US History Overview 1: Jamestown to the Civil War

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Jamestown to the Civil War. Correction: Jamestown was the first successful ENGLISH settlement in what is now the United States. The Spanish actually settled St. Augustine, Florida in 1595.
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I didn't go to high school and don't know a lot about history, but am starting a college class on history today. This overview was SUPER helpful, thank you!

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[@divagirl10]

Thank you, that kind of helped me a little. I'm taking a super difficult U.S History course online that is required before I start my Masters program. So far I did bad on the first two quizzes, and there is soooooo much information, you just touched on the basics, well this class goes in super detail and my mind is very exhausted from all of it. But your video was interesting to watch.

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Im taking a united state history course soon! This gave me plenty of motivation and interest to be able to articulate all you have said on my own. I looked up information as you talked about time periods and found it a fun learning experience. Thanks for making this!

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I'm using this to study for my midterm😛

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You'll fail.

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I'm taking AP

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How’d that midterm go

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What the hey, this is very informative. At a glance history. Thank you.

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More American History before the APUSH test this year would be so great. You should definitely begin working on history.

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This is very informative. Impressive summarization of the us history.

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Amazing video! Thank you(:

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Thanks so much!! I have an exam tomorrow on exactly this part of American history, it's really useful!

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I wanna thank you because I like your videos, they're really helpful, but I wish you could make other videos where there is more details, I'll be so grateful... thank you again

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Great overview. Your calculus and bio lessons really helped me a lot last year :)

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WOW-- it is sure most of those who comment do not care to learn , and cheat their selves out of so much. Thanks for the lessons -- I appreciate you work.

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This is my favorite episode of drunk history.

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+Ryan Mooney Certainly less pretentious. However, how does it compare to Hip Hughes?

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Something to refresh my memory while I do stuff. US Semester exam tomorrow!

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Yes! Thank you for making more history videos!!!

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Thank you for this video it really helped a lot !

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this lecture gave me more information, in an easy to understand way, then a week of my history class would have ever.

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Taking us history this summer for college. I took AP us history during high school and got 90s so I should be good

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THE REAL HISTORY CAN NEVER BE WRITTEN NOBODY CAN TAKE IT AWAY!

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[@davidayj8109]

History is very much open to interpretation, and this talk is a good example of that. Definitely embellishes and demeans in several areas.

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That is YOUR interpretation... Oh the irony.

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+carlos chavarria Actually Davey J was referring more to the nature of studying history itself... Being open isn't really creating your own interpretation of history, if we are to set the basic premises of the comment in more concrete terms.

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I liked it, I have learnt more with this video, thank you!

[@Bustah]

I find it amusing that many people recognize its an overview, but then have to add what he missed. He knows what he missed, he said himself it was a 30K ft. overview and he skipped huge amounts of time. Just let him do his videos on his own. Nice work on this one by the way, very interesting to me, good basic review :]

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@ThePreachingArtist I agree! There needs to be more perspectives taught to these students!

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That was considerably more intresting than the English history I'm taught at school, all it is is "Well this king f'd this up, and this king f'd this up"

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i'm learning more from this video than my APUSH teacher taught me all year..

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very helpful! Thanks!

[@chissstardestroyer]

Not only those, but there were a bunch of wars in the meantime; including at least *four* "French and Indian Wars" so to speak, and in about 1676 "King Philips' War" that both completely wrecked the economy of New England and led to the demise of the Algonquin culture in the bulk of New England, and paved the way for the formation of New England as a major part of the USA.

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Khan, please go more in-depth in U.S history, Im taking an ap class and this video helped a lot for the general idea.

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i find this more useful than actually going to school.....

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Great job. I'm curious though why you don't mention noncontiguous territorial acquisition i.e. Pacific and carribean islands.

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im a jounear and i like to say thanks the taks test is next week and i need alot of information about the US history section so i can pass this

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In fairness, the Seven Years War was not just the British vs French. It was the British/Prussians/Portugal/other german states vs France/Austria/Russia/Sweden and later Spain

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@volksline9 It was still after the war officially ended, and even though the losses where 386 British to 55 Americans, the battle did not change the fact that the US lost or the fact that the US lost about 15 000 soldiers when the British North American forces only lost 4 921 soldiers.

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all I have to do for today's history assignment is watch this video and write down the events that occured. LOL easiest assignment ever.

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thanks for the great overview - perfect for my 7th grade son

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this is alot of help! My oral English final is tomorrow and the Theme is USA. Thanks a lot for the help! (Y)

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Can you do a video on Canadian history? Thanks!!:)

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This is a critical detail that students will be tested on

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Please, Make Tutorial about 1983 Korean Missile Crisis.

[@camiiie.]

love the video and really appreciate the effort put into covering so much. just a little thing that bothered me: the emancipation proclamation only proclaimed freedom for slaves who were part of the Confederate states, so states like Missouri were left alone

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My teacher is forcing me to watch this...I'm. It entertained

[@mchorn011]

Solid refresher on dates and events, did nothing to explain why any of it mattered. I hope the other videos are better.

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Why are people saying that this is not "true" and only "adequate"? He fit over a hundred years of history in 18 minutes.

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ty for this i have a test tomorrow on everything from last year and i learned nothing cuz it was virtual 🙏🙏

[@johnny1988ism]

The important question for the future in this case is not "can it happen again?" Rather, it is " can it be stopped?" For the genocide in the "Americas", and in other places where the world's indigenous peoples survive, has never really ceased.

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thank you

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Would it be possible to make some videos focused on all the US presidents (personal life and presidency)?

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more history please!!!!!!!!

[@gohoggyourself]

(In accordance to what you said about the US-Mexican war) We conducted military drills near Mexico in territory that we believed was ours, and the Mexican army fired the first shots by shooting at a patrol. It's just like what we do today, a country does something we don't like, so we send our military near it to conduct military operations.

[@lextalionis2001]

I realize this is a short summary, but you didn't include the significance of the results of the 7 years war when France chose to keep the Sugar islands (and their revenue) over the canadian territories. The historical lesson to be learned from France choosing tiny islands because of short term sugar revenues over the long term revenues of the country of Canada cannot be understated :) thanks for posting

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[@oldspammer]

Given the legal definition of constitutor, the main part of the US constitution are the items pertaining to "the Debt" repayment according to international laws & treaties. The constitution says that repayment shall be done by creating any taxes necessary to enable this repayment. Note that legal terms are denoted by unusual letter capitalization throughout documents written by lawyers in the legalese rather than plain English language words. Google (us constitution pdf) then search Debt.

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[@MrAlex_Raven]

I'll go through the details the details then, The Sugar Act The Townshend Acts And The Tea Act in that order which summarily led to the Boston Tea Party.

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Totally agree!!

[@rileygardner2103]

This is fantastic! The few things that threw me off 1) Texas independence had a lot more issues than slavery. It had to do with federalism vs. centralism and various rights. Not only slavery. 2) Lincoln died after the war ended. But awesome video!

[@stevenchick1653]

Interesting

[@Naoufalitos24]

thanks for the video, but the part i'm interested in was skipped

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Which a cool kind of presentation programm have you used?

[@johnny1988ism]

As recently as 1986, the Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States observed that 40,000 people had simply "disappeared" in Guatemala during the preceding fifteen years.

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Why are there two Treaties of Paris, one in 1763 and another in 1783?

[@2jimmy21]

Sal, Are you saying there were two Treaty of Paris drafted in 1763 and 1783 or did they revise the first one?

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I created a trivia game from this video. See how high your score can get. I'm trying to get time to enhance it to allow two people to play each other. (Also need to put on volume control :)

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if only i stumbled upon this yesterday. :/ oh well sat 2s tomorrow!