9. US History - First President is Elected (1789) — Transcript

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1. 0:01they have a new country they have a new
2. 0:04constitution in that Constitution it
3. 0:07states that there should also be a new
4. 0:09president meaning that they need to
5. 0:11elect the first president of the United
6. 0:13States which is what they did in 1789
7. 0:16new country new president the obvious
8. 0:19choice for that presidency is uh George
9. 0:23Washington you can see him here adorning
10. 0:26the $1 bill um why is Washington an
11. 0:30obvious choice while he was the General
12. 0:32that led the US troops during the
13. 0:34Revolutionary War um they obviously won
14. 0:38this Revolutionary War so everybody not
15. 0:40only knew George Washington they also
16. 0:42very much loved George
17. 0:44Washington um George Washington was a
18. 0:47really good president I'll give you four
19. 0:50examples of things that he did really
20. 0:52well uh the first example would be that
21. 0:55he managed to unite the country at this
22. 0:58point okay sure it's become officially
23. 1:01the United States of America but there
24. 1:04isn't that much unity in these United
25. 1:06States um they sorry the country
26. 1:10consists of uh 13 states all of those
27. 1:13States up until that moment have been
28. 1:16pretty much self-governed they have
29. 1:17their own rules uh they have their own
30. 1:19leaders so not all of the states are
31. 1:22super excited to relinquish control or
32. 1:25power to the federal government um there
33. 1:28was very little consensus about what the
34. 1:30new country should be and what direction
35. 1:32they should be headed in um George
36. 1:34Washington being very popular and really
37. 1:36well known among all the states managed
38. 1:39to um unite the country unite all of its
39. 1:42separate um clumps of leaders and making
40. 1:46sure that their noses now point in the
41. 1:48same direction so that's the first thing
42. 1:50he did quite well he United the
43. 1:53country uh the second thing he did was
44. 1:55establish a capital city um he hired the
45. 1:58French architect
46. 2:01so you can see that name here um to
47. 2:04design a whole layout for this new town
48. 2:07uh this is in fact a completely new town
49. 2:09because it used to just be swamp land
50. 2:11swamp being muras um so this also um
51. 2:17explains why Donald Trump especially in
52. 2:19the 2016 campaign kept saying that he
53. 2:22would drain the
54. 2:23swamp um that basically meant that um he
55. 2:29was going to get rid of all of the
56. 2:31politicians that had been screwing up so
57. 2:33far until then so you'll hear him say
58. 2:35this every once in a while I will drain
59. 2:37the swamp um and the swamp that he's
60. 2:40talking about is the swamp that
61. 2:42Washington DC was built on um so you can
62. 2:47see in these pictures here um the layout
63. 2:50of the town uh that this uh Mr longone
64. 2:54built so well so here you can sort of
65. 2:57see the White House this is the
66. 3:00Washington Memorial that was built after
67. 3:02Washington died uh here in the distance
68. 3:06that would be the Lincoln Memorial and
69. 3:08then to the side of this um strip of
70. 3:11land that they call the National Mall um
71. 3:15you can find other important buildings
72. 3:17like the Supreme Court and so on um so
73. 3:21as I just mentioned there's a Washington
74. 3:24Memorial
75. 3:26sorry this is what that looks like it is
76. 3:28a 69 M High Obelisk uh that's about a
77. 3:32mile from the White House and it is to
78. 3:34memorize um George Washington and what
79. 3:37he did for the country um I should also
80. 3:39mention at this point we've talked about
81. 3:41this before that Washington DC is not
82. 3:44the same as Washington State um this the
83. 3:48pink U marker here wow would be
84. 3:51Washington State and the blue marker
85. 3:53here is where Washington DC is DC stands
86. 3:56for district of Colombia Colombia being
87. 3:59yet another reference to the great not
88. 4:02so much um Christopher Columbus the d
89. 4:06stands for district and that's exactly
90. 4:08what Washington DC is it's not a state
91. 4:11it's also not a city it's judicially at
92. 4:13least it's a district meaning that it's
93. 4:16kind of a state on its own without being
94. 4:19an actual state so what does that mean
95. 4:21for example when there's an election
96. 4:23Washington DC votes separately uh so
97. 4:26judicially it's a district
98. 4:28geographically uh it is on the border
99. 4:30between Maine and Maryland which at that
100. 4:34point in history was more or less the
101. 4:36middle um of the country so that's the
102. 4:39second thing he did he established a
103. 4:42capital a third thing that he did that
104. 4:44made a lot of impact or positive impact
105. 4:47uh is he implemented a tax system and
106. 4:49established a national bank so that got
107. 4:52the economy going um and then fourthly
108. 4:56he was the first one well he's always
109. 4:57the first one but he uh was the first
110. 4:59one to decline to do a third four-year
111. 5:02term so according to the Constitution
112. 5:04one uh term of presidency is four years
113. 5:07that's still the case um but in the
114. 5:10Constitution there's no limit to how
115. 5:11many terms a president can do Washington
116. 5:14decided after two terms that he was uh
117. 5:16pretty much done with the presidency he
118. 5:18didn't want it in the first place so
119. 5:20after two terms he was kind of Fed Up um
120. 5:24and after he did that it became sort of
121. 5:26an Unwritten rule that was upheld by all
122. 5:28the next presidents
123. 5:30there's only been one exception in US
124. 5:32history and that's FDR uh the full
125. 5:35version of that would be Franklin theano
126. 5:37Roosevelt um he was President for not
127. 5:39eight but 12 years um he had four terms
128. 5:43in office between the years of 1933 and
129. 5:471945 um why did he get to do four terms
130. 5:50instead of the usual two well because he
131. 5:53did a pretty decent job getting the
132. 5:55country back on track during and after
133. 5:57the Great Depression in the 1930s he
134. 6:00then subsequently did another great job
135. 6:02navigating the country country through
136. 6:05World War II uh he died less than a
137. 6:08month before the war ended so he was the
138. 6:10wartime president for the entirety of
139. 6:11World War II and then and this like this
140. 6:14is It's like a history dick move almost
141. 6:18um I think not even a month maybe 20
142. 6:21days or so before the war finally ended
143. 6:24he died at age 63 um after his death um
144. 6:28Republicans came to power uh FDR was a
145. 6:31Democrat and they were obviously sick of
146. 6:33Democrats having held on to power for so
147. 6:36long so in
148. 6:381947 they uh added an amendment to the
149. 6:41Constitution that made this two term
150. 6:43limit
151. 6:45official um so now no other president um
152. 6:48can do more than two terms on the other
153. 6:52hand Donald Trump um keeps saying in
154. 6:55four years we'll have fixed and this is
155. 6:57a little quote we'll have it fixed so
156. 6:59good you won't have to vote so on his
157. 7:01rallies I think he said it again last
158. 7:03week he keep saying it um during his
159. 7:05rallies he keeps telling people that
160. 7:07they should that they should go out and
161. 7:08vote and they should do that just one
162. 7:10more time and then afterwards um they
163. 7:12won't have to we don't really know what
164. 7:15he means by that um but if you want to
165. 7:18interpret it in the sense that he could
166. 7:20be a danger to democracy that means that
167. 7:22he'll get rid of his rule or he thinks
168. 7:24he can get rid of this rule um that
169. 7:26limits presidents to two TRS but um time
170. 7:29will tell I guess um a weird fact about
171. 7:33George Washington has to do with this
172. 7:35disgusting set of wooden Dentures uh
173. 7:38Washington was known for having a really
174. 7:41really um for having really bad teeth so
175. 7:45he had them pulled completely um I think
176. 7:48when he was still like a teenager in his
177. 7:49early 20s um and then he had them
178. 7:52replaced because obviously otherwise you
179. 7:53can't eat or talk um by Dentures he went
180. 7:58through multiple vers I think he had
181. 8:00steel ones Ivory ones and then famously
182. 8:03also wooden ones um they worked in the
183. 8:06sense that he could make himself
184. 8:09understood and um that he could too but
185. 8:13they didn't really fit all that well
186. 8:14they're not like modern dentures that
187. 8:16way so he was known to have been in
188. 8:19severe Facial Pain for most of his life
189. 8:22um even though he was always in pain he
190. 8:25like I said did a really really good job
191. 8:27um and still to this day Washington
192. 8:30consistently ranks at the top of the
193. 8:31most popular presidents in US history um
194. 8:34for example in uh this poll I don't
195. 8:37remember where I got it was the first
196. 8:38one I could find um he's ranked first uh
197. 8:41then usually it's Abraham Lincoln um
198. 8:44whichever poll you open from whichever
199. 8:47uh
200. 8:48political um preference people vote from
201. 8:52if Americans vote in any poll Washington
202. 8:55consistently ranks at least somewhere in
203. 8:57the top five so he's still to this day a
204. 9:00pretty popular president for all of his
205. 9:02achievements