German reacts to The American Revolution Part 1- Oversimplified

German reacts to The American Revolution Part 1- Oversimplified

I do America Reaction, some call it Reaction US, Reaction USA. I love to get to know the USA, My videos arent British Reaction or Brit reacts videos. I am also very interested in the usa military reaction as well as us military reaction. I have a passion for us sports reaction, like nfl reaction or nba reaction. I am not brit reacts to america. I do European reacts videos. I also do reaction to america and reaction to us and reaction to usa videos. In this video we cover

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1:09 Reaction
20:30 My Opinion

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[dustinpowell]

Musket ball = bullet. The King George statue was literally used against him.

[ExUSSailor]

The Dutch were the ones who actually settled New York. New York City was originally the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.

[andrewkline]

An American beer company named themselves after patriot Samuel Adams, thus the future alcoholic beverage line.

[vincentdarrah]

To answer a few of your questions, The part in the south that is now Florida, at the time of the Revolution was Spanish owned. The northern part, now the state of Maine, was a part of Massachusetts until 1820, when it became the state of Maine.

Because of the tax on tea, Americans started drinking coffee, which is why more people here drink coffee than hot tea.

New York was first settled by the Dutch and Delaware was first settled by the swedes.

Those colonists weren't completely untrained. Every colony had militias. They were actually created to fight Native Americans. In some cities, towns, and villages it was required for every adult male to own a gun. They had very little training, essentially, show up with your gun, fire, and run or reload.

Since you are German, let me tell you about the most important German that was on our side. His name was Baron Von Steuben. He claimed to be a Baron, but history has since found that he wasn't. He was sent by Benjamin Franklin to assist Washington in training our army. He brought his French interpreter with him. He was a drill instructor. He would bark out orders or cuss men out in German. His interpreter would say it, cuss words and all, in French. Then the Marquis de Lafayette, who was French and Washington's aide, would repeat it in English, cuss words and all. Von Steuben wrote a drill manual for the USA that is still used today, with stuff added to modernize it

[lindadianesmith]

Quick answer to one of your questions: No England was not protecting us. They were protecting their financial interests. They saw the colonies as theirs.

[paulschirf]

It is important to remember that at the outbreak of the war they were not fighting for independence. Many of the colonists were 5+ generations in the colonies, but they still considered themselves British. They were fighting to be treated as full English citizens, with a voice in how they were governed. They were willing to lay down their lives for liberty, but were not seeking independence (yet). The taxes were offensive to them not for how high they were (they were not that high), but because English common law guaranteed a person being taxed the right to help decide how they were taxed. But as a colonist they didn't have representation in parliament.

Representation was a difficult matter. With the American population approaching 50% of that of England and growing fast adding the American colonists representatives directly to parliament would be a major shake-up in the balance of power. And to make matters worse, if land ownership was used in any formula for calculating representation the massive amount of land in the American colonies could turn them all into voters. Intelligent people foresaw an England where the population at home would become a minority dominated by British citizens living outside of the homeland. There were attempts at compromise, but they were poorly designed and failed.

Another thing to understand is that each colony was effectively a corporation from the English point of view. They often treated each separately and the colonists themselves had little loyalty collectively. When dealing with the post-7 Years War issues Franklin advocated that the colonies needed to negotiate collectively. Many of the images used during the war were based not on rebellion, but on failed attempts at collective bargaining, like the chopped up snake "Join or Die" isn't about joining the army.

George Washington was an officer in the colonial army, not the redcoats. After the 7 years war (We call it the French and Indian War in the U.S.) Washington wanted a commission in the royal army, but was rejected... again, 2nd class citizen. It is very important to understand that George Washington did not join the continental army to fight for independence. He and most others felt that they were fighting for their rights as English citizens when the conflict started. Kill each other for a few months and the idea of independence became more popular - but it never became extremely popular. Most people just wanted the fighting to stop regardless of outcome.

I do living history presentations and sometimes portray a loyalist. It is surprising to Americans today to learn that the idea of independence wasn't popular at first - they're fooled by the modern media into thinking we hated England. We didn't - we hated parliament - and who doesn't at any point in history?

This was a civil war, with families being very split on the issues. Brothers fought brothers, literally at times.

[liamrichardson]

Two fun facts.
1: The reason coffee is so popular in America is because of the British taxing tea. The colonists turned to drinking coffee in protest.

2: Paul Revere never said, "The British are coming." He said, "The regulars are coming" since the colonists were still British subjects.

[tHEdANKcRUSADER]

🎼 “even Old New York was once New Amsterdam” 🎶

[michael-]

Chris, you're partially correct. Fighting for 8 years against the British convinced most people that no government was to be entirely trusted, and the only way to insure freedom was to allow everyone to defend themselves by force of arms. Armed citizens were known as the militia. Hence, the Second Amendment states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

And thus, we have a saying: "When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom." Americans may support our government. But the people in the government are our EMPLOYEES, not our rulers. And one of the purposes of the Second Amendment is to make sure that everyone REMEMBERS that.

[stg]

the father of the US army that trained those men was Fridrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Von Steuben

[pyronuke]

The exact wording of the second amendment; "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." It's a little confusing because of the old-time talk, but it boils down to 'people should be able to defend themselves and their property from those who would want to unlawfully take them/it by force.'

There was also an idea floating around at the time where the national army would be disbanded and the population was expected to defend themselves, and state-sponsored militias would be formed in times of crisis. That whole idea fell apart during the War of 1812 and the national army was reinstated, but the prospect of citizens being able to defend themselves and their property remains a big part of American culture to this day.

[gregchambers]

Yes. The right to bear arms is exactly to defend ourselves from tyranny. Not just self defense and hunting. We are citizens, not subjects.

[jenniferhanses]

How can you force somebody to import something?

By controlling all of the boats. The English had the trading companies. They had a trade plan where they extracted all the raw resources from their colonies, shipped them back to England for processing, and then sent them out again. This made some products ridiculously expensive in the US colonies. And what was more infuriating was that the colonies know that some of these places like the islands with the sugar, we really nearby and we could just go over there and get sugar direct, but England wouldn't allow it. This is why, pre-Revolution, the US had a disproportionate amount of smugglers. Because if Britain wasn't going to allow us to have sugar and other raw goods, we were going to go out and get it ourselves.

I mean, I suppose we could have just not had sugar and other goods. But we really wanted them, and England was being really stupid about making its shipping lines inefficient in an effort to take all of the wealth of the colonies for itself, even from people who wanted to be loyal citizens. We just refused to accept that the cotton needed to be shipped from South Carolina to England to be made into cloth to be sold in New York when New York had plenty of factories of its own for making cloth and it was less risky, and also who wants to pay for shipping twice?

[mccaine]

Both the Prussian Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (on the side of the colonies), and mercenaries from Hesse-Kassel (on the side of Great Britain) fought in the American Revolution. Von Steuben was instrumental in teaching the Colonial Army how to train soldiers.

[ugsome]

Oyster shells are not harder than rocks... but they are really sharp.

[eddieromanov]

A lesser known but critical contribution by German immigrants during the Revolution was the Pennsylvania Long Rifle. German gunsmiths introduced rifling to the settlers in Appalachia. This was a massive improvement over the smooth bore muskets used by the English.

[thomasnelson]

A musket ball is the projectile a musket fires. Its a long barrel, front loaded, unrifled, single shot firearm.

[colinpreston]

What a lot of Europeans forget is that the United States is a young country and a very big country. In Germany, during the American Revoultion, you could probably ride your horse out of your village and into another in an hour of so. In America, if you leave your home, it could days, weeks, even months before you reach another settlement. So the right to bear arms was needed so people could protect themselves, be it from wild animals, criminals, and even the their own government.

[panzerdeal]

That green flag was a Regimental flag as we had no national flag at first.

[PhycoKrusk]

Something that doesn't get mentioned in this video is that, in the wake of the Boston Massacre, the British soldiers were put on trial in Boston for murder. They were defended by that young lawyer by the name of John Adams, who did so not because he believed that the soldiers behaved correctly (he absolutely did not), but because he believed it was not sufficient for the government to state that an unlawful act had taken place, but that the government further had to prove that the act, in addition to being unlawful, was also unjustified. His defense was successful, and the soldiers were acquitted in light of the circumstances they were under, as the jury felt that in the same circumstances, they would likely have behaved the same way.

John Adams would go on to assist Thomas Jefferson with the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which he was also one of the first to sign, served an important role in organization during the War for Independence, was instrumental in the creation of the Constitution, and would serve as the second President of the United States.