30 Facts You “Weren’t Taught In School” To Help You Get A Complete Picture Of The Past

And it's gonna get worse the next 4 years.

After TX was made a US territory and granted statehood; one of its first major acts was to secede. It was the next to last state to rejoin (GA was last as it was booted out for kicking out Black legislators) and the last state to free slaves

I lived in Texas from 11y/o to 17y/o. I disliked most everything about it. So much so, that at I joined the United States Army to get out of there. After my ASVAB, I was offered any enlisted MOS in Nuclear, Chemical, or Medical, all of which had a 6 month wait. I chose Infantry, which only had a 6 week wait. Just so I could get the hell out there faster. And, I never looked or went back.

To be fair the guys defending it were not neccessarily the bad guys themselves (exceptions are of course possible) but still were on the "bad" side; an important distinction relevant in many military conflicts. Some of their families had lived there for many generations - remember that there were Tejano soldiers serving on the Texan side, too.

interesting how different historical sites treat history, especially when views change over time. if the alamo was in a less conservative state we might see a different narrative but texas hides their shame. for example, i've been to thomas jefferson's house, monticello, 5 times between 1985 and 2019. first time i went was all about the great president, statesman, inventor. in 2008-2009 they had started opening up the second and third floors, the family floors, but they weren't finished yet. there was a lot more about the family, the role the house played with enslaved people, and they had started to open up the slave quarters for tours. in 2019 you could see a whole exhibit on the hemmings (enslaved) family, sally hemmings' (enslaved mistress) room had been restored, and the narrative is on education, the role slavery played in the founding of the country, the contributions of the hemmings family, etc. they are making an effort to drag the facts into the light and teach the truth.

I don't remember the exact number, but over 300 treaties between the US government and Indigenous Tribes have been broken by the US government.

Canada, Central America, South America……

I’m ashamed to be American.

Keep on keepin' on please!

Well that sure got xenophobic at the end

Well I thought everyone knew that?

They wanted freedom to oppress, rather than freedom from oppression

A tradition that is proudly carried on in the US.

If only the ships carrying the Puritans had sunk in the Atlantic on the way here.

They also weren't pilgrims of any kind and about half of the colony weren't even Puritans, just people heading to Virginia on the same ship. And they got list, that's why they ended up in Massachusetts.

And the rest were Mexican, Native, and women!

And the 'Hollywood Old West' movies were toxic, racist, white superiority garbage. Also, those who usually survived a gunfight, were those who took the time to aim. None of this, fire from the hip, type of shtkao.

A portion of black men were also plantation owners yes black men also owned slaves ...

And shoot outs rarely occurred. Every man did not carry a gun.

Sounds familiar?

"Hawaiian by Birth. American by Force."

It was wrong to take the continents of the Americas from the indigenous inhabitants.

Dole corp. wanted to run the place. The Hawaiían islands, fought back. Dole called in the Americans to back them up.

Of course the government had to wait to admit they were wrong. They had to wait for the Stockholm syndrome to become ingrained so Hawaiians don't do something silly like demand to leave the country they never wanted to be a part of.

Those poor women and girls.

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Try telling this to Commonwealth countries. (Australian)