The Election of 1864 Explained

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  • Think a little thing like a Civil War is going to get in the way of a Presidential election? Think again! Watch Lincoln take on his General, George McClellan. Check out more elections! • Presidential Elections...

Komentáře • 69

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 Před 3 lety +19

    Picking Andrew Johnson was Lincoln's big OOF moment

    • @theparadigm8149
      @theparadigm8149 Před 4 měsíci

      It made sense at the time and was a very pragmatic decision because Lincoln still cared about preserving the Union at all costs, though he did want slavery to be abolished. I mean, Lincoln didn’t know he would be assassinated! 😨 He wanted his vision for Reconstruction to be implemented, and for the most part, Johnson pushed for Lincoln’s vision for a little bit but then became too lenient on the south

  • @thebestworst8002
    @thebestworst8002 Před 4 lety +45

    But McClellan didn’t loose. He merely failed to win

    • @johnbro67
      @johnbro67 Před 2 lety

      You watch oversimplified too

    • @thebestworst8002
      @thebestworst8002 Před 2 lety +1

      @@johnbro67 the pig war video he made last night was so funny

    • @IsaaacWithThreeA
      @IsaaacWithThreeA Před rokem

      I will always remember that quote for when I hear about the 1864 election.

  • @APOCALYPSE_X-MEN
    @APOCALYPSE_X-MEN Před 7 lety +20

    Abraham Lincoln became the first presidential candidate to exceed two million votes in 1864. He got 2.2 million votes to McClellan's 1.8 million.

  • @manner8285
    @manner8285 Před 8 lety

    great everytime all of your videos are .thank you

  • @justthecoolestdudeyo9446
    @justthecoolestdudeyo9446 Před 7 lety +16

    I think people forget that Presidents we now consider great weren't particularly popular at the time (FDR and Lincoln had plenty of detractors!), probably because they did the unpopular, painful but necessary things to improve a dire situation

    • @anneson4724
      @anneson4724 Před 4 lety +5

      @JoeyD FDR is the only US president to be elected more than two terms. Also no one cares about the opinions of a bias conservative.

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami Před 3 lety +1

      FDR was elected 4x and with great majorities.
      I AM Abraham Lincoln reincarnated. The Republican Party was started in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories which was a liberal stance. Lincoln was the first openly anti-slavery president which is why the evil conservative Southerners seceded, that and they owed NYC banks $1 billion and NYC markets took 40% of the profits from cotton, tobacco, rice, etc. In 1866, all the newly freed blacks were Republican. Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt but especially with John F. Kennedy in 1960 & LBJ in 1964, blacks switched in mass to Democrats. Today, 95% of blacks are liberal Democrats.

      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Einstein reincarnated could produce this. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

    • @whiteshadow9095
      @whiteshadow9095 Před 2 lety

      @@anneson4724 I’m sorry, but no shit he kept getting elected. He kept handing out money to people for free, and extended the Great Depression. He practically paid for his votes legally, when people were extremely desperate. There’s a reason presidents can’t serve more than two terms now because of him.

    • @psilocybemusashi
      @psilocybemusashi Před rokem

      @@BradWatsonMiami why do you call them evil? the war happened for many reasons but it was not because southerners were evil.

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami Před rokem +1

      @@psilocybemusashi If slavery wasn't evil, nothing is evil. The Southerners wanted to expand slavery into the West. The Knights of the Golden Circle wanted to expand slavery into Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
      In 1776, Southern Plantation owners owed million$ to London banks and London markets took 40% from cotton, tobacco, rice sales. A successful rebellion would eliminate the debt and move the markets to the new country.
      In 1860, the grandsons of the 1776 Rebels owed $1 billion to NYC banks and NYC markets took 40% of the sale of cotton, tobacco, rice. A successful rebellion would eliminate the debt and move the markets to Charleston.
      Greed. The Civil War was all about the greed and evil of Southern slave owners.
      'To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish." - Benjamin Franklin (reincarnated as Abraham Lincoln)
      You can either repent or be Judged for siding with evil. Are you a supporter of Donald Trump 666?
      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

  • @DwRockett
    @DwRockett Před 8 lety

    Great video

  • @AlekWheeler
    @AlekWheeler Před 5 lety +1

    Your usage of the Sex pistols Cmon Everybody is so random and dank I finally hit that subscribe button. Much respect for your vids and music choices mate. Cheers from a Canuck

  • @CidMengel
    @CidMengel Před 8 lety

    Hi Mr. Hughes, could you please make a specific video about what historically goes on at contested democratic conventions as opposed to un-contested ones at the end of the primary process? I think the relevance is obvious, and of course the more facts we know beforehand, the better!

  • @MTLE7692
    @MTLE7692 Před rokem +1

    Where's Andrew Johnson?

  • @GTA5Player1
    @GTA5Player1 Před 2 měsíci

    Imagine holding an election in the middle of a civil war...

  • @chrispreston256
    @chrispreston256 Před 2 lety +1

    It would be nice to see someone that comes out with the real truth instead of what we've been told.

  • @tigercap100
    @tigercap100 Před 7 lety +2

    "literally bang out"?!

  • @19sept76
    @19sept76 Před 2 lety

    Your top has an upside down Union Jack

  • @Eazy-ERyder
    @Eazy-ERyder Před 3 lety +1

    People do seem to forget how UNpopular Lincoln had become by the Summer of 1864, arguably the North's darkest and most fateful hour. Sherman's capture of Atlanta was the real cornerstone which sealed the deal for Lincoln. And Then Sheridan's successful shenandoah campaign in October of that same year was the cherry on top of the ICING.

    • @kristaskrastina2863
      @kristaskrastina2863 Před rokem

      Yes, he was unpopular. But McClellan's image was so trashed (we still think of him as a laughing stock!) and the Democratic program was so bad I think Lincoln would win even before Atlanta and the Shenandoah Campaign.

    • @user-st4gq2ox8m
      @user-st4gq2ox8m Před 10 měsíci

      Jeff Davis lost Atlanta when he sacked Gen.Joe Johnson and replaced him with Gen. J.B. Hood.

  • @brucetelfeyan
    @brucetelfeyan Před rokem

    It is actually the National Union Party, not Unity.

  • @atheistmcclellan2692
    @atheistmcclellan2692 Před 8 lety

    Ora, once in regimentals, my mind it did bewilder.
    I bid good-bye to Biddy dear, and all the darling childher;
    Whoo! says I, the Irish Volunteer, the divil a one afraid is,
    Because we've got the soldier bold, McClellan, for to lead us.

  • @historyprofessor1985
    @historyprofessor1985 Před 9 měsíci

    In two important states, Pennsylvania and New York, had a few thousand more people voted Democratic, other way, McClellan would have carried both. Thank goodness they voted Republican!

  • @muddy_redneck4483
    @muddy_redneck4483 Před 5 lety +1

    Lincoln was a decent confederate general

  • @mr.hissingcockroach5054
    @mr.hissingcockroach5054 Před 8 lety +1

    I'm the only Republican supporting McClellan.

  • @blacktallsmart1914
    @blacktallsmart1914 Před 6 lety

    Assassinated, not executed

  • @295Phoenix
    @295Phoenix Před 6 lety +1

    If the war was as unpopular as people say then why were the War Democrats able to win the Democratic Party's nomination? Just because the papers and NYC doesn't like Lincoln and the war doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the North shares the same opinion, IMO. The papers didn't like Truman or Trump either, yet they won.

    • @psilocybemusashi
      @psilocybemusashi Před rokem

      maybe lincoln was effective at locking up his critics or threatening to lock them up and got him just enough good press. taking atlanta signaled that there was an end in sight to the war and that end was victory. tends to help out a president who is running a very unpopular war.

    • @xenophonanthony2791
      @xenophonanthony2791 Před rokem

      McClellan was a War Democrat, but he was popular due to his military service. McClellans’ VP; Pendleton was a Peace Democrat. The Civil War was NOT a popular war, and it resulted in dividing the Democratic Party.

  • @adampitner898
    @adampitner898 Před 8 lety

    Wait... Where's the election of 1860?????? Or is it this one?

    • @hiphughes
      @hiphughes  Před 8 lety +2

      +Adam Pitner in the playlist. I already did it!

  • @melissaazbell2632
    @melissaazbell2632 Před měsícem

    😪

  • @jorgecameras1
    @jorgecameras1 Před 4 lety

    Anime dibujar y dibujo Comic: Summer camp island: 1860 vote Abraham Lincoln,

  • @bray9112
    @bray9112 Před 3 lety

    Lmao theres such thing as a 10,000 dollar bill?

  • @scottaznavourian5791
    @scottaznavourian5791 Před 5 lety

    Stanton was a very humorless man

    • @scottaznavourian540
      @scottaznavourian540 Před 3 lety

      Well I heard him and left linoln jumped for joy when grant sent the telegraph about lee's surrender....but he got angry once he heard the terns

  • @K.C.-Games
    @K.C.-Games Před 6 lety

    K

  • @taylorbeckett9686
    @taylorbeckett9686 Před 8 lety +2

    McLellan would've let the south go

  • @captainamerica6525
    @captainamerica6525 Před 5 lety

    Copperheads...a snake...a democrat.

    • @themaestro3034
      @themaestro3034 Před 2 měsíci

      Weird how now its Republicans openly discussing secession, right Trump fluffer?