The Forgotten Foundational Document: The Articles of Association.

[@skyden24195]

I am so glad that "The History Guy" produced this video, as it not only reminds the public of the significance of the Articles of Association, but it also helps to squash the horrific, long-time myth-understanding that the colonies "owed Britian for saving them in the 7 Years/French & Indian War and refused to pay just because of taxation without representation." Such a simplistic farce of the situation. As I've come to learn further when studying the entire 7 Years War and not just the theater of the Americas between Britain and France, as pointed out, Britain was heavily invested into the East India Trade Co. From the information I've come across via multiple reliable sources, Britain, although having a powerful navy, did not have an equivalent army for fighting on land in numbers that could cover the multiple theaters of the war, specifically theaters of Europe, the Americas, and in India/Southeast Asia. Instead, Britain provided vast amounts of financial support to other countries fighting in the theaters of Europe and Asia. Financial support that Britain would be hard pressed to get back from these countries. On the other hand, there were the American colonies, which, since they were technically part of Britain, the government assumed that getting reparations from their own American colonies would be a foregone conclusion, despite the true facts of the matter when it came to the American theater. First of all, Britain was not willing to send any significant enough force to the Americas early in the conflict, this would result in numerous battle losses for the British colonies. Furthermore, the first British officers to arrive in the Americas refused to take the advice of local military leaders, such as Washington, as to the tactics of the French and Native enemies and how best to counter the tactics employed. This unheeded advice would initially result in massive casualties for the British until more competent and advisable officers would arrive late in the war which indeed did turn the tide of the battles. Furthermore, it was the victories in the Americas that contributed significantly to the overall victory of Britain in the Seven Years War. Final bit to note is that although the British government did pay a lot of the financial burden for the war effort, relatively little of that finance went to the American theater. Most of that theater was paid for by the colonists themselves. Apologies for the extensive comment, but I just felt that extra bit of significant information correlated well with the video's topic. Thanks again for producing the video, "The History Guy."

[@tommy-er6hh]

Additionally, it was not only American colonies who were protesting the taxes; the English themselves did not like them. Because of them, the smuggling along the south coast rose from low to highest for things like French wine/liquors and other things from the continent. This heightened smuggling continued through the American Independence war and into the Napoleonic wars. It was a serious financial drain on the tax based British gov't. The heavy smuggling only reduced when the gov't reduced the tariffs.

[@gyrene_asea4133]

Solid points. Additionally, THG references 'The Seven Years War' and the impacts upon relations between GB and 'her Colonies'. A very good read is "The Crucible of War", (Anderson IIRC), which postulates that "French and Indian War (as was taught in U.S. Middle Schools) is arguably and truly the First World War. Of course, Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" (2nd part) gives an excellent view from the Brit's side of why the whole mess became what it became. Excellent resource.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

Thanks

[@skyden24195]

@@gyrene_asea4133 I've heard that description of the 7 Years War being (arguably) the true First World War, and there is a lot of merit for it. (I've also heard it mentioned as the prequel World War, but I think that's just people being ridiculous or something to that extent.)

[@douglassauvageau7262]

So the American Colonies owed the 'Mother Country' tribute for sending us military assistance under the command of such geniuses as British General Edward Braddock. Spare me! The Crown's response to that fiasco / massacre was to issue a Royal Proclamation in 1763 barring British settlement in territories already settled West of the Appalachian Mountains. A flaccid and ignorant Proclamation followed by the 'Intolerable Acts' which were passed by a remote and imperious Parliament.

[@markallred1953]

Thank you, Mr. History Guy for bringing these Articles of Association and their significance to our collective attention. Though I have a special love of American History, I do not recall having encountered them before. Even my Concise Dictionary of American History by Wayne Andrews (ed.) pub by SCRIBNERS, 1962, seems to have overlooked this entirely. I hope that history classes all over the country will continue to have these Articles expounded using your analysis and observations.

[@AnnaMarie-rn2wp]

It is the path that leads us to today. If only more of us would read and comprehend our past. The past will be our future if we do not learn our from our mistakes and misconceptions.

[@charles_gracia]

The desire to develop domestic industry is an expression of a desire for sovereignty and of an orientation towards nation building. This is an outstanding video. Thank you to THG.

[@ms.donaldson2533]

Sovereignty was wanted by the people who BANNED the Society of Jesus from the new colonies. The INTOLERABLE Acts were written documents that FREE PEOPLE did NOT want a SECT to CREATE the narrative. By 1773, the Society of Jesus was suppressed and their Jewish Mystics "Friends" were UNWANTED. The only Roman Catholic Signer got his place, because Luther Martin walked out in protest to it. The Articles of Confederation were supposed to be rewritten, not a new Constitution. By 1814, the Mystics and Religious ZEALOTS won a Battle in Baltimore - raised a monument to the war dead and Francis Scott Key handed out their bound book of spells for free. 2024 was when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed and Donald Trump began selling the Bible of New World beliefs. Professor George Bush's work had a hand in the Zionist/Christian beliefs..... that is how his family had two serving Presidents when Americans watched their President get shot and their nation being attacked. FEAR will make people FOLLOW. Much love from CHARM CITY - question how much of your REAL WORLD is CREATED at Johns Hopkins. From the railroads to the music industry..... PROFITS of PROPHETS.

[@HM2SGT]

🤷 the consumer desire to have things as cheaply as possible and the stockholder, shareholder and CEO / golden parachute\1% crowd desire do squeezes grid a profit as possible drove manufacturing overseas where labor is cheap and lives are cheaper

[@senorbe]

Very educational - the Articles of Association certainly deserve to be remembered

[@pierremainstone-mitchell8290]

Thank you for this one Lance! I'm an Aussie with a long time interest in the USA and it's history and you've taught me about a document that I never even knew existed! 🙃

[@alclay8689]

🙃🍻

[@jon9021]

Oddly enough, I remember a lesson about this in a history class when I was around 13-14…and that was in England!

[@davidfoss4365]

Right. Why is all this news to me. I was taught America History at least 6 times before high school graduation and none those coures even mentioned the 7 years wars less all the other details.

[@wwisaacson4807]

I grew up in Michigan and remember learning about the Articles of Association in high school American History class.

[@jyy9624]

Whigs and Tories

[@jenniferrogers2981]

We all learned about this in (American) history class, most people just don't seem to recall it. Which I've never understood. This is the foundation of what would later become the Boston Tea Party, Bill of Rights, and Constitution.

[@mountbara]

@@jenniferrogers2981 This. Most people gloss over history and forget it when no longer needed for tests.

[@brecwilshusen9142]

The best episode, yet, Lance. I search for causes at every point in history. I did not know this one. until now.

[@HLStrickland]

I had heard of the Townsend Acts but not had them explained like this.

[@carlgebo3098]

THIS is history. Thank you.

[@1KJRoberts]

Bravo! This episode provides a marvelous historical backdrop and helps complete the picture of American history.

[@jeanne-marie8196]

Thanks you for the Articles of Association video. It reminded me that there is always complex reasons, and class power plays, behind rebellion

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@paulholmes672]

This also includes a common fact in history that a lot of the early colonists were trying real hard to abolish slavery, very early on, but there were too many political and economic forces against them, and so-called compromises reached. Ironically, if we had not left the United Kingdom, slaves might have been fully freed, kingdom wide, in around 1838, of course, ALL events are built upon prior history so who can really tell. In the end, the UK DID pay reparations, but to the previous slave owners. Thank you for your research and enlightenment, Professor Lance!

[@unclenogbad1509]

More history adds onto that. In order to pay those reparations (only to the owners, as you point out, the slaves were 'free' but required to serve as indentured labour before actually being freed) the UK government took out the biggest loan in it's history, not paid off until early THIS century. Such a huge cash injection would have lost value rapidly, so there was pressure to invest it, with the burgeoning Industrial Revolution being the ideal way to do so. Hence, the abolition of slavery provided the financial impetus driving the UK on to industrial pre-eminence in the 19th Century.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

No, because it was too profitable. It was the introduction of machines that truly doomed slavery. Thanks to machines, the price of cotton collapsed and it made plantations much less profitable. Had the trend continued, slavery would have "abolished itself"

[@jliller]

"It was the introduction of machines that truly doomed slavery." Eventually, yes, but in the short term the machine known as the cotton gin made slavery more profitable than it had been up until that time. Reading a book about the first session of Congress, it was South Carolina and Georgia that flipped out when Quakers introduced an anti-slavery petition. If Washington, Jefferson, or another prominent Virginian (not a Quaker or New Englander) among the Founding Fathers had been willing to put forth a serious proposal the spirit of compromise might have led to a something gradually being worked out. They accomplished much, but there they dropped the ball.

[@elevers]

@@jliller I was going to chime in on that as well. What doomed the early Abolitionist Movement was the advent of the cotton gin. It incentivized the growing of cotton, which also incentivized the expansion of slavery, which by that point added political power to Southern states through the 3/5's Compromise. Essentially, more slaves equaled more political AND economic power.

[@YouTubemessedupmyhandle]

There was also the fact that the Somerset case set the seed of abolition in motion and many slave owners recognised this, which provided impetus for their support of independence.

[@allenhamilton6688]

History buff here. This was excellent. I tell friends that there was much more than a tea tax that started the revolution.

[@nero3k]

The very first Airing of Grievances. Bringing together the colonies to celebrate a Festivus for the rest of us!

[@lancerevell5979]

And eventually shoving the Festivus Pole up King George's hairy backside! 😅

[@ms.donaldson2533]

The FESTIVUS for the REST OF US comes when people REAL EYES that the Society of Jesus was NOT allowed to practice, because they controlled SLAVERY AND IMMIGRATION and the JEWISH MYSTICSS were UNWANTED when they won the Battle in Baltimore and recreated Ancient Jerusalem in CHARM CITY. Just BELEIVE, because if you question than you will find out how much was CREATED in CHARM CITY. People are DIVIDED by created beliefs that spread from "the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore." Now, Johns Hopkins sits in the Middle East as a gleaming example of how INDULGENCES are used to CREATED REALITY. People were INTOLERABLE to the acts of a corrupt PRACTICE that they did NOT want infecting our nation, but look around "THE FATHER of" their created believes removed THY FATHER from the family and now there are people who forgot that he planted the seed of their creation. Much love from CHARM City. We celebrated "Festivus" with the Baltimore Ravens!

[@TexRenner]

Serinity now!

[@brianmichael7102]

“I’ve got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re going to hear about it!”

[@anthonyforfare7223]

😮😳😜😆🤣😂🤣😂

[@cpklapper]

We had, in our recitation of our cousin Roger’s role in our country’s founding, listed the four documents he signed: The Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution for the United States of America.

[@greenockscatman]

That's some revolutionary pedigree!

[@ms.donaldson2533]

The CORRUPT SECT that arrived to CREATE what people believe put my last name on the first monument to the war dead since Ancient Times and I was born in CHARM CITY. Just BELIEVE, because if you question, you learn the TRUTH!!! The INTOLERABLE acts were to ELIMINATE the Society of Jesus and the Jewish MYSTICS. Francis Scott Key helped to CREATE the American Bible Society and when the Bridge collapsed in March, Donald Trump raised the NEW Bible. So, just BELIVE that it was "just an accident." Jesuit Father Andrew White - Friday, November 22, 1633 April 19, 1776 - 1861 - 2015..... CREATED events to CONTROL the world. It was from CHARM CITY that Nancy Pelosi's father sent "The Exodus" to Israel in 1947 and everyone BELIEVES that it has been there forever. It was the 1950s that John Money CREATED the Non-Binary Movement and the Gender Clinic and now NO ONE understands THY Father planted the seed of their creation. My grandson's paternal bloodline found the Newark Mounds and Licking County, Ohio - it is now a Unesco world heritage site. There is NO more OUR COUNTRY - it created "the new world."

[@HM2SGT]

🤨😒 I see nobody else wants to address the giant, steaming pile of crazy in the room... 🥴🤪😵‍💫🤡

[@cpklapper]

This was to point out that, for some of us, the Articles of Association was not a forgotten document. However, democratic apologists have certainly tried to bury it and its pronouncements against democracy’s peculiar institution of slavery.

[@dugroz]

@@cpklapper OK, I'll ask .... Roger who?

[@cherylcarter4046]

In sixth grade every morning we said the Pledge of Allegiance and ten either the American Creed or the Preamble to the Constitution. I’m 72 and can still recite the Preamble. It instilled what it meant to be an American from then on.

[@bethbartlett5692]

We did in grades 1 - 6, Elementary School. Tennessee .

[@MissMarinaCapri]

Grades one through six and then seven through nine the Pledge of Allegiance and our national anthem, and what was that other song we sang every morning. I guess we’re brainwashed.😅. Now we know how much it really means.

[@nonoyorbusness]

A Republic, if you can keep it! Madam.

[@nonoyorbusness]

A communist hell hole if you can't!

[@maynardcarmer3148]

So sayeth Benjamin Franklin.

[@bobsanders1949]

A Republic, Madam....... If you can keep it.

[@tonyrainbolt9388]

I love history when there is no quiz afterwards! I remember so much more that way.

[@elitearbor]

This is a wonderful overview video! Thanks for producing such an informative piece.

[@anulfadventures]

History does not operate in a vacuum. It is a tangle of financial concerns mostly.

[@jamesbrown4092]

Boy! Do I feel old! "As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence..." My first thought: Didn't we just have the 200th anniversary?

[@MissMarinaCapri]

Yeah we did, now 50 years later 250 year Anniversary.🇺🇸👀

[@bluelionsage99]

Yeah, ya know... I had the same thought.

[@arvont1]

Great video and an excellent lesson in civics, history, and economy, all in one! I feel it's especially relevant given the recent discussion in national politics about tariff policy, which is just as relevant now as it was then!

[@elevers]

Great video. Understanding the underlying economic causes of the Revolution are also helpful to understand the broader idea of why people are so resentful of the colonial system's extraction-based economics.

[@joelbrown3479]

As always, outstanding coverage 🇺🇸

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Benjamin Franklin (our home-grown Renaissance Man) was integrated and essential to each stage of our UNION. Upon the ratification of our Constitution, Franklin famously remarked (legendarily) "We have wrought a REPUBLIC, if you can keep it". That 'Popular Sovereignty' shenanigan of the1850s nearly destroyed us.

[@dirk-janlugtmeier6609]

Great analysis!! A factor rarely seen is Nostalgia. In a time of crisis it is good to look back on the childhood of the important actors. How did they percieve the situation then, when they were younger. In this case this would be the time before the 7-years war. And, in another example, look at Germany in the early thirties. Just looking at the factual problems and solutions barely scrappes the surface.

[@wendywhite4537]

Wow! I didn’t know any of this. But still, the phrase ‘Give me Liberty or give me Death’ is rather catchy.

[@maxpayne2574]

As are all simple minded bumper sticker phrases

[@garyclark3843]

Sometimes, the marketing is obvious.

[@josephmountford2292]

When it came time to fight, Patrick Henry was a no show… easier to say than to do.

[@southernwanderer7912]

Extremely interesting. I agree with Patrick Henry, the country should have stayed with the Confederation rather than adopting the U.S. Constitution. He wrote about how the federal government would gain power over the states, and it happened.

[@midtownmariner5250]

While your last assertion is mostly true (federalism is greatly weakened by the victories of those wanting a central government, rather than a federal government), we were developing (under the confederation) a system where large states were bullying smaller ones. Also, because of the weak confederation government, we would have likely ended up with a system that “Died of a Theory” - as did the more well known second confederation in America. The better approach is to restore the balance between federal and state governments.

[@alclay8689]

I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. The confederation was too weak, the Constitution is too strong. Either way, round 3 has to outlaw political lobbyists

[@lynnedean8674]

@@midtownmariner5250Thanks for that clarification. I sure wish I had like history back in junior high, although better late than never, I absolutely love all colonial and revolutionary history now.

[@lynnedean8674]

@@alclay8689Totally agree!

[@zanenobbs352]

Excellent! I teach the Articles of Association of the United Colonies of America in my American Government Class, along with the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union of the United States of America. Interesting that these had term limits of 2x per office, but they forgot that in the Constitution of the United States of America. There were also 17 pre-Constitutional Presidents.

[@jamesmiller4184]

This was a VERY FINE and USEFUL survey of the not-well-known-to-most transpirance. Although I've registered before some mild pans contra The History Guy, of-recent he has been making amends by further fine work done, as I'd before complained of for some lack! Now it is to bee henceforth 🌟The History Guy 🌟

[@thunderpup1327]

REAL history. Thank you very much. I am glad to subscribe.

[@randelbrooks]

Very well done Lance and I'm gonna have to watch this another time or two to absorb all the detail that is contained in it. You are absolutely right it's these reasons that really drove the separation from Britain and not a lot of rhetoric

[@TeWa67]

I love your Channel! I always learn something new.

[@amadeusamwater]

Unlike many Virginia planters, Washington did not raise tobacco. He raised wheat, ground it into flour and sold that. Also, unlike many planters, he apparently was making a profit most years.

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

wierdly enough i actually learned about this in my public high school. i think it was on our state exam as well.

[@scottfree6479]

The more I learn the more grateful I am for the founding fathers.

[@alclay8689]

🍻

[@benderWestlund]

Ty! Something I didn’t know and I live in VA,

[@brentbackman2911]

I was actually taught this when I was in grade school. This shows how old I am......

[@an-tm3250]

Shows how educated you are.

[@Scaliad]

I'm 69, I wasn't taught this... You must be really, really old! 😃

[@jackbelk8527]

78 here. "Civics" started in fifth grade.

[@brentbackman2911]

58. I was taught in Northern New England where there is a more common border with a foreign nation than the US. I was taught in the 5th and 6th grades.

[@bunnyalf]

I am in my 50's and do not remember this at all.

[@frankcherry3810]

Very few people still alive remember being taught this in Junior High School

[@maynardcarmer3148]

Yep, the Grim Reaper is having his way with us.

[@djd1121]

@@maynardcarmer3148 Amen to that....

[@frankcherry3810]

@@maynardcarmer3148 Haha! Got that right

[@josephmountford2292]

I am currently teaching the causes of the American Revolution to my 8th grade students.

[@lynnedean8674]

@@josephmountford2292I hope you’re having the greatest success with that. I taught middle school Spanish, and it was really tough!

[@kevinobrien8545]

one of your best, Lance! None of this material was covered in Elementary or Intermediate school Virginia History, and I was elsewhere when the Virginia HS curriculum might have (but probably didn't) cover the material. I don't even remember reading about the Virginia or 12-colinies Articles of Association in the two-volume history of the American Revolution (would have been in Volume 1, background, causes, etc) which I acquired for "pleasure reading" about a decade ago. Thanks!

[@ElaineWood-f2t]

NC girl here! I would add that we learned about the Articles of Confederation, which were the forerunners of the Constitution, but I don't recall ever studying about the Articles of Association.

[@marklittle2615]

Wonderful episode and very well presented.Keep up the good work

[@howtubeable]

If only politicians in 2024 would understand the importance of domestic manufacturing. The United States shouldn't be dependent on the global economy.

[@HM2SGT]

Politicians have very little to do with it. You'd have to look at the stockholders, shareholders, CEOs... the 1% golden parachute crowd that is loathe to reduce their profit, so rather than fair wages and regulated safe conditions, they take manufacturing overseas where labor is dirt cheap... & lives are cheaper. 🤷

[@MatthewSchuller]

When President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to bring Apple's iPhone manufacturing back to the United States, Jobs reportedly replied, "Those jobs aren't coming back."

[@miguelgonzal]

Google search: “Reshoring” and “Peter Zeihan” to understand the current re-industrialization and its impact on global trade.

[@freddy04123]

If only internet trolls understood economics.

[@feliciagaffney1998]

Thank you! This may be helpful for my genealogy project and to understand an ancestor who was a French ship's captain but sometime prior to the Revolutionary War hung up his sea hat, worked for a short time in the NC legislature as a clerk, and settled in northeastern NC. I wish I could figure out what ship he owned and what he did. Makes me wonder if he had been importing/exporting goods.

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@guyh.4553]

I had completely forgotten about the Articles. We were taught about them in high school but as time goes by, so doe some memories. Thanks for the great synopsis!

[@StevenTAbell]

I had never heard of this until now. Thanks again for what you do.

[@johnlovett8341]

Thanks! Great video. Article, the non-importation of slaves, is a fascinating "what if". The fact that South Carolina signed it amazes me. GA's failure to participate would be interesting to learn about. GA tended to be less active and concerned with external factors. Didn't even send delegates to the Congress most of '83-'85.

[@MichaelLynMusic]

My favorite video to date on this subject...thank you Sir!

[@robertharker]

Feed the KZbin algorithm with a comment. Great video. Thank you!

[@foobarf8766]

Fascinating stuff! It's a bit later on the timeline but some mercenaries from the US are said to have died alongside Maori in new Zealand, also fighting the British crown in the NZ land wars. The ex-colonies probably have a bit in common 😅. Be interested if you could find more on that, they deserve to be remembered.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I've never heard that before, I'll research it. Certainly there were Americans in Australia at Eureka Stockade. The New Zealand Land Wars are interesting, but a very broad campaign.

[@garyclark3843]

Wow, that does sound fascinating. And I wouldn't be surprised if the research becomes a very interesting rabbit hole.

[@dianepuckett5088]

I love to read and hear about deeper parts of our American history. the tone of their rebellion was really very practical. It makes me appreciate our founding fathers even more.

[@stanleyc50]

Excellent perspective Lance. It might also be prophetic.

[@rollinwithunclepete824]

Always great videos, THG! Thank you

[@MrGbscott1954]

A good, informative video. Thanks for sharing it!

[@STho205]

I remember this subject as a Bicentennial Minute 50 years ago this week on CBS. We covered the Dec of Association in the week on the 1st Continental Congress between the Boston Tea Party and the Battle Road events of Apr 1775. Well done segment.

[@bostonredsox2004]

This is fascinating! I've never learned about this!

[@michaelbobic7135]

Georgia had several reasons for not attending the Continental Congress. First, Georgia's government was badly divided between Governor James Wright, appointed by the Crown, and what functioned as a legislature, representing the Georgia colonists. Second, Georgia's was a young colony and still depended on Great Britain for supplies. Finally, Georgia was not really impacted by the Intolerable Acts. For example, Georgia couldn't get tax stamps, so many people ignored the Act. Tha passage of the Articles of Association finally pulled Georgia into the "Northern Conflict" in 1775-76. Most of this is from Kenneth Coleman's A History of Georgia, 1991.

[@465maltbie]

Excellent video I remember this from school but we never talked about it like this.

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

😂 same here. I was so bored I simply memorized.

[@emilg1000]

The Mulberry Connection. Having lived many years in and around Annapolis, Maryland, there remains evidence of another effort to reduce dependence on imports during the colonial period. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Mulberry trees were planted in the area to provide nesting homes for silk worms. Turns out the worms didn’t take to the Maryland climate, but local birds fell in love with the fruit. To this day, their colorful droppings are the bane of the human population.

[@debbiedowns4661]

Hello History Guy! Could you do a segment Chiswell/Rutledge affair in Virginia? It is another way of looking at the financial crisis in the colonies during the 1760’s and it is a really cool story. Thanks for all of your wonderful programs.

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you History Guy

[@Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater]

If I ever learned about the Articles of Association (I probably did at some point), I forgot em. This is good stuff!

[@jefffoutz4024]

Thank you for the wonderful insights... 👍😎

[@runwillrobinson]

This is so important, and new to me!

[@ronbdallas]

I had never heard of the Articles of Association. Learned something new today.

[@danam0228]

Awesome episode. Thank you

[@gregorydeanitos8121]

Excellent thank you.

[@henryk2689]

Great episode. thank you

[@willmpet]

With Liberty and Justice for us All!

[@chrisbarry9345]

1:45 so it was the foundation story for festivus. Airing of grievances followed by feats of strength

[@billgrindler4653]

Was an American History major in college and never heard of this document before. Iy just proves everything old is new again as "it's the economy stupid."

[@George-rb3by]

This explains some thing I found in my family history. My 4th great grandfather (and his brother) refused to sign the “Association Test’ in New Hampshire. He had fought in the “French & Indian War”, on the British side, but, after the start of the Revolutionary War served as a Sutler for the British army and died of smallpox in Connecticut in 1777. There was also some evidence he might have been a spy for the British. I had not understood the significance of the Association Test but it sounds like a derivative document to declare support for the Articles of Association before the war.

[@jake1776]

How is it that I have a degree in history and never knew this important detail of America’s founding?!!!

[@Nani-mw1sn]

Great informative video. Good job.

[@timgerk3262]

Despite "The Economy" being the central, perennial issue of American federal politics, it is easy to forget that it has always been thus. This episode has added much context to the more stirring mythology of the national birth.

[@mikenixon2401]

Great lesson. Thank you.

[@lancerevell5979]

Good historical video. We also shouldn't forget how the problem of one nation's economic dependence on another, and the disparity in trade, played out again in the next century, resulting in the American Civil War. 😮

[@elagabalusrex390]

Not to mention the existence of about 3.5 million slaves in the southern states.😉

[@ekim72]

Great vid, keep 'em coming.

[@eric8381]

Is it possible to do some episodes on Thomas Paine, with emphases on his importance as a founding father? I believe reading Paine, Voltaire, Locke, among others, help paint a picture of what an American is. I believe that's a huge problem we have that no one can define what an American is. For me, an American is an individual that believes in their own, and everyone else's sovereignty. The individual expression of freedom out ways the importance of the group's freedom. We are a philosophical people that put the ideas, and principles of the Enlightenment Period first and foremost. We have no ethnicity, or creed. We only accept reason, and logic as an acceptable measure of a truth. We are flawed, but our foundation is strong, and we will overcome.

[@MrRecrute]

You hope!

[@eric8381]

@@MrRecrute 😉

[@MrRecrute]

@@eric8381 It’s quite a struggle to work out what American is. Voltaire for instance believed in separation of church and state; he satirised the church and Christianity and was intrigued by Britain’s constitutional monarchy. Considering some Americans believe America should be considered a democratic Christian nation that rather conflicts with some of Voltaire’s views. I’m intrigued by the term “own … sovereignty”? What does it mean and how does it function in a community? If the individual expression of freedom out ways the importance of the group’s freedom, isn’t that a tyranny of the minority where minority groups impose their opinions and views on the majority; which is what is happening now with regards to abortion. I don’t think most Americans have a clue who Paine, Locke and Voltaire were or give a hoot for their views. They merely mouths their rights without thinking that they may in a community have responsibilities.

[@douglassauvageau7262]

The enduring relationship between mood-altering substances and British Financial Interests deserve to be remembered.

[@HistoryNut-1701]

According to my college history professor, politics and economics are the driving forces behind all events throughout history. All other concerns are simply masked over them to entice the populace to follow along.

[@robertewalt7789]

That is the standard argument. But in the last 20-30 years, other concerns have become more prominent.

[@beticusmagnus8673]

Thanks

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@gracefrazier4775]

Thank you! Wasn't aware of this.

[@davidthedeaf]

Whew! Did you speed it up 0.25? It’s too hard for me to listen too. It sounds slurred when I slow it that much, but what a relief. I don’t recall your videos from the past years being spoken at such an incredible speed. It may make people with short attention spans listen, but it overwhelms me. I cannot read autocaptions that fast!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I don't change the speed of my videos, no. I do tend to talk fast,

[@jerryodell1168]

Years ago there ways a copy of a colonial letter published that mused why those that were doing the tea party selected tea. Which exactly matched THG's report. At first the protestors were going to dump cane sugar from the Caribbean which they were angry was so highly taxed. Cane sugar was used to make rum and a more refined version used by the people in the colonies. This would harm themselves more than it would send a message. Tea would do what they wanted to do and did little to harm themselves.

[@ElaineWood-f2t]

"Why is the rum gone?" ~ Captain Jack Sparrow 😂

[@HM2SGT]

_“At the time it was referred to as the Destruction of the Tea, you've coined a far more festive name.”_ *Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow*

[@iamnolegend2519]

Well done. Interesting

[@TM-ev2tc]

You should check into doing a video on Dr. Benjamin Rush. A signer of the declaration of Independence.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Imagine how Free our Predecessors felt, and truly were. 🇺🇸🗽 Freedom exists 1st in our Thoughts and from Our Thoughts Freedoms are Created 🔑 The "Universal Law of Attraction" is Absolute.

[@hobbyfarmer62]

As so often happens the causes and driving forces behind major events in world history are always over simplified. Largely because it is very hard to go into truly deep detail in most school settings. So you have to be an enthusiasts to put in tye effort to dig deep. Thanks for touching on this aspect.

[@darylwayne5307]

The context of American History has been censored generationally by premeditated omission, much appreciation for filling some of the missing puzzle pieces.

[@roykay4709]

Thanks for this. I wish this had been covered in my HS history class.

[@tygrkhat4087]

And there are those who think a global economy is a modern thing...

[@alclay8689]

Global"ist" economy is what's a modern thing. As in some unelected international group of very wealthy and influential people (WEF, trilateral trade commission, etc) are not only heavily influencing our politics and also have this dumb idea that everyone can be and act the same. Just 1 global spanning culture and economy. F that. Honestly I view them as more a group that considers themselves the pinnacle of human philosophy and thought who will jerk themselves off at the thought of making all the decisions for the other 8 billion mindless citizens who just need direction.

[@jamesbulldogmiller]

Most Interesting

[@SymptomoftheTimes]

Thanks!

[@CarpeDiemThisLife]

This was a great one.

[@russellharrell2747]

I remember there being a foundational document before the Articles of Confederation but I thought I was confusing the two since no one talked about the Articles of Association. Glad to know I was just gaslighting myself.

[@jamesmcnulty3035]

What colony do the initials NE in the snake diagram represent?

[@josephmountford2292]

New England

[@jamesmcnulty3035]

Thanks. seems so obvious now.

[@mrzabie0138]

Very educational. Also, I finally have to comment on the outro music to your channel. It is awesome! Where is that from? It rocks.

[@chuckhillier4153]

I'm interested in knowing more about Lord Dunmore's Declaration of 1775 and its effect on colonist motivations in the American Revolution and any relationship to the Declaration of Independence text, "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us." And, is there a connection between the Somerset v. Stewart (1772) decision and independence? Perhaps a good subject for Black History Month, February 2025.

[@nemoegosum8350]

Excellent!!!

[@HotZone97]

Lance, You forgot to mention the Albemarle County, Virginia ‘Declaration of Rights” written by Thomas Jefferson, this was actually the precursor to the Bill of Rights…a member of both sides of my family signed this document.

[@kellybasham3113]

Love your videos