The Free Soil Party Explained

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2024

ความคิดเห็น • 158

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Here is EmperorTigerstar's video about the Greenback Party: th-cam.com/video/LNSWIdIbzl8/w-d-xo.html&a=
    What's your favorite political party?

    • @notbadsince97
      @notbadsince97 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Populist Party>

    • @EPluribusUnumYT
      @EPluribusUnumYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TOO MANY TO DECIDE!!!!!!

    • @j-man8546
      @j-man8546 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr. Beat you should make a joint video on Furman v Georgia and Georgia v Gregg

    • @benselectionforcasting4172
      @benselectionforcasting4172 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@j-man8546 huh, coincidence that I know someone who is teaching a class on US government that is reviewing those cases?

    • @Maddog844
      @Maddog844 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The republicans because my family switched after 1964

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    I too support the issue of giving free dirt to gardeners. Wait...am I at the wrong party?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      It may be the wrong party, but it feels so right.

    • @matthewbrady9667
      @matthewbrady9667 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do Libertarianism Part 2!

    • @joshkusiak7613
      @joshkusiak7613 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EmperorTigerstar I am running for the free dirt party in 2020

    • @johnjones3813
      @johnjones3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As Moe Szyslak said "I'm better than dirt. Well, except for that store bought dirt, that stuff loaded with nutrients. I can't compete with that."

  • @ezandman6804
    @ezandman6804 6 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    So van Buren kind of created democratic AND republican party?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      By golly you're right. Martin Van Buren- the most important person in the history of American politics!

    • @ezandman6804
      @ezandman6804 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Thank you for reply Mr. Beat! I am from the Netherlands and interested in US history. Have a nice day sir. And thank you for making this video.

    • @macmacreynolds8712
      @macmacreynolds8712 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did Van Buren create the Republican Party?

    • @grantonrigney9208
      @grantonrigney9208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iammrbeat LIES where would we be without henry clay America's first king. KIng of Compromise!

    • @edsova5089
      @edsova5089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      To answer your question MacMarcyReynolds, Martin Van Beuren created the Free Soil Party - which eventually turned into the Republican party; as well as directly creating the democratic party

  • @edsova5089
    @edsova5089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Martin Van Beuren created both the Democratic party and the free soil party, and the free soil party became the Republican party. Martin Van Beuren created both major political parties we know today and is the most important man in American politics.

  • @Jbdhbc
    @Jbdhbc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Now I've got 'Compromise of 1850' stuck in my head. Very interesting window into a segment of American history for a non-American!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      haha nice, yeah that's a jingle I came up with back in the day to remember something that is boring to most people. :D

  • @GenoGeno
    @GenoGeno 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I can't get enough of all your videos! They're so much more entertaining and teach me better and faster than schoolr!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That means a lot.

  • @excelisfun
    @excelisfun 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thank you for yet another amazing video! I had no idea about the Free Soil Party! Thanks, Mr Beat : )

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you! Yeah, they were Republican before Republicans were even a thing.

  • @MrEzman99
    @MrEzman99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow Mr. Beat, I was just about to message you requesting a video about this very topic!!! Fun Fact: Not too many historians noticed this, but Martin Van Buren actually spoiled the 1848 presidential election for the Democrats. What do I mean? While he did not win any electoral votes, Van Buren actually finished second in his home state of New York, behind the Whig nominee Zachary Taylor and ahead of the Democratic nominee Lewis Cass. Taylor received 47.9% of the popular vote. In an amazingly strong performance for a third-party candidate, Van Buren received 26.4% of the popular vote, beating out Cass who received 25.1% of the popular vote. Van Buren's candidacy massively split the Democratic vote, seeing as he took a whole 26% of voters who would have otherwise probably voted for Cass. But his second place finish in New York is very important because, if Cass had won the state over Taylor (which very well could have been the case had Van Buren not taken such a large portion of the Democratic vote), it would have been Lewis Cass who was elected our 12th President, not Zachary Taylor.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Martin Van Buren had such a huge impact. Thanks for sharing all that, and glad you wanted this video without me even knowing it. :D

    • @MrEzman99
      @MrEzman99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@iammrbeat Honestly, Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt are the only third party candidates in U.S. history to have seriously spoiled an election for a major political party.

  • @blueseanomad7435
    @blueseanomad7435 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Welcome back Mr. Beat! Hope you had a good rest!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I did. Did you miss my video last week though?

    • @blueseanomad7435
      @blueseanomad7435 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe I did... This will not do.

  • @benselectionforcasting4172
    @benselectionforcasting4172 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Free Land, Free Soil, Fremont

  • @RichardBaran
    @RichardBaran 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thanks for your quality work! I didn't know all of this.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad I introduced it and thank you so much for the kind comment. :D

  • @shirtless6934
    @shirtless6934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    At 2:47 you ask, “what about women?” I am reminded of our high school history class in Daytona Beach (1973-1974). Our teacher, a refined Southern gentlelady, originally from North Carolina, taught us about the Fifteenth Amendment as follows:
    TEACHER: Who can tell us what the Fifteenth Amendment did?
    STUDENT: It allowed black people to vote.
    TEACHER: Did it now? Did it allow black women to vote?
    STUDENT: No, ma’am.
    TEACHER: Did it allow white women to vote?
    STUDENT: No, ma’am.
    TEACHER: There you have it, class. This fine country of ours gave black men the right to vote while denying it to white women.
    Her lesson is historically accurate, but I imagine that, nowadays, her teaching method would test tenure and academic freedom to its limit.

    • @johnjones3813
      @johnjones3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Florida, of course. Sorry.

  • @ricky99la
    @ricky99la 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That long pause at the end. hahaha
    Great video

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was trying to be......
      dramatic. Thank you :)

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    its amazing how something so small has influence on the future

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True true, and also how something so forgotten can have so much influence on the future.

    • @mathieuleader8601
      @mathieuleader8601 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      they say the winner takes it all

  • @adeelhussain2304
    @adeelhussain2304 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    How crazy would it be if the US ever changed Congress to more of a parliamentary system - Now before you call me crazy I know there are drawbacks to this but also positives such as the inclusion of multiple party sets and more diverse opinions - often allowing congress to then form collaboration sets for majorities. I know this won't happen but it would be interesting thought experiment.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think a lot of people agree with you, actually. It's not that crazy.

    • @HorrorMetalDnD
      @HorrorMetalDnD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you mean parliamentary system or just proportional representation? You can have proportional representation in a presidential system.

    • @fly5ivefly
      @fly5ivefly 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aye man never say it can't happen. With the proper compiling of the right info, presented to the right people with righteous intent, the universe will help you and the idea manifest .. never know, you could end up meeting people who've already started on this and be able to merge powers to move forward! Peace Love Light Protection and Progress fam

  • @CosmiaNebula
    @CosmiaNebula 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So America has a first party, a second party, 37 third parties...
    I shudder to imagine how many fourth parties there will be.

  • @matheuspenteado8174
    @matheuspenteado8174 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What is that the Marijuana Party wants to legalize, Mr. Beat? I did not get it...

  • @lukedetering4490
    @lukedetering4490 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    4:40 🎵Compromise of 1850🎵

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Everybody sing along!

    • @Nonam-g2y
      @Nonam-g2y 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is the song that never ends.

  • @pikminlord343
    @pikminlord343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another great video

  • @macmacreynolds8712
    @macmacreynolds8712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:36 In my opinion, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress in 1854, was THE leading cause of the Civil War, with the Dred Scott decision in March, 1857 coming in a close second. An honorable, or dishonorable, mention would also go to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

  • @sharonsloan
    @sharonsloan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    New sub (from EmperorTigerstar).

  • @aryotec
    @aryotec 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How art thy Mr.Beast.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just because I make beastly videos...

  • @rt6692
    @rt6692 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m still a Greenback!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You Greenbacker, you.

  • @leonidverevkin4927
    @leonidverevkin4927 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Without the Free Soil party we wouldn't have Trump in office, probably.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's certainly one way of looking at it.

    • @johnjones3813
      @johnjones3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wth are you talking about?

  • @j-man8546
    @j-man8546 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You should make a joint video on Georgia v Gregg and Furman v georgia

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a great suggestion.

  • @MarcBienenfeld
    @MarcBienenfeld 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love your compromise of 1850 song

  • @johnjones3813
    @johnjones3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The beautiful Lewis Cass." - Mr. Beat

  • @CaesinSylviir
    @CaesinSylviir 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here from Emperor Tigerstar's channel. Looks like I just found a ton of new content to watch. 😁

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Awesome! Welcome to my channel.

  • @nielcarpnava
    @nielcarpnava 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think you should create a song about Compromise of 1850. That would be cool.

    • @MayoFilms83
      @MayoFilms83 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s called Dixie created by a man from up North lol😂

  • @SavingCommunitiesDS
    @SavingCommunitiesDS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They were not a single-issue party. They proposed that no more land be sold to corporations, and that all land should be set aside for homesteaders. They also proposed to separate banking institutions from our monetary system. Because the Republican Party was swamped with corporate interests, those two planks did not survive the shift into the Republican Party platform.

  • @stalkinghorse883
    @stalkinghorse883 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have wifi in my bathroom specifically for TH-cam watching marathons. Now for that pre-marathon shopping list:
    Energy drink
    Coffee
    Beef Jerkey
    Potato Chips
    Chicken Tendies
    Hot Pockets
    Pizza delivery phone number as back up.
    I think I got everything covered.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you remembered the Hot Pockets.

    • @fly5ivefly
      @fly5ivefly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wifi in the bathroom for hour and a half pre-shower shits . Aha

  • @HelloWorld-xf2ks
    @HelloWorld-xf2ks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Free soil
    Free speech
    Free...
    _Labor?_

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Free workers

    • @HelloWorld-xf2ks
      @HelloWorld-xf2ks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mr. Beat Oh, THAT makes a lot more sense !

  • @alexmorris6954
    @alexmorris6954 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What's your favorite band Mr Beat (Electric Neadle Room excluded)?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably Radiohead

    • @alexmorris6954
      @alexmorris6954 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@iammrbeat for me, it's the Eagles

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My parents LOVE the Eagles, so I am very familiar with their catalog.

    • @alexmorris6954
      @alexmorris6954 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr. Beat would you collaborate with Alternative History Hub? Or his other channel Knowledge Hub?

  • @davidgareau2319
    @davidgareau2319 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had no idea the free soil party had the first convention in my city

  • @abrahamlincoln937
    @abrahamlincoln937 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:46 That was your very first video, Mr. Beat.

  • @STho205
    @STho205 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The United States federation of states is NOT and NEVER HAS BEEN a two party system in constitutional law. The Constitution does not mention parties AT ALL. Parties are a creation of newspapers that gained traction inside states. They are private corporations. Being often created by regional newspapers and branded by media coverage of politics, we often get the illusion that they are a constitutional foundation. They are NOT. In fact parties are quite contrary to the desired working of Congress which was to bring regional Representatives together TO COMPROMISE inside this union. Parties produce the opposite of compromise, they produce team sport winner take all, drive your opponent into the dirt situations.
    You, as citizens of this Republic, are not bound to parties. We should reject them out of hand and simply vote our conscious, not jump on a bandwagon and follow would-be rulers

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well said.

    • @HorrorMetalDnD
      @HorrorMetalDnD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I see parties as being inevitable. Likeminded people will always want to come together in pursuit of common goals. Plus, we’re a social species, so it’s only natural to desire group identities.
      My main issue I have with the anti-party approach is that the prohibition of party labels only masks our innate partisanship, instead of eradicating it. Politicians will still cling to their group identities, only now voters will be far less aware of those group identities.
      At least with parties, this innate partisanship is more transparent, and in a multiparty system, it would be far more transparent, as they wouldn’t have to form factions in two large parties.
      In the end, I’d say the solution to the current hyper-partisan culture isn’t less political parties, it’s more political parties that represent more diversity of thought.

  • @athletesxculture2657
    @athletesxculture2657 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:27 BINGO!!!! The REAL reason why the civil war was fought.

  • @K.C.-Games
    @K.C.-Games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Van Buren just left the Democratic Party but he made the Democratic Party

  • @Leonhavenify
    @Leonhavenify 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you compare the Netherlands and Belgium?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a fantastic suggestion

  • @scrapyarddragon
    @scrapyarddragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you mean they aren't a party for making land use free of charge? darn.

  • @josestarks8892
    @josestarks8892 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Fremont?

  • @Seal423
    @Seal423 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for singing lol

  • @WatchmansArchive
    @WatchmansArchive 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Google is a search engine. Google doesn't give you any answers. Google links you to other websites which gives you the answers.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah. I know. Another fun fact: I was trying to be silly.

    • @shannonbeat
      @shannonbeat 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So technically it gives you answers. Technically. Otherwise you wouldn't have answers.

    • @fly5ivefly
      @fly5ivefly 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Furthermore, the answers to the info we seek aren't always on Googles search results. A lot of the MOST IMPORTANT information, LIFE, policy, WORLD changing info, is in libraries, more importantly, PRIVATE libraries, as well as first hand holders of historical documentation passed down from ancestors and luckily saved.

  • @siamiam
    @siamiam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the Soil was spoiled

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BY SLAVERY.

  • @matthewkopp2391
    @matthewkopp2391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    F. Douglas became secretary in 1852 on its decline. so it did become a marginal radical liberal party for a short period which included reparations.

  • @craigharrison1274
    @craigharrison1274 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    39? More like 39 thousand.

  • @alexanderengstrom8284
    @alexanderengstrom8284 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    gnarly

  • @samsunil3186
    @samsunil3186 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do American Independent Party

  • @roughcollies1811
    @roughcollies1811 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do a video on the civil rights movement

  • @HVACSoldier
    @HVACSoldier 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    IF only the Whig Party and the Democratic Party thought of creating ballot access laws, in 1848.

  • @aaronbradley3232
    @aaronbradley3232 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought this was going to be about oh my God my memory is not what it used to be but I remember how you described it you know was cotton farmers in the south and wheat farmers in the Midwest and some Factory workers in the north and they made up the political party and then they were going to go with William Jennings Bryan and they when they split into you know what I'm talkin about I don't like this era in American history so but I would love to see a video on that political party

  • @tannerwilson4843
    @tannerwilson4843 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn’t Homer Simpson curse out Walt Whitman in an episode!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably. That sounds about right.

  • @TheOtherCaleb
    @TheOtherCaleb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Free soil or no soil!

  • @MayoFilms83
    @MayoFilms83 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now watch Gods and Generals and Gettysburg and then Glory after this lol😂

  • @daniels7568
    @daniels7568 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like your cute slavery jingle

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hey, it's a compromise jingle, but thanks

  • @davidharing6475
    @davidharing6475 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sal-mon not like the fish, the L is not silent.

  • @CommanderVideo4
    @CommanderVideo4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Martin van ruin

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh snap. Fartin Van Buren.

  • @BloodRider1914
    @BloodRider1914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anti-masonic party?

  • @anniethieves714
    @anniethieves714 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Make American Great Again

  • @bigwilly528
    @bigwilly528 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Republican Party is a single issue party at this point

  • @joshkusiak7613
    @joshkusiak7613 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want free soil

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A

  • @ElectricChaplain
    @ElectricChaplain 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:43 suddenly gay

  • @havehope646
    @havehope646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jesus loves you and he wants you to repent and to spread the gospel

  • @joefrew1614
    @joefrew1614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    TARRIFS, what are they good for. Absolutely nothing!!

    • @joefrew1614
      @joefrew1614 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, by the way, why do you dislike tarrifs so much? I was trying to parody that song "War, What is it Good For".

  • @ADEehrh
    @ADEehrh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    An exsample;... the anti "choice" people!

  • @houstonburnside8985
    @houstonburnside8985 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are you doing so many colabs

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I can't stop. I'm addicted to collaborating. It's a sickness.

  • @koukkoufos2000
    @koukkoufos2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    +Mr. Beat Protectionism (tariffs) does work sometimes, Just look at Scandinavia lol www.justicedemocrats.com

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You and Scandanavia 😆

    • @koukkoufos2000
      @koukkoufos2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Mr. Beat lol, It’s true though, please watch this video Mr. Beat on a more detailed explanation th-cam.com/video/P2fCs6DFxX0/w-d-xo.html

    • @koukkoufos2000
      @koukkoufos2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +ger du You’re Norwegian and you didn’t know that Storting does Protectionism? Lol that’s because you’re used to it, basically I’m sure Storting imposes import tariffs on imported products in your country so you have more manufacturing Jobs and so corporations don’t outsource your jobs to poor countries unlike here in the U.S, also you have beautiful women lol
      Just watch the video again I linked.

    • @HorrorMetalDnD
      @HorrorMetalDnD 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Protectionism hurts low income consumers the most.

  • @joshuacoleman8000
    @joshuacoleman8000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't approve of 5:48 at all! Trump doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath, let alone hold pictures of 2 of our greatest Presidents! Trump you are the worst President this country ever had! Otherwise great video, man!

    • @hephaestus511
      @hephaestus511 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      How is he the worst president?

    • @HorrorMetalDnD
      @HorrorMetalDnD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Objectively speaking, it would be really hard to be worse than Warren G. Harding or Richard Nixon. Not saying Trump will or won’t surpass that level of corruption, but he does have some competition.

  • @Daniel-ty1tf
    @Daniel-ty1tf 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey there, person?! You are so flippin PC you can't say hey, GUYS! 🤦‍♂️