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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