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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:45) – Revolutions and governments

(24:23) – American Civil War

(33:35) – Lincoln and election of 1860

(37:25) – Slavery

(50:35) – Freedom of speech

(1:02:17) – Death toll of the Civil War

(1:05:36) – Ulysses S. Grant

(1:07:45) – Ku Klux Klan

(1:19:27) – Robert E. Lee

(1:27:11) – Abraham Lincoln

(1:42:18) – If the south won

(1:50:54) – Hypocrisy of the Founders

(1:56:56) – John Wilkes Booth

(2:00:11) – White supremacy

(2:05:34) – Disputed elections

(2:15:56) – Politics

(2:24:20) – Donald Trump and Joe Biden

(2:37:06) – January 6th

(3:02:04) – Hope for the future