rest I know very little about. I learned so much from this video!
just so we're all aware, the 7 years war was not caused by a native killing a French soldier in America. America was a side theatre during the seven years war (In America it's called the French and indian war) and lasted 9 years. The actual seven years war broke out after the Austrians tried to take back the province of Silesia which the Prussians had (underhandedly) taken from us during the war of Austrian suggestions. It's also a major region why calling someone a "Prussian" is still used as an insult in Austria. Well, Prussian or "Piefke" which originally meant Prussian Soldiers but was used for Prussians in general
I just love this family and channel. Being an Native American, my ancestors who were already here get a chuckle out of those who proclaim they discovered America and were here to greet them.
I think the one overlooked detail of the Boston Massacre would be the following trial of Captain Thomas Preston and the seven soldiers who opened fire on the crowd. They were being charged with murder, which was punishable by hanging at the time. No lawyer in Boston was volunteering to be their defense attorney until well-respected John Adams decided to take the defense case. John Adams was a close cousin to the leading patriotic voice of Boston; Samuel Adams. He was also not a fan of the presence of the British soldiers and was a strong advocate against the Stamp Act. But to everyone’s surprise, he professionally led the defense with sincere obedience to the law and the presented evidence. He successfully had Preston and his men acquitted of the murder charge as the evidence proved that they fired out of both panic and intent for self-defense, and not out of malicious aggression. Such was a testimony to both John Adam’s character and professionalism as a lawyer. Even at the risk of his own reputation, he made sure the law was still carried out in Boston and not by mob rule. He would go on to become the 2nd President of the United States and in my personal opinion, remains to be one of the most overlooked Founding Fathers of the country.
I know this is an old video but I just want to say when I was contracting in Europe with some Brits, they were the best people. Even got invited to take a flight to London for one guy's wedding. It was absolutely lovely. We've since lost touch but I remember we had a great time while it lasted. We're friends you and I. Even though I hate Tea.
I've seen this a few times but never noticed the errors before, the guy doesn't pronounce Concord correctly and the locations of cities on the map are incorrect, they showed Falmouth Massachusetts as being in Maine.
They didn't want to do that because if they did then by shear numbers and land onwership, the various colonies would vastly outnumber the people in thr home islands and take over parliments. It would badically be them voting themselves out of power. You can see why they didn't do it and why Britain was basically destinied to those it's colonies one way or another.
Tbh it's also understandable they don't teach this much in Britain. America as a nation only has been around for 250ish yrs. To teach England's history you'd have to go back to really honestly, the invasion of the British Isles by Julius Caesar and talk about Roman Britain, then the invasion of the Anglo Saxons, the legend of Arthur, the 7 Kingdoms, the nordic invasions, then the Norman conquest. AND all of that is basically just the prologue lol. Also when talking about 1700s-1800s Britain we have to take into account that Britain had built its empire already and what was going on in America was only one of many things happening for Britain at the time. The 7 years war for example mentioned here, the war in the American theater was only one of MANY fronts the war was fought on - the MAIN theater of the war on the continent was with Frederick the Great of Prussia, fighting the Russians, Austrians and the French. Hell, even the Mughal Empire joined in the fray as well in Asia in that war! That TRULY was a global war. And understandable that schools in the UK won't go into too much detail b/c to teach all this all 12 yrs of school may not be enough lmao
No we don’t. Magna Carta, and then mayflower and up. Unless your from Spanish colonies. It’s starts with Columbus, but more info on hernan Cortes, then up.
@@gawainethefirst for everyone?? From my understanding isn’t there quite a bit of difference in the things that they cover between A level classes vs GSCE? Bc at least for me in the US - there was a HUGE gap between the AP classes(comparable to A level in the UK) vs the general history classes in terms of the level of depth and the topics they cover.
@counselthyself Lol the average Brexit geeser is the same tbh. As a Korean immigrant y'all are similar when it comes to Asia, and honestly from my experiences the avg European was actually more ignorant about East Asia than your average American funnily enough. Point is, yes, Americans dumb, we get it, sh*t I make those jokes all the time but lol why the vitriol man some of y'all Brits need to check yourselves too w/ your own dumbasses too. In fact, I find it funny when some of you guys always bring up American imperialism (which of course deserves a lot of criticism) b/c like bro you guys are the OGs of imperialism, the Real Madrid of Imperialism. Or better yet, the Manchester United of Imperialism, b/c just like United the sun has already set in your empire
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OverSimplified is one of my FAVORITE TH-cam Channels. You said it right! OverSimplified is how history should be taught in schools! You should react to the other OverSimplified videos on American History as well as European History as well.
@@scarecrowman7789 I agree. From a standpoint of actually taking ground and controlling it. The sun never set on the British empire was true. So the the fact they sent 25% of their entire worldwide forces tells you how much they wanted to keep the colonies.
My ancestor Henry Sheetz and his brothers were gunsmiths and got commissioned by George Washington to make guns for the army. History is kind of fun to learn especially if you can find a way to make it relatable.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! They left out one of the most important (if not THE most important) events. In 1763 (one year before they start with the all so famous tax thingy) the King of England, in an effort to maintain peace with the French and the native people, signed a pact with this in it... And whereas it is just and reasonable and essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting grounds; we do therefore…declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that no governor or commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, East Florida, or West Florida, do presume, upon any pretense whatever, to grant warrants of survey or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments.… And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchasing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interests and to the great dissatisfaction of the said Indians; in order, therefore, to prevent such irregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we…strictly enjoin and require that no private person do presume to make any purchase from the said Indians of any lands reserved to the said Indians within those parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony, respectively, within which they shall lie. The wealthy land owners amongst the colonists (the founding father types) did not like that one little bit. Taxes? Everyone hates taxes. Taxes were just a smokescreen they could rally the people behind. As the first President of the United States, George Washington lead armed, well regulated state militia to put down a freedom loving, American protest against.... You guessed it!!! A tax. It sure is interesting how such key items manage to always slip through the telling of American history. Downright amazing.
The Declaration is a criminal indictment, and a very specific one. Could a reigning British monarch be charged with criminal offenses? Parliament itself had done it, a century earlier.
British General Bergoyne took his army into the American wilderness with personal baggage requiring over 60 oxcarts. Fine china, silverware, furniture, crates of alcohol, dozens of formal dress uniforms and over 100 pairs of boots. It took Burgoyne's native American scouts a few days to decide the British were idiots headed for disaster, so they split. British officer bought their commissions, while ability meant nothing. That arrogance is why every British colony couldn't wait to kick them out.
I missed a bit of the video because it started buffering at 15:42 and won't play until I skipped to 16:23 and then it only played for a few seconds then started buffering again. I checked my internet and it was good. Anyone else have that problem.
Good stuff it’s always interesting to see what other citizens of the world think of America. Especially from the English people. I’ve heard that American independence isn’t even taught in the schools but not for sure.
I am a history and political science professor at the University here in Texas. My students have actually told me, we should do these videos like they do on TH-cam, and make that part of our curriculum. I’m thinking to myself, my God we have digressed as a People. 😂😂😂😂😂
To your comment at the end when you said it's interesting how we fought so much but now us and Britain are best of friends, Britain is America's parent we were just a rebellious teen that wanted to go our own way and now we made up, were family basically
'murica and Engerland finally became friends in the 19th century when the U.K., slowly, imperfectly supported the Monroe Doctrine. Both the US and the U.K. wanted independent states in the Americas, opposing French and Spanish colonialism. That and the shared culture brought the countries together. One of the best diplomatic decisions in English history.
What's the name of your dealer? You must be smoking some really heavy stuff if you think Britain wanted any part of America's manifest destiny to create a new world. 'Britain wanted independent states in America'..that made me fall off my chair reading this...not in shock, but laughter
@@nixonmalasi8982 No, I want to know who is your dealer. The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny are different things, supported by different political groups of 19th-century America. Sit down, you Dunning-Kruger baby.
@counselthyself No, that isn't even close. Manifest Destiny was popular in the slaving south, where slave drivers fantasized about conquering new territories. The Monroe Doctrine was an anti-colonialism statement which attempted to keep colonial powers from the Americas. Go read a book, you dumbell.
Write a book, it'll help you digest that garbage slowly in a manner that won't give you a meltdown like what just happened here. Utter garbage... colonialism & all that crap. That's what England is known for, period.. monarchies & all that shit.
@@nixonmalasi8982 I've read, on average, about three books a week for over three decades. The utter ridiculousness of an internet random telling me 'to read a book'. 🙄
It's interesting in Britain that Charles l and Charles ll were seen as horrible kings ,but they played an important part in American history - the Restoration Colonies. Charles the ll was responsible for creating the Carolinas ,New York , Pennsylvania, New Jersey
The Minutemen are really the best example of why guns are so ingrained in American culture and why the idea that the government can not limit that right is so fundamentally American. Many of the Minutemen were colonial militia but many others were just normal citizens. Normal people with no formal training were some of the first people to stand up and fight back against a tyrannical government. That is why we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place and any move to limit those rights needs to be defeated.
Interesting tid bit: the lawyer who represented the soldiers in the Boston massacre trial later became President of the United States and the first Vice President: John Adams.
I think you're spot on about how we once were enemies in our allies but you also have to remember this, You are our ancestors... we are you, and you are us ❤️.
My family fought in the American Revolution. Which is kinda funny, cause I’m a descendant of the British & European monarchies. My family were also the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony.
Guys im so impressed here you all so interested in history and knowing what happened decades ago !im also interested as a black South African in UK we all need the truth of what happened !its no our faults bt our ancenstors bt we can atleast find a small truth in that to reocincile and get along !tl
A large portion of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. One was even part of the Boston Tea Party. Watching this makes me damn proud of my ancestors. P.S. i think most americans like to tease the british for how we kicked you guys out of our country. haha that's probably why that little boy said "suckers"
Morocco was actually the first country to recognize our independence. Our Treaty of Friendship with them is the longest treaty with another nation in our history and it has NEVER been broken in 2 and a half centuries 😊
Awesome! Glad we have great friends! 🙂💯
AAAAACtually, they were the first and longest we went to war with. The Marines were born out of it. It is called The Barbary Coast War, which was finally won by Stephen Decatur.
We only signed a contract to keep from paying their jizyah tax, but they did what all them do and broke the contract, kept raiding ships and taking people hostage. Sooooo, wanna try again?
well now, learned me something new today, thanks for that info
Morocco, like Senegal, where I grew up, doesn't extradite to the US
@@newdoggproductions no problem!
Many of the colonists were 5+ generations in the colonies, but they still considered themselves British. It is important to remember that at the outbreak of the war they were NOT fighting for independence. They were fighting to be treated as full English citizens, with a voice in how they were governed. They were willing to lay down their lives for liberty, but were not seeking independence (yet). The taxes were offensive to them not for how high they were (they were not that high), but because English common law guaranteed a person being taxed the right to help decide how they were taxed. But as a colonist they didn't have representation in parliament.
Representation was a difficult matter. With the American population approaching 50% of that of England and growing fast adding the American colonists representatives directly to parliament would be a major shake-up in the balance of power. And to make matters worse, if land ownership was used in any formula for calculating representation the massive amount of land in the American colonies could turn them all into voters. Intelligent people foresaw an England where the population at home would become a minority dominated by British citizens living outside of the homeland. There were attempts at compromise, but they were poorly designed and failed.
Another thing to understand is that each colony was effectively a corporation from the English point of view. They often treated each separately and the colonists themselves had little loyalty collectively. When dealing with the post-7 Years War issues Franklin advocated that the colonies needed to negotiate collectively. Many of the images used during the war were based not on rebellion, but on failed attempts at collective bargaining, like the chopped up snake "Join or Die" isn't about joining the army.
George Washington was an officer in the colonial army, not the redcoats. After the 7 years war (We call it the French and Indian War in the U.S.) Washington wanted a commission in the royal army, but was rejected... again, 2nd class citizen. It is very important to understand that George Washington did not join the continental army to fight for independence. He and most others felt that they were fighting for their rights as English citizens when the conflict started. Kill each other for a few months and the idea of independence became more popular - but it never became extremely popular. Most people just wanted the fighting to stop regardless of outcome.
I do living history presentations and sometimes portray a loyalist. It is surprising to Americans today to learn that the idea of independence wasn't popular at first - they're fooled by the modern media into thinking we hated England. We didn't - we hated parliament - and who doesn't at any point in history? This was a civil war, with families being very split on the issues. Brothers fought brothers, literally at times.
Side note: The Boston Tea Party actually had invitations... the 1000s of on-lookers knew it was going to happen... it was a real party.
Never thought about it like this 👏🏼👏🏼
It was a completely different circumstance for my ansctors in India at the time India during the American Revolution was a Brtish colony ruled by the East India Trading Company. But they only ruled Bengal Subah province which includes Bhair Odisha Jharkhand and the Modern Indian state of West Bengal and Bengal Bangladesh. Also in India we where not white Westerners but Hindus Sikhs Punjabis Indian Muslims Bengals Tamils Marathas or brown Asian people In a Asian land
@@TheAaronChand I am absolutely going to do some reading into India during this time. That's very interesting, thank you for sharing!
@@Dvsnb here's John Dickinson of Pennsylvania one of the Singers of the Declaration of independence and an American Revolutionary. Comparing the American colonies with India saying that unlike the people of India. But thank God we are not sea poys nor Marrrattas but Brtish subjects who are born to liberty and know its worth and prise it high. So obviously the American Revolutionaries had white supermisist ethnocentric views. And didn't see the people of India or other Asian countries under Brtish rule as equal to them
@@Dvsnb also keep in mind India by the 18th century during this time Period was still one of the wealthiest countries in the Old World. With 23% GDP
OK, so we've done this before, and I think we can do it again. I need everyone in on this, so nobody be a spoil sport. Don't tell them who wins! Don't do it! I know you're all just dying to tell them, but don't. I think it'll be more fun for them if they wait to watch the 2nd video to find out, so let's keep it a secret for now.
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Aaaaand, they've already watched part 2, so this was a bust. FAIL! 😄
When I visited Morocco, one of the first things that a local told me was that they were proud of being the first country to recognize the US.
A detail that I think is worth remembering,
is that John Adams was the Lawyer who represented the British soldiers - who were charged with Murder after the Boston Massacre.
All were acquitted.
In the US we learn about the shooting - but not that they were acquitted of any criminal charges -
or that a signer of the Declaration of Independence was a man willing to risk his livelihood on a matter of principle, by defending British Soldiers in court.
Actually two were found guilty of manslaughter because they fired into the crowd. However their punishment was reduced to branding of their thumbs in court.
"AYE YO. FREE EM TILL ITS BACKWARDS" 😤💯
@@craigplatel813 Yeah beats the hell out of being hanged
Adams was our first lawyer President. He knew the paramount importance of the rule of law in the new nation. In throwing off the yoke of Britain, its common-law foundation, codified and clarified in writing, was retained.
@@craigplatel813Still, a far more suitable punishment to those soldiers rather than a hanging.
15:06 I remember watching a documentary and it said that as the Americans took up defensive positions, they made sure to cover four routes that they believed the British would likely attack from. However, only one of these routes was lightly defended (I think it was literally FIVE soldiers that were guarding said route) and after being informed of this by _loyalist_ Americans, the main British force captured these five men and then were able to take the Americans by surprise completely unopposed.
Same thing happened when the Americans took a fort to get guns and barely fired a shot.
amazing non reaction, reaction lol you all three were glued to the screen haha that was just great :)
Britain really blew the 13 colony lead 😬😬
Spain blew a 42-0 lead.
Ok very clever lol
The 13 are still on the flag!
true, but I don't remember America ever having 13 colonies
@@Alexander-vo4gv The 13 English/British colonies
One of the biggest grievance was that England wouldn't let the Colonies manufacture anything. The Colonies had to send all raw material to Britain and buy goods from them and ship them back.
1) The Seven Years' War ended in 1763. That £60 million debt is equivalent to £15.2 billion today.
2) One thing not mentioned by OverSimplified was that, according to the royal charters of most or all of the colonies, Parliament did not have the authority to tax the colonies. That power was held by the colonial legislatures. Parliament did have the authority to regulate trade between the colonies and the UK. The taxes that Parliament levied were tariffs on trade. Aside from the principle of "no taxation without representation," there was a legal disagreement as to whether Parliament had the authority to create these tariffs.
Another objection to the taxes was that the colonists felt that the mercantilist system provided sufficient payment to Great Britain for their defense. Under a mercantilist system, colonies are established by the mother country as business enterprises, as well as for political and military power. The colonies produced raw materials--food, lumber for the Royal Navy, wool for clothing, et cetera--and the mother country provided the manufactured goods. The colonies were required to sell to and buy from only Great Britain. This monopoly produced high profits for the British and high amounts of smuggling and disregard for British authority in the American colonies. My state of Rhode Island, mentioned at 6:13, had so much smuggling that the British referred to it as "Rogues' Island."
I've read some of the essays and letters written by still-loyal Americans (before the fighting began) in protest of the actions by the King and Parliament. They did not understand why Great Britain was risking unrest and increased smuggling at best, outright civil war at worst, over some taxes. They made the argument that the disruptions to trade would cost Great Britain far more in lost profits than they hoped to gain from the taxes, and it's difficult to disagree with that.
3) You seemed not to notice that the British Loyalist being tarred-and-feathered at 4:34 is wearing a Team GB jersey (kit).
4) The Boston Tea Party is often incorrectly described as a protest against any Americans having to pay a tax on tea. It was actually in protest of the British-owned East India Company, which had been granted an exemption from paying the tax that everyone else had to pay.
5) At 15:36, there is an illustration of a "prison ship," which were used to hold prisoners of war. Early in the war, the British captured many thousands of the untrained American soldiers. The British considered them criminals, not POWs deserving of humane treatment. Old ships that were no longer seaworthy were anchored in New York Harbor and filled to overflowing with POWs. At least 11,500 Americans died onboard these rotting ships, from disease, contaminated water, starvation, and heat exhaustion or exposure to the cold. That's more Americans than were killed in all the battles combined. I read that sharks were observed to congregate near these ships because of the frequent corpses thrown overboard.
An American didnt officially exist until after (agreed by both sides) independence. British subjects fought British subjects & a new nation formed from it. America copied the British East India flag to form the Stars & Stripes. Complete with the 13 red/white stripes representing the 13 English (later British colonies) & keeping the red/white & blue of the British Union flag. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@Paul-hl8yg Your first sentence is correct from a diplomatic standpoint, but this argument is a bit pedantic. By the 1770s, the people of the British colonies of North America were a separate nation in all but name. (I have read that many colonists who protested against the acts of Parliament remained loyal to the king and still considered themselves Englishmen, at least until the fighting began.) Many families had no members who had ever been to Great Britain going back several generations. The distance contributed to the mother country and the colonies developing different identities. The British government treating the colonists as second-class citizens further widened the separation.
I wonder if some colonists considered themselves both American and British, similar to how those in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland today have two nationalities within the UK.
@@JPMadden Not only in Scotland Wales & Northern Ireland. In England too we consider ourselves English & British. Nations within a nation. So i believe those in the colonies would have had a very strong feeling of 'duel citizenship'. Also looking at the US flag, it is obvious that in the beginnings the people wanted to keep their heritage & links with the mother country. Remember Britain was global superpower & most trade came from Britain. A lifeline that those back then wouldn't want to sever. Or at least very hesitant to. To break from such a powerful global nation back then must have been very daunting. Also knowing their families dating back generations were back in their 'home country'. They were considered their own people. I also know that the people of Britain at the time had an understanding of the wishes of the colonies concerns. I suppose being at the bottom of the class system gave them this understanding. It was the rich & government that made all the decisions. Knowing hardships themselves & harsh laws, the lower classes must have felt a bond with their lower class fellow countrymen overseas. There are so many links over all that time that has kept a bond between Britain & America. It is a shame negative propaganda by governments got in the way & divided a once common people. The second world war for instance, when America stood & watched her mother nation being bombed & did not militarily get involved. Not only for Britain there but for France too. Although today we still share so many things genetically, historically, linguistically. To think that English/British history was/is still many Americans history too. The magna carta, Parliamentary Democracy, birth of the English/British protestant church & much more paved the way for not only what Britain stands for today but what America, Canada, Australia etc stands for also. As George Bernard Shaw/Churchill famously stated: "British and Americans are two countries/people separated by a common language." lol.
The second President of the United States, John Adams(1797-1801), defended the 8 British soldiers charged with murder for the Boston Massacre. He got 6 soldiers acquitted and the other 2 reduced to manslaughter and given reduced sentences. It was a Jury in the US and it did not hinder his political career which is crazy.
John Adams died on July 4, 1826 at 90, 50 years at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. His last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." Jefferson had actually died 5 hours earlier at 83. Both had made it to 50 years after the signing, and overcome a bitter extreme bitter political rivalry to become great friends.
That's how my family ended up settling in Canada from the late 1700s until my great grandfather moved to the US in 1920... they backed the wrong horse.
I graduated high school in 2016 and oddly enough we would watch these kinds of videos in our History classes. Along with the shows you can often watch on the History Channel and Crash course videos.
"Oversimplified" is an understatement.
The Declaration of Independence is a clear description of the situation.
Every year on patriots day Lexington celebrates by having reenactments of the British retreat.
I was born in Lexington, they go hard. The fourth of July parade is huge!
@@thamertanner5448 I'm in rutland, ma.
6:00 While the Americans called it the Boston Massacre, British newspapers referred to it as An Incident in Boston.
Gaynor, you would have made a wonderful teacher. Your enjoyment of fast paced , cartoon style learning would resonate so well with children. There's nothing more beautiful than an active and engaged mind no matter the age.
The British tea tax is the reason coffee is FAR preferred in the U.S. instead of tea. Funny how the simplest of things can result in such a long-lasting (and lucrative) effect.
cant listen that echo is insane
Early Americans wanted to still be part of England, it was just the English seeking to control too much, tax everything without representation and attitude at the time that caused the split. George Washington famously tried to become an officer in the British Army in his early career, but the British didn't want any Americans for some reason. He quit and later became Britain's biggest thorn in the side. In the end we were always a British colony and always have a soft spot for our progenitors and friends.
An 'American' did not officially exist until after independence. The war of independence was fought between British subjects fighting British subjects.
I am so glad we don’t have a government that taxes everything anymore……..
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@@michaelgumienny679 The flag copied from the flag of the British East India Company. 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸
@@Paul-hl8yg you lost bozo!
Probably the one thing that gets over-hyped and is not told very accurately is the Boston Tea Party. First, it was not widely celebrated. The Sons of Liberty were considered hooligans by most of Boston who saw the destruction of private property to be criminal. The city fathers insisted that the tea be paid for and even a lock (a fairly expensive item at the time) which was broken during the raid was replaced. The Tea Tax as well as the other Townshend Acts were repealed and were not the trigger for the revolution. Instead it was the act which virtually dissolved the ruling council for the Massachusetts Colony which was the real instigation for revolution. The colonists were law abiding Englishmen (and women). And since the Magna Carta Englishmen were guaranteed representative government. By putting Boston under direct Crown rule and a military occupation leaders in EVERY colony saw this as an assault upon the very laws which guaranteed their lives, property and rights as Englishmen. In other words, if King George could do this to Boston then what would prevent him from doing it to the rest of the colonies? And that was the real instigation for the American Revolution. It started out less of a rebellion than an assertion of the rights Englishmen had enjoyed since the Magna Carta.
It doesn't help that the King told all the leaders he was going to hang them all for treason early on (before any fighting had started). After that, they either had to win independence or they would die. So there was the fact that the King was basically forcing them to do this or die as well.
@@liarwithagun That was certainly true once the Continental Congress voted out the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776. As Franklin is credited with saying, "we must all hang together, or ... we shall all hang separately."
But when the Boston Tea Party occurred In December of 1773 there was no such threat hanging over the Founding Father's heads.
Most of the more egregious taxes and levies as a result of the Townshend Acts had been repealed.
It was specifically the reaction of the Crown and Parliament in passing the "Intolerable Acts" of 1775 which pushed the colonies toward rebellion. Included with them was the Massachusetts Government Act which specifically and unilaterally took away the colony's charter and put it under the rule of a Crown appointed governor. This is what most outraged the other colonies. If the King could strip Massachusetts of its rights under the Magna Carta then no colony was now safe.
And these actions would be specifically mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as the right cause for rebellion.
All 3 are wonderful students. Aiden & Sophie are a teacher's dream & their mom is a great parent. Over here in NY, we love people like this. Having a separate military 🪖🎖️ history course for them would be so good! 😁
I love watching all kinds of history videos. This was fun: Inviting some cool English people over to watch videos!
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1 correction:The Massachusetts town of Concord is pronounced "kahnkerd". The one in New Hampshire is ConCord.
The issue was not the taxation ut the representation. Parliment claimed it could raise taxes and no colonist could vote an MP out. Infact they abolished some taxes in England, where they could lose votes.
Partly it was the oppressive nature of the taxes. Parliament wanted payment in cash and the colonies were cash poor.
I mean the French did not "give up" their territory they SOLD it to the US during the Louisiana Purchase to be more correct. 😅
It's more complicated than that. The French lost their territory in North America to England and Spain in 1763. Napoleon conquered Spain after that and forced them to give back the French territory. Then Napoleon realized that the English were going to invade his territory in North America so he sold it to the Americans instead.
That ECO THO
I’m thinking to myself ‘is it my ear buds or a huge echo sound in my ears & head’. Plus right now we’re dealing with some major wind gust 💨 here in the Foothills of the Smokey Mtns in the Appalachian. So I’m glad to see in the comments someone else is hearing the same echo. ✌🏻
even in silly cartoon format, my heart still swells with american pride
In Portland Maine there is a cannonball that was shot into the First Parish Church. That ball was made into a chandelier .That ball was one of Many fired into Falmouth burning it to the ground. In 1692 Falmouth was part of Salem Massachusetts , and 4 witches are buried in unmarked Graves .
The audio was a bit off on this one.
More than a "bit". The echo was annoying to the point that I was going to turn it off.
The day the British were forced out of Boston (March 17th) is still a celebrated local holiday here in the Boston area.
I love that in response to being over taxed and having a punch of people shot the colonists thought “how can we hit them where it really hurts, what do they love more than life?….. TEA!!!” 😂😂😂
Why do girls look so much like their fathers? Sophie is the mirror image of her dad. 💕
It’s because of the XX chromosomes for girls and the XY chromosomes for boys. The father’s genes determine the sex of the child. There is more genetic material on the X chromosome. This is why girls tend to look more like their fathers. Since the Y chromosome has less of the father’s genetic material, the X chromosome of the mother tends to dominate, boys tend to look more like the mother. Notice I say TEND. It isn’t 100%. I have three sons and the middle one looks exactly like his father.😅
American Revolution..... or British Civil War they never want to talk about or teach in their schools 🤔
When I was in school, my history teacher told me to write a report about the English Civil War. So I wrote about the civil war between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians in the War of the Roses. But it turned out that he wanted me to write about the one with Oliver Cromwell. It turns out that England had too many civil wars. I was used to America which had just one.
one note - Alexander Hamilton never served in the Continental Congress (he was born in 1755 or 57). He did serve in the Continental Army and became Washington's chief of staff.
There were several issues. The colonists wanted to take all the land west to the mississippi river and wanted to make war on the natives and continue the slave trade ... The king didn't want them to do that ... Unless the king told them too. The colonies were taxed, but they had no hard currency to pay it with. Previously hard currency had been obtained by piracy against the Spanish and French, but the king had also outlawed piracy.
it wasnt the Mississippi. it was the ohio river valley the king didnt want them to go past. and britain didnt get rid of slavery until 1807
@@itz_otto GB has been on a we-were-woke-first rehabilitation tour. To the extent GB wanted to limit Western expansion, it had nothing to do with caring for Natives or Africans.
@@williambranch4283 The basic things you said in your original comment are false is why i commented. King George didnt want colonists going past the ohio river valley because of treaties they had with the natives. the land west of the Mississippi belonged to the french at the time. the mississippi wasnt the boundary colonists werent supposed to cross. it was the ohio river valley
@@itz_otto Before the Seven Years War that was true, but the French are only good for killing, just ask George Washington ;-)
I always love Oversimplified and I’m glad I found your channel I think I’ll have fun watching your videos
For some added context. During the 7 Years War, much of the fighting in North America was carried out by colonial militia. And the British interest was in protecting their land holdings for the sake of influence, prestige, crops production, furs, etc not really to protect the people living there. So when the British started talking like "we selflessly protected you from the French so give us money", the colonies were like "Bruh, you only cared about protecting your assets and we did a lot of the fighting so no, plus you give us no say in all these taxes so yet again no." I mean people think the US revolution was "against taxes" but it was against having to blindly follow laws and pay taxes to a government we had no say in how it worked.
If this had been handled differently, the 13 colonies would have remained British for a while longer. The expansion westward might not have happened as quickly (or at all) and if the 13 colonies were still British in 1833, slavery would have been abolished without a civil war. Without the bitterness left after the war of independence, with many loyalists moving to Canada, the current country might include the territories of what is now Canada and the United States. Lots of fun alternate history possibilities here.
Yeah Ireland and Scotland fought a lot longer to separate themselves from the English and were devastated many times during it. Literally hundreds of years the Irish fought to just get most of the country. So it does seem inevitable that separation happens there if they fought that long and america is even further away and harder to maintain control over. The English ended slavery but not tons of child labor so a version of slavery was still going on in England, wether the civil war would happen is up in the air maybe like so many other things could happen.
The expansion west would have probably happened faster if us brits were still in control, we love our land
I don’t think Britain would have abolished slavery in 1833 if they retained the American colonies.
there would have been a civil war regardless
When he says Falmouth Massachusetts and has Falmouth Maine highlighted I lost it 😂
"Columbus went in a big theft and murder spree" he actually didn't.
he did
I heard that and know this is so biased so I’m going to be wary of everything else this guy says.
@@turalmage Nope
I was wondering when you’d go down this rabbit hole
6:10 Second US president John Adams was a lawyer at this time. He was the only person willing to defend the soldiers in court and won. The soldiers fired in self defense to protect themselves.
It's always interesting. Enjoy the humor, but definitely can see its history through modern politics rather than simply telling history in a fun way at points.
And it's sort of like how I had a very rough know of a lot of European history outside of the World Wars, Rome, and Greece until college. I love history, so I don't need the fast pace or cartoons to get me into it, though.
In the US if you call someone a "Benedict Arnold" it means they are a traitor
That comes in a later video.
Or how you want your eggs. Because that misnomer is infinitely funny…
Grats on 10,000 subs, guys!
A brief history of war between thieves over a stolen land 😅
I'm surprised it's never mentioned that all the defeats is why Washington is defined as such an important and amazing leader. He was able to keep moral high enough to not to submit to defeat even when losing so many battles. This is why he is regarded so highly, if not for him, the revolution would have easily fallen apart, plus I actually love how the maker did him dirty and in portraying his actual character hahaha.
i mean he was a good leader but shitty commander
So is King George remembered as a good King in the UK? So many Brits are taught that the American Colonies weren't a priority, so you just let us go, and that's why this isn't taught in schools. But it kinda looks like they mattered to King George and the war only ended- after several years- due to pressure from Parliament.
He’s definitely not the villain they make him out to be in our elementary school curriculum
He was the first of the Hanover Kings to speak English without a German accent - King George I, his great grandfather, and King George Ii, his grandfather , all didnt speak English as their first language. After Queen Anne’s death the throne was passed onto the House of Hanover, and George I was ruling Hanover already as the Elector of Hanover when he became King of Great Britain and so he definitely cared more about his German possessions than the UK
George III had some…interesting quirks in personality however and he did meddle in politics a lot more than his grandfather and great grandfather, like almost screwing up the 7 yrs war by firing William Pitt the elder
But overall a decent king before he developed mental issues late in life (historians think it may have been porphyria, a hereditary condition, though there is also research that suggests it WAS a mental illness like bipolar disorder) - but by then his son was old enough to serve as regent
The British had a far more important war going on in Europe.
No king George fell off the wagon pretty quickly. We could have taken all of north America but his greed cost us. Along with us preserving the rest of the empire around the world.
@@scarecrowman7789 Britain was fighting a war in Europe!
@jkjkjk are you saying that the English think he was a good king based solely on the fact that he did not gave an unacceptable accent? That is bizarre.
I, for one, am very happy that Americans and British are friends now.
Okay I’m from Boston and I of course knew in detail about the Boston tea party (there’s literally a ship in Boston harbor that’s a museum of this event and you can go on the ship and throw cartons of tea off it😂) the rest I know very little about. I learned so much from this video!
I found your Channel when the American Revolution was listed. I was a Medic in the North Carolina Army National Guard from 1981 to 1987.
just so we're all aware, the 7 years war was not caused by a native killing a French soldier in America. America was a side theatre during the seven years war (In America it's called the French and indian war) and lasted 9 years. The actual seven years war broke out after the Austrians tried to take back the province of Silesia which the Prussians had (underhandedly) taken from us during the war of Austrian suggestions. It's also a major region why calling someone a "Prussian" is still used as an insult in Austria. Well, Prussian or "Piefke" which originally meant Prussian Soldiers but was used for Prussians in general
The reason why Americans drink coffee over tea.. The British taxed the tea and it was considered un-American to continue drinking it
The British drank coffee too & still do lol.
I just love this family and channel. Being an Native American, my ancestors who were already here get a chuckle out of those who proclaim they discovered America and were here to greet them.
The irony now is that we fought against being so over taxed for everything, but now we did a full circle and are taxed for everything. Love it.
I know 😮💨
Yep , and bigger government so less and less rights
I think the one overlooked detail of the Boston Massacre would be the following trial of Captain Thomas Preston and the seven soldiers who opened fire on the crowd. They were being charged with murder, which was punishable by hanging at the time. No lawyer in Boston was volunteering to be their defense attorney until well-respected John Adams decided to take the defense case.
John Adams was a close cousin to the leading patriotic voice of Boston; Samuel Adams. He was also not a fan of the presence of the British soldiers and was a strong advocate against the Stamp Act. But to everyone’s surprise, he professionally led the defense with sincere obedience to the law and the presented evidence. He successfully had Preston and his men acquitted of the murder charge as the evidence proved that they fired out of both panic and intent for self-defense, and not out of malicious aggression.
Such was a testimony to both John Adam’s character and professionalism as a lawyer. Even at the risk of his own reputation, he made sure the law was still carried out in Boston and not by mob rule. He would go on to become the 2nd President of the United States and in my personal opinion, remains to be one of the most overlooked Founding Fathers of the country.
i have watched all the oversimplified videos at least twice.
Falmouth is now Portland, Maine. They tried to have their own Tea Party, but the British put a stop to it.
I know this is an old video but I just want to say when I was contracting in Europe with some Brits, they were the best people. Even got invited to take a flight to London for one guy's wedding. It was absolutely lovely. We've since lost touch but I remember we had a great time while it lasted. We're friends you and I. Even though I hate Tea.
I've seen this a few times but never noticed the errors before, the guy doesn't pronounce Concord correctly and the locations of cities on the map are incorrect, they showed Falmouth Massachusetts as being in Maine.
It’s crazy Aiden didnt have to learn about the revolution it is a major part of our history growing up we learn it pretty young in my opinion
I love this group!
Hahaha they looked so pissed about the tea!!😂😅😂😅😂 Brits still mad thats hilarious
You don’t mess with tree bro that’s sacrilege
The method of fighting was crazy. Soldiers stand facing each other and shoot. I believe the Swamp Fox done guerrilla warfare.
Yep. And the Green Mountain Boys.
honestly all of this could have probably ben avoided if after the first round of taxes failed the crown had offered each colony seats in the commons
They didn't want to do that because if they did then by shear numbers and land onwership, the various colonies would vastly outnumber the people in thr home islands and take over parliments. It would badically be them voting themselves out of power. You can see why they didn't do it and why Britain was basically destinied to those it's colonies one way or another.
Tbh it's also understandable they don't teach this much in Britain.
America as a nation only has been around for 250ish yrs. To teach England's history you'd have to go back to really honestly, the invasion of the British Isles by Julius Caesar and talk about Roman Britain, then the invasion of the Anglo Saxons, the legend of Arthur, the 7 Kingdoms, the nordic invasions, then the Norman conquest. AND all of that is basically just the prologue lol. Also when talking about 1700s-1800s Britain we have to take into account that Britain had built its empire already and what was going on in America was only one of many things happening for Britain at the time. The 7 years war for example mentioned here, the war in the American theater was only one of MANY fronts the war was fought on - the MAIN theater of the war on the continent was with Frederick the Great of Prussia, fighting the Russians, Austrians and the French.
Hell, even the Mughal Empire joined in the fray as well in Asia in that war! That TRULY was a global war. And understandable that schools in the UK won't go into too much detail b/c to teach all this all 12 yrs of school may not be enough lmao
No we don’t. Magna Carta, and then mayflower and up. Unless your from Spanish colonies. It’s starts with Columbus, but more info on hernan Cortes, then up.
Except we learn about all of that in US schools, plus American history on top of it.
@@gawainethefirst for everyone?? From my understanding isn’t there quite a bit of difference in the things that they cover between A level classes vs GSCE?
Bc at least for me in the US - there was a HUGE gap between the AP classes(comparable to A level in the UK) vs the general history classes in terms of the level of depth and the topics they cover.
@counselthyself Lol the average Brexit geeser is the same tbh. As a Korean immigrant y'all are similar when it comes to Asia, and honestly from my experiences the avg European was actually more ignorant about East Asia than your average American funnily enough. Point is, yes, Americans dumb, we get it, sh*t I make those jokes all the time but lol why the vitriol man some of y'all Brits need to check yourselves too w/ your own dumbasses too.
In fact, I find it funny when some of you guys always bring up American imperialism (which of course deserves a lot of criticism) b/c like bro you guys are the OGs of imperialism, the Real Madrid of Imperialism. Or better yet, the Manchester United of Imperialism, b/c just like United the sun has already set in your empire
Films about the Revolutionary War:
JOHN ADAMS
THE CROSSING
BENEDICT ARNOLD
THE PATRIOT
1776
They really should teach this in school
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Notes: The unknown fate of a fleet, doesn't get a visible reáction from anyone that I've seen thus far. Trees take a long time to grow, just to be harvested for the wood used to build a wooden navy! So where is it coming from? Such a tiny island nation, with few woodlands, would be very dependent on colonies, to sustain such a large fleet. ⚓
OverSimplified is one of my FAVORITE TH-cam Channels. You said it right! OverSimplified is how history should be taught in schools! You should react to the other OverSimplified videos on American History as well as European History as well.
Oversimplified videos are so good
By the time of the American Resolution, my family had already been living in the British North American Colonies for about 150 years.
And most College Students think we fought against Germany during the Revolution. Higher learning at it's best. Hahahaha😂😅
I mean, none of this was funny but the way it is presented had me rolling 😂
When the British came back to America with 25,000 troops, that was literally one quarter of their entire fighting force worldwide.
Best military and biggest empire in human history 👍
@@scarecrowman7789 I agree. From a standpoint of actually taking ground and controlling it. The sun never set on the British empire was true. So the the fact they sent 25% of their entire worldwide forces tells you how much they wanted to keep the colonies.
My ancestor Henry Sheetz and his brothers were gunsmiths and got commissioned by George Washington to make guns for the army. History is kind of fun to learn especially if you can find a way to make it relatable.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! They left out one of the most important (if not THE most important) events. In 1763 (one year before they start with the all so famous tax thingy) the King of England, in an effort to maintain peace with the French and the native people, signed a pact with this in it...
And whereas it is just and reasonable and essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting grounds; we do therefore…declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that no governor or commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, East Florida, or West Florida, do presume, upon any pretense whatever, to grant warrants of survey or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments.…
And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchasing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interests and to the great dissatisfaction of the said Indians; in order, therefore, to prevent such irregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we…strictly enjoin and require that no private person do presume to make any purchase from the said Indians of any lands reserved to the said Indians within those parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony, respectively, within which they shall lie.
The wealthy land owners amongst the colonists (the founding father types) did not like that one little bit.
Taxes? Everyone hates taxes. Taxes were just a smokescreen they could rally the people behind. As the first President of the United States, George Washington lead armed, well regulated state militia to put down a freedom loving, American protest against....
You guessed it!!! A tax.
It sure is interesting how such key items manage to always slip through the telling of American history. Downright amazing.
The Declaration is a criminal indictment, and a very specific one. Could a reigning British monarch be charged with criminal offenses? Parliament itself had done it, a century earlier.
British General Bergoyne took his army into the American wilderness with personal baggage requiring over 60 oxcarts. Fine china, silverware, furniture, crates of alcohol, dozens of formal dress uniforms and over 100 pairs of boots. It took Burgoyne's native American scouts a few days to decide the British were idiots headed for disaster, so they split. British officer bought their commissions, while ability meant nothing. That arrogance is why every British colony couldn't wait to kick them out.
I missed a bit of the video because it started buffering at 15:42 and won't play until I skipped to 16:23 and then it only played for a few seconds then started buffering again. I checked my internet and it was good. Anyone else have that problem.
They issue the corduroy elbow patches when you get your History degree.
Good stuff it’s always interesting to see what other citizens of the world think of America. Especially from the English people. I’ve heard that American independence isn’t even taught in the schools but not for sure.
I am a history and political science professor at the University here in Texas. My students have actually told me, we should do these videos like they do on TH-cam, and make that part of our curriculum. I’m thinking to myself, my God we have digressed as a People. 😂😂😂😂😂
Ha
To your comment at the end when you said it's interesting how we fought so much but now us and Britain are best of friends, Britain is America's parent we were just a rebellious teen that wanted to go our own way and now we made up, were family basically
Hamilton on Broadway and on Disney Plus is great explaining the struggle of the US as a young nation after gaining freedom.
'murica and Engerland finally became friends in the 19th century when the U.K., slowly, imperfectly supported the Monroe Doctrine. Both the US and the U.K. wanted independent states in the Americas, opposing French and Spanish colonialism. That and the shared culture brought the countries together. One of the best diplomatic decisions in English history.
What's the name of your dealer? You must be smoking some really heavy stuff if you think Britain wanted any part of America's manifest destiny to create a new world. 'Britain wanted independent states in America'..that made me fall off my chair reading this...not in shock, but laughter
@@nixonmalasi8982 No, I want to know who is your dealer. The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny are different things, supported by different political groups of 19th-century America. Sit down, you Dunning-Kruger baby.
@counselthyself
No, that isn't even close.
Manifest Destiny was popular in the slaving south, where slave drivers fantasized about conquering new territories. The Monroe Doctrine was an anti-colonialism statement which attempted to keep colonial powers from the Americas.
Go read a book, you dumbell.
Write a book, it'll help you digest that garbage slowly in a manner that won't give you a meltdown like what just happened here. Utter garbage... colonialism & all that crap. That's what England is known for, period.. monarchies & all that shit.
@@nixonmalasi8982 I've read, on average, about three books a week for over three decades. The utter ridiculousness of an internet random telling me 'to read a book'. 🙄
It's interesting in Britain that Charles l and Charles ll were seen as horrible kings ,but they played an important part in American history - the Restoration Colonies.
Charles the ll was responsible for creating the Carolinas ,New York , Pennsylvania, New Jersey
The declaration of independence basically said "bite me"
The Minutemen are really the best example of why guns are so ingrained in American culture and why the idea that the government can not limit that right is so fundamentally American. Many of the Minutemen were colonial militia but many others were just normal citizens. Normal people with no formal training were some of the first people to stand up and fight back against a tyrannical government. That is why we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place and any move to limit those rights needs to be defeated.
Interesting tid bit: the lawyer who represented the soldiers in the Boston massacre trial later became President of the United States and the first Vice President: John Adams.
How's Daz feeling?
The reverb! dear god!
you guys should do adam ruins everything video on this! his is hilarious. all his videos are!
I think you're spot on about how we once were enemies in our allies but you also have to remember this, You are our ancestors... we are you, and you are us ❤️.
From an American, yes we are best Freinds.
Sometimes
That’s correct , sometimes lol
My family fought in the American Revolution. Which is kinda funny, cause I’m a descendant of the British & European monarchies. My family were also the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony.
Guys im so impressed here you all so interested in history and knowing what happened decades ago !im also interested as a black South African in UK we all need the truth of what happened !its no our faults bt our ancenstors bt we can atleast find a small truth in that to reocincile and get along !tl
A large portion of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. One was even part of the Boston Tea Party. Watching this makes me damn proud of my ancestors.
P.S. i think most americans like to tease the british for how we kicked you guys out of our country. haha that's probably why that little boy said "suckers"