The first capitol of America was New York, then it was moved to Philadelphia, and finally a non-affiliated district was created to be the capitol and call Washington DC (District of Columbia).
There were more parts of DC, other than Washington, but Virginia took back its land and the district was consolidated and now it's only "Washington, DC."
@@Tux.Penguin Which is expressly forbidden in the Constitution, so it would require an amendment that will never be ratified by 3/4 of the States no matter how much Democrats in Congress want it to. 🤷♂️
Right, so George Washington never served in the city that bears his name. The first president to live in the Executive Mansion (later known as the White House) was John Adams, the second president (he had served as Washington's vice president).
@@nethrelm Untrue. The Constitution gives Congress the power to establish a federal seat of government, and it sets a maximum area for such a district, but it doesn't make it an obligation of the legislature to do so and it doesn't establish a minimum size. You could shrink the national capitol to just Capitol Hill and grant statehood to the rest of DC with zero constitutional issue.
@@DianeJennings Two glaring inaccuracies: Lincoln was not elected on an abolitionist platform; he only came to that conclusion after the first year of the war. Also, with the passage of the The Prohibitory Acts in 1775, it was Great Britain that declared war against the colonies, not the other-way-round.
You, Sir, are completely uninformed. The Republican Party was formed specifically by abolitionists with abolition as its principle platform. The video states clearly that the south reacted to the election of Lincoln because he was hostile to slavery, which is 100% true.
It’s kind of weird how the video forgets to mention that the US had a completely different government at first! The Constitution wouldn’t have ever been created had it not been for how terribly bad the Articles of Confederation were!
@@ThePillowGamer Those are one of those small details, yes. We had a "first draft" of the USA before we figured out how to become the USA proper. Not a lot of drama involved in us taking a few more years to get our shit together, so not a lot of historical significance there.
1:08 "I always thought they went to Washington DC first" You are pointing to the west coast where Washington state is. Washington DC is on the East coast where those original British colonies are.
Actually there are a few “speak easy”’s left. Almost all of them are out in the middle of nowhere, & many of them are what they are simply because the owner’s are too stubborn to get the appropriate licenses.
"Speak easy" was an illegal bar; it was illegal because the selling of alcohol was banned by the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. This Prohibition era proved unworkable: more and more citizens defied the laws and illegal sale of booze made gangsters extremely wealthy. When the 18th Amendment was repealed, and alcohol became legal to sell again, speak-easies became bars and night clubs. No need for secret entrances, or smuggling booze into a hidden storeroom.
@@mef2101 Ah, but there are places that serve alcohol illegally. For instance, here in Michigan you cannot sell alcohol after 2am but some bars will do it "on the down low," and in places that have "dry counties" (mostly in Southern states) there are places that also sell alcohol illegally. So technically they could be called speakeasies and some refer to themselves or their illegal alcohol sales as speakeasy time or blind pig.
I love how this oversimplied version of American history, told by a non-American, compares to the American-based oversimplified version I remember from childhood. It's nice to be reminded how simple things aren't so simple.
Yes. I am just now learning about the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, and also the destruction of Black Wall Street. Nothing is ever so simple as most people would have you believe.
@@HiroNguy Did you have trouble understanding my meaning? The national conversation has turned into a two sided war,. While this video is more objective than many, it doesn't try very hard to be.
The most Irish thing I've heard was telling my North Irish buddy about the Irish car bomb drink. He asked what it was and I said "Well you take a pint of Guiness and you put in.." and he interrupts screaming "YOU DONT PUT F*CKIN NOTHIN IN GUINESS!!!"
Well bullshit terms and renaming things are at the core of political propaganda. All things labeled terrorism have always been crimes in there own right, murder, kidnapping destruction of property and so on.
My favorite statement? "I've still never been to a speak easy". Considering a speak easy is essentially an illegal bar which operated during prohibition, which was roughly 100 years ago, almost nobody alive today has ever been to a speak easy. They simply don't exist anymore. Still love your channel
I'd say there is definitely no-one left alive who had been in a speakeasy. Given you wouldn't have been let in unless you were at least 21 (or could pass for 21), and that most speakeasies were falling out of favor after the crash of '29, + the onset of the Depression, by 1931 or so, speakeasies were far fewer than they had been just 5 years prior. So, anyone who had actually been in a speakeasy would now be easily close to or over 100.
@@DonP_is_lostagain It was illegal for anyone to drink. There was no legal drinking age, the illegals bars certainly weren't carding people who didn't look 21.
@@BidwellRunner It was not illegal to drink. The 18th Amendment, made the possession, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages illegal. However, whatever wine, beer, or alcohol you had stashed away in your house was legal to drink. As for the drinking age, most states had some age at which it was legal to drink, which was mostly 21, as that was the age of majority. And no, they weren't carding anyone, but if you didn't look old enough to drink you damn sure weren't getting in. Even then they had laws against "corrupting the morals of a minor".
The current theory concerning the Maine is that the ship sunk after an explosion of coal dust in it's coal bunkers, not a terrorist bomb as was reported at the time.
Wow, even for a TH-cam video, that was riddled with simplifications and inaccuracies. As someone with an actual degree in History, I can only shake my fist, Grandpa Simpson-style.
@@bros4654 Channels are organised by interest/hobbies/pastimes. Just enter an associated word or description and see what comes up. I dig in the trash of 100 years ago, collecting antique bottles, and there's a bit of that
B Ros, while I don’t have a video, I do have an excellent audible book to recommend. Actually two books lol. America the Last Best Hope, by William J. Bennett. I’ve provided links to Audible below if you’re interested. www.audible.com/pd/America-The-Last-Best-Hope-Volume-I-Audiobook/1400231558 www.audible.com/pd/America-The-Last-Best-Hope-Volume-II-Audiobook/1400231566
It was a broad overview. Not a detailed look at American development. It was generally accurate. I think it was very good for people who know virtually nothing about America. So you shouldn't be upset that there were no details and missing things. It accomplished what it was designed to do.
I'm sure I would be equally as surprised and confounded if someone were to make a similar video on the long history of Ireland. Lots I don't know about a country that isn't mine.
That was really pretty darn good for just a few minutes!! As far as the US starting off neutral during WWs I and II, briefly, the thought was that Europe was far away and always at war. Americans didn’t want to be dragged in - and then dragged in again. It was really when the fight came to us that opinions changed. The sinking of the Lusitania started us in on WWI and of course the attack on Pearl Harbor for WWII.
the main reason we stayed neutral was because of money. We didn't want to waste money on a fight that wasn't ours. But then, at least during WWI, we had agreements with countries involved in the war, to help protect them. The same reason some of the other countries got involved.
Another big reason was Irish & German Americans became the majority (and still are) and didn’t want to go into WW1. Germans didn’t want to fight their families and the Irish didn’t want the US to ever ally with the British.
They didn't talk anything about the Irish famine and how many Irishmen and women came to the US and they used to put signs up Help Wanted Irish need not apply
The fallout of a Royal Marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Edward II, this resulted in the English Crown owning vast tracts of France and other smaller European countries. Under an English Law, which lasted to the end of the 1800's, a Women's property became her Husband's upon marriage. It slowly became French owned again in the many battles that were fought in the following centuries. Henry VIII fought the last and lost it for the control of Calais.
my grandfather and his 5 brothers fought in ww2 and his 6 sisters served in the air force in ww2 we are puerto ricans born in America my family served there country proudly my 2 uncle fought in Vietnam America has done a lot of thing were not proud of but also a lot of thing they we are proud of this is the greatest country in the world and i love her
While I learned some stuff here about my country, a lot of this is very watered down. I learned a lot of this way more in depth. WWII was really fun when i had a whole class to learn about about.
@@DianeJennings I'm a bit of a history geek. I'm very much into WWII because my grandfather fought in the Pacific Campaign in US Marine Corp. Learning about some of the battles like the Guadalcanal Campaign or even D-Day were quite fascinating with all the stuff that happened. My Grandfather was thrown out into the ocean to invade one of the islands by Guadalcanal and he was one of the lucky ones to survive and make it on the island to help set up a machine gun to fight back at Japanese forces bunkered in the hills.
Ireland definitely had it's part in all this business with sending boatloads of Irish people over to make more Irish people and they brought the whiskey!
@@DianeJennings I think there are more people of Irish descent in the U.S. than Ireland. Though most of us are a mix of other things. (23 and Me says I'm 70% Irish hahaha)
@@andrewthezeppo Itʼs true. I got only Irish and Scottish DNA myself, as do half of white Americans. By the mid 1800s, most Americans were of Irish descent, Irish families whose ancestors had been settled and had been living there for quite a while, long after they changed their names.
@@whiteisright2314 yeah I am from st Paul, Minnesota and there is a huge Irish population. Have tons of friends who are first or second generation American with all Irish grandparents
@@andrewthezeppo Very definitely. There are approximately 32 million Americans who self-identify as Irish, which is a pretty steep underestimate of the true number of Irish descendants, versus only about 5 million people in the entire country of Ireland.
I highly recommend going into the further details over specific events. I recommend the Oversimplified videos. The French & Indian War was such a big factor on the taxes and Independence. The almost forgotten War of 1812 which brought us our anthem. The Civil War you should definitely react too. Loved this video.❤ 🇺🇸 🇮🇪
90% accurate. Some bad interpretation and one giant glaring problem. The US did not annex Texas. The two sides negotiated a merger beneficial to both sides. There was never any military action to separate New Mexico from Texas. Parts of Texas also became part of Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming. As someone with a history degree, I would say this is a representation of events important to European relations with a few social situations thrown in. This is not the history of how America developed to be what it is.
@@DianeJennings I agree with Brian. History is like anything else - the teller has a purpose in mind with which they want the audience to come away with a certain impression. Some facts will be omitted, some will be dressed up to get the desired effect. Frankly I'm curious how Europeans would feel (okay, it varies by region of course, in a geopolitical and of course also a personal sense) if the USA up and evaporated overnight, either in the sense of 1) it's people magically just VANISHING, leaving the land intact or 2) all ppl disappear AND the land just becomes an uninhabitable ruin (in the sense that mineral extraction or any sort of attempts to build anything is impossible).
@@DianeJennings This was due to Russia not having hard currency with which to make payments, so they instead bartered off their old surplus naval vessels for Pepsi to scrap and gain value that way. Pepsi's CEO joked that he was disarming the Russians faster than the government was....
A speakeasy was a place that served liquor during prohibition. You would knock on the door and say a code word. If you didn’t know the word, you didn’t get in. They’re basically gone now. Some places are around that will use this method to sell liquor to minors.
There are modern bars that use the 'speakeasy' mystique where the facades are hidden and you have to be in the know. I found articles about several around the world, even in Japan.
But, did they have them when the US was the US? There are 2 technicalities (the "border" states Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) and (slavery is practiced currently in our jails).
@@johnjdumas If you mean after the Declaration of Independence then yes, slavery was legally practiced throughout the north until Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780. Other northern states followed. If you mean after the US constitution was ratified then also yes, New York and New Jersey didn't pass their own abolition laws until 1799 and 1804, respectively. Those were the last of the original northern states to outlaw slavery (other northern states were admitted without legal slavery). Slavery just wasn't as integral to the economies of the industrializing north as it was in the more agricultural south.
@@LiveFreeOrDieDH Well, George Washington was inaugurated April 30, 1789 congress The Senate had met in March, March 4, 1789. Realistically the United States could not pass a bill before that time "As these United States" That being said, a lot of people lived and died under US legal slavery in those 76 years. Before that, you must blame mainly the Portuguese shipping and the English and state law. Dates and jurisdiction matter. Only if you believe the federal powers could have superseded state power much earlier could the federal government make laws that the states would follow. The Federal government barely overpowered the south in 1860 as it is. It is highly unfortunate that Virginia did not eliminate slavery in 1831/1832 when a few outside dollars could have tipped over slavery as a whole. Without Virginia, the Civil War would have been the Civil incident. The Federal government would have had to find some other cause to seize primary power sooner or later.
Just imagine how much longer a video of the history of Ireland 🇮🇪 would be if it was this cut. I found it interesting what the narrator with the odd accent covered and did not cover.. You are always a delight 🍟
Well, this is a basic overview leaving out the fact that Florida was already settled by the Spanish, the first permanent settlement was Jamestown in 1607. It also leaves out the main fact that the colonies were being taxed without voting representation in Parliament. And part of the tea thing was that Parliament passed a law that said colonist tea importers could only buy from the East India company. Which is why coffee became so popular in the US, because coffee wasn't either taxed or controlled. And watching this with you I'm screaming about all the things that are left out. As an aside, Etruria was a kingdom in what is now Italy. That eventually worked itself out. Stay safe! DonP
I'd like to see a similar video summarizing Irish history. Or a video looking at different "rivalries" between countries like England and France... though I realize that might get a bit risky.
A reasonable video but it could have started 1587 Roanoke Island (failed) and/or Jamestown, Virginia, 1607. Or Native Americans coming from Asia thru what is now Alaska.
When I landed at Shannon on September 9th, 2002 it was FULL of U.S. service people on their way to the middle east. It was really strange being so close to the 1 year anniversary and seeing what was going to be happening next.
"I'm a little skeptical. I don't think it can possibly be the entire history but I'm going to check it out." PLOT TWIST: The video is 2,147,664 hours long. That's actually 245 years... including leap years. I did the math. I drank LOTS of Red Bull today. ;-)
Finally home in time on a Monday for FHC, been awhile! Like, comment, grab a beer, and kick off my evening with Diane & Chewie. Have a lovely night Diane!
If you are at all interested in learning more about the indigenous being forced onto reservations (which I find fascinating), you might want to read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." It was made into a movie as well which is amazing. It's a very small part of their journey, but it's some of the most consequential of events. I highly suggest it, but you'll need an entire box of tissues.
@@DianeJennings People often underestimate how significant the reservations are. Navajo Nation is larger than Ireland, and like all reservations it has its own government and isn't beholden to the laws of the US nor does it pay the US taxes or anything.
Not complete history. The part of the US I grew up in was called New Netherlands, settled first by the Dutch. Very Anglo-centric in the colonial period, much more than what was taught to me in school. Plus, it can't be complete because I was not mentioned🙂
If you visit Las Vegas, there is a Mob Museum with a speakeasy in the basement. There is even a hidden room behind a large painting. And, that painting turned out to be my friend's (who was with me in Las Vegas) great aunt! I definitely recommend some of the moonshine cocktails!
My great great great Uncle was general George Meade commander of Gettysburg. The Civil War. And he is a descendant Of what the founding fathers Oliver Wilcock. Yes the same Mead Castle family.
So what nobody cares what anyone did in the Union Army. It has all been cancelled and ghosted. All of my ancestors fought for America but nobody gives a damn. Canceled and ghosted.
Just remember, it was the Irish that built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad in the US. The Chinese built the western half. Bot both groups were really more like forced labor than eager industrialists.
Very interesting and educational. I too, as American, feel that I learned some things here. Btw, this made me want to watch the "Star spangled banner as you've never heard it" video, you should do a reaction to that, when you get a chance.
Mine too, though while they came through Plymouth, they seemed to all end up in Connecticut by the mid 1630's. I also have a direct Mayflower ancestor, though he's not in my "name line."
Well, northern states had to return “runaway slaves” to the south so there were slaves in the north. There were free black people living in Northern states. In fact, the first person killed in the Revolutionary War was a free black man. His name was Crispus Attucks. Also, rich people had indentured servants working for them. A fair number of them were Irish.
At one time there were more indentured Irish slaves than there were black slaves. If anyone has the right to hate slavery and persecution, it should be the Irish and the American Indians.
Ok these videos are produced in France but the english version is translated by an Indian Gentlemen named Rahul Venkit. We never had peasants here in the United States and I was a bit shocked when he used that word. He apparently uses "Indian English" when translating which explains his accent and choice of words. interesting.
Yes, it is interesting to hear the word "peasants" -- this is a word that nearly all Americans, I think, would find pejorative and would reject as a way to characterize any American of any period. It is precisely because they were not peasants that they refused to be taxed by a legislative body that did not represent them.
A few more informational videos such as this one, Diane, and it'll become a really tough call as to whether you pass an American citizenship test or acquire a license to drive in Ireland first. Also, Chewie, your ventriloquism skills were outstanding in today's video.
When the natives were made to walk to the West side of the Mississippi River is often referred to as the Trail of Years because so many lives were lost during this transfer to newer reserve.
We were definitely neutral at the beginning of WWII. Most of the country was against getting into the war--then the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. Try and imagine a whole nation going "OH HELL NO" at the same time and that's how America jumped into the fight.😂🇺🇲 Sweet video, Diane.😁🍻
Buddy, California is something like the 10th-largest economy in the world. The world. "Debt" doesn't mean the same thing for a state or a country as it does for an individual. No one can rock up to California and be like, "Give me the money or I take your shit." "Debt" just means they've made promises based on expected future economic production. Since there is no reason to believe that production won't happen, it's fine. It's totally fine. Deficit spending is not the demon Boogeyman conservatives want you to think it is (until they wanna fight a war; then it's "deficit whomst? I don't know her"). They more or less use it as a pretext to oppose spending that might help the populace at the expense of the ultra-wealthy. TL;DR: Austerity is a lie; "debt" isn't something to fear; don't let conservatives spin your head 'round.
what they don't tell you is that India rebelled at the same time from Great Briton, the english felt India was more important and just threw a weak force at the colonies, after suppressing the Indian rebellion, they returned to try to take over the colonies again, in 1812,
There are still plenty of them operating in NYC, but are bars or private clubs that operate as a Speakeasy for atmosphere. I assume Chicago must have many as well.
If you want the worst curse next time someone doesn't subscribe, everytime they step into their shoes they will always step on a pebble and will then have to take their shoes off to remove the pebble.
@Roy Dunn Diane and Editor Diane are like Clark Kent and Superman. Superman dons eyeglasses and, "Hey!' where did Superman go?" A quick change of hair prep and, "Hey!, where did Diane go?"
Actually we do have equal pay. If you take everything into consideration, time in the workforce, comparing the same career with the same career, all of that, women make almost exactly the same as men. Also, the United States was a HUGE presence in Europe during WW2. We lost so many soldiers. I suggest the show "Band of Brothers" which was about a paratroop outfit and what they went through. It's so good and gives a very real view of what happened. As soon as Pearl Harbor happened, we were no longer neutral.
Yes to both of your points ! It’s federal law for women to receive the same pay as men for the SAME job . The feminist claim that women only get 77 cents for each dollar that a man makes is due to false comparisons of different jobs . And the series Band of Brothers is excellent !
love band of brothers (though its still somewhat hollyweird). and we were really more "neutral" then neutral. for instance the us navy was fighting the kriegsmarine (german navy) as early as july 1941.
@@HansDelbruck53 It furthers the "us vs. them" mindset due to their heavy handed political influence, constantly spouts some very hypocritical unconstitutional propaganda, especially concerning the Second Amendment, fosters the unrealistic "beauty pageant" body image, blackballs anyone with different views then theirs, ect.
In the scope of things, this is so current history. I'm so happy to see a young adult watching recent history and realizing how we got here in a very short time in civil world history
small error in what they said the second continental congress voted on independence on July 2, 1776, but it didn't approve the Declaration of Independence document until July 4, 1776.
There are many "land mines" in this video that will start a violation of your no politics policy. But overall it got the frame work pretty close to correct. There is a definite slant in this video, but not as bad as i feared it would.
I agree. I expected to hate it, but I found it quite fair and accurate. Unfortunately, there are plenty of ignorant people flooding the comments with the falsehoods I expected from the video.
People are welcome to discuss their thoughts here once they’re respectful. Do please flag any comments that you think are hateful or disrespectful to others. They have no place here and I don’t see them all or even necessarily understand what they might be saying.
@@DianeJennings to get at the slant requires a far more in-depth look at each of these topics. As it went, the video left out the left-right labels to its benefit. Its choice of words betrayed its own slant, that could only be discussed in a very long and drawn out discussion. This for me anyways is not the venue to win hearts and minds. There would be too much vitriol that the "Dianne Jennings" youtube channel is not designed for. I like that you avoid the political banter. We get enough of that everywhere in society now (i'm in texas). I avoid Try videos that are on topics of politics. I have too much fun watching them that i dont want the vitriol to ruin them for me. Agreeing to disagree and civility are why i love your channel as well as Try.
@@dgpatter i dont know about "quite fair and accurate" but definitely not as bad as i was thinking. they did use the phrase "workers and peasants" a lot as well as the commie fist.
BOOP Another great video Diane. Once again looking as lovely as ever. I actually was able to learn a few things that I didn't know although I consider myself somewhat of a history buff. You always seem to come up with the best material and for that reason I love watching your videos and the reason I follow you so faithfully. I served in the military during the Vietnam war so I can shed some light on that. I don't want to make this to long so I will just say keep doing what you do and Stay safe. BOOP
Very much just surface touches the wide breadth of US history, but very interesting. Again, nice variety and good job on the video. Thank you for the shout out.
The reason not much is said about the Ireland/Northern Ireland conflict is because America never had to take a side. That doesn’t mean we didn’t hear about it. Besides the news, we had 2 other main items I remember: 1) the bad - TV started to use Irish as bad guys with killings and reprisal type scenarios; 2) the good - many local channels reported on exchange programs where an Irish student stayed with a host family of mixed faith, one Catholic and one Protestant. The idea was to promote peaceful understanding in the next generation. [My own marriage is of mixed faith like this] So what we really never heard was, after the split, how are things there?
@@noensomserdegsoveomnattenp7732 I could be a few years off because I've seen information that says 1737 and another that says 1701, but most of it comes compiled from a book called Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, which is based off of information gleaned from court records of the time
My American grandmother was born in 1899 and lived until 2002. She lived through WW1, the Great Depression,WW2,the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, and 9/11. She was active and independent her whole life.
Ok... First of all, The Spanish came to Florida ("La Florida") in the 1500s... so, this, like many "history" books teach here, is bleached by the British. This is a very VERY singular viewpoint "history video".
Would you ever taste test Wookiee on the channel Diane? I hear it’s very Chewie... *Now for the my actual question* Since 🦠 has extended your time in Spain, is a showcase of your Español (that I’m certain you’ve perfected) possible in a future video?
If you want to do more history the channel "OverSimplified" has some fun ones.
Here's a good one:
th-cam.com/video/tsxmyL7TUJg/w-d-xo.html
The first video I watched on his channel was his prohibition video. I’ve been subscribed to the guy since!
called "OverSimplified", but still more in depth and accurate than this.
Thanks!
The first capitol of America was New York, then it was moved to Philadelphia, and finally a non-affiliated district was created to be the capitol and call Washington DC (District of Columbia).
There were more parts of DC, other than Washington, but Virginia took back its land and the district was consolidated and now it's only "Washington, DC."
And today some people are calling for DC to become a state.
@@Tux.Penguin Which is expressly forbidden in the Constitution, so it would require an amendment that will never be ratified by 3/4 of the States no matter how much Democrats in Congress want it to. 🤷♂️
Right, so George Washington never served in the city that bears his name. The first president to live in the Executive Mansion (later known as the White House) was John Adams, the second president (he had served as Washington's vice president).
@@nethrelm Untrue. The Constitution gives Congress the power to establish a federal seat of government, and it sets a maximum area for such a district, but it doesn't make it an obligation of the legislature to do so and it doesn't establish a minimum size.
You could shrink the national capitol to just Capitol Hill and grant statehood to the rest of DC with zero constitutional issue.
There are some interesting interpretations/mild inaccuracies in this.
Oh really? Like what?
@@DianeJennings Two glaring inaccuracies: Lincoln was not elected on an abolitionist platform; he only came to that conclusion after the first year of the war. Also, with the passage of the The Prohibitory Acts in 1775, it was Great Britain that declared war against the colonies, not the other-way-round.
@@markgreene2865 yes. But lincoln held abolitionist views throughout his lifetime.
You, Sir, are completely uninformed. The Republican Party was formed specifically by abolitionists with abolition as its principle platform. The video states clearly that the south reacted to the election of Lincoln because he was hostile to slavery, which is 100% true.
I think what events they chose to highlight and the US motivations are what struck me most.
Odd I taught American history and never heard of the British establishing any Indian reservation occupying half the continent.
the colonial times part of this video was fairly inaccurate
There is a loooooooooot of oversimplified, missing, and sometimes just ignored info. But it's a decent ballpark history.
It'd be a lot longer if it went into more detail. But it does give benchmarks to fill in the gaps later.
It’s kind of weird how the video forgets to mention that the US had a completely different government at first! The Constitution wouldn’t have ever been created had it not been for how terribly bad the Articles of Confederation were!
@@ThePillowGamer
Those are one of those small details, yes.
We had a "first draft" of the USA before we figured out how to become the USA proper. Not a lot of drama involved in us taking a few more years to get our shit together, so not a lot of historical significance there.
Of course, but the point of these kinds of videos is just to spark an interest so that some people go out and learn more.
It was a lot of bullshit
1:08 "I always thought they went to Washington DC first" You are pointing to the west coast where Washington state is. Washington DC is on the East coast where those original British colonies are.
No one's been to a real speakeasy! Although you can still find bars that will bank on the fact that they used to be speakeasies.
Actually there are a few “speak easy”’s left. Almost all of them are out in the middle of nowhere, & many of them are what they are simply because the owner’s are too stubborn to get the appropriate licenses.
@@carlkurtz1410 open to the public? Or like a place here in town where it's technically "a private club"?
"Speak easy" was an illegal bar; it was illegal because the selling of alcohol was banned by the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. This Prohibition era proved unworkable: more and more citizens defied the laws and illegal sale of booze made gangsters extremely wealthy.
When the 18th Amendment was repealed, and alcohol became legal to sell again, speak-easies became bars and night clubs. No need for secret entrances, or smuggling booze into a hidden storeroom.
@@mef2101 exactly
@@mef2101 Ah, but there are places that serve alcohol illegally. For instance, here in Michigan you cannot sell alcohol after 2am but some bars will do it "on the down low," and in places that have "dry counties" (mostly in Southern states) there are places that also sell alcohol illegally. So technically they could be called speakeasies and some refer to themselves or their illegal alcohol sales as speakeasy time or blind pig.
I love how this oversimplied version of American history, told by a non-American, compares to the American-based oversimplified version I remember from childhood. It's nice to be reminded how simple things aren't so simple.
Haha I THINK I know what you mean! 😜
Yes. I am just now learning about the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, and also the destruction of Black Wall Street. Nothing is ever so simple as most people would have you believe.
Hopefully you've reached a level of maturity where you quit believing either side is giving you the unvarnished truth.
@@bjs301 Hopefully you all realize that there are more than just 2 sides.
@@HiroNguy Did you have trouble understanding my meaning? The national conversation has turned into a two sided war,. While this video is more objective than many, it doesn't try very hard to be.
Diane, I like the creative ideas you have for your videos - keep 'em coming!
Oh that is actually so encouraging to hear. Thank you! I try very hard to come up with ideas
"Terrorism is such a funny word." The most Irish understatement ever.
YUP ! KING GEORGE WAS A DEMOCRAT !!!!!!!!!
The British have been known to use a fair amount of “understatement” in violently enforcing “order” in places they dominate.
The most Irish thing I've heard was telling my North Irish buddy about the Irish car bomb drink. He asked what it was and I said "Well you take a pint of Guiness and you put in.." and he interrupts screaming "YOU DONT PUT F*CKIN NOTHIN IN GUINESS!!!"
@@cdc194 FECKIN. NUTTIN!
Well bullshit terms and renaming things are at the core of political propaganda. All things labeled terrorism have always been crimes in there own right, murder, kidnapping destruction of property and so on.
My favorite statement? "I've still never been to a speak easy". Considering a speak easy is essentially an illegal bar which operated during prohibition, which was roughly 100 years ago, almost nobody alive today has ever been to a speak easy. They simply don't exist anymore. Still love your channel
I'd say there is definitely no-one left alive who had been in a speakeasy. Given you wouldn't have been let in unless you were at least 21 (or could pass for 21), and that most speakeasies were falling out of favor after the crash of '29, + the onset of the Depression, by 1931 or so, speakeasies were far fewer than they had been just 5 years prior. So, anyone who had actually been in a speakeasy would now be easily close to or over 100.
@@DonP_is_lostagain I have been to unlicensed taverns / hideaways which in definition would be a speakeasy
@@DonP_is_lostagain It was illegal for anyone to drink. There was no legal drinking age, the illegals bars certainly weren't carding people who didn't look 21.
@@BidwellRunner It was not illegal to drink. The 18th Amendment, made the possession, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages illegal. However, whatever wine, beer, or alcohol you had stashed away in your house was legal to drink. As for the drinking age, most states had some age at which it was legal to drink, which was mostly 21, as that was the age of majority. And no, they weren't carding anyone, but if you didn't look old enough to drink you damn sure weren't getting in. Even then they had laws against "corrupting the morals of a minor".
There were COVID speakeasys in 2020
Me: Must. Get. Work. Done.
Also me: Oohh, new Diane video about American history!!
*goes on a break
Happy Monday 😆
Haha you work very hard Carly! You deserve a little break!
This is me.
The current theory concerning the Maine is that the ship sunk after an explosion of coal dust in it's coal bunkers, not a terrorist bomb as was reported at the time.
Cool a history video! Happy Monday Diane!
Happy Monday to ya!
This is the view of the history from very far out, it becomes increasingly more complex and nuanced the more you dig into different periods
Wow, even for a TH-cam video, that was riddled with simplifications and inaccuracies. As someone with an actual degree in History, I can only shake my fist, Grandpa Simpson-style.
Me too!
Any suggestions on some good videos/channels to watch?
@@bros4654 Channels are organised by interest/hobbies/pastimes. Just enter an associated word or description and see what comes up. I dig in the trash of 100 years ago, collecting antique bottles, and there's a bit of that
B Ros, while I don’t have a video, I do have an excellent audible book to recommend. Actually two books lol. America the Last Best Hope, by William J. Bennett. I’ve provided links to Audible below if you’re interested.
www.audible.com/pd/America-The-Last-Best-Hope-Volume-I-Audiobook/1400231558
www.audible.com/pd/America-The-Last-Best-Hope-Volume-II-Audiobook/1400231566
It was a broad overview. Not a detailed look at American development. It was generally accurate. I think it was very good for people who know virtually nothing about America. So you shouldn't be upset that there were no details and missing things. It accomplished what it was designed to do.
Im so excited for your new channel!
Thank you! I’m working hard. I hope you’ll like it.
@@DianeJennings what is it called again?
Happy Monday! I really love this video.Have a very awesome week.
You too Greg!
I'm sure I would be equally as surprised and confounded if someone were to make a similar video on the long history of Ireland. Lots I don't know about a country that isn't mine.
That was really pretty darn good for just a few minutes!!
As far as the US starting off neutral during WWs I and II, briefly, the thought was that Europe was far away and always at war. Americans didn’t want to be dragged in - and then dragged in again. It was really when the fight came to us that opinions changed. The sinking of the Lusitania started us in on WWI and of course the attack on Pearl Harbor for WWII.
I thought the Zimmerman telegram brought the US into WWII?
the main reason we stayed neutral was because of money. We didn't want to waste money on a fight that wasn't ours. But then, at least during WWI, we had agreements with countries involved in the war, to help protect them. The same reason some of the other countries got involved.
Yeah. that thinking was right there at the start of the US with the French Revolution. Americans decided, fighting wars in Europe was never ending.
Another big reason was Irish & German Americans became the majority (and still are) and didn’t want to go into WW1. Germans didn’t want to fight their families and the Irish didn’t want the US to ever ally with the British.
They didn't talk anything about the Irish famine and how many Irishmen and women came to the US and they used to put signs up Help Wanted Irish need not apply
That's a very oversimplified and in spots downright inaccurate synopsis she watched.
Yeah, I was cringing many times.
Did you notice as well that a non-american narrates it?
more missing or skipped/missed than inaccurate
@@Straitsfan Yes, it's a little less biased view than what we are taught in US schools.
Yes, St. AUGUSTINE, Florida was 50 years old when Plymouth Rock and Jamestown happened...lol.
History with Diane. We all got to learn by our own histories. So we don't repeat or mistakes. 😎😎 HAVE A GOOD ONE!
"France and Britain have beef with each other. They still do."
Just look at each country's sitcoms.
Truth
Any links to French sitcoms?
The fallout of a Royal Marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Edward II, this resulted in the English Crown owning vast tracts of France and other smaller European countries. Under an English Law, which lasted to the end of the 1800's, a Women's property became her Husband's upon marriage. It slowly became French owned again in the many battles that were fought in the following centuries. Henry VIII fought the last and lost it for the control of Calais.
@@tonys1636 Edward II was the great-great-grandson of Eleanor, not her wife. You were thinking of Henry II.
@@tonys1636 It was Henry's daughter Mary who lost Calais.
my grandfather and his 5 brothers fought in ww2 and his 6 sisters served in the air force in ww2 we are puerto ricans born in America my family served there country proudly my 2 uncle fought in Vietnam America has done a lot of thing were not proud of but also a lot of thing they we are proud of this is the greatest country in the world and i love her
Interesting divergence from your regular format. Thanks, Diane.
While I learned some stuff here about my country, a lot of this is very watered down. I learned a lot of this way more in depth. WWII was really fun when i had a whole class to learn about about.
Oh ya of course! I dunno about fun, but it was definitely interesting learning topics more in depth too. I might delve deeper in another vid or two
@@DianeJennings I'm a bit of a history geek. I'm very much into WWII because my grandfather fought in the Pacific Campaign in US Marine Corp. Learning about some of the battles like the Guadalcanal Campaign or even D-Day were quite fascinating with all the stuff that happened. My Grandfather was thrown out into the ocean to invade one of the islands by Guadalcanal and he was one of the lucky ones to survive and make it on the island to help set up a machine gun to fight back at Japanese forces bunkered in the hills.
even though its a major area of interest for me, i dont think "fun" is the word i would use in reference to ww2.
@@thurin84 Learning about it was fun. There was a lot of stuff in there.
@@paullangland6877 true, id have to say learning some aspects of it were fun. mostly the camaraderie between the soldiers.
great to see you again, you make my day
Aww! 🙈
Ireland definitely had it's part in all this business with sending boatloads of Irish people over to make more Irish people and they brought the whiskey!
“To make more Irish people” I LOVE that!! 😂😂
@@DianeJennings I think there are more people of Irish descent in the U.S. than Ireland. Though most of us are a mix of other things. (23 and Me says I'm 70% Irish hahaha)
@@andrewthezeppo Itʼs true. I got only Irish and Scottish DNA myself, as do half of white Americans. By the mid 1800s, most Americans were of Irish descent, Irish families whose ancestors had been settled and had been living there for quite a while, long after they changed their names.
@@whiteisright2314 yeah I am from st Paul, Minnesota and there is a huge Irish population. Have tons of friends who are first or second generation American with all Irish grandparents
@@andrewthezeppo Very definitely. There are approximately 32 million Americans who self-identify as Irish, which is a pretty steep underestimate of the true number of Irish descendants, versus only about 5 million people in the entire country of Ireland.
I've been binging your videos for hours, great work. If you find yourself exploring the Pacific Northwest and need tips, let me know.
I highly recommend going into the further details over specific events. I recommend the Oversimplified videos. The French & Indian War was such a big factor on the taxes and Independence. The almost forgotten War of 1812 which brought us our anthem. The Civil War you should definitely react too.
Loved this video.❤ 🇺🇸 🇮🇪
Hello from Florida !! You have to come visit the Good olé USA again when things are better !! Nice Video 😎
Yes please!
90% accurate. Some bad interpretation and one giant glaring problem. The US did not annex Texas. The two sides negotiated a merger beneficial to both sides. There was never any military action to separate New Mexico from Texas. Parts of Texas also became part of Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming. As someone with a history degree, I would say this is a representation of events important to European relations with a few social situations thrown in. This is not the history of how America developed to be what it is.
Interesting!
@@DianeJennings I agree with Brian. History is like anything else - the teller has a purpose in mind with which they want the audience to come away with a certain impression. Some facts will be omitted, some will be dressed up to get the desired effect. Frankly I'm curious how Europeans would feel (okay, it varies by region of course, in a geopolitical and of course also a personal sense) if the USA up and evaporated overnight, either in the sense of 1) it's people magically just VANISHING, leaving the land intact or 2) all ppl disappear AND the land just becomes an uninhabitable ruin (in the sense that mineral extraction or any sort of attempts to build anything is impossible).
Annex doesn’t imply military takeover necessarily but they could’ve made that clear that it wasn’t a violent takeover
@@jamesgirard1090 - The video then went on to claim military action to separate New Mexico from Texas - which never happened, genius.
@@briantevington1608 Talking about the Mexican American war of 1848 genius
The Midwest…I live in Indiana and I’m always finding Indian tools and arrow heads
Awww, Chewie looked like a little punk rocker head banger at the end there.
He’s so cute!!!
Love to see your reaction. Love your videos
Fun Fact. Pepsi cola once had the worlds 6th largest Navy.
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@@DianeJennings This was due to Russia not having hard currency with which to make payments, so they instead bartered off their old surplus naval vessels for Pepsi to scrap and gain value that way.
Pepsi's CEO joked that he was disarming the Russians faster than the government was....
They never actually took possession of the ships.
Great video. There is a channel called oversimplified that explains the civil war.
I’ll check it out!
A speakeasy was a place that served liquor during prohibition. You would knock on the door and say a code word. If you didn’t know the word, you didn’t get in. They’re basically gone now. Some places are around that will use this method to sell liquor to minors.
There are a handfull that have been restored and are open as bars now.
There are modern bars that use the 'speakeasy' mystique where the facades are hidden and you have to be in the know. I found articles about several around the world, even in Japan.
The US is primarily neutral due to the Monrow doctrine. However we support countries with aligned beliefs economicly.
part is wrong about the north not having slaves. A lot of the states in the North did have slaves.
But, did they have them when the US was the US? There are 2 technicalities (the "border" states Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) and (slavery is practiced currently in our jails).
@@johnjdumas If you mean after the Declaration of Independence then yes, slavery was legally practiced throughout the north until Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780. Other northern states followed. If you mean after the US constitution was ratified then also yes, New York and New Jersey didn't pass their own abolition laws until 1799 and 1804, respectively. Those were the last of the original northern states to outlaw slavery (other northern states were admitted without legal slavery).
Slavery just wasn't as integral to the economies of the industrializing north as it was in the more agricultural south.
@@LiveFreeOrDieDH Well, George Washington was inaugurated April 30, 1789 congress The Senate had met in March, March 4, 1789. Realistically the United States could not pass a bill before that time "As these United States" That being said, a lot of people lived and died under US legal slavery in those 76 years. Before that, you must blame mainly the Portuguese shipping and the English and state law. Dates and jurisdiction matter.
Only if you believe the federal powers could have superseded state power much earlier could the federal government make laws that the states would follow. The Federal government barely overpowered the south in 1860 as it is. It is highly unfortunate that Virginia did not eliminate slavery in 1831/1832 when a few outside dollars could have tipped over slavery as a whole. Without Virginia, the Civil War would have been the Civil incident. The Federal government would have had to find some other cause to seize primary power sooner or later.
Super cool Diane.
Great job!
Two parts of my family came over from Wales in 1634 to Rhode Island. I am not sure about the Irish and German sides.
Irish is difficult to track. A lot of Irish records were burned
Half of white Americans are British/Irish/Scottish, and the other half is German/Scandinavian. One can clearly tell whoʼs Celtic and whoʼs Germanic.
Just imagine how much longer a video of the history of Ireland 🇮🇪 would be if it was this cut. I found it interesting what the narrator with the odd accent covered and did not cover.. You are always a delight 🍟
Yes! I’m definitely seeing in comments he missed a few things but I enjoyed the overview
@@DianeJennings Like any novel turned into a movie someone's favorite parts get left out
@@chipparmley 😂
16:03 "Still don't have it." Yes, yes we do, Diane. The gender wage gap is a myth.
Glad at least a few others caught that, lol.
I love your reactions to our history its so authentic 💗.
"Plantations" of wheat and corn? The workers and "peasants"? Word choice bro, word choice.
It clearly wasn’t an American. Plantations doesn’t have the same connotations outside the US.
@@dgpatter Same thoughts here. Were I not so lazy, I'd try to verify my speculation that the narrator is German or eastern European .
The original version of the video was French. The narrator of this newer version is from India.
@@dgpatter Yeah, and no American would call another American a "peasant."
@@johnalden5821 weellll....pretty sure Bezos calls his employees peasants
You always surprise me with your content it's great keep posting
Well, this is a basic overview leaving out the fact that Florida was already settled by the Spanish, the first permanent settlement was Jamestown in 1607. It also leaves out the main fact that the colonies were being taxed without voting representation in Parliament. And part of the tea thing was that Parliament passed a law that said colonist tea importers could only buy from the East India company. Which is why coffee became so popular in the US, because coffee wasn't either taxed or controlled.
And watching this with you I'm screaming about all the things that are left out. As an aside, Etruria was a kingdom in what is now Italy. That eventually worked itself out. Stay safe! DonP
I'd like to see a similar video summarizing Irish history. Or a video looking at different "rivalries" between countries like England and France... though I realize that might get a bit risky.
A reasonable video but it could have started 1587 Roanoke Island (failed) and/or Jamestown, Virginia, 1607. Or Native Americans coming from Asia thru what is now Alaska.
When I landed at Shannon on September 9th, 2002 it was FULL of U.S. service people on their way to the middle east. It was really strange being so close to the 1 year anniversary and seeing what was going to be happening next.
Fun fact: Abraham Lincoln was the United State's first Republican president.
At the time it would have been considered the left/liberal party, the Democrats aka the Dixiecrats were pro slavery
The party's affiliation on the political spectrum switched around 1964 during the passing of the civil Rights act
Good marketing. All Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act. Less than 50% of Democrats.
@@jaymz1251 well there was an earlier switch turn of the 19/ 20 centuries forget details but it was gradual.
Alright class, let's remember this is a non-political channel. One can almost see the sparring commentary simmering underneath.
Speakeasy is a nickname for any Pub or bar in the 1920s. It was illegal to sell alcohol and cigarettes in those days.
"I'm a little skeptical. I don't think it can possibly be the entire history but I'm going to check it out." PLOT TWIST: The video is 2,147,664 hours long. That's actually 245 years... including leap years. I did the math. I drank LOTS of Red Bull today. ;-)
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Finally home in time on a Monday for FHC, been awhile! Like, comment, grab a beer, and kick off my evening with Diane & Chewie. Have a lovely night Diane!
Thanks Mike! You too!
My fun fact for the four minute mark: The first executive mansion was at 3 Cherry St in New York City. It no longer exists.
Fun! That set me off on a street view adventure. Even more fun!*
*a typical covid-era safe adventure
My dad’s family got help from Al Capone’s soup kitchen during the prohibition. The funny thing is his family immigrated from Germany and Hungary.
If you are at all interested in learning more about the indigenous being forced onto reservations (which I find fascinating), you might want to read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." It was made into a movie as well which is amazing. It's a very small part of their journey, but it's some of the most consequential of events. I highly suggest it, but you'll need an entire box of tissues.
I’ll definitely check it out... I might wait til after lockdown when I’m less emosh though judging by your recommendation 😭
@@DianeJennings People often underestimate how significant the reservations are. Navajo Nation is larger than Ireland, and like all reservations it has its own government and isn't beholden to the laws of the US nor does it pay the US taxes or anything.
King Phillip's War is another book about this topic. The grizzly details are not glossed over in this account.
In America the 7 years war was called the French and Indian wars
Not complete history. The part of the US I grew up in was called New Netherlands, settled first by the Dutch. Very Anglo-centric in the colonial period, much more than what was taught to me in school. Plus, it can't be complete because I was not mentioned🙂
Ha fair! “And then Jim was born!”
Yep and New York City was first called New Amsterdam.
If you visit Las Vegas, there is a Mob Museum with a speakeasy in the basement. There is even a hidden room behind a large painting. And, that painting turned out to be my friend's (who was with me in Las Vegas) great aunt! I definitely recommend some of the moonshine cocktails!
Interesting, but it is a very simplified and compacted history of the United States. Sort of like "Cliff notes".
Ya I think so too. Well done though I thought.
@@DianeJennings Well, it was interesting, but remember that whoever is in power dictates what you learn.
Diane I just barely learned yesterday that Maine is the closest state to the continent of Africa. Isn't that wild!?
My great great great Uncle was general George Meade commander of Gettysburg. The Civil War. And he is a descendant Of what the founding fathers Oliver Wilcock. Yes the same Mead Castle family.
cool
So what nobody cares what anyone did in the Union Army. It has all been cancelled and ghosted. All of my ancestors fought for America but nobody gives a damn. Canceled and ghosted.
I can't tell if that sound is Martin breathing hard or if it was the thunderstorm you posted footage of yesterday.
It was the storm!! ☔️
Just remember, it was the Irish that built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad in the US. The Chinese built the western half. Bot both groups were really more like forced labor than eager industrialists.
Hmmmm....they were forced on money payed for a job. Get a grip - it was isolated and difficult work but it was not forced labor
@@rg20322 google is free. Tho they weren't forced labor they were paid much less than everyone else and were living in squallier
Very interesting and educational. I too, as American, feel that I learned some things here.
Btw, this made me want to watch the "Star spangled banner as you've never heard it" video, you should do a reaction to that, when you get a chance.
Wow it starts in 1750! My family had already been in Massachusetts for 117 years already......, the Irish side waited until the 1880's......
Wow!!
Mine too, though while they came through Plymouth, they seemed to all end up in Connecticut by the mid 1630's. I also have a direct Mayflower ancestor, though he's not in my "name line."
Guilford Connecticut 1639 for my family.
@@MagsonDare We are probably cousins -- us and about 2 million other Americans. I keep missing the reunions!
@@MagsonDare Mine came to Ipswich, MA in 1633
Great video on the U.S. I had forgotten a lot I had "learned" here in the States. Love your Puppy Child !!
Well, northern states had to return “runaway slaves” to the south so there were slaves in the north. There were free black people living in Northern states. In fact, the first person killed in the Revolutionary War was a free black man. His name was Crispus Attucks. Also, rich people had indentured servants working for them. A fair number of them were Irish.
At one time there were more indentured Irish slaves than there were black slaves. If anyone has the right to hate slavery and persecution, it should be the Irish and the American Indians.
Ok these videos are produced in France but the english version is translated by an Indian Gentlemen named Rahul Venkit. We never had peasants here in the United States and I was a bit shocked when he used that word. He apparently uses "Indian English" when translating which explains his accent and choice of words. interesting.
Ahaaa! Yes upon hearing it back ED suspected Indian
Yes, it is interesting to hear the word "peasants" -- this is a word that nearly all Americans, I think, would find pejorative and would reject as a way to characterize any American of any period. It is precisely because they were not peasants that they refused to be taxed by a legislative body that did not represent them.
@@johnalden5821 well said John
A few more informational videos such as this one, Diane, and it'll become a really tough call as to whether you pass an American citizenship test or acquire a license to drive in Ireland first. Also, Chewie, your ventriloquism skills were outstanding in today's video.
They were! Oh I’d definitely do better at the American test than the driving
When the natives were made to walk to the West side of the Mississippi River is often referred to as the Trail of Years because so many lives were lost during this transfer to newer reserve.
Autocorrect changed Tears to Years.
We were definitely neutral at the beginning of WWII. Most of the country was against getting into the war--then the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.
Try and imagine a whole nation going "OH HELL NO" at the same time and that's how America jumped into the fight.😂🇺🇲
Sweet video, Diane.😁🍻
Ireland was also neutral and remained so throughout the war. It never got in on either side.
Great video. Ireland was like you all do you. We’re gonna just chill over here.
6:28: California is not that rich anymore. They're more than a half-trillion dollars in debt.
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Yep because of their Socialist systems and beliefs.
Links, or just more Limbaugh BS?
AFAIK, states cannot legally run in debt, other than bonds.
@@jmacd8817 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California had a debt of $151,715,007,000 in fiscal year 2015, so states can definitely go into debt.
Buddy, California is something like the 10th-largest economy in the world. The world. "Debt" doesn't mean the same thing for a state or a country as it does for an individual. No one can rock up to California and be like, "Give me the money or I take your shit."
"Debt" just means they've made promises based on expected future economic production. Since there is no reason to believe that production won't happen, it's fine. It's totally fine. Deficit spending is not the demon Boogeyman conservatives want you to think it is (until they wanna fight a war; then it's "deficit whomst? I don't know her"). They more or less use it as a pretext to oppose spending that might help the populace at the expense of the ultra-wealthy.
TL;DR: Austerity is a lie; "debt" isn't something to fear; don't let conservatives spin your head 'round.
what they don't tell you is that India rebelled at the same time from Great Briton, the english felt India was more important and just threw a weak force at the colonies, after suppressing the Indian rebellion, they returned to try to take over the colonies again, in 1812,
Interesting
There haven't been real speak easy's since the 1930's.
I’d luv to see an old one though!
There are still plenty of them operating in NYC, but are bars or private clubs that operate as a Speakeasy for atmosphere. I assume Chicago must have many as well.
Go to the “ Untitled Supper Club”in Chicago
@@tommansmith5627 I won't get arrested, since it's a legal bar. Have family in Chicago, need to get back, it's been a while. Great town.
If you want the worst curse next time someone doesn't subscribe, everytime they step into their shoes they will always step on a pebble and will then have to take their shoes off to remove the pebble.
Ooooh!!
He forgot to add when the first arrival of Diane Jennings to the US 🇺🇸 occurred.
Aww! Yaay! Very important 😂
@Roy Dunn Diane and Editor Diane are like Clark Kent and Superman. Superman dons eyeglasses and, "Hey!' where did Superman go?"
A quick change of hair prep and, "Hey!, where did Diane go?"
Great video Diane! Now in Fairplay you should show the history of Ireland which I'm sure most Americans do not know.
DC wasn't even the first capital of the US.
Yeah, the video kind of skipped over the whole Articles of Confederation debacle.
@@nethrelm that's what the musical Hamilton is for 😊
Great video keep up the good work 👍🇮🇪🇺🇸
American here, already know the history just watching to look at the pretty Irish girl for 20 minutes.
Actually we do have equal pay. If you take everything into consideration, time in the workforce, comparing the same career with the same career, all of that, women make almost exactly the same as men. Also, the United States was a HUGE presence in Europe during WW2. We lost so many soldiers. I suggest the show "Band of Brothers" which was about a paratroop outfit and what they went through. It's so good and gives a very real view of what happened. As soon as Pearl Harbor happened, we were no longer neutral.
Yes to both of your points ! It’s federal law for women to receive the same pay as men for the SAME job . The feminist claim that women only get 77 cents for each dollar that a man makes is due to false comparisons of different jobs .
And the series Band of Brothers is excellent !
plus theres the whole "equal pay for equal work" law.
love band of brothers (though its still somewhat hollyweird). and we were really more "neutral" then neutral. for instance the us navy was fighting the kriegsmarine (german navy) as early as july 1941.
14:36 Hollywood is still a gigantic propaganda machine to the detriment of a great many things.
Such as?
@@HansDelbruck53 It furthers the "us vs. them" mindset due to their heavy handed political influence, constantly spouts some very hypocritical unconstitutional propaganda, especially concerning the Second Amendment, fosters the unrealistic "beauty pageant" body image, blackballs anyone with different views then theirs, ect.
In the scope of things, this is so current history. I'm so happy to see a young adult watching recent history and realizing how we got here in a very short time in civil world history
you should react to the American civil war oversimplified part 1 and 2
small error in what they said the second continental congress voted on independence on July 2, 1776, but it didn't approve the Declaration of Independence document until July 4, 1776.
There are many "land mines" in this video that will start a violation of your no politics policy. But overall it got the frame work pretty close to correct. There is a definite slant in this video, but not as bad as i feared it would.
I agree. I expected to hate it, but I found it quite fair and accurate. Unfortunately, there are plenty of ignorant people flooding the comments with the falsehoods I expected from the video.
People are welcome to discuss their thoughts here once they’re respectful. Do please flag any comments that you think are hateful or disrespectful to others. They have no place here and I don’t see them all or even necessarily understand what they might be saying.
@@DianeJennings to get at the slant requires a far more in-depth look at each of these topics. As it went, the video left out the left-right labels to its benefit. Its choice of words betrayed its own slant, that could only be discussed in a very long and drawn out discussion. This for me anyways is not the venue to win hearts and minds. There would be too much vitriol that the "Dianne Jennings" youtube channel is not designed for. I like that you avoid the political banter. We get enough of that everywhere in society now (i'm in texas). I avoid Try videos that are on topics of politics. I have too much fun watching them that i dont want the vitriol to ruin them for me. Agreeing to disagree and civility are why i love your channel as well as Try.
@@dgpatter i dont know about "quite fair and accurate" but definitely not as bad as i was thinking. they did use the phrase "workers and peasants" a lot as well as the commie fist.
BOOP Another great video Diane. Once again looking as lovely as ever. I actually was able to learn a few things that I didn't know although I consider myself somewhat of a history buff. You always seem to come up with the best material and for that reason I love watching your videos and the reason I follow you so faithfully. I served in the military during the Vietnam war so I can shed some light on that. I don't want to make this to long so I will just say keep doing what you do and Stay safe. BOOP
Very much just surface touches the wide breadth of US history, but very interesting. Again, nice variety and good job on the video.
Thank you for the shout out.
Thank you for being you!
Nice reaction video 👍🏻
Don't worry Diane if anyone messes with Ireland we'll come a running You guys may be small but you know what they say about good things
☘️ and we’ll let you park your planes here... but we’re neutral
@@DianeJennings As long as you Pubs are open
@@DianeJennings LOL
The reason not much is said about the Ireland/Northern Ireland conflict is because America never had to take a side. That doesn’t mean we didn’t hear about it. Besides the news, we had 2 other main items I remember: 1) the bad - TV started to use Irish as bad guys with killings and reprisal type scenarios; 2) the good - many local channels reported on exchange programs where an Irish student stayed with a host family of mixed faith, one Catholic and one Protestant. The idea was to promote peaceful understanding in the next generation. [My own marriage is of mixed faith like this] So what we really never heard was, after the split, how are things there?
Sounds like a French accent. My first ancestors in America emigrated from Ireland to the US in 1732...so 18 years before the video takes place 🙂
I was thinking perhaps maybe India? Oh wow! That’s cool Sam!
Could be Indian
I am sticking with my earlier C3PO comment.
How can you be so certain about the year though?
@@noensomserdegsoveomnattenp7732 I could be a few years off because I've seen information that says 1737 and another that says 1701, but most of it comes compiled from a book called Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, which is based off of information gleaned from court records of the time
My American grandmother was born in 1899 and lived until 2002. She lived through WW1, the Great Depression,WW2,the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, and 9/11. She was active and independent her whole life.
Ok... First of all, The Spanish came to Florida ("La Florida") in the 1500s... so, this, like many "history" books teach here, is bleached by the British.
This is a very VERY singular viewpoint "history video".
Would you ever taste test Wookiee on the channel Diane? I hear it’s very Chewie...
*Now for the my actual question*
Since 🦠 has extended your time in Spain, is a showcase of your Español (that I’m certain you’ve perfected) possible in a future video?
Ha! It’s not very good. There’s a Spanish playlist on my channel. There’s a few bits in there
@@DianeJennings I’ll check it out. Hopefully my lame joke gave you a decent 😆 lol