Crash Course US History #7 In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we've labored the point here, but they weren't the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides.
Crash Course US History #7 In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we've labored the point here, but they weren't the same thing.
So, in the end, real change came, as it usually does, not through a revolutionary event but through a revolutionary process. To me, the really novel idea that emerged from the American Revolution was of American equality.
So it’s worth remembering that some early Americans proposed a vision of liberty that sprung out of the idea of equality of property, which is very different from the way we imagine liberty today. But ideas of liberty – as diverse as they were – are really at the heart of what makes the American Revolution revolutionary.
After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
“Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” “What a glorious morning for America!” “Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Still others thought that British rule would be better than patriot rule. Since the loyalists lost the war, there aren't as many famous loyalists as there are patriots. Benedict Arnold was a general in the Continental Army who went to fight for the British.
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ." "it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free." "our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
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Most Famous QuotesYou miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - ... Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. - ... I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - ... I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -More items...•
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BritishDuring the American Revolution, British forces under General William Howe defeat Patriot forces under General George Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn (also known as the Battle of Long Island) in New York.
When did the American Revolution end? The Treaty of Paris was signed two years later, on September 3rd, 1783, by representatives of King George III including David Hartley and Richard Oswald and the United States including Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, officially ending the conflict.
Most American colonists, however, did choose sides. Those who supported independence from Britain were known as Patriots and colonists who opposed independence from Britain were known as Loyalists.
And, if the American revolution was really about, as Thomas Jefferson would have it, “the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” then the Indians were definitely the losers because they didn’t get any of those rights. 05:30.
07:23. And, immediately after the war, you began to see the split between the North, with its reliance on paid labor, and the South, with its reliance on slavery. 07:30. Slavery was actually on the decline in the South until Eli Whitney went and invented the cotton gin in 1793, which:
To me, the really novel idea that emerged from the American Revolution was of American equality. 11:18. Now obviously this was (and remains) a vastly unequal social order, but I’m talking about the kind of equality that Gordon Wood described in his famous book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution”: 11:27.
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we’ve labored the point here, but they weren’t the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides. Everyone is familiar with how this war played out for the Founding Fathers;
Also that the Continental army was the bravest, most loyal, and most effective fighting force in human history thanks to the leadership of George Washington. But actually, well, yeah, let’s go to the Thought Bubble. Morale among continental soldiers was often pretty low. Rations were poor and soldiers went unpaid.