History for Kids - By Homeschool Pop
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| 00:01 | wow , this is it . This is so cool | |
| 00:08 | history for kids , we are going to learn some | |
| 00:11 | fascinating things about the past and we're going to start | |
| 00:15 | off with this ancient Rome . Let's start here . | |
| 00:21 | Rome is a city that is in Italy . Here | |
| 00:24 | is the flag of Italy . The Italian flag . | |
| 00:28 | You can see where Rome is . On the map | |
| 00:31 | of Italy . You can visit Rome today . It's | |
| 00:34 | an amazing place . One of the things that make | |
| 00:36 | it so amazing is the rich history of the city | |
| 00:40 | . Mhm . See Rome was formed in the 8th | |
| 00:45 | century BC . That was a long time ago . | |
| 00:48 | Really , really long time ago . Rome as a | |
| 00:51 | very old city . Yeah . According to legend , | |
| 00:56 | Rome was founded by a guy named Rahm Youlus in | |
| 00:59 | 7 53 Bc . As you might have guessed , | |
| 01:03 | Rome got its name from Rome , Youlus . That's | |
| 01:06 | a cool name . You don't hear that very often | |
| 01:07 | , Rahm Youlus . Here's the thing though , many | |
| 01:13 | historians believe there were numerous farm communities in the seven | |
| 01:17 | hills near Rome and that they joined together to form | |
| 01:21 | the city . Wait , that means there may have | |
| 01:26 | never been to Rome , Youlus . Here is a | |
| 01:28 | coin with Romney Ellis and his brother Remus . His | |
| 01:31 | brother might be pretend to pretend people possibly , possibly | |
| 01:36 | if Romney Ellis was real , though he must have | |
| 01:38 | been a really smart guy , because the location of | |
| 01:42 | Rome was perfect . First , Rome was right along | |
| 01:48 | the Tiber River . Now , why would that be | |
| 01:51 | important ? Well , the Tiber River meant Rome had | |
| 01:54 | access to water and water made life and civilization possible | |
| 01:58 | . You could see where the Tiber River is and | |
| 02:01 | where Rome is on this map , here is a | |
| 02:06 | picture of the Tiber River today . Without the Tiber | |
| 02:10 | River , the small city of Rome would have never | |
| 02:13 | grown into a massive civilization . Thanks , Tiber River | |
| 02:17 | . No , no , really ? Thank you , | |
| 02:19 | tipper . Can . Can I call you Diaper ? | |
| 02:24 | The second reason Rome's location is perfect is that there | |
| 02:28 | are huge mountain ranges that protect Rome , The alps | |
| 02:32 | and the Api Nines would later make invasions of Rome | |
| 02:36 | more difficult . Not only that Rome is surrounded by | |
| 02:40 | hills as well . Rome is protected by natural barriers | |
| 02:46 | . In the early days of the city of Rome | |
| 02:49 | , Rome was ruled by a king . Sometimes the | |
| 02:52 | king would be a jerk and people would be like | |
| 02:54 | , wow , he's king . So we just have | |
| 02:56 | to live with us . But in 509 BC , | |
| 03:02 | they were sick of it at that time they had | |
| 03:05 | a king named tarquin the proud . And you can | |
| 03:08 | see him on this coin . Tarquin the proud . | |
| 03:11 | It was an awful king . He killed a lot | |
| 03:13 | of people , made everyone miserable and was very arrogant | |
| 03:17 | . That's how he got the nickname . The proud | |
| 03:20 | tar Quinn , the proud . I gotta say this | |
| 03:23 | though , if this coin is accurate , while he | |
| 03:25 | was a terrible king , he did have good hair | |
| 03:28 | , That's a pretty cool hairstyle , isn't it ? | |
| 03:30 | You know ? Well the people kicked them out and | |
| 03:35 | they decided to set up a completely different type of | |
| 03:38 | government . They made Rome into a republic . You | |
| 03:43 | know , you did a bad job as king when | |
| 03:45 | the place you ruled over just completely changes the government | |
| 03:48 | and kicks you out . Okay , that's what they | |
| 03:50 | did though . They kicked him out . They said | |
| 03:52 | you're out of here and they said we are going | |
| 03:54 | to start a republic , This is going to be | |
| 03:57 | a republic . What a huge change that was now | |
| 04:04 | . Instead of a king making all of the decisions | |
| 04:06 | and being in charge , The people would elect people | |
| 04:09 | who would serve in the government for a certain amount | |
| 04:12 | of time instead of following a king's orders , the | |
| 04:17 | people were able to do whatever they wanted . As | |
| 04:20 | long as it didn't break the law . If that | |
| 04:26 | sounds like the government of the United States . That's | |
| 04:28 | right . The United States is a republic . Many | |
| 04:32 | other countries around the world are Republics to ancient Rome | |
| 04:37 | was way ahead of the curve . Yeah . Rome | |
| 04:44 | was one of the first Republics in history and under | |
| 04:47 | this new form of government , Rome thrived Rome state | |
| 04:51 | republic until 27 80 . Let's fast forward hundreds of | |
| 04:58 | years to meet this guy . His name is Julius | |
| 05:01 | caesar . Julius Caesar is one of the most famous | |
| 05:05 | people in Roman history . He lived from 100 BC | |
| 05:09 | 2:44 BC and had a huge impact on ancient Rome | |
| 05:17 | . Julius caesar was a great general and was also | |
| 05:22 | an important writer writing histories of many of the battles | |
| 05:26 | he fought in . He was a hero in Rome | |
| 05:28 | and was loved by the people . Boy was Julius | |
| 05:32 | caesar . Popular . People heard of all of his | |
| 05:37 | victories in battle and knew that his soldiers had absolute | |
| 05:40 | loyalty to him . It also helped that he wrote | |
| 05:43 | about the battles . He did a good job of | |
| 05:45 | always making himself sound like the hero . Well , | |
| 05:52 | this shouldn't be surprising , but the senate was afraid | |
| 05:55 | of his power and popularity . Julius caesar was a | |
| 05:59 | big deal . Soon a civil war broke out , | |
| 06:03 | Julius caesar was victorious and returned to Rome as the | |
| 06:07 | ruler of the republic . For five years , he | |
| 06:15 | was the ruler of the roman republic before he was | |
| 06:18 | betrayed and killed in Rome . But ancient Rome had | |
| 06:22 | changed forever after Julius caesar was killed , Another civil | |
| 06:27 | war broke out . Well , guess what happened next | |
| 06:33 | ? Julius caesar's adopted son Octavian eventually took over Rome | |
| 06:38 | and finally brought peace . He was renamed augustus and | |
| 06:41 | became the first emperor of Rome . Augustus was an | |
| 06:50 | effective emperor and ushered in a period called pax romana | |
| 06:55 | where the majority of people in the roman empire lived | |
| 06:59 | their lives without fear of invasion . Pax romana means | |
| 07:03 | roman peace . After augustus Rome was ruled by an | |
| 07:10 | emperor named Tiberius . The stepson of augustus . Wow | |
| 07:15 | , all these guys are related . The republic was | |
| 07:17 | over and a new period called the imperial period began | |
| 07:24 | . Mhm wow ! Ancient Rome went through massive changes | |
| 07:29 | through the centuries . Now we are going to talk | |
| 07:32 | about the legacy of this fascinating civilization like the size | |
| 07:39 | of ancient Rome at its peak . See how huge | |
| 07:43 | ancient Rome was . Wow ! The roman empire is | |
| 07:47 | colored purple . That's big , that's big . Ancient | |
| 07:54 | Rome left the big impact with architecture , with many | |
| 07:58 | of their structures still surviving and standing today . Probably | |
| 08:04 | the most famous example is the Colosseum . The Coliseum | |
| 08:08 | was a massive amphitheater in the city of Rome that | |
| 08:11 | still amazes people today . Over 60,000 people could watch | |
| 08:17 | sports and events in the Coliseum just like us , | |
| 08:26 | Ancient romans enjoyed sports and entertainment in ancient Rome , | |
| 08:30 | watching chariot races and fighting were very common . The | |
| 08:34 | fighting though , would be very violent . Unfortunately , | |
| 08:37 | many people lost their lives in the coliseum . And | |
| 08:41 | to us that type of fighting doesn't even sound like | |
| 08:44 | a game , but in ancient Rome people filled the | |
| 08:47 | coliseum to watch fighters called gladiators fight it out . | |
| 08:54 | This is cool . Ancient Rome is also known for | |
| 08:56 | having water systems and aqueducts bring fresh water to different | |
| 09:01 | places . Ancient Rome also adds sewers to dispose of | |
| 09:04 | waste . Very important , these advancements helped many people | |
| 09:09 | live a better quality of life . Mm . Mhm | |
| 09:15 | . Ancient Rome also invented socks . Seriously . Seriously | |
| 09:20 | , Okay , next time you wear socks , just | |
| 09:24 | think , wow , Thank you . Ancient Rome . | |
| 09:28 | These are really cool . How sad would life be | |
| 09:31 | if we didn't have socks ? You know ? And | |
| 09:34 | that's from Ancient Rome . Yeah . Even roads , | |
| 09:42 | ancient Rome developed roads that connected the empire . Ancient | |
| 09:46 | romans invented concrete and made stable , reliable roads that | |
| 09:51 | made transportation and communication so much easier . Many of | |
| 09:57 | the roads in europe still follow the same path as | |
| 10:01 | the ancient roman roads , wow , are we ? | |
| 10:07 | Are we coming to the end ? No crying . | |
| 10:10 | Who ? The final impact we want to talk about | |
| 10:13 | from ancient Rome is their language . Ancient romans spoke | |
| 10:18 | latin . A language still used when scientists named plants | |
| 10:22 | and animals and a handful of languages we use today | |
| 10:25 | come from latin . Ancient Rome was one of the | |
| 10:29 | most powerful civilizations in all of history . So of | |
| 10:33 | course their language would still impact us today . Okay | |
| 10:40 | , that was fun . Now we are going to | |
| 10:42 | learn about ancient Greece . You see Ancient Greece was | |
| 10:47 | a powerful civilization that ruled much of the Mediterranean region | |
| 10:52 | and at times even beyond the Mediterranean region , ancient | |
| 10:56 | Greece was so powerful . It is so important to | |
| 11:02 | learn about ancient Greece because they impacted us so much | |
| 11:06 | . Even though they ruled the Mediterranean several 1000 years | |
| 11:11 | ago . What's really cool is they impacted so many | |
| 11:15 | aspects of our lives , Even sports , math , | |
| 11:19 | art , philosophy . The way we do government . | |
| 11:22 | The way we do science that all goes back to | |
| 11:25 | the ancient Greeks . Yeah . Now you might be | |
| 11:29 | wondering where in the world was ancient Greece . Well | |
| 11:32 | we're going to show you on a world map so | |
| 11:34 | that you know exactly where in the world we're talking | |
| 11:37 | about here is the area in the world where ancient | |
| 11:43 | Greece was in a region called the Mediterranean . The | |
| 11:47 | mediterranean is actually the name of A . C . | |
| 11:50 | And the area of the sea where ancient Greece was | |
| 11:53 | was called the Mediterranean basin . Actually it's still called | |
| 12:00 | the Mediterranean basin . And in fact ancient Greece , | |
| 12:03 | the place where that is , that's where modern day | |
| 12:06 | Greece is . And here is the flag of the | |
| 12:08 | country of Greece . Mhm . Now this is kind | |
| 12:14 | of cool . Many historians put the story of ancient | |
| 12:17 | Greece into three time periods , into three time periods | |
| 12:23 | . The first time period is the archaic period . | |
| 12:26 | The second is the classical period and the third is | |
| 12:31 | the Hellenistic period . These are the three time periods | |
| 12:35 | of ancient Greece . Wow that cool archaic period , | |
| 12:40 | Classical period and the hellenistic period . Okay , so | |
| 12:47 | the archaic period is the earliest period of ancient Greece | |
| 12:53 | . And that's when ancient Greece really started taking its | |
| 12:56 | form and its organization . This period ended with the | |
| 13:01 | introduction of the government structure called democracy . Wait , | |
| 13:09 | democracy . What is democracy ? What does that word | |
| 13:13 | mean ? We said that the archaic period ended once | |
| 13:17 | democracy was introduced . But what is democracy ? Well | |
| 13:24 | , a democracy as a government led by the people | |
| 13:27 | either directly or indirectly through elected officials . Mm It | |
| 13:34 | is used all over the world today . In fact | |
| 13:37 | , 123 countries in the world use democracy as their | |
| 13:42 | form of government . And it was born in ancient | |
| 13:45 | Greece . Democracy was born right here in the city | |
| 13:51 | state called Athens . Different city states in Greece had | |
| 13:59 | different forms of government , but Athens had a democracy | |
| 14:06 | . So then came the classical period , the days | |
| 14:10 | of ancient Greece that most of us think of , | |
| 14:13 | We usually think of the classical period . Mhm . | |
| 14:19 | That was when the city states of Athens and Sparta | |
| 14:23 | were at their strongest in Athens . The arts and | |
| 14:29 | Philosophy were so important . In fact , Socrates and | |
| 14:33 | Plato were from Athens and lived in Athens . Athens | |
| 14:38 | was a place thriving with culture , the arts and | |
| 14:42 | philosophy . In Sparta of fighting was important , literally | |
| 14:49 | fighting . They studied war and fighting . They trained | |
| 14:53 | the young men when they were boys . Sparta was | |
| 14:56 | all about fighting . Sometimes these two city states would | |
| 15:03 | get along and would work together and would even fight | |
| 15:05 | together against foreign invaders . But there were so many | |
| 15:09 | differences between the two societies , the society in Athens | |
| 15:13 | in the society and Sparta , They just had very | |
| 15:16 | different interests . So they would fight each other in | |
| 15:23 | wars called the Peloponnesian wars and just look at this | |
| 15:26 | picture . Who do you think ? One these wars | |
| 15:29 | , Yeah , Sparta , but Athens was never completely | |
| 15:33 | finished off . Athens was never completely wiped off the | |
| 15:37 | map . And so these two city states just had | |
| 15:41 | a unique relationship was sometimes they work together and sometimes | |
| 15:45 | they would fight . We take this brief learning break | |
| 15:52 | to show you Mr Whiskers in honor of Mrs Cameron | |
| 15:55 | Bellows fourth grade class in new york . You know | |
| 15:59 | ? Because who doesn't like Mr Whiskers ? Right ? | |
| 16:02 | Who doesn't like Mr Whiskers ? What ? You were | |
| 16:08 | expecting me to use ? The special Mr Whiskers voice | |
| 16:11 | ? Well , Mr Whiskers sleeping okay , I'm not | |
| 16:14 | gonna just talk that way for you , you know | |
| 16:17 | ? But if he was awake , you know , | |
| 16:22 | the classical period of ancient Greece ended with the death | |
| 16:25 | of the most famous leader of ancient Greece , whose | |
| 16:29 | name was alexander the Great . He spent much of | |
| 16:35 | his childhood in Athens and was trained by the famous | |
| 16:39 | philosopher Aristotle . Mhm . After uniting most of Greece | |
| 16:44 | , he stretched the greek empire all the way to | |
| 16:47 | India to the east and Egypt to the west . | |
| 16:53 | I want to know something cool . He never lost | |
| 16:57 | one battle , Never lost one battle , wow . | |
| 17:02 | Even though alexander the Great was a Macedonian prince . | |
| 17:07 | He did grow up in Greece and he loved greek | |
| 17:10 | culture and spread the greek culture around the ancient world | |
| 17:18 | . When alexander the Great died , it started a | |
| 17:21 | period of ancient Greece called the Hellenistic period . The | |
| 17:25 | final period of ancient Greece . This final period of | |
| 17:31 | ancient Greece ended in 146 . BC when Rome conquered | |
| 17:37 | Greece and made Greece a Roman province . Mhm . | |
| 17:44 | Even if you don't realize it day by day , | |
| 17:47 | things that we do were impacted by ancient Greece the | |
| 17:51 | way we do math and literature . When we study | |
| 17:55 | science and philosophy are forms of government that's all impacted | |
| 18:00 | by this ancient civilization from the mediterranean . Cool , | |
| 18:07 | now we are going to learn about an important figure | |
| 18:11 | in american history . It's this guy . His name | |
| 18:15 | was George Washington . George Washington was a military general | |
| 18:21 | and led the american colonist to victory in the american | |
| 18:25 | revolution . He was a founding father of the United | |
| 18:27 | States , meaning he was one of the people who | |
| 18:30 | started the United States of America and he served as | |
| 18:34 | the first president of the United States , the very | |
| 18:37 | first president of the United States . Let's look at | |
| 18:44 | his life to see how George Washington helped start the | |
| 18:47 | United States of America . It starts in 1732 . | |
| 18:51 | That was a long time ago . George Washington was | |
| 18:57 | born in the colony of Virginia in 1732 . Now | |
| 19:01 | , when George Washington was born , the colony of | |
| 19:04 | Virginia was part of Great Britain . In fact , | |
| 19:07 | all of the American colonies were part of Great Britain | |
| 19:14 | . This is what the british flag looked like during | |
| 19:17 | George Washington's lifetime . It looked pretty similar to what | |
| 19:21 | it looks like today . The colony of Virginia . | |
| 19:24 | The place where George Washington grew up belonged to great | |
| 19:29 | Britain . Now a lot of people have wondered what | |
| 19:35 | George Washington was like as a kid . Right ? | |
| 19:38 | But George Washington didn't share many details about his childhood | |
| 19:44 | . There is a popular legend about George Washington when | |
| 19:48 | he was six years old . It's an interesting one | |
| 19:55 | . The legend says that George Washington received an ax | |
| 19:59 | for his birthday and used it on one of his | |
| 20:02 | dad's cherry trees . Oh , that's a weird gift | |
| 20:06 | to get for your sixth birthday . Yeah . When | |
| 20:10 | his dad found out that his cherry tree was damaged | |
| 20:14 | by young George , George was brave and told us | |
| 20:17 | dad the truth saying , I cannot tell a lie | |
| 20:21 | . This legend is one of the most famous legends | |
| 20:25 | in american history . The legend was written by this | |
| 20:31 | guy , a man named parson Weems . That's an | |
| 20:34 | interesting name . He was the first person to write | |
| 20:37 | a biography on George Washington after he died . Most | |
| 20:41 | historians believe this story was made up by parson Weems | |
| 20:46 | . Even though it was made up , it is | |
| 20:48 | a legend that many people think of when they think | |
| 20:51 | of George Washington . One thing we know for sure | |
| 20:57 | about Georgia's childhood is that his dad died when George | |
| 21:01 | was just 11 years old . Yeah , after his | |
| 21:08 | dad died , George spent some time living with his | |
| 21:11 | half brother named Lawrence at a place called Mount vernon | |
| 21:16 | . The plantation owned by Lawrence , living with his | |
| 21:22 | half brother , Lawrence . George was able to learn | |
| 21:25 | how to serve a land to serve a land is | |
| 21:32 | to figure out the distance between different parts of a | |
| 21:35 | piece of land . Usually to figure out how big | |
| 21:38 | a piece of land is someone who's surveys . Land | |
| 21:41 | is called a land surveyor . In order to be | |
| 21:47 | a land surveyor , you have to know a lot | |
| 21:50 | of math . George Washington had to use his math | |
| 21:53 | skills to survey land as he got older people paid | |
| 21:57 | him to survey their land and he had to use | |
| 22:00 | math skills every time he did it . This is | |
| 22:06 | pretty cool . Here is a picture of a land | |
| 22:08 | survey done by George Washington himself . Oh my goodness | |
| 22:13 | , he had fancy handwriting . Mhm . This is | |
| 22:17 | so sad . He may have continued working as a | |
| 22:20 | surveyor if it weren't . For another tragedy in his | |
| 22:24 | life , nine years after his dad died , Georgia's | |
| 22:28 | half brother Lawrence got sick and died . To George | |
| 22:32 | was 20 years old when Lawrence died Two years later | |
| 22:39 | , when George was just 22 years old , he | |
| 22:42 | became the full owner of Mount Vernon . Now we | |
| 22:49 | didn't mention this earlier , but Lawrence had been a | |
| 22:52 | military general for the british in the Virginia militia . | |
| 22:56 | Remember the colony of Virginia , Like the other american | |
| 23:00 | colonies belonged to great Britain . Mhm . George decided | |
| 23:07 | to follow in his footsteps and became a major in | |
| 23:11 | the Virginia militia . This was a big deal , | |
| 23:13 | especially for someone as young as George was . And | |
| 23:19 | it didn't take long for George Washington to be put | |
| 23:22 | to the test . The governor of Virginia sent George | |
| 23:30 | Washington on a special mission to tell the french to | |
| 23:33 | leave an area called the Ohio Valley . Mhm . | |
| 23:38 | They didn't like that and they made it clear they | |
| 23:41 | would not leave the Ohio Valley . And one year | |
| 23:44 | later , George Washington led hundreds of soldiers in an | |
| 23:47 | event that would start the french and indian war . | |
| 23:51 | The french and indian war made George Washington famous . | |
| 23:55 | He wrote about his experiences and became well known , | |
| 23:58 | not just in the colonies , but also across the | |
| 24:02 | atlantic ocean . In great Britain . The french and | |
| 24:09 | indian war not only made George Washington famous , but | |
| 24:12 | it also gave him military experience that he would later | |
| 24:16 | need during the american revolution . After the war , | |
| 24:19 | George was not offered a placement in the regular british | |
| 24:23 | army , which must have been so frustrating after all | |
| 24:25 | he did . And he returned to his plantation , | |
| 24:28 | remember called Mount vernon ? He got married to a | |
| 24:35 | lady named Martha and started a family at Mount vernon | |
| 24:41 | . Yeah , so he settled down and that might | |
| 24:45 | have been the end of his story , but he | |
| 24:48 | also got involved in politics , which would put him | |
| 24:51 | at the right place at the right time . After | |
| 24:56 | years of being a politician in Virginia . In 1774 | |
| 25:00 | , George Washington was chosen to be a delegate of | |
| 25:04 | Virginia . In the first continental Congress . A delegate | |
| 25:08 | is someone who is sent to represent other people . | |
| 25:12 | Virginia trusted George Washington to represent their interests . It | |
| 25:16 | was really cool . George Washington was frustrated with how | |
| 25:24 | the colonies were being treated by great Britain . Just | |
| 25:27 | like so many other colonists . Many of their rights | |
| 25:32 | were taken away by laws called the intolerable acts . | |
| 25:36 | Colonists called them the intolerable acts because they weren't able | |
| 25:40 | to take it . They were intolerable . Yeah . | |
| 25:46 | Well , in 1775 , the American Revolutionary War began | |
| 25:51 | in the Second Continental Congress decided to set up their | |
| 25:55 | own army called the Continental Army . Mhm . They | |
| 26:00 | selected George Washington as the commander of the Continental Army | |
| 26:05 | . It made sense he not only had a lot | |
| 26:07 | of experience as a general in the french and indian | |
| 26:10 | war , but he also wanted the american colonies to | |
| 26:13 | be independent and free from great Britain . George Washington | |
| 26:18 | accepted the position , but he refused to get paid | |
| 26:21 | to serve as commander of the Continental Army . That's | |
| 26:24 | right . He wanted to volunteer and serve without any | |
| 26:28 | cost to the american colonies . What a nice guy | |
| 26:34 | ! So he got to work . George Washington trained | |
| 26:37 | and prepared the Continental Army for battle . He wanted | |
| 26:41 | to make sure they were ready and helped them become | |
| 26:45 | a better , stronger army . And here was his | |
| 26:50 | job , if you will , George Washington helped come | |
| 26:53 | up with battle plans , led the Continental Army in | |
| 26:56 | many battles and helped the Continental Army run like a | |
| 27:00 | well organized unit and he was a great commander . | |
| 27:05 | Part of what made him a great commander was . | |
| 27:07 | He was not afraid to take risks . For example | |
| 27:14 | , in one of the most famous moments in the | |
| 27:17 | Revolutionary War , George Washington led troops across the Delaware | |
| 27:22 | River to do a surprise attack on december 25th in | |
| 27:26 | 17 76 . That was christmas night . Oh my | |
| 27:30 | goodness ! Even though the water was icy and dangerous | |
| 27:33 | , George Washington knew it would be a great surprise | |
| 27:37 | attack . Everyone was like George , too much eyes | |
| 27:40 | , too much ice man , but they pressed on | |
| 27:43 | , and it was a big victory for the Continental | |
| 27:46 | Army . George Washington eventually led the Continental Army to | |
| 27:51 | victory . With help from the french , the americans | |
| 27:54 | defeated the british . Yeah , After winning the Revolutionary | |
| 28:02 | War , the american colonies began setting up their brand | |
| 28:06 | new government , and really to no one's surprise , | |
| 28:11 | George Washington was picked to lead the constitutional convention that | |
| 28:16 | established order in the new government , and of course | |
| 28:20 | , because he was presiding over everything . George Washington | |
| 28:23 | signed the constitution . Then , when it came time | |
| 28:31 | to elect officials , the american people decided there was | |
| 28:35 | no better man to serve as the very first president | |
| 28:39 | of the United States than George Washington himself . He | |
| 28:43 | was elected president in the first national election In 1789 | |
| 28:51 | . After he was sworn in as president of the | |
| 28:54 | United States , he went to live in Philadelphia . | |
| 28:57 | Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the United States . | |
| 29:02 | This is a picture of the house he lived in | |
| 29:05 | while he was president . Now , of course , | |
| 29:07 | this was before the White House was built . This | |
| 29:10 | is the house in philadelphia that George Washington lived in | |
| 29:19 | before . We keep talking about George Washington as president | |
| 29:22 | . We have a random fun fact about George Washington | |
| 29:26 | for you . Mhm . Did you know that George | |
| 29:30 | Washington didn't wear a wig ? That's right . That | |
| 29:34 | was always his own hair . Huh ? He grew | |
| 29:38 | it long and would just pull it back . The | |
| 29:40 | reason his hair always looked white was because he powdered | |
| 29:44 | his hair . Must have thought it looked awesome . | |
| 29:47 | So if anyone ever asks you for a cool random | |
| 29:51 | fact , let them know that George Washington didn't wear | |
| 29:54 | a wig . I guess he didn't need one . | |
| 30:00 | It's shocking , isn't it ? Mr Whiskers , it's | |
| 30:03 | just crazy . He didn't wear a wag . I | |
| 30:05 | didn't wear a wig . Alright , well , back | |
| 30:07 | to George Washington as president , as we mentioned earlier | |
| 30:13 | , he was living in philadelphia which was the temporary | |
| 30:16 | capital of the United States , which is interesting and | |
| 30:19 | as you might imagine , as neat as being the | |
| 30:21 | first president sounds it was really difficult and challenging . | |
| 30:25 | There were many issues that needed fixing , you know | |
| 30:28 | , being a brand new nation in all . Yeah | |
| 30:35 | , but George Washington worked hard to give the United | |
| 30:38 | States a strong start . In the second national election | |
| 30:41 | , George Washington was elected president for the second time | |
| 30:46 | . He refused to run a third time and started | |
| 30:49 | the tradition by most presidents of serving no more than | |
| 30:52 | two terms . Can you spot president George Washington in | |
| 30:57 | this picture ? Uh huh . Yeah , he's right | |
| 31:00 | there , right there , yep . Not only did | |
| 31:05 | George Washington helped the american colonies win their independence and | |
| 31:09 | become a new nation , but George Washington also served | |
| 31:13 | as the first president of the United States . That | |
| 31:16 | is why George Washington is often called the father of | |
| 31:21 | his country . Sadly , George Washington wasn't able to | |
| 31:29 | see much of what America would become . He became | |
| 31:32 | sick and died in 1799 at Mount Vernon . George | |
| 31:39 | Washington made a huge impact and he has celebrated and | |
| 31:42 | honored all around us . The capital of the United | |
| 31:45 | States Washington , D . C . Was named after | |
| 31:48 | George Washington . The Washington monument in Washington , D | |
| 31:56 | . C . Was built to honor the memory of | |
| 31:58 | George Washington , the father of the United States . | |
| 32:04 | We see George Washington honored on our money like the | |
| 32:07 | dollar bill . Dollar bills are super cool , and | |
| 32:11 | George Washington is on all of them , wow ! | |
| 32:17 | He is also on the quarter . George Washington is | |
| 32:20 | on the front of every single quarter , even the | |
| 32:23 | state quarters . And of course George Washington is on | |
| 32:28 | Mount Rushmore . It's the amazing sculpture that was carved | |
| 32:31 | right into the granite of a mountain in south Dakota | |
| 32:36 | , wow ! He is featured on many other sculptures | |
| 32:38 | , but this is the biggest and most famous what | |
| 32:46 | a life George Washington lived here . Just a couple | |
| 32:49 | of his accomplishments . He was a general in the | |
| 32:52 | french and indian war . He was the commander of | |
| 32:54 | the Continental Army and he was the first president of | |
| 32:58 | the United States . Next we are going to learn | |
| 33:02 | about another important figure in history named Abraham Lincoln . | |
| 33:10 | He is famous for his beard . Back then , | |
| 33:12 | a lot of people called beards , whiskers almost like | |
| 33:15 | a cat look . Mr whiskers , you have something | |
| 33:20 | in common with Abraham Lincoln tunnel . Mhm . As | |
| 33:26 | fun as his beard was , he isn't just famous | |
| 33:29 | for what he looked like . He is famous for | |
| 33:32 | what he did . He served as president during some | |
| 33:35 | of the most challenging years in american history , saving | |
| 33:39 | our union when we were in the midst of war | |
| 33:42 | and abolishing slavery . Let's look closely at the life | |
| 33:50 | of Abraham Lincoln . Starting from when he was a | |
| 33:52 | baby . It was a long time ago . Abraham | |
| 33:55 | Lincoln was born way back in 1809 . This is | |
| 34:03 | a replica of the house where Abraham Lincoln was born | |
| 34:06 | . A replica is an exact copy of something . | |
| 34:09 | This is a replica of his birthplace . So we | |
| 34:12 | can have an idea of the small , humble beginnings | |
| 34:16 | of this future leader . It was a one room | |
| 34:19 | log cabin in Kentucky . When Abraham Lincoln was seven | |
| 34:26 | years old , his family moved to indiana . His | |
| 34:29 | dad was a hard worker farming and working with wood | |
| 34:33 | as a carpenter . His parents taught their Children about | |
| 34:36 | living a moral life and were very religious . They | |
| 34:39 | taught their Children what was right and wrong on many | |
| 34:42 | issues including slavery . Abraham Lincoln was taught how wrong | |
| 34:47 | slavery was a belief he held throughout his life . | |
| 34:53 | Yeah , slavery was a terrible system that treated people | |
| 34:57 | like property . A slave had no rights and was | |
| 35:00 | forced to do whatever their owner told them to slavery | |
| 35:05 | is wrong and it was wrong . Back then , | |
| 35:07 | there were many people who wanted to end it because | |
| 35:10 | they knew that every person should have rights . Now | |
| 35:17 | . As a young man , Abraham Lincoln was passionate | |
| 35:20 | about reading and writing . Here is a statue of | |
| 35:23 | young Abraham Lincoln found in Chicago . His neighbors used | |
| 35:26 | to think he was lazy because he preferred sitting down | |
| 35:29 | and enjoying books instead of going outside to do hard | |
| 35:32 | labor . He taught himself most things while he would | |
| 35:36 | occasionally have teachers . It was never for very long | |
| 35:39 | . He loved reading and learning and wasn't afraid to | |
| 35:43 | teach himself . Yeah . Mhm . Later when Abraham | |
| 35:49 | Lincoln was 22 years old , he struck out on | |
| 35:51 | his own moving to new Salem in Illinois . Mm | |
| 35:57 | It was from there that he once took goods by | |
| 36:00 | boat to New Orleans where he saw slavery firsthand , | |
| 36:04 | he remembered what his parents taught him about slavery . | |
| 36:08 | No one could have guessed that he would be the | |
| 36:10 | person to abolish it . When he returned , he | |
| 36:17 | got busy at the age of 23 . He bought | |
| 36:20 | and ran a general store for a while . Then | |
| 36:22 | shortly after served as a captain during the Black Hawk | |
| 36:26 | War and ran for political office for the very first | |
| 36:30 | time , losing an election after losing the election , | |
| 36:34 | he became a lawyer , studying law all on his | |
| 36:37 | own . Remember , he loved learning and reading , | |
| 36:43 | Even though he lost his first election , he didn't | |
| 36:46 | want to give up . He ran again for office | |
| 36:49 | , but this time he won and served four terms | |
| 36:52 | in the Illinois House of Representatives . He was only | |
| 36:55 | 25 years old . It was during this time serving | |
| 37:02 | in the Illinois House of Representatives that he met Mary | |
| 37:05 | Todd and they married in 1842 . When Abraham Lincoln | |
| 37:10 | was 33 years old , they went on to have | |
| 37:12 | four Children together . They moved to Springfield Illinois where | |
| 37:19 | they bought this home . It would be their home | |
| 37:22 | for 17 years . It was the only house that | |
| 37:25 | Abraham Lincoln ever owned . And here's the cool thing | |
| 37:29 | . The cool thing is that you can visit Abraham | |
| 37:32 | Lincoln's house in Springfield Illinois . Today you can visit | |
| 37:36 | his original house . Wow that hair though , who | |
| 37:44 | ? Somebody gave him a comb after serving in the | |
| 37:49 | Illinois House of Representatives . He wanted to serve not | |
| 37:52 | just Illinois , but the entire United States . So | |
| 37:56 | he ran for the United States House of Representatives but | |
| 37:59 | lost . But he was later able to serve a | |
| 38:03 | two year term . He wasn't done . He ran | |
| 38:09 | for the U . S . Senate against Stephen Douglas | |
| 38:12 | . His debates with Stephen Douglas are considered the best | |
| 38:16 | political debates in american history . While Abraham Lincoln did | |
| 38:20 | not win the election . The campaign against Douglas made | |
| 38:24 | Abraham Lincoln famous and set the stage for his campaign | |
| 38:28 | for the presidency of the United States notice , Abraham | |
| 38:36 | Lincoln didn't quit even after losing so many elections . | |
| 38:39 | He is a great example of not giving up . | |
| 38:46 | Abraham Lincoln finally ran for president and he won in | |
| 38:50 | 1861 , he became the 16th president of the United | |
| 38:55 | States . Yeah , look , he has the beard | |
| 39:02 | . When Abraham Lincoln became president , the United States | |
| 39:06 | was divided over many issues , especially slavery . This | |
| 39:12 | is sad . Once Abraham Lincoln was elected , the | |
| 39:15 | south began the process of splitting away from the United | |
| 39:18 | States , which started what became known as the Civil | |
| 39:22 | war . Yeah , the south set up their own | |
| 39:28 | country named the confederate states of America . While there | |
| 39:32 | were many disagreements they had with Abraham Lincoln , they | |
| 39:36 | knew that Abraham Lincoln was against slavery . Abraham Lincoln | |
| 39:40 | had always been against slavery . He knew it was | |
| 39:43 | wrong . This was a major reason in the South | |
| 39:46 | for leaving the United States . Abraham Lincoln led the | |
| 39:53 | union through these difficult days . The civil war began | |
| 39:57 | in 1861 and went on for four years . Two | |
| 40:04 | years into the war , Abraham Lincoln signed something called | |
| 40:08 | the emancipation proclamation , which was an executive order that | |
| 40:12 | declared all of the slaves free . The powerful words | |
| 40:17 | said that all slaves were to be free forever . | |
| 40:22 | Here's the thing . Abraham Lincoln never forgot the lessons | |
| 40:26 | he learned as a young man . All people are | |
| 40:29 | valuable and should be treated with equality and respect . | |
| 40:33 | The boy born in Kentucky who lived in indiana and | |
| 40:37 | then moved to Illinois , just changed american history by | |
| 40:41 | abolishing slavery . That same year at Gettysburg , a | |
| 40:49 | place where an important battle in the civil war took | |
| 40:52 | place . Abraham Lincoln made one of the most famous | |
| 40:55 | speeches in american history , later called the Gettysburg address | |
| 41:00 | . This picture was taken during the Gettysburg address . | |
| 41:03 | Right here is Abraham Lincoln . He opened the speech | |
| 41:07 | with these words four score and seven years ago our | |
| 41:11 | fathers brought forth on this continent , A new nation | |
| 41:15 | conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all | |
| 41:20 | men are created equal . Two years later the union | |
| 41:26 | won the civil war . But the joy was short | |
| 41:29 | lived . A man named john Wilkes booth , angry | |
| 41:37 | that the confederate states of America lost the war . | |
| 41:40 | Plans to kill Abraham Lincoln . Just days after the | |
| 41:45 | civil war ended , john Wilkes booth shot Abraham Lincoln | |
| 41:49 | in ford's theatre . He died shortly after leaving this | |
| 41:53 | country . Brokenhearted . Yeah . Abraham Lincoln changed american | |
| 42:00 | history and his legacy lives on today . There is | |
| 42:04 | a massive memorial that honors his memory called the Lincoln | |
| 42:08 | memorial in Washington , D . C . Yeah , | |
| 42:13 | his face is featured on Mount Rushmore with other legendary | |
| 42:19 | presidents And of course his face is on the $5 | |
| 42:24 | bill and on the penny . He is all over | |
| 42:27 | the place and for good reason . Yeah . Abraham | |
| 42:33 | Lincoln held America together during the most challenging days in | |
| 42:37 | american history when our country was literally at war with | |
| 42:41 | each other . He abolished slavery , freeing millions of | |
| 42:44 | people and was killed for standing up for what he | |
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