James Buchanan: The Civil War Approaches (1857 - 1861)
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- Several presidents contributed to the chain of events that led to the Civil War, but none more than James Buchanan. South Carolina seceded from the United States towards the end of his term, and the Civil War began immediately after he left office. There are some fun facts in here as well, so check it out!
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As a historian you can't make that claim as truth at 0.57. There's speculation, it might even seem to be so, but the guy didn't declared it himself and that's what counts.
Forsooth. Doesn't matter at all obviously. But not proven.
0:59 - well, that's a bold claim. We don't really know if he actually was, we'll never know. It was 150 years ago.
1:55 - Oh *heck* nm
Holy fucking shit...wooing man
@@rcalphonse2701 that's why I said nm at 1:55. Maybe they were just REALLY REALLY good friends tho? Maybe by wooing he just meant a nice hang out.
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@@Jayviolikesspyro oh my bad I re-wrote the comment
Omg they were roommates
1:38 "it was unclear who was to be on the top of the ticket", Probably whoever was on top in bed.
James Buchanan was more concerned about the cannon in his Secratary of State's pants then the cannons aimed at Fort Sumter.
^Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy''
....nineteenth century humour affecting me
First good video I could find on the guy, thank you
"Unclear who was to be on the top of the ticket, eh?" I see what you did there...
What was President Buchanan's stand with Mexico?..In our Mexican history books shows that Buchanan's goverment was looking to adquire all Baja California land but this treaty was denied by northern senators cus it would be more slavery farming land added to the union.
When in danger or in doubt,run in circles scream and shout!
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I didn't realize that he was gay. Never heard that before. That final message to Congress that you pointed out makes me respect him even less than I did before. Basically blaming the North for the bad behavior of the South.
He wasn’t gay ... modern propaganda
@@cooldudecs 1:50, how do you refute this letter
@@cooldudecs I mean it wouldn’t just be modern propaganda because people said it about him when he was alive! You obviously arnt that much of a ‘thinking man’ hahah
@@kayzeaza Not so much propaganda, more so a modern thought of what those words are to be interpreted. That being said it is quite suspicious of him being the ONLY bachelor president and the letter at 1:55 can make a convincing argument that he may as well been the first homosexual president in American History! If more evidence comes out, I'll hop on that train! Coming from a student of history and a strong Libertarian.
@@noonespecial9704 no it is propaganda!
Lol "Rabble, rabble" xD
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From what looked up, despite Trump's lack of reaction to the COVID crisis and everything else he was accused of, Buchanan once regain his slot as the worse as I had always known. Like I said many times before, it takes more than dividing the nation and almost causing civil war to be the worse, you actually have to succeed in actually causing succession of states destroying the US as it is and possibly causing another civil war to dethrone Buchanan permantently as the worse.
There wasn’t “almost a civil war” under Donald Trump. Let’s not be so theatrical , please?
Also, Trump's time in the White House may not be over yet. I don't think he'll pull a Grover Cleveland and get a second term, but it's not impossible. You can't judge whether Trump has had a worse long-term effect than Buchanan when we might not even be done with him yet.
I do expect him to hang out in the bottom five of historical POTUS rankings for a long time, though.
@@Talisguy Yeah, as much as I don't approve the guy, Trump did boost the economy until COVID hit. And the status of the economy often affects a president's rankings. We had many presidents that were in office during the best and worse economic times to who had a roll in it to say otherwise: Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, Coolidge, Hoover, and even FDR (as his rank was partly because of his work during the Great Depression) just to name some.
@@ashleighstratmann7783 Most economists don't think he *did* boost the economy as much as he coasted on an already existing upward trend - there's a fair amount of evidence that his impact on the economy was at best neutral and at worst detrimental. It's a lie he told, not something backed up by reality.
@@Talisguy I would argue that it was at best a boot and at worst a neutral affect. Unemployment before Covid was at an all time low, thanks to his many actions on top of the hard work of the Obama Administration. I would say that Trump is more a likeness to Herbert Hoover, a president who's good during times of stability, but terrible in times of tragedy. And that's also to bring up the Biden's administration's handling of the Covid Crisis, vaccines already being distributed by the time of the 2020 election as well as a slight increase in the economy. Then the Biden Administration took the troops out of Afghanistan, good idea but terrible execution, and fumbled what should have been a simple economic recovery. Biden is someone of inaction, but Trump is really not that much better :/
"Last Democrat to be elected after a previous Democratic Administration"? What about Truman and LBJ?
They both initially ascended upon the death of the president.
Professor Dave Explains that’s correct, one had died while in office and the other had been assassinated.
The first to be assasinated is Abraham Lincoln he was the 16th us president
for Truman and lbj they become president because the president before them had died then ran for president once that term was over
I don't see how james is to blame though. The war was imminent no matter what he would have done.
He should have done something.
true
THANK YOU! Finally someone says the war was imminent no matter what.
@EmMC: Like what:?
Nah he was a Northerner who loved the South. Wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time. These pre civil war presidents were so lazy
1:00 Not actually confirmed. It’s merely suspected, but there isn’t any concrete proof going either way
Yea that’s what he said
Dude reminds me of Mike from all in the family ☺️
FDR: Democrat. Truman: Democrat. Kennedy and Johnson, too.
Yea that comment by him is pretty odd.
Not elected though, but because of death
U forgot Eisenhower
@@KingZorLink21 Eisenhower was a republican
@@logan9758 I said that because he skipped Eisenhower
Buchanan County Virginia was named after this guy and lives upto the reputation of being an utter failure.
I thought it was bookanan.
You completely forgot about one of his worst actions known as the Utah War. AKA the reason the military was a massive wreck.
The Utah War, a Mormon fantasy as no shots were fired and no one killed. Except at Mountain Meadows where the Mormons murdered 120+ unarmed, mostly women and children.
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845 am!
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Modern people: Trump's the worst president!
Lincoln: Hold my Civil War
@@ems4884 Top 10 worst, but not Top 5 worst.
All southerners at the time: we're a bunch of dirty traitors who deserve to be killed.
@@redjirachi1
Worse than Johnson, Buchanan, _and_ grant? I honestly didn't even think Trump was bottom five excluding his P.R and diplomacy, but how is Lincoln even bottom ten?
Chad appeasement method. Pander to everyone. Appease no one.
i’m related to him
Me too.
Buchanan had to deal with the first world monetary crisis, war in several states including Utah and Kansas, the Dred Scott decision and a congress as polarized as the one we have today. Then as a lame duck he had to contend with the trouble in the Carolinas leading to secession. Nancy or not I doubt any politician of that period could have done any better. Lincoln certainly didn't.
Atticus
Lincoln did _not_ have the same set of problems and challenges Buchanan did, and even though Lincoln handled things problematically, he still did well in several respects.
If President Donald Trump were to lose re-election, would he be lower than Buchanan or above both him and Andrew Johnson?
@doomscyte at least he done a couple of positives
1. Extended the 9/11 victim’s compensation
2. Making Animal Abuse a federal crime.
Although you do have a point.
@@MegaMr46 and peace in the mid east, and tough on china, got us out of the middle east
@@kingericson490 And:
- lowering unemployment
- making the most progress with North Korea
- lowering our fuel prices by scolding OPEC
Well now that Biden is president, historians are only ranking him slightly above both of them. Imo I think he’s just as bad if not WORSE in some aspects than both combined (remember Johnson got impeached once, not twice!) But the fact historians are putting Trump in the bottom 5 of all US presidents for the most part is saying a lot.
Probably the best president of all time.
He’s the worst ever to serve because he’s so stubborn and arrogant of himself to stop secession and keep the likes of this nation together. He’s also called a Do Nothing Doughface because of his support to the south
Invoking President Polk as a character witness against President Buchanan was probably not the best of ideas, least of all if the intention is to contrast Polk's judgment with Buchanan's. After all, Polk was the guy who led America into the Mexican-American War. A war which expanded the territorial possessions of the US, but in so doing also set up the conditions which, amongst other things, was to produce the series of events which led to the secession crisis of 1860 & '61. The very crisis which Buchanan had to do battle with and which was to cause the American Civil War.
So how was Polk's judgment any better than Buchanan's?
Well he used a quote from Polk since we’ve already had the Polk video and people would be familiar to us. Plus the Mexican-American War was an important step in expanding America from sea to shinning sea…and the nation was already on the road to civil war, with or without the Mexican-American War!!!
@@kayzeaza "Plus the Mexican-American War was an important step in expanding America from sea to shinning sea"
America ALREADY spanned from "from sea to shinning sea". That was accomplished by the Louisiana Purchase & other acquisitions up north. The Mexican-American War only added the more southerly states.
DogLookingBackAtYou: "the nation was already on the road to civil war, with or without the Mexican-American War!!!"
What is your basis for that statement? Without the territories acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War the conditions which produced the implosion of the Whigs & the rise of the Republican Party might never have happened, at least at that point, which in turn would unlikely have seen Lincoln become president, which in its own turn means that there is unlikely to have been a secession crisis in 1860 & '61. Without that crisis there is unlikely to have been a Civil War, at least at that point.
@@Stephen-gi1rx how about bleeding Kansas, The fact of slavery just being around at all, further industrializing of the north while the southern economy lagged behind, massive immigration in the north, John Browns Harper Ferry attack, etc.
Plus Americans always envisioned owning California and Texas, who cares that we already owned Oregon Territory, America needed a larger chunk of the pacific coast.
@@Stephen-gi1rx also the Mexican-American war realistically didn’t add any southern states since California joined as a free state and New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada wouldn’t of joined as slave states because slavery was useless in those states since crash crops like cotton and tobacco couldn’t be harvested there!
@@kayzeaza "how about bleeding Kansas"
The Kansas-Nebraska Act & all that followed from that arose out of the Compromise of 1850 which in turn was prompted by the territories acquired deom Mexico by Mexican-Americna War. Had those territories never been acquired there may never have been a bleeding Kansas
Slavery would still have been a large problem, but it was the territories issue not slavery per se which caused the Kansas problem. Southern Democrats got greedy & blew up the 1850 deal, which mostly concerned slavery in the newly acquired territories. Without those new territories there would have been no deal to blow up. Whether something else might have provided the spark is unknown and unknowable. In all likelihood the Union would have just muddled along. Brazil, for instance, kept slavery around until 1888.
The most likely spark would have been an attempt to amend the Constitution to abolish slavery.. Back in 1837 the number of slave states ˙and free states was the same: 13 apiece. By 1861, however, there were 19 free states and only 15 states. If the proportion of free states kept growing then eventually the free states would have had the numbers to ratify such a constitutional amendment.
At that point a secession crisis MAY have erupted.
Andrew Jackson being homophobic is the most on brand thing in history
He’s my great grandfather
Your great grandfather was a dick
@Anime geek How do you know he's lying? He could be his great-grandkid.
@Monkey D. Luffy he wasn’t my great grand father he was like my great great great great great grandfather it was my grandmas grandmas grandpas uncles dad
Is Lincoln gei too for sharing a bed with Speed? Thanks for front-loading with the BS so I know to go elsewhere.
There's no "BS" here, sweetie. Sorry.
Last democrate elected after another? What about Harry Truman and LBJ, both were elected to their own term after taking over from their successor.
Truman and LBJ were both elected sure but they only became president because FDR and JFK died. He is saying Buchanan is the last Democrat to be elected after another democrat, Pierce was president and then he didn’t run again so Buchanan ran and one.
@@kayzeaza What kind of mental gymnastics is that? 1944 a Democrat was elected President and the next election a different democrat was elected. Same in 1960 & 1964. It doesn't make a difference what happened in between those elections.
@@ch44227 I think the point Prof was making was that Buchanan was the last Democratic president-ELECT to follow the administration of another Democratic president. Truman and LBJ were elected for FULL four-year terms _after_ ascending and completing their respective predecessors' terms first; ergo, they were never presidents-elect, because they were already presidents when they won their full terms.
*You know wut? I know a guy in REAL life NAMED James Buchanan. I AM NOT KIDDING!! IT IS HIS FIRST AND LAST NAME!!*
Me too
My great-great (great?) grand uncle....not someone to be proud of.
Lots of non-facts and "facts" twisted by poor context.
This video is 100% factual information.
I agree with you John.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains You have said that slavery had been outlawed in the North since 1803. Slavery had been legal in New York all the way up to 1827, having been delayed after passing gradual emancipation in 1899. Slavery was also legal in New Jersey in varied forms all the way up to 1865
@@nathanphillips4027doesn’t mean it wasn’t still generally outlawed in the north, it’s not like the federal government was gonna stop those two states from having slaves
@@princessofarchetypes3870 Of course, and yet you can't list a single thing and don't even try. Well done, sweetie.
I love Buchanan.He was simply following the Constitution as he understood it.How many politicians today have actually read the document?Remember there was popular sentiment in the north to simply let the south go.No sane person wants war.Buchanan never condemned a young man to death.His successor condemned 600,000 to their deaths.I cannot understand why Buchanan is seen as a bad president just because he did not believe he had the power to force the south to stay in the Union.
Out Bull,.. 😒👉
History did vindicate his memory the day Trump took office.
Not even close. Buchanan led our country to a Civil War. Trump did not, sir
R. D.
Wdym.
Oh, I think you meant to write Biden.
Oh look. Another salty leftie with TDS 😂
🤡🤡
Abraham Lincoln was LGBT too
Lol sad to think I’m related to this guy
3:54 I disagree about it being one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in American History. It seems like a wise ,fair and reasonable ruling at that time. I live in Pierce County named after former President Franklin Pierce and I am proud of that.
So you’re a racist?
Not it is not. It did more to hurt African Americans and took away their rights. This should have been one of the reasons why Buchanan should have been impeached and convicted
He was not gay
The facts state otherwise.
@@DarkVeghetta Please refer to the diary entry I read in this video you didn't watch. He was gay.
@@DarkVeghetta No you didn't, or you would have acknowledged the main piece of evidence that demonstrates he was gay. Only gay men try to woo other men. Also, I didn't throw around the word "fact". I don't know why people like you are so resistant to updating your view of historical figures. It's really weird.
Just because your single and not married doesn't mean you are gay that's stereotyping
Supreme court never ruled on Dredd Scott, threw it out>
That's not true. The Supreme Court did ruled on Dredd Scott. What are you talking about?
Joe Biden
Biden won't remember you
@@HellFire107 he remembers everyone
@@xxnnnxblxxdxxxxnnnxblxxdxx4484 Biden woke up in bed about two weeks ago, turned to the First Lady and asked, "Where am I?"
Donald Trump*
Donald Trump one of the greatest American Presidents.
James would been won eslection imaginé Trump losing at that time period now 2020 joe biden won save choice 😆
Was Washington gay though?
Buchanan can now rest easy. Trump wins the contest for worst President by a mile.
Nope. Biden easily
@@strategery101 they’re both shit. Anyone who votes is retarded
ANd you win the contest for the stupidest comment
@@strategery101
No, Grant's and Johnson's administrations were still less un-damaging.
Probably true. It’s a toss up between the two.