Presidential Historian Fact Checks US History Slop

Okay, what he's eating here is all wrong.

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Washington had very few teeth left.

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God, there's so much wrong with this video.

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of the George Washington Presidential Library,

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and chose the jackass as our mascot.

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He was the first president that identified

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with Democratic-Republicans, which was the party

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that Thomas Jefferson created in the 1790s.

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and eventually Republican was dropped

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largely to support Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828.

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He is widely recognized as the first president

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Jackson started the Democrat Party to appeal

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Democrats today sometimes give him credit for that,

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but only after calling him an evil white bigot.

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The Democratic Party that supported Jackson

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was unique for the time in that white suffrage

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Previously, only white men of property could vote.

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various states dropped that property restriction.

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However, as this video notes, Andrew Jackson was a bigot.

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He continued to buy and sell enslaved people

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of Native peoples from the Southeast

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and even by the standards of the day,

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We were by far the pro-slavery party

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in both the North and the South prior to the Civil War,

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but was largely seen as the pro-slavery party.

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In fact, the Republican Party that emerged in the 1850s

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