You are jumping the gun a little bit, my young friend. Before the Civil War, the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government - not the states. Also, remember that before the 14th Amendment, not everyone born in the US was a citizen. Slaves would not have been included in this 5th Amendment protection. Also, the Preamble cannot be used to interpret the Constitution. That's been ruled by the Supreme Court. Keep in mind that slaveholders signed and ratified the Constitution.

@brendalove5456

4 жыл бұрын

Bs

Tom, I think your videos are great. I'm 40 and I graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in History. I'm a self-proclaimed nerd and from time to time, it's good to brush up on a few subjects. Your videos are perfect for that. I look forward to watching more.

@tomrichey

8 жыл бұрын

+Chad Wilber Glad an old video like this is still reaching people! Looking forward to recording a series on the American Civil War at some point.

I died of laughter at 0:40 with his reaction

guess we going to pretend that the skull fell out of nowhere

When I went to school, we were tested on the emancipation proclamation that was in a two-part question: When was it signed and what did it do. Yes, it was a Yankee school. The answers were 1863 and it freed the slaves. The victor writes the history.

@MGTOWPaladin

2 жыл бұрын

The invasion of the South was about money from Southern cash crops, PERIOD! Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union TREASURY!

Tom, not only are you incredibly easy to understand, highly intelligent and use humor quite effectively...you are also drop-dead gorgeous....Thank you for this important video.

Your analogies and memory devices are brilliant!!! I'm officially a fan!

I would say that the point of the Bill of Rights was to protect BOTH the individual AND the state from the federal government. Antifederalist objections to the Constitution were centered mostly upon the suspicion that the federal government would eclipse the states - basically, they were afraid of what actually ended up happening!

There is still much for me to teach you, young grasshopper! I'll be recording some videos soon on the American founding so sit tight. You're giving me some incentive to get some new videos posted as quickly as possible! At this time, most of the state constitutions had their own bills of rights.

Thanks for helping me write my final paper for US history!!

did anyone see the creepy skull fall out of no where????? creepy

@gunncessna9359

6 жыл бұрын

yeeeeeaaaahhh... I think it was a sign!

@Breyerlover4ever23

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe it thought the battle of Antietam was going to be talked about next - the single bloodiest day in American history...

@juanloera8309

5 жыл бұрын

yes

@mayajoy3798

4 жыл бұрын

@@Breyerlover4ever23 not Peach Orchard?

@Breyerlover4ever23

4 жыл бұрын

@@mayajoy3798 I've never heard of Peach Orchard. Isn't the battle of Antietam the bloodiest day in American History?

What matters most here is that Lincoln did not BELIEVE that he had the constitutional authority to end slavery without appealing to military necessity and conventional wisdom at the time did not see the federal government as having any power to end slavery. Be careful about using the present to interpret the past. In any case, thanks a bunch for watching my videos and engaging with my content! It's great to see someone's interested in this stuff!

Thank You so much 😍😍 I have a presentation about The Emanticipation Proclamation next Thursday ... u made things so clear 😊

Congrats on 200K subscribers!

Love your videos!!! I’m preparing for a test I have tomorrow and your videos are so helpful! Thank you so much !!!!

Great videos, they are very useful and are saving my semester ! Thank you, from Paris :)

These videos are so helpful. I have used them extensively with my tutoring students. Thanks, Tom! I too am hanging on every word. But I happen to think Queen Victoria was fairly awesome too (although I'm wild about Elizabeth I), albeit in her dotage she perhaps wasn't as easy on the eyes. We all have to grow old (or not, considering a most unfortunate alternative). More's the pity. It's a happy circumstance that being smart makes one more attractive. Aesthetics do indeed matter. Best! Oh and I adore the skull. Carpe Diem.

@tomrichey

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jennifer, for the comment and the Twitter follow! I made this one a long time ago - glad it still helps! I'll be making many more videos in the coming year.

What text book do you use for your class? Also, thanks for a wonderful and helpful video!

I went to school in the US. I always admired Lincoln. I believe he wanted to free all slaves everywhere from day one. But he wanted to do it step by step to avoid losing everything...he was practical man he understood that he couldn't do it right away, many people at that time were not ready for it.

Yes, the 14th Amendment fundamentally changed the way that the Constitution applies to the States - it's the first Amendment to include the language, "No state shall..." The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit the power of the federal government under the new Constitution, while the 14th Amendment was designed to curb abuses of the rights of freedmen by former Confederate states. Look up the "Incorporation Doctrine" for more on the role of the 14th Amendment regarding the states.

@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh

3 жыл бұрын

The beginning of big Federal government encroaching on our lives.

thank you. nicely delivered, clear, informative and interesting vid

Thanks for this outstanding video.

Great explanation!!

This is so fascinating and informative. Thank you very much.

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

Randy King Thanks a bunch! I'm glad this video is still getting traction - it's nearly two years old and I was still struggling to master lighting (had to put KZread after effects on this one because it was so bad), but if I'm getting the point across, it's all good, I guess.

Awesome video Tom. I guess the Emancipation Proclamation was a bit more complicated than the way most people who talk about the Civil War present it.

A couple of unrelated requests: 1) I was trying to view ur world history playlist (up to 1300) and was not loading, possible to re-put up those videos? 2) Would it be possible to do videos on the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Civil War? (Just want a bit more clarity on the concept of the HRE and what it entailed in its entirety). Thank you!

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

Do you have a link to the playlist you're referring to? I'll keep those topics in mind, but don't know if I have enough expertise to make it worthwhile for people to watch.

@writeract2

9 жыл бұрын

Tom Richey It's on ur website - www.tomrichey.net/world-history-to-1300.html, six units listed at bottom, i think i could only catch 1 unit playlist, ok, np, if u ever decide to, i think u could make spanish civil war and ottomon emp very interesting to watch.

Is that tea in his hand.Also...IS HE EVER GOING TO DRINK IT

"Lincoln here, made it clear", You are a natural, Tom xD Oh and I'm sorry for you getting spanked ;~;

After people of African descent were added to the union army, the war was won. I pray that our contribution made a difference.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

When Richmond fell, Lincoln had the "Colored Troops" march through town, and the freed slaves cheered them.

Love it!

you should consider making a video on the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas and Nebraska acts!!

@tomrichey

8 жыл бұрын

+Belle Coffey Eventually, I will make videos about both. The only thing stopping me is time.

It's 6 in the morning..I'm watching this video...but man..I wanna know the name of that background music cuz it's making me wanna jam..at 6 in the morning...

Thank u, thank u. You know, when i was in college, i took an elective course in african-american studies where the professor read a doc where the president (Lincoln) expressly stated his belief in the inferiority and inherent inequality of the "colored race" and that he did not believe they should in any means be equal to or afforded the same rights in society as white men. I wish i could remember the document or date/yr it was written, i am assuming well b4 his E.P. days. My dear Mr. Richey, as a staunch Victorian (it's my favorite period in history and what I metaphorically live for), I would in any day prefer to see my beloved Queen Victoria over Queen E1 tho i understand the aesthetic and tutorial reasoning behind it. Good summary and good overview over the actual machinations of how slavery became an issue in the civil war, not the way it is usually presented and taught in the history classes unfortunately.

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

I was probably a little hard on Victoria! Haha

The states were... Good video

Hey, I am looking for some genuine guidance here. I am a life long learner and have a passionate interest now as a mature student, on the world history of slavery, how on earth it ever happened and who was involved in its demise, even though through multiple recent and historical events, I believe has developed into criminal and inhumane racism. Please pardon my ignorance in thinking that the slavery capital of the world historically, was the southern states of America? if anyone can point me in the right direction of factually accurate documentation i would really appreciate it.

Below is incorrect. It is "was" the border states, because although they are plural states, it is a single concept "the border states." The single concept then yields to singular agreement with was.

@tomrichey

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping me clear this up, Jeffery!

I might be a grammar Nazi, but I can not bring myself to correct you because your video was awesome!!

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

kim herrera Thanks... but what did I do???

its prety cool

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

legend

Couple of thoughts; Lincoln thoughts he could buy the border state by paying them for their slaves. McClelland was a Northern General and a Southern sympathizer, hence his impotence. Lincoln saw that the Union would one day have to deal with slavery & the Faustinan bargain that was made in keeping slavery. Lincoln new that at some point slavery would have to be abolished. Lincoln chose to take it on which was a Herculean task, one in which he would have to pay for with his life, at the hands of a sympathizer of the Confederacy...

You and Lawrence from FunHaus look very alike.

can u make a segment about the Mexican-American war

@tomrichey

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesus Alvarado At some point, definitely!

@jesusalvarado829

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks

There never should have been SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS WRONG.PERIOD.WE ARE HUMANS.

@fijmim

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

We forget that Washington DC also still had slavery until 1862 at which time the slave owners were compensated for their emancipation.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't until the South seceded that any progress could be made.

IF KZread BLOCKS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY. THEN PEOPLE WILL NOT WATCH WHAT KZread IS SAYING.

Paranormal activity bro get out of there or get someone to bless that room my guy 👌🏽

But why are you throwing shade at our queen Vic? 😆

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Once again by 1805 all slavery in "northern states" abolished, June 1862 slavery in all Federal Territories abolished, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, finally in 1863 work begins on writing and ratifying the 14th Amendment. This does not seem like an expansion but rather a progression. A legal, political progression.

@stevepoitras2802

3 жыл бұрын

@dosdude Well obviously someone does not know how to read. It is very simple to pick up the acts of congress and read what was passed and when.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

The South was the problem.

@tomrichey

9 жыл бұрын

ME, TOO! That's why I seldom let go of it! :D

Pretty good video. However, Tom does neglect an important part of Lincoln's famous letter to Horace Greely. After explaining that his goal is to preserve the Union, regardless of the status of slavery, he ends in with this line: _"I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free."_ Lincoln made it clear that while his war goals were to preserve the Union, he was still anti-slavery, and always would be. Likewise, Tom should have mentioned that Lincoln had already started freeing the Confederate slaves before he issued the emancipation proclamation, by signing the Confiscation Acts. The Emancipation Proclamation was really just an extension of those laws.

@TheStapleGunKid

3 жыл бұрын

@dosdude He spent his whole political career trying to restrict its expansion. That's why the rebels seceded and started the war.

@davidwebb8217

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheStapleGunKid Lincoln wanted to curb the expansion of slavery in the west because he wanted it for whites. The same reason land was stolen from Native Americans. The only reason he didn't deport blacks is he couldn't get support.

@TheStapleGunKid

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidwebb8217 Lincoln wanted to curb the expansion of slavery in the West because that was the best way to eliminate it in the rest of the country (short of a constitutional amendment, which was impossible to pass before the war). _"I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction."_ --Abe Lincoln, 1858. _"I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end."_ --Abe Lincoln, 1859 _"I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."_ --Abe Lincoln, 1859. Lincoln knew banning the expansion of slavery would inevitably lead to its total elimination. Slavery had to be able to expand to survive. The Confederate leaders knew this as well, which is why they seceded and started the war.

@davidwebb8217

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheStapleGunKid "I have no purpose, directly or in-directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so," Lincoln said it his first inaugural on March 4 of the same year. Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863. Moreover, Lincoln's proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: "as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion." You would think if it was about freeing slaves he would have freed them in ALL the states.

@TheStapleGunKid

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidwebb8217 Yes Lincoln did not originally intend to interfere with slavery "where it exists", which he had no constitutional power to do anyway. His original plan was to keep slavery out of where it didn't currently exist, by banning its expansion into the federal territories, which would ensure slavery's ultimate demise in the rest of the country as well. The rebels knew this, which is why they seceded and started the war As Lincoln said in that same speech you cited: _"One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."_ As for the Emancipation Proclamation, it was a war measure, so of course it could only be applied to the rebel areas that were at war with the Union. Lincoln had no constitutional power whatsoever to free the slaves in the Union states in 1863. That would require a constitutional amendment, and the President has no formal role in the amendment process. Those who complain that Lincoln didn't free slaves in the Union states with the Emancipation Proclamation are ignorant fools. They have no idea what sort of powers the President has. Also, the rebellion was not a tax rebellion, which is why the word "tax" does not appear in the EP. You just invented it out of thin air. The rebels made it perfectly clear the preservation of slavery was their reason for rebelling: _"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."_-- CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens The fact of the matter is upon assuming the presidency, Lincoln acted against slavery with all the powers his presidential officer granted him. The only thing holding him back was the limits of what those powers were. He banned slavery in the territories, abolished it in Washington DC, freed the slaves in the rebel states, banned the military from returning escaped slaves, and repealed the fugitive slave act. If his presidential powers had allowed him to do more than that against slavery, he would have.

Lincoln stated that the South could keep their slaves if they returned to the Union by January 31, 1863 they could keep their slaves and slaves would have only be Emancipated in states that continued to rebel. That meant if the war was to keep slaves the South won the war. They declined.

@kurtsherrick2066

5 жыл бұрын

@Chellstylez He wasn't against it because he himself he didn't have the Constitutional Authority to end slavery in places where people are held in servitude. What he wanted to stop is slavery expanding West in the Territories. He knew slavery kept the pay down for whites. He was just fine with the Tarrifs and Taxes from slave states. Lincoln was making plans to colonize the blacks in New Libera, Belize and other places. He was a serious racist by Today's standards. He said on his fourth debate with Douglas in 1858 that he thought blacks were a inferior race. He said they shouldn't live with whites or marry whites or serve on Jury's or Vote. Just have to realize Revisionists History has to cover up a tyrants illegal war that cost 850,000 Americans deaths including thousands of slaves. Another fact they don't teach is more Native Americans were butchered under Lincoln than any other President including Andrew Jackson. Lincoln was not a good man. He was genociding the Sioux while he went to war with his own country without the Approval Congress. He slaughtered the Constitution. He was the Tyrant Jefferson warned us about.

@kurtsherrick2066

5 жыл бұрын

@Chellstylez Another interesting fact. The last Troops to Surrender to the Union was the Cherokee Nation. Even after the Trail of Tears the Cherokee's were left alone in Northern Georgia and Tennessee, and North Carolina in the Smoky Mountains. So they knew the Blue Coats never kept their Treaty's or their word. Also the Chickasaw were all over West Tennessee. North Alabama and Mississippi during the Civil War. Southerners weren't hanging them in Kangaroo Military Tribunals like the Union Army was in parts of Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Things may have been different for the Native Americans if the South won the war.

@TheStapleGunKid

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsherrick2066 Almost everyone in the 1860s was a racist by today's standards. What's important was that Lincoln was anti-slavery. Whatever he thought of blacks, he still felt it was wrong to enslave them. Thus he dedicated his entire political career to banning slavery's expansion, for the purpose of putting it "in course of ultimate extinction". That's why the rebels launched their illegal rebellion that cost the lives of 650,000 Americans, including thousands of slaves. It was for the sole purpose of preserving and expanding slavery. The rebels were the tyrants, and their doom is a cause to be celebrated by all _"The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war, as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was her cause for seceding."_ --Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, 1907

@kurtsherrick2066

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheStapleGunKid If what you say about Lincoln is true why did he try to Secure Slavery in the Constitution in the Ststes where it already existed? Why did he offer in the Original Emancipation Proclamation that if the Southern States would come back to the Union by January 1,1863 they could keep their slaves. Slaves would only be Emancipated in the States that continued to rebel. You can't get away from those two facts. Why didn't Lincoln mention I his Addresses and Letters to Congress that his war was over Revenue. Not one word about slavery. The South didn't rebel against Washington. They tried to leave in peace and Govern themselves. You can't get out of the almost 50 years of Protectionist Policies against the South that has nothing to do with slavery. Lack of Representation in Washington DC. Two Houses of Congress going against the Constitution that denied the South protection under rules for the Minority. There never would have been a way if Lincoln didn't go to war on Fiat and invade the South. All other Countries did away with slavery without a war. If Lincoln didn't invade there never would have been death and destruction.

@TheStapleGunKid

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtsherrick2066 Lincoln didn't do any such thing. The Corwin amendment had nothing to do with Lincoln. It went all the way through the federal government and off to the states for a ratification vote (where it was soundly rejected by almost all of them) before Lincoln was president. As for the EP, it was a war measure, so it could only be applied to the rebel areas at war with the Union. Lincoln had no constitutional authority to free all the slaves in the Union states in 1863. That required a constitutional amendment, and the President has no formal role in the amendment process. Lincoln never said the war was over revenue. He made it perfectly clear slavery was the cause of the conflict between North and South, just like the rebels did. _"One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."_ --Abe Lincoln, March 4, 1861 _"Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed. Without slavery it could not continue."_ --Abe Lincoln, 1862 _"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it."_ --Abe Lincoln, 1865 The South did rebel against Washington, and they did so to preserve slavery. We know this because they said so: _"It has been a conviction of pressing necessity, it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers bequeathed to us, which has brought Mississippi into her present decision. She has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal, and this made the basis of an attack upon her social institutions; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races."_ - Jefferson Davis, 1861 _"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."_ --Alexander Stephens, 1861 The only reason America needed a war to end slavery is because it was cursed with a pro-slavery Confederate faction willing to wage a war to preserve it forever. They bear the responsibility for the death and destruction of the war, not Lincoln. The South made it perfectly clear that slavery was their cause. The rebels knew what their own cause was. You don't,

The day them federals turned the dogs loose....

@SSNESS

Жыл бұрын

Why hold a glass the whole time, surprised he didn’t spill it

that was probably lincoln lolll

And one get off me 🤫⛹🏿‍♂️🏀

you arew cristian orthodox the icon behind you with crist is orthodox

That was creepy

Election of 1864. Over 90% voted against Lincoln in his native state of Kentucky.

@neilpemberton5523

3 жыл бұрын

Lincoln's father Thomas moved the family from Kentucky to Indiana when Abraham was 7, partly over slavery. But mostly he moved because land surveys and thus titles were notoriously poorly determined, causing Thomas to lose much of his land in lawsuits.

lets go chiefs 🤪🏈

Yeah, you taught me Racism still exist. It's obvious All Blacks are free but you chose to stay blinded by words that are not on the document. Note: The library of Congress makes it available for everyone to see. Stop teaching ongoing racism.

You're bushitting so much that people turn in their graves and those who were not put in a grave turn and fall off your shelves.