Spanish-American War | Animated History

Remember the Maine, #yellowjournalism and the rise of #TeddyRoosevelt? Now you do. Check out this #animatedhistory of the "splendid little war" that launched the United States onto the imperialist stage and have a few laughs while doing so.
Thanks to the following channels for lending their voices:
Khanubis - / tobirates
Neuro Transmissions - / neurotransmissions
All music selection from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b.... Seriously, he is awesome.
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[@MrBettsClass]

If you share this video, let me know your favorite part and what other topic you'd like to see an animated video of.

[@loladeascentiis5329]

I just shared the video!! My favorite part was the Yellow Journalism, it was so cool you incorporated that into the video because it is such a significant (and often forgotten about) part of the Spanish American War. I would love an animated video about the suffragist movement, Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass, or the civil rights movement. Thanks again!

[@MrBettsClass]

Good idea

[@IroncladChamberOrchestra]

Do the Philippine-American War

[@chickennuggets-fg6kw]

Do the Vietnam war or World War Two

[@TheTrueMongol]

Can you do a ww2 animated history?

[@OnyxVeil]

im a Jr. in high school and in my U.S history class these actually help during the semester, these videos are the main reason for me remembering half the things on the test

[@inexpertxennial6067]

1:35 look up yellow journalism.

[@yeng1855]

The only thing I remember at that time was... Yellow Journalism repeat, repeat, and repeat. Hell, I thought Cuba was part of Spain.

[@newbells1337]

USA: I defeated Spain I'm a big boy now!! British and French: I see we taught him well...

[@MrBettsClass]

The apprentice has become the master

[@universaldoesstuff3239]

heh idg this wat you talking bout

[@gerardsebastian7897]

I don't think they taught anything considering that France And Britain have got more defeats than victories over the spanish

[@josh_the_alien]

@Bon Boi America: Im GoNnA gO tO wAr WiTh SpAiN aNd SlaUgHtEr ThE sPaNiSh AnD cUbAnS ThEn MaKe CuBa An AmErIcAn CoLoNy!

[@AXEL201211]

Actually USA didnot defeat spain only in sea cos spainsh ships where outdated on land there was no us victory lol the local guerrillas did more damage than us troops witch showed to be inferior on land compared to spanish troops making more damage to the us troops than spanish loses i see us history is diferent form the rest of the world lol

[@iammrbeat]

Mark Twain was woke.

[@MrBettsClass]

Or is this a case of right war, wrong reason? I mean, Weyler was brutal to the Cuban people.

[@DoctorCyan]

Thank you Mr. Beat :)

[@MooseOsauras]

Mr beat

[@KhAnubis]

Remember the Spanish Empire? This is them now...

[@MrBettsClass]

Ah, missed soon to be dated meme opportunity. I'm slacking. Thanks again for the voice work.

[@eragonenfrancais1342]

KhAnubis OMG KHANUBIS! I LOVE YOU

[@kurtiskurt1]

Feel old yet?

[@martinxy1291]

Spain: This is me now. you're probably wondering how i got here, so let me tell you, it was a good idea at first and it all went to shit

[@gml4776]

@@Gloriaimperial1 Dónde puedo encontrar más información acerca del testamento de Shakespeare dónde llamaba a España a invadir Inglaterra

[@loladeascentiis5329]

Thank you Mr Betts, this is amazing as usual!!!

[@raff6147]

Oh my goodness! I've been waiting for this!!!! This is soooo good!

[@loladeascentiis5329]

RapidTheGeek same!!! The animation is amazing!!!

[@MrBettsClass]

Glad it turned as well as you expected

[@Supernatural-jf9ib]

AMAZING! Thanks for this! Love your videos- hilarious and educational.

[@MrBettsClass]

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[@etherealescent2298]

This was so great and so informative! Thank you so much for this! :)

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These are so informative and entertaining! Thank you for making them!

[@MrBettsClass]

Thanks. Working hard on a WWI video

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You’re honestly my fav teacher

[@pendragon1079]

I really like watching your videos for fun because I’m in sixth grade and I really liked the Hannibal one because it taught me something I needed for school. You sing really good and your songs are catchy

[@vladanlausevic1733]

Thanks for the video. It was hilarious and educational at the same time

[@bella.w0o]

this was so helpful thank you!!

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Thank you, right on time to. I have a test tomorrow and I'm not ready but this is helping me.

[@miahconnell23]

@MrBettsClass This is great work !! I’ve gotta ask how challenging it was for you to acquire your video creation and editing skills, and if you were teaching (full-time class-load in a regular brick-and mortar school) at the same time that you were navigating the stuff a person has to learn about video & audio.

[@SamaritanPrime]

Superimposing Teddy Roosevelt's head over Captain America as he's punching out aliens is probably the best part of this whole thing.

[@MrBettsClass]

I mean, he is Captain America, right

[@yankeesdoubleheader2375]

@@MrBettsClass captain America wouldn't take credit for battles he didn't fight in and win, especially if the credit is taken away from a disenfranchised minority group.

[@CynicalHistorian]

2:55 - nice touch with the Rosebud reference

[@MrBettsClass]

Thanks. I'm surprised no one has said anything about Pulitzer and Hearst getting ready to... you know.

[@CynicalHistorian]

@@MrBettsClass Hearst once paid for a retreat in upstate New York with Pulitzer in real life, so.....

[@kadenjohnson4954]

Finally! Well worth the wait... Keep up the great work!

[@MrBettsClass]

Will do

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

Somewhere along the way, I'll need to learn how to animate like this! Anyway, thumbs up! ;)

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Love your videos I use them in class all the time! Why are Oklahoma and other states shaded on the map/flag of the US?

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So well done 👏👏

[@loladeascentiis5329]

Also are you still doing the q and a video? I’ve been looking forward to it, your videos are the best!

[@MrBettsClass]

I have the Q's, been too busy making this to do the A's. I will.

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MrBettsClass yay, thank you so much!!!

[@ronnypanteras]

USA to Spain: “Look at me, I’m the conquistador now.”

[@antoniocatala1534]

being a conquistador is much more than just winning a war i'm afraid

[@BlindingGlow]

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The only video's my students actually enjoy watching. Thank you!

[@e.producer1082]

6:45 - 7:52 got me deaddddd lmao. I just saw this video that my online Spanish history teacher assigned us to watch

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My class has been enjoying your videos for a long time

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I used this in American History class today! So awesome to see a cartoon version of history that makes you LAUGH!! :) . Awesome!

[@portaljumper7482]

It’s missing the invasion on PR

[@kristacolvin6430]

This is awesome. Please make more of these videos. THey are great for my middle school age kiddos!!

[@MrBettsClass]

Well, I have another channel now called Drawn of History. It's in this style but some of it maybe a little too grown up in humor for the classroom.

[@kristacolvin6430]

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[@ocean-tae9392]

I literally am doing my A Levels and this has taught me more than my text books

[@MrBettsClass]

Good luck on your exams

[@Marcianoverde1]

USA quickly forgot that Spain helped them to get their independence. Cuba, puerto Rico and Philippines had even political representation in Madrid and were treated equally. USA lied a lot so as to steal new territories. All this should be remembered

[@MrBettsClass]

The US forgot within a decade about France helping them. So forgetting Spain after a century isn't surprising.

[@brndonlu9635]

@@MrBettsClass Could it be the media back then so they could get stories out there?

[@hamiltonhyla]

Hey, Mr Betts, I am wondering when your Q and A is coming out. I have been waiting forever for it, so can you tell us when it is coming out? =)

[@MrBettsClass]

Hopefully soon now that I'm not drawing and animating with all my free time.

[@hamiltonhyla]

Okay, Thanks!

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I love your vids my teacher started showing us these vids and I loved them and still do

[@kevin8712]

4:16-4:17 Did he speak softly, because he was carrying his big stick...

[@worstaddressever]

Showed this to my 8th grade U.S. History class today, we enjoy your content a lot. I would be really interested in learning how to do similar animated videos... could you recommend a starting point?

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My kids are going to love this video. Thanks for for all that hard work, that must of taken forever.

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Your song is delighted!

[@_Jonathan9266_]

This was hilarious our teacher showed us

[@MrBettsClass]

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[@IAmWBeard]

Is this episode on drawn off history? I don’t recall seeing it. Re upload dude!!!

[@MrBettsClass]

This is like a beta version. Not quite up to my drawn of history standards but you can see the bones.

[@brooklynspeaks5716]

This is great for people who don't like to study history. It's comical but keeps it real. I love it!

[@Pack_leader1989]

The USS Maine very well could have blown up due to a ruptured boiler causing the munitions to explode

[@edgarcaverolopez1770]

US: Shoot to USS Marine US:Why would Spain do this ?

[@euunitedwestand1471]

Stay on your knees and say thanks that your country still exists! Most stupid question can a human make.Typical spanish. Like : ,, why did spain invade two continents?”

[@edgarcaverolopez1770]

EU United We Stand This is what happens when people lack neurons

[@joan8734]

@@euunitedwestand1471 shut the fuck up

[@ivanmartinez-jd8gi]

@@euunitedwestand1471 yikes, I think that the us should be the one thanking spain u know because we actually gave you your independence, your welcome btw.

[@euunitedwestand1471]

ivan martinez big mouth worthless nation, everywhere is a spanish,there is noise. You didn’t give anything to anybody!

[@-kophi_]

This has more info and humor then a 1 hr lesson at school-

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Frr

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[@MrBettsClass]

I saw it and thanks

[@portaljumper7482]

The us attacked Puerto Rico too, they bombarded San Juan, the capital and attacked entered in south.

[@justinlee3840]

I can't get enough of this video, first the teacher showed it to us then I'm watching it at my desk in my bedroom.

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3:14 this part is a lil sus ngl

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ok this is really good, but my class exploded at 3:07 🤣🤣

[@camhersly]

I have an exam tomorrow morning and this taught me more then my 24 page study guide

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More information and humor than a lesson at school 😍🤣

[@illeatyourtoe]

Bro I watch this and class today and I came back to watch it again😭😭

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2:29 Sent to protect

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My teacher had me watch this video for an assignment. It is surely a thing.

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This channel teaches me more history than school

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Me ha encantado :D

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3:14 - 3:17 I fricken lost it.

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Love it!!!! (As always 😉)

[@MrBettsClass]

Thanks, I had to have spent 100 hours on it.

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Can you do parody about Elizabeth Hamilton?

[@aliyahe287]

WHAT IS THE SONG IN THE BEGINNING, it sounds so familiar like from a game or something. Somebody please help

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This is hilarious and well done. How come so few views????? Good work.

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Is that Joe sheriff of Arizona in the thumbnail?!? . . . . . . . . . If it is Lol!

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I love this! I am going to show this to my 6th graders!!

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I’m in 5 th😶

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W video, helping me study for AICE exam

[@Tanamarito]

''... but don't tell Puerto Rico why we want them to be ''ours' but not 'one of us' (the reasons are SO MANY.)'' Splendid video.

[@portaljumper7482]

As a puertorican I know most of these

[@BlindingGlow]

Puerto Rico has literally voted AGAINST becoming "one of us" multiple times before lol. Ignorant much? But muh RaCiSm! And yeah, PR is a pretty sh*t place right now, all they'd do at this point is drag us down and make us even more third world than we already are. Don't even get me started on the 2017 "referendum" LMAO. Puerto Rico wants to have their cake and eat it too. LMAO foh

[@meyerhome85]

Awesome!

[@isaackagan9662]

A splendid little video...

[@foxprazision1695]

6:30 ah man, I was at 5 stars!

[@cathydrury3997]

I watched this ar my history class yesterday

[@MahPerfumeseParfums]

super fun!

[@redisready]

I love when the drop of water shows its so funny lol

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I'll have two number nines, a number nine large, a number six with extra dip, a number seven, two number forty-fives, one with cheese, and a large soda.

[@AXEL201211]

What impreses me about spanish military history is that even with the battle lost at the start of it they show balls

[@atzistudios1375]

I heard that cannon sound from the pixel soldiers games

[@bisexualnarwhal8878]

Watched this in class today

[@sploinkys]

thank you Mr. Betts very cool

[@pendragon1079]

Could do you one on the four periods of Roman expansion

[@MrBettsClass]

I usually do American but if these animated videos take off, maybe I can branch to world history

[@christopherparker3554]

My students really enjoyed this video.

[@camilamorell3405]

this is way too fucking good. WHHHHAAAAAAT

[@MrBettsClass]

Language... And check out my latest animated video on the Virginia colony

[@sakethkalikiri2967]

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[@MrBettsClass]

Glad I could help

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Great Video😁🎬

[@MrBettsClass]

Thanks, share with someone who might like it

[@on1ydez]

This made me laugh 😂😂

[@launiesoult3248]

So you can only give 8 minutes and 5 seconds to the rough riders and teddy Roosevelt and there's something wrong with that

[@randomperson3097]

6:29 What did that bean can say- ☠✋

[@Tech_BadBatch]

Watched this in school today and I wanted to watch it again because it is VERY VERY FUNNY

[@juaneduardolorenzo1841]

I have a model United Nations conference on the Spanish American War, you are a hero lol

[@MrBettsClass]

Glad I could help.

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You should make maybe I’ll be tracer into maybe I’ll be a shaker or Quaker

[@MrBettsClass]

Maybe if I go back to parodies

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Hi my teacher makes us watch your videos and my class loves your videos and you are awesome

[@MrBettsClass]

Since your message to watch it, glad you like it

[@jz9266]

I literally have a test on this Wednesday

[@MrBettsClass]

Hope it helps. Don't forget to share with the rest of the class.

[@jz9266]

Ty

[@MrAmedina26]

OMFG did you guys see fucking Rosebud in the back ground in Hurst office? EPIC

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I finally found this cause my teacher showed us thissss

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Me and my cousin: Yep yup yep YUP -slap-

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This is a masterpiece

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I watched this in history class

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same