The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1)Reaction

Today we react to another great Oversimplifed video. this one is on the American Civil War. Hope you enjoy the Reaction
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[@mrscary3105]

I was born in Rochester NY, last stop on the underground railroad. Canada was vital in the success of that organization, and good reason to be proud Canadians.

[@CanadiansReact]

😁 🍁

[@JPMadden]

Shortly before firing McClellan, a frustrated Lincoln quipped “If General McClellan isn’t going to use his army, I’d like to borrow it for a time.”

[@jerseydevs2000]

The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 are two of the main reasons why routes of the Underground Railroad went to Canada.

[@CanadiansReact]

Thanks for sharing that. Didn’t know that. On a side note the 2000 NJ Devils were the best overall hockey team of the last 30 years. The defence was unstoppable and Scott Stevens was a god in that playoffs. 4 lines that could all score. Except for Oliwa haha. 👍👍-Ryan

[@jerseydevs2000]

I do agree that was a pretty good all-around hockey team, one that knocked off the defending Cup holders. But I am definitely flattered you'd consider them that highly. And yeah... Oliwa. One of the best Poles to ever play in the NHL... which isn't saying much when you can count the number of Polish guys who have made it to the league on one hand.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Neat fact Grace Bedell has a statue and actually told or sent a letter to Lincoln saying to grow a beard.

[@CanadiansReact]

Nice little fact! Thanks!

[@jonathancunningham8739]

@@CanadiansReact you're welcome.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

@@CanadiansReact it is called the Lincoln Bedell Statue in case you two also wanted to know the name.

[@emilyabt4016]

Just so you know, the rivalry started by Bleeding Kansas with Kansas and my home state Missouri is still going on today. We have the superbowl champions, we have the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions, and one of the most successful baseball teams in the MLB... and no, it's not the one with Kansas City in its name. But if you ask a Missourian, Kansas City is ours😏

[@Wowza999]

Hello fellow Missourian Kansas city is definitely ours😏

[@rh1507]

I have been to both Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri. I'm from just across that little river between the Show Me State and the Land of Lincoln.

[@dallasoliver1933]

Did you do the American Revolution oversimplified yet? I’d request that one next please. Thanks! Great content as always

[@CanadiansReact]

Not yet but will definitely will. Thanks for the request Dallas!

[@Username-wp5qm]

A bit of context regarding European intervention, Tension between Britain and the US was still a massive powder keg, The unions opposition to slavery ensured British boots wouldn't once again touch American Soil. Britain had Abolished slavery and began attacking the slave trade globally through Economics and eventually military force, a British Navy task force was created specifically to attack US navy convoys in West Africa and the Caribbean, This went on for some Decades without much resistance. At the Time the British Empire was essentially a precursor to the UN and NATO so they could engage in combat with the American Military (&Others) without an official declaration of war because it was technically a war on Slavery and not any single nation. They would have sided with the Confederacy for economic reasons, Abraham Lincoln's decision to make Slavery the issue of the war literally saved the Union. Cool side note, the British Navy task force still fights Slavery around the world today and is regularly engaged in combatting Human&Sex Trafficking.

[@Londronable]

Don't worry, plenty of Americans will tell you the US was the first to abolish slavery.

[@Username-wp5qm]

@@Londronable Britain didn't just abolish Slavery in 1808 they declared it a crime against humanity and engaged in a full scale war against it, using their military and diplomatic power to coerce and outright force Nations, Kingdoms and Empires to end the practice. Britain invaded America just 4 years later and burned Washington to the ground and decimated the US military, since 1776 Natives, Loyalists and Africans fled North into British Canada to seek Freedom and escape persecution(Ironic) and slavery. Remember "All men are created Equal" was a British Ideal, unfortunately a civil war had to be fought to make this a reality within the Union. The US was not the first to abolish Slavery, they were actually half a century behind the rest of the West.

[@Londronable]

@@Username-wp5qm The point of my comment was that American exceptionalism is a bloody disease, not that it is true.

[@Username-wp5qm]

@@Londronable Probably for the best, could you imagine if they never took Credit for Space exploration? I don't think it's a good thing if people remember that Nazi Germany were the first in Space or that Soviet Russia were the first to put a Satellite and a man in Space, NASA essentially painted over the swastikas with the Spangled banner, the entire organization was run by Captured German scientists. I'm not sure it's such a bad thing that America takes credit for everything and subtly brainwashes it's citizens, could you imagine if the people woke up one day and realised every single President in US history(except one) is part of the Royal Family by blood or that almost every single political Family dynasty are direct descendants of the British aristocracy, could you imagine what would happen if people realised the US is still run by the same people it was before independence and literally all they did was create another layer between the King and the people through Government and changed who's face was on the money. It's sad to think about to be honest

[@johnalden5821]

OK, some nuances: Northern states in the U.S. began ending slavery outright, or phasing it out, right after the Revolution in the 1780s. Also, the U,S. Constitution banned the slave trade after 1808, and Congress followed up with a law to that effect taking place on Jan. 1 of that year. In the UK, court rulings began to cut into slavery's legality in the late 1700s, but full abolition only occurred in the British colonies with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. The UK had banned the slave trade in 1807, a year prior to the U.S. action doing the same thing. The RN West Africa Squadron did patrol the area and was the major force against slave trading (1600 slave ships captured); the United States, having also banned slave importation, began sending a small force of revenue cutters to the area in 1819 to prevent slave trading, and increased its efforts later on, in the 1840s (about 100 slave ships were captured by the USN). The only time when British and U.S. Navy ships would have engaged would have been during the War of 1812, and that would have been by chance, not because they were on opposite sides on the slave trade. I can find no mention of U.S. Navy ships being involved in the slave trade as convoy escorts, although certainly there would have been smugglers of all nationalities (especially Spanish and Brazilian, but also American). There is no indication of official U.S. government support for slave trading after 1808.

[@firebugjohnnypyro]

My Father used to call guys with beards 'Bearded Wonders'. One day I finally asked him why and if it had to do with the 'bearded wonder' of the circus. He then said this: "No. I call them bearded wonders because you wonder why they have a beard?" Only two reasons were his rationale . Either they were too lazy to shave, or they were hiding from something. I think that's where the thinking back in the day came from to not trust people with beards. lol

[@CanadiansReact]

🤣

[@SebasTian58323]

That's just silly, some people just prefer to have bears cause they like the way their faces look 😁

[@Hatchie1415]

Daniel Day Lewis may have played him on the big screen, but it's Tom Hanks who is related to iconic US President Abraham Lincoln 😮

[@ImPizzazz]

love watching you guys. ive been chillin smokin a j and watching your vids gigglin

[@fbksfrank4]

Manassas is the confederacy term for the first battle, so a southerner did this.

[@XX2Media]

Uh, he never called it "The Battle of Manassas"... He simply referred to the area of Manassas for the "First Battle of Bull Run", which is what the video actually called it. It doesn't mean OverSimplified ISN'T a Southerner but perhaps you could have paid actual attention to the words of the video instead...

[@rh1507]

I was actually raised in in the southern portion of Illinois that was split on wether to join with the south. I have always liked the statement by Gun's & Roses on Use Your Illusion II. "What's so civil 'bout war anyway?...

[@KurtAnderson812]

Love the Michigan hoodie!

[@CanadiansReact]

ohcanadaswag.com and you can get yourself one :). Free shipping to the USA!

[@adeleg4759]

If you are ready for a cry, fallen of ww2 is a good one

[@Arcticos0]

That Great Lakes sweater is nice.

[@jacobsheber6803]

Once I saw the Michigan goodies I subscribed immediately

[@felixrecio281]

guardians of the galaxy soundtrack

[@tokesalot42069]

You guys should jump back a few seconds in the video when you react so you can hear it all.

[@thereisnoname7839]

My great great great great grand uncle fought in the battle of shilo he fought for the south and he died on the second day

[@BunieLuv]

You guys should do Cyanide and Happiness Compilation! ♥

[@daniellehurrell6620]

I love your Great Lakes hoodie, from a Great Lakes resident (Erie)! 😁

[@eleahanz1334]

"a-boat" Sorry, had to.

[@ripp3rjak934]

they both stood there for a whole hour? i could never do that lloll

[@CanadiansReact]

haha yeah we're crazy

[@ceciliareynolds5949]

I gotta get one of those Michigan sweatshirts!

[@calvinpage4070]

#myrequest uncle roger bbc egg fried rice. I don't know how to leave a link.

[@manolososadavinci1937]

damn that grey hoodie is a1

[@dryasserabdel-satar4574]

10:10

[@petersavoie6417]

where are ya guys from you sound like westerners

[@CanadiansReact]

We're from Toronto, Ontario, CANADA :)

[@-scrim]

A few inaccuracies/false things here..

[@lemonade_011]

Like What

[@mosinc7388]

Not much reacting eh.

[@YodaMan-420]

as an american surprised someone from america hasnt chimed in with their coup de gras of "african tribes sold other africans into slavery so its not our fault!"

[@chill-lady-brook]

Because it’s widely accepted as a poor defence. Even if the small-scale war-based slavery of African kingdoms were comparable to the continental conquest done by European powers, just because they didn’t start it doesn’t free them from the responsibility of taking part.

[@johnalden5821]

Well right. That's a facile response. It is our fault, and our responsibility. But it does somewhat annoy me when Europeans seem to isolate their countries from their own responsibility for the slave trade. Portuguese, Dutch, French and British ships were picking up slaves from the African coast for hundreds of years. Who do we think brought them here prior to 1776? And that's not to mention the many millions more who went to European colonies in the Caribbean and Latin America (particularly Brazil). There could have been no triangle trade without Europe serving as the third angle -- and many ports in the UK, such as Bristol, made their merchants very wealthy off that trade, just the same as in Charleston, Kingston or Boston. This is very much about the U.S. -- but not ONLY about the U.S.

[@WTFiamabanana]

@@johnalden5821Europeans are very honest about their history and the role their states played in establishing the trade. The reason it’s talked about more in association with America is because of the crucial role it played in your nation’s history and present problems.

[@johnalden5821]

@@WTFiamabanana This illustrates my point a bit. Bear with me. You could not have had the amount of wealth that fueled the European industrial revolution without the huge profits made from the slave trade. So, it's pretty clear that Europe's dominance of the world in the 18th and 19th centuries is linked to, if not caused by, its leveraging of slavery in its colonies. So, slavery affected Europe just as much as it affected the Americas -- only at arm's length. And then Europeans simply walked away and left those problems to us. Moreover, it isn't true in my experience that Europeans "are very honest about their history and the role their states played in establishing the trade." Rather, they vastly under-estimate the role that slavery played in building their own wealth, as well as their culpability for the ongoing aftermath.