Two points that it would really helped to flesh it out more, was the creation of the constitution, and the rein of redeemer politicians in the postwar south. This is excerpts from my homework in the American History class, I got an 105% in this spring.

So the master's really did have a secret meeting were they took rights away from people, and it was called the constitutional convention. The right protected by the constitution itself was private property. When Samuel Adams condemned the Shays rebellion and told them to obey the law, you could see his true colors. He had drummed up these men to oppose the British with promises of democracy and freedom.

After the war the amount of land required to vote was raised in Massachusetts. When the smaller farmers needed more currency in order to pay their mortgages, they had no concerned representation in congress. The courts then foreclosed on soldiers, they had yet to pay for years of service in the revolution.

The continental congress was a counter revolution by the wealthy, carried out in secret. They sweltered in the heat, rather than let the public even hear the discussions. The agreement they hammered out was not between the varied interest of the diverse colonies, but between wealthy merchants in the north and plantation owners in the south.

Like the later Jim Crow the system of checks and balances designed by Madison, stopped mojoritairianism or census voting. Decentralized governments worked just as well at dampening the rule by majority. The constitution stripped the land holding voters of participation in every vote election, except that of the House of Representatives. They were instantly reduced back to just to the House of Commons.

"The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore the first class a distinct permanent share of the government."

                                                                             -Alexander Hamilton

Presidential elections to this day are carried out by the electoral college, and the Senate was not elected by the popular vote until the Progressive Era, more than a hundred years later. I think the country was made stronger by the uniting the thirteen colonies, but I think Thomas Jefferson had he participated, could have helped the interests of the common people. There was no fair representation of the common people. The second thing that the video skimmed over too fast, was the carpetbaggers. Religious people moved from the north to the south to help rebuild. The did try to put up a fair fight, to the Jim Crow problems at the polls. The police were on the side of the masters, and the violence, and sometimes murder of these people went unpunished.

The governments that later resulted from these scare tactics, were called Redeemer. They ran states at a profit, by renting out the labor of chain gangs, and not investing in public institutions, like hospitals and schools. The children of the wealthy attended private schools, and most of the poor people in the south were less educated than the north. Education and illiteracy are important, to this debate.

Overall this was a great video, thanks for sharing.