TF It’s exactly the same situation for me

It's interesting to note that many archaeologists and scholars have reason to believe Chinese sailors may have visited the West coast of the USA well before Columbus and even before the Spanish plundered Latin and South America. It's dangerous to deal with absolutes. In fact, I'll bet that today, there is someone wearing a blue leisure suit, a person is playing with a pet rock, and Jacob Monnin (one of the commenters) actually has a civil and respectful attitude toward fellow humans. Oh wait. The third is quite unlikely.

@Jacob Monnin Chinese Exclusion Act and the Immigration Act of 1917 barred people of Asian descent from entering the US. So it's pretty true and she's right

Willy Wong prior to that there had been lots of Chinese people here, they helped build the transcontinental railroad in the 1800’s. It was just harder to travel back then and they probably didn’t have much interest in visiting here in the 1700’s

@Lars Chue yes, American history is so skewed. Those who accept the truth knows that China, Spain, Mexicans, and the Vikings were here long before the British. But yet the narrative of US history would leave all those other non-white nations off the history books in fear of showing that white supremacy isn't actually supreme at all.

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Spanish American war

It is a province/territory, just like US virgin islands, Guam, among others who's names I currently cannot remember. America is the new age version of the old British empire, puerto Rico is not a state, currently, because as far as I have found, they keep voting that down in their elections, but they do have a governor. I want them to be a state, because we need more not old white male senators.

@Brains00007 The reason we make everyone speak the same language is so we can understand each other. I agree with the decision to only speak English in congress but I don't entirely disagree with speaking Spanish but that's only because I love politics and want to learn to speak Spanish lol.

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​@druid_zephyrus LMAO Puerto Rico is much more conservative than you think 😂😂😂😂

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It's really cool to hear about divisions that aren't Civil War related...in most countries.

It was effectivly a civil war

This is a solid point, since it's not as if we would travel back in time as we are today but would be entirely different people all together. I'll be giving your comment a shout out at the end of tomorrow's episode. Thanks for watching!

Lots of 18th century people were skeptics or Deists, but almost all of them were influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. Maybe it wouldn't be as different as you think. :)

Even the idea that 'both parties are flawed' would have been hard to come by. I doubt the flow of news etc was as streamlined. So if someone came to you and said that the other side is terrible and they are planning to kill us all etc, you might believe it just because it would be difficult to fact-check. So it could become a battle of who could reach a bigger audience convincingly.

+Me --I've often thought of this same idea as it relates to 'fake news' in pre-mass media times. Since it would have been almost impossible to do any fact-checking, I've wondered if it was simply a matter of who got to deliver the news first. Perhaps this is this a twisted view of people of the past in that it may simply not have occurred to them to completely re-write the unfolding of events to suit their needs the way people do today with what appears to be no qualms whatsoever.

Not so at all. Starting in 1700 was the age of scientific enlightenment. Benjamin Franklin was a leading scientific proponent of this movement which questioned organized religion and non- scientific understanding of natural phenomena.

thanks for watching!

EddyGurge facts

@@desean3402 ikr

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It had nothing to do with religious freedom

I'm Haitian too. If I had been a slave and had the chance for freedom from the British, then I would have accepted it.

I'm Haitian-American, too. I think it would be pretty hard. to choose because there was still a lot of racism on both sides, but I would have most likely joined the colonists because not only was there racism in both America and Britain, but the British literally lost the war and most black loyalists who fled to Canada, according to research were enslaved because most of them went into either upper Canada, or lower Canada.

That’s Exactly what the British were fighting against.

Yes! 😆

lol

Thanks for commenting and for letting me know how the vote went! Great to see some budding historians in the making down here in the comments section!!! -Danielle

@@pbsorigins I would join if I could but my ansctors where from India and living in India Bhair region. the East India Trading Company and Brtish rule by the East India Trading Company was happing during the American Revolution period. The company ruled Bhair Odisha the modern Indian state of West Bengal and Bengal Bangladesh than part of India since Pakistan and Bangladesh where still part of India untill 1947. But I person of my heritage an Asiatic Indian from Asia India woudnt have been allowed to be in America much less join the American Revolutionaries. Plus the crimstances in India where different from America. American Patriots and colonists where the conquers fighting against there own mother County England the Brtish Empire. America was inhabited by Brtishers White Englishman and other Westerners Dutch Swedish Scotish Irish Scots Irish Welsh same ethnic heritage and cvilization western cvilization they came from Europe. There were no Colonists in India. Plus taxation without representation didn't exist in Brtish colonies where no white western people where living

Move to the UK then ✌🏼 RAAAAAA🦅🦅🦅

​@@angelotorto250or Canada

Hope you leave America now then

@@angelotorto250 No. Treat people better.

Both sides offered freedom for slaves. Britain hadn't abolished slavery yet, so neither had the best interests in mind for Africans

loyalists / unionists .. they were all british

The reason, Which I'd of joined, Was a huge amount of no representation(Huh imagine it), Ridiculous taxes, Arbitrary law's, King George literally told people they could not move freely. And a good many black people joined by "placing their mark" And earned their freedom. Any "Slaves" were almost always from Africa, Which their tribe sold them to Anglo people. Hate to say it but our government is no different now than in the 1770s.

wow you can realty dance

The British were pretty good compared to other empires at the time.

@@northernpartisan7370 their tribe didn’t sell them, rival tribes did. and this whole narrative about tax is misleading, london had invested huge money into creating / maintaining the 13 colonies, including to protect them in the french indian wars, to then turn around and say we wana be independent was abit ruthless, & many american born ppl agreed, the boston governor was born in boston yet opposed independence

The Patriot side...you mean Britain? The "patriots" as you called them were the terrorists back then. They tarred and feathered (a disfiguring and painful torture) those that disagreed with their ideology, they burned down businesses of citizens who did not support their terrorist activities, etc. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Yes, britain was not responsive enough (though taxes they raised were to support their defence of North america), but isn't today's American govt as well? The president has more power than King George III could have ever dreamed of. Would you support a group of "patriots" who would bomb businesses who were loyal to the American govt? Would you torture those that disagreed with your group's ideology? Just trying to show you what the equivalence of that would be today. And have you seen modern American taxes v colonial (taxes on income and payrol [21% of income average], property taxes, sales taxes, fees, etc - compared to around 5% sales tax...on only certain items and a slight tariff). Rebellion time? And regular riots and lobbying would've still increased democracy. Look at Canada, Australia, etc. Not going after you, just showing the other side. Cheers 😁🍻

Hahaha yea ok British offer freedom. We left the American values in the past which is why America sucks today but the original founding was all about freedom

@@the_awakening6044 for white people…

@@the_awakening6044 not for native / black ppl , i think is what he’s getting at

Same

How can u be trans anything for the moment lol

Appropriately so

@Jacob Monnin gender dysphoria is a symptom trans people typically experience, but it is not the proper term since not every trans person experiences dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is actually not listed as a mental illness either. Maybe I'm speaking to a wall here and your opinion cannot be changed, but here's a link that I think explains it pretty well: www.healthyplace.com/blogs/thelifelgbt/2019/3/gender-dysphoria-vs-transgender-identity

Well, at least thank the founding fathers for you to protest for those rights.

The crown would have broken that pledge as soon as king George was dead.

@@adamcolbenson5638 Speculation. Your assertion is not based on fact, so is hearsay.

@@1515327E true. But history proves me correct time after time. Just look at how many "pledges" the crown made and broke with India alone, let alone the rest of their "empire".

@@adamcolbenson5638 that’s prob what really caused the push for independence, they wanted to expand for riches and the king said no lol

@@Armed-Forever more like the crown wanted a disproportionately large chunk of the riches made possible by the serfdom of the colonials.

I think staying publicly neutral depended on where you lived at the time. Who your family was, which side controlled the area, who the officers were in the area, etc. Some officers on both sides were gentlemen, some on both sides were basically tyrants in their own ways. There's also the little hidden pockets of spies for both sides, little pockets of opposers to the side in charge, strong supporters of the side in charge, both that could put your family in harm's way depending on how extreme they wanted to be on any given day. There's also the "You're either with us or against us" no middle ground no gray area people.

it’s weird because after the war, many who fought for the crown retuned to the usa, seems grudges weren’t held

not exactly, many loyalists just stayed, kinda like how the civil war ended peacefully, & many troops who retreated to Canada returned to the usa since there was no lasting bad blood so it’s really hard to know whos who today, just look at william allen for example

@@Armed-Forever ok, but I was mainly generalizing.

valar not to damper your dreams but you would be freezing your ass off. But don’t worry I’d do the same thing (but I would complain the entire time)

If that painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware had been accurately painted, you would see nothing but fog.

It's also possible you would have joined the British army, at the time the revolutionaries were rebels and there was no United States. Your country you were loyal to would probably be the British empire, something to think about. I joined the marines out of high school to serve my country being the United States, but if there was no United States and I was a patriot of my country it might have been the British empire I joined, hard to say.

BTW proud American, feel my country is more good than bad.

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The Continental Army did offer freedom to slaves that joined their ranks

@@thorpeaaron1110 Look what that did for them. Another 89 years until any vestige of 'freedom,' and still waiting.

it’s ironic isn’t

America would have ended up more like Canada, I agree. Wussies! Love from Wisconsin, ya maple syrup drinking hosers!

Cringe take.

LOL idk .. usa and canada are both great respectively, gun rights are important to me though

@@Armed-Forever Undoubtedly there would have been less genocide and war generally. People forget that ultimately is a Civil War. The founding fathers lifted most of the British law, human and Civil Rights legislation into the Bill of Rights and American constitution from existing British legislation, and relatively Britain was a free society and was only propaganda that George had much control as he was marginalised by British Parliament. Manifest destiny would not have happened, therefore over the decades expansion would have happened more slowly, with Native Americans having the chance to integrate and slowly transition their culture to adapt and lead to less misery and guilt amongst white Americans now. British Parliament was focused on sophisticated investment practice, with fractional reserve, already having worked for centuries and free market capitalism was about to kick off even more with the steam engine driven 2nd phase of the Industrial Revolution, Exclusively in Britain. Britain's government enabled incredible synergy throughout Britain ffrom 1750 onwards, so as a British colony and think it's safe to say that this highly developed calculated risk-taking mentality in Britain at the time, would have fostered good conditions for the future of the American continent..it would have been better in many ways, and certainly power wouldn't have been hijacked in a nepotistic, plutocratic duopoly like it is now. The current British Parliament is very right-wing and corrupt, but that was mainly due to the Brexit debacle, before that British politics was much more centred, and sensible, with the Tory party being centre-right to fully right-wing, and the Labour and Liberal party being centre-left to fully left-wing.However, they were not extreme at any wing of the party, unlike the extreme right wing Republicans we see in the United States today and in a assessment based on conventional political science, despite the propaganda, the Democrats are also centre-right to fully right-wing, they are not left-wing by any traditional assessment.But in modern American politics If you focus in anyway on collective responsibility and responsibility towards other citizens, or takes responsibility, giving public services, rather than harping on about personal rights all the time,You are commonly labelled a socialist or even worst = a communist

@@Rowlph8888 British politics is only corrupt due to brexit? huh? brexit happened because british ppl wanted less immigration and the gov refused to give it... in terms of democracy, the USA is a real democracy, the uk is not. we know this because the uk parties select candidates Nd there's no primaries, in the US, anyone can run in a primary for any party, meaning it's way more democratic, that's a big reason why i sought to become an american, imagine if the republican party got to pick all their candidates, it would just be a bunch of neo cons, and democrats would pick a bunch of hillary clinton's, no thanks. uk picks ppl like boris johnson and dianne abbot 😹 dear god! and let's not forget free speech, in the uk, cops arrest you if someone is offended.

Then in that case, you'd support the "patriots", as the Church of England was the state religion of the mother country and they didn't like even Christian dissidents (partially why the Pilgrims and Puritans fled to NE). Catholics were hated. Britain back then was a VERY domineering, centralized and rather elitist system and culture.

back then coercive didn’t mean malicious, kinda like propaganda back in the day didn’t mean knowingly false. bottom line huge amounts money and weapons were injected into the 13 colonies in the french indian war, it was logical that they would effectively pay back for their protection, hence why many american born ppl opposed the revolution, just wasn’t necessary at that time honestly, but then again, had they not, they wouldn’t have expanded, meaning west of virginia likely would have remained native land