The gun violence has actually gone down 40% over the last couple decades but mainstream media coverage of gun violence has gone up 500% in the same amount of time kind of liberty.
ZolaMagic25 No I was merely restating the "liberty" part at the end of my sentence for ironical purposes or purpose of entertainment. In all actuality I was countering the popular ignorant narrative you were spreading that America is the worst when it comes to gun violence and that it's not a safe first world country to live in.
Oh yes I didn't miss the irony. In fact I was doing the very same thing! It's tragic that in some people's eyes owning a gun can equate to liberty. Less people being murdered now? How civilised. Keep up the good work.
My AP World teacher loves you so much that he assigned us to watch 4 Crash Courses to remedy lost time due to snow days. Honestly, this is amazing. I was expecting 3 essays.
2:08 , gotta love how he says that It's the least massacre-y massacre of all time, but overlooks the fact that it literally started because people were throwing snowballs.
For those who haven't figured it out, the reason people thought that democracy was anti-theistic was because Western religion up to that point was based around the notion that God and his creations were a monarchy, and that kings and emperors were part of that monarchical structure. Establishing a democratic society was like trying to overturn all of that.
Clover LovesHamilton Remember Despite our estrangement I'm your man You'll be back soon you'll see you'll remember you belong to me you'll be back time will tell you'll remember that I served you well oceans rise, empires fall we have seen each other through it all and when push, comes to shove I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love DADA DA DA DA A DADA DA DA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA DA
You'll be back Like Before, I will fight the fight and win the war For your love For your praise And I'll love you 'till my dying days When you're gone I'll go mad So don't throw away this thing we have 'Cause when push Comes to shove I will... kill your friends and family To remind you of my love. DA DA DA DAT DAT DA DAT DAT DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DA everybody DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
"If you're going to base your new society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible - because the people executing those ideas will never be ideal" - John Green Save here for later reference
"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. But when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm a compel him to include women in the sequel"
To say American slaves would have become free much sooner had the colonies been unable to succeed is a big "what if". If the British Empire had retained the colonies the Empire would have been more reliant on slave labor and perhaps less likely to abolish it in the 1820s.
I beg to differ there, but that is certainly arguable. There was William Wilberforce and other abolitionists with their own institutions in England and in Parliament that were working to abolish slavery and encourage others to think likewise, given that few in Britain depended on slaves for livelihood, which is principally why abolitionism was uncommon in the colonies and took time to gain prominence.
My AP World History teacher (who I don't like because he doesn't really teach) finally showed this video in class today, and I was so happy! It actually got kids to listen and I love using these videos to study. Thank you John Green!
'It's time for the open letter' Me (a Brit): oh brill, the fun, mocking part of the show. Wonder what's the target today? 'It's tea' Me:...tread very carefully John...
1.) To be fair, the Brits taxed themselves first at home and thought it was logical to tax the colonists considering the residing British army remained to protect them against conflicts. So it seemed reasonable in their view. 2.) Boston Tea Party, yes the tea was cheaper, they got rid of all the other levied taxes except for tea, it was still cheap, but the British takeover of East India Co. for reasons to prevent bankruptcy made the colonists view it as monopolizing and thought the Brits could take over their industries as well. So the Brits thought they saved the tea co., and also repealed other taxes along with cheaper Tea, thinking it would lead to greater relations, but it was a big misunderstanding of two different ideologies and difference in way of thought. 3.) The revolution wasn't only about taxes or had nothing to do with the war. The revolution was the minds of the colonists and creating their own identity. John Adams & Benjamin Rush state that the revolution is still striving today.
I'm a Swiss history student and i enjoy john's videos which provide a nice résumé about the whole topic. Neither being British nor being American, i view the American Revolution as mostly a chain of misunderstandings and ignorance on both sides (a bit more on the english side). The UK had it's own problems with George III, Premierminister North and it's thousand commitees (like Board of Trade); every Duke had to be included somehow, so naturally, there had to be some trouble. Always, when the colonist did something to show their disapproval (like Gaspee), the English implement a law that makes the colonist even angrier (priviledge of East India Company). Ignorance and misunderstandings paired with bad timing. If the UK had a better organisation and would have been more understanding, they could have worked it out (my opinion). To me it's like a family feud
I know the show has a time limit, but I'm a bit dissapointed that he didn't even mention the role France played in making the American Revolution possible. Considering his previous episode was on England vs. France, it would have fit in with the narrative quite nicely.
JOHN GREEN!! Thank you!! Homeschooling a High Schooler. Struggling to garner interest in History... until today!! We found you! My DD grabbed the computer from me and willingly started to watch and was laughing a lot! THANK YOU! I owe you one! Come to Morgan Hill California, I will buy you coffee and dinner :-D You have made my job much more enjoyable!
WOW! I´m from Germany and that video did surprise me: fast, understandable, in English, some good humor and damn never thought this high quality comes back from 2012. My bilingual history exam is saved!
Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! The Lancelot of the revolutionary set! I came from afar just to say “Bonsoir!” Tell the King Casse toi! Who’s the best? C’est moi! Yeah I did come here just to quote my favourite Hamilton line...
Kinda odd, my great grandfather on my moms side fought for the Continental Army and my great grandfather on my dad's side fought for the Crown... guess I'm a mix breed 😂
Fun fact: The South was more loyal to England than the North. If England won the war, I doubt they would have banned slavery at the time they actually did. It would have made more profit for them. The south made huge profits from slavery, and one of their main customers were the British empire. The British Empire even supported the Confederacy during the American civil war.
John and team Crash Course: It would be great if you guys can do a more in depth episode on the relationships between the American & French Revolutions; how the philosophies, histories, politics, etc. are intertwined. For example; one interesting note I discovered from Jon Meacham's Art of Power is the importance of per-revolutionary France on Jefferson, Revolutionary America on Lafayette, and the writing of the Les Droits..
Thank you these videos, they made the american and french revolution very interesting and at the same time extremely informative.. thanks again!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
In the comment section or in the actual video? If you were referring to the video, well, that would probably be because Hamilton is based off the American Revolution, AKA actual historical happenings.
Did anyone else sing "We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" in the voice of Angelica in the song The Schyluer Sisters?
[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY] “We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal” [ANGELICA] And when I meet Thomas Jefferson [COMPANY] Unh! [ANGELICA] I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel! [WOMEN] Work!
agreed philosophy doesn't have many videos. I would like someone notable like him to inform the public about philosophy.(philosophy goes beyond sarte and Socrates)
+Amiel Morris You know, the weird thing with that musical is how its fans seem totally oblivious to the fact that that style of music isn't actually popular with most people.
The deceleration of Arbroath was penned 500 years before the American declaration of independence and was the first to advocate that the government was subject to the will of the people. It also bears a striking visual resemblance to the deceleration of independence and its no coincidence that many of those who signed the latter were of Scottish extraction.
I have been watching these video us for years and am subscribed to this channel but I just found out he's the author of The Fault in Our Stars. I'm humbled by how ignorant I've been to that for so long. John Green is incredible
What was interesting was that in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence there was a section written that would free the slaves. The council assigned to write the document, which then promptly put it on Jefferson, said that not all of the people at the convention would agree to this and would make the convention longer than it already was. Jefferson "fixed" this after a heated argument with the rest of the council and thus we have our Declaration, also the original draft cussed a lot.
One thing to point out, Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought up of the concept of a decentralized gov't that allowed the provincial gov'ts have more autonomy, in his 1762 work The Social Contract; which is how the US of A is organized. So yeah he did have some influence on America's formation. Also, I find that America to be founded solely on Locke to be an oversimplification as Montesquieu, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Epictetus, Epicurus, and Voltaire had much to do with the formation of America. Also, I kind of feel that John Green seems to misunderstand philosophy as it is not a monolithic study.
+CosmoShidan And why would anyone want to go back to a nation where the sovereign is the head of a specific church instead of a secular society? I'm talking about how Britain as the former of course.
In presenting that the British were so anti-slavery John kind-of ignores a few important facts. The anti-slavery movement didn't gain any significant force until the 1780's. They didn't stop the slave trade until 1807 and then didn't free slaves across the empire until 1833. This was definitely before the US, but to say that the British saying they would free the slaves meant that they were being beneficent is reading a little too much into it. There were a lot of slaves in the Americas, and the British wanted allies. This is like the Emancipation Proclamation that DID NOT free the slaves. It only freed slaves in states that continued to rebel (meaning the Confederacy) but didn't address at all those from states in the Union, like Delaware.
@David VazquezHe plays Alexander Hamilton in a play called "Hamilton" It's a dramatization of the story of the Revolution, from Alexander Hamilton's point of view.
Really loving the the world and US history series. So refreshing to get a more balanced view of US history that isn't so steeped in mythology and irrational patriotism. Though I'm real surprised that you don't have an episode on the English civil war and revolution, as it's probably the biggest influence on powers in america and is a precursor to the american revolution i.e. much of the powerful american elite who went on to start the US are of the same stock as those who over threw the English crown over 100 years previously. Plus you shouldn't miss out the story of the world's first Republican Democracy in a series on world history, even if it did only last a decade.
Hello, I'm really enjoying these videos! Thank you so much for all of the work that has gone into them. I see that you sometimes put up banners in the videos to correct mistakes, so in the spirit of contributing to an excellent resource, I thought I should draw your attention to a mistake you made in this episode. You say that Kant claimed: "Human reason rendered a belief in God unnecessary... Any belief in divine intervention or a divine plan for humanity was just superstition." I spend quite a lot of time studying Kant's works, and I would have to say that this is a serious misrepresentation of his views. True, in the *Critique of Pure Reason* (1781/7), Kant argued that there cannot be any proof for the existence of God. But in the introduction to that book, he summed up what he was doing as "denying knowledge, in order to make room for faith". And in the *Critique of Practical Reason* (1788), Kant argues that for rational, moral beings, it is necessary to postulate a belief in God. So Kant explicitly argues that human reason renders a belief in God *necessary*. Kant makes a lot of the distinction between 'cognition'/'knowledge' (Erkenntniss) and 'faith'/'belief' (Glaube), but it's wrong to characterise the latter as "superstition". He thinks that there is a difference between 'rational faith', which is based on things like our experience of moral agency, and 'enthusiasm' (Schwärmerei), which is baseless. He spends a lot of effort trying to show that there is such thing as "rational religion", which falls into the former category. Belief in God, according to Kant, is a matter of rational faith, not of superstition. (On these matters, see, e.g., 'Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason' (1793); 'What is Orientation in Thinking?' (1786)) This is not to say that Kant ends up as a completely conventional Christian. He thinks that all natural occurrences are subject causal laws, discoverable by science, so he would deny the existence of miracles. But nevertheless, he thinks that it is rational for us to use the idea of a "divine plan" to guide our inquiries into the biological world (see *Critique of Judgment* 1790) and human history (see 'Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim' (1784)). Once again, Kant doesn't think that we can have knowledge that there is a divine plan. But he thinks that belief in a divine plan is "rational faith". So Kant argues that belief in a divine plan for humanity is *not* superstition. All in all, there are lots of subtleties in Kant's views, and his philosophy of religion is definitely radical. But the terms you use get his views dramatically wrong -- in fact, Kant denies the claims you attribute to him. I hope that this comment will be helpful to you, and I am extremely grateful for all of the work you put into making this excellent series. Kind regards, James
First I'd like to clarify that I am in high school and by no means a qualified expert about these subjects (please don't bash me), but I'd argue that the claim that slaves would've been better off if the British won isn't necessarily true. First of all, assuming the British actually managed to keep a hold on the colonies for the next 70 or whatever years, the British could so easily get rid of slavery because they weren't dependent on them. There were very few slaves in Britain, and furthermore, they didn't exactly encourage the dissolution of a slave-culture in any of their other or future colonies (*cough cough India*). Especially if they benefited from the slavery in the Americas, it really would've been an upward climb to ban it.
+Grace McKinley I think In the long run one they would be maybe not immediately because the practice of slavery was considered barbaric part of the reason it survived as long as it did was because it was far away from home and few normal brits saw it. Maybe having it in america would awaken people earlier also they were not slaves in India, servants maybe but not slaves certainly there was nothing like the slave trade that came from Africa.
Grace McKinley the only reasons people had slaves was to make more money. They would for sure keep slaves if it would help make money for Great Britain
@@captainbaronfluffy I'm making a comparison between ye olden days' use of a lack of traditional masculinity as an insult and today's. Kids today insult each other saying "you're gay" when the person is straight. The Committees of Correspondence claimed that a man being loyal to the British meant he lacked masculinity.
Thank you so much for NOT telling the story of the revolution. Also, yay for no quirky facts. I loved the Venn Diagram of the war vs. the internal revolution. Thanks for being awesome!
am I the only person who thinks John talks at an average speed? I mean, heck, I talk faster than that when I'm trying to talk slower than I usually do.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Jefferson's first draft of the DOI have a part that said slavery would end, but was forced to take it out or some wouldn't sign it? I don't know that is just what I thought for some reason.
The Declaration of Independence is the greatest break up letter ever
I hereby declare subtly a crime.
That comment is the best!!!! And for the winner?
A cup of blended tea!
I'm gonna leave you at 666th likes
You Said It
The communist manifesto is even better
please just write my essay
YES, PLEASEE!!!
RIGGHT!
mine to !!!!
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"Nothing challenges one's belief in equality quite like becoming rich and powerful"
That's a great quote mate
England: flavour
America: flavor
England: colour
America: color
England: What are you doing?
America: Getting rid of u
I still se ur shadows in my room
This actually made me laugh
am I the only one who thinks this would make a great APH fanart?
*backs up*
Ha! Nice
The British are just mad because we have one tea they don't
Liber tea
The buying a gun and going on a rampage kind of liberty?
The gun violence has actually gone down 40% over the last couple decades but mainstream media coverage of gun violence has gone up 500% in the same amount of time kind of liberty.
+Artemis Productions that's 'liberty' for you.
ZolaMagic25 No I was merely restating the "liberty" part at the end of my sentence for ironical purposes or purpose of entertainment. In all actuality I was countering the popular ignorant narrative you were spreading that America is the worst when it comes to gun violence and that it's not a safe first world country to live in.
Oh yes I didn't miss the irony. In fact I was doing the very same thing!
It's tragic that in some people's eyes owning a gun can equate to liberty.
Less people being murdered now? How civilised. Keep up the good work.
My AP World teacher loves you so much that he assigned us to watch 4 Crash Courses to remedy lost time due to snow days. Honestly, this is amazing. I was expecting 3 essays.
2:08 , gotta love how he says that It's the least massacre-y massacre of all time, but overlooks the fact that it literally started because people were throwing snowballs.
Everything he said, I already knew because I played Assassin's Creed 3.
'This was back when Congress did things, by the way. It was awesome.' Lol
LEGOMANIAC419: He took the words right from my mouth.
Wow, gets more relevant every time.
lol, so true.
Ja
For those who haven't figured it out, the reason people thought that democracy was anti-theistic was because Western religion up to that point was based around the notion that God and his creations were a monarchy, and that kings and emperors were part of that monarchical structure. Establishing a democratic society was like trying to overturn all of that.
In my history class in Canada, this is all my teacher played for us about the American revolution. John, even teachers think you are awesome.
You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by.
Clover LovesHamilton
Remember Despite our estrangement I'm your man
You'll be back
soon you'll see
you'll remember you belong to me
you'll be back
time will tell
you'll remember that I served you well
oceans rise, empires fall
we have seen each other through it all
and when push, comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
DADA DA DA DA A DADA DA DA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA DA
You'll be back
Like Before,
I will fight the fight and win the war
For your love
For your praise
And I'll love you 'till my dying days
When you're gone
I'll go mad
So don't throw away this thing we have
'Cause when push
Comes to shove
I will... kill your friends and family
To remind you of my love.
DA DA DA DAT DAT DA DAT DAT DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DA everybody DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DA DA DA DA DA DAYA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Tomato Box Fairy British admiral Howe got troops on the water...
DA DA DA DAT DA DA DA DA DA DIE YA DA DA DA DA DAT DAT DIE YA DA
The battle of Yorktown...1781.
Monsieur Hamilton!
Monsieur Lafayette!
+Raphaelle Catulin in command where you belong
+MAN U NYC How you say 'no sweat'!
so what happens if we win? I go back to France I bring freedom to my people if I'm given the chance...
I'll see you on the other side
It's crazy how this video is 10 years old. I remember watching this back in middle school. Every good video
"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal"- I say along with John to the tune of The Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton
"I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Payne"...
Some say i'm intense or i'm insane
so listen to my declaration! #fullcircle
Exactly the same thought process.
I sang it in class when we watched this whoops
"If you're going to base your new society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible - because the people executing those ideas will never be ideal" - John Green
Save here for later reference
Do not forget the Frenchmen like Lafayette and Rochambeau who fought for the freedom of the United States.
Respect for France. Can't hear the haters over out freedom
"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. But when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm a compel him to include women in the sequel"
WORK
I have been listening to hamilton on repeat lol. this is an awesome comment
+justalittletouchofstarquality I don't care about I just need to know more for my history test tomorrow
WORK!
OMG I just commented that and then I scroll down and see this
To say American slaves would have become free much sooner had the colonies been unable to succeed is a big "what if". If the British Empire had retained the colonies the Empire would have been more reliant on slave labor and perhaps less likely to abolish it in the 1820s.
I beg to differ there, but that is certainly arguable. There was William Wilberforce and other abolitionists with their own institutions in England and in Parliament that were working to abolish slavery and encourage others to think likewise, given that few in Britain depended on slaves for livelihood, which is principally why abolitionism was uncommon in the colonies and took time to gain prominence.
''All animals are created equal but some are created more equal than others'' - Oy vey
No, Orwell.
+Pippa Peep (Pippy) Anal?
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Saad Nizamani Anal Farm?
+Stone Blizzard The book's name is Animal Farm, written by George Orwell.
My AP World History teacher (who I don't like because he doesn't really teach) finally showed this video in class today, and I was so happy! It actually got kids to listen and I love using these videos to study. Thank you John Green!
7:14 *starts singing to the tune of schuyler sisters*
"... meaning the government for, of and by the people was in fact for and by about 10-15% of the people."
No change there.
Illuminati : Stay right where you are
Patrick Martinez spelling
"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit for happiness, we offer these ideals we shouldn't settle for less..."
I am literally boiling water to make tea with right now. I feel judged, John.
'It's time for the open letter'
Me (a Brit): oh brill, the fun, mocking part of the show. Wonder what's the target today?
'It's tea'
Me:...tread very carefully John...
1.) To be fair, the Brits taxed themselves first at home and thought it was logical to tax the colonists considering the residing British army remained to protect them against conflicts. So it seemed reasonable in their view.
2.) Boston Tea Party, yes the tea was cheaper, they got rid of all the other levied taxes except for tea, it was still cheap, but the British takeover of East India Co. for reasons to prevent bankruptcy made the colonists view it as monopolizing and thought the Brits could take over their industries as well. So the Brits thought they saved the tea co., and also repealed other taxes along with cheaper Tea, thinking it would lead to greater relations, but it was a big misunderstanding of two different ideologies and difference in way of thought.
3.) The revolution wasn't only about taxes or had nothing to do with the war. The revolution was the minds of the colonists and creating their own identity. John Adams & Benjamin Rush state that the revolution is still striving today.
"This was back when congress actually did some thing"
I'm a Swiss history student and i enjoy john's videos which provide a nice résumé about the whole topic. Neither being British nor being American, i view the American Revolution as mostly a chain of misunderstandings and ignorance on both sides (a bit more on the english side). The UK had it's own problems with George III, Premierminister North and it's thousand commitees (like Board of Trade); every Duke had to be included somehow, so naturally, there had to be some trouble. Always, when the colonist did something to show their disapproval (like Gaspee), the English implement a law that makes the colonist even angrier (priviledge of East India Company). Ignorance and misunderstandings paired with bad timing. If the UK had a better organisation and would have been more understanding, they could have worked it out (my opinion). To me it's like a family feud
GUYS HAMILTON WASN'T OUT WHEN THIS WAS MADE! THIS WAS MADE IN 2012, LOOK IN THE DESCRIPTION!
I know the show has a time limit, but I'm a bit dissapointed that he didn't even mention the role France played in making the American Revolution possible. Considering his previous episode was on England vs. France, it would have fit in with the narrative quite nicely.
JOHN GREEN!! Thank you!! Homeschooling a High Schooler. Struggling to garner interest in History... until today!! We found you! My DD grabbed the computer from me and willingly started to watch and was laughing a lot! THANK YOU! I owe you one! Come to Morgan Hill California, I will buy you coffee and dinner :-D You have made my job much more enjoyable!
WOW!
I´m from Germany and that video did surprise me:
fast, understandable, in English, some good humor
and damn never thought this high quality comes back from 2012.
My bilingual history exam is saved!
Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! The Lancelot of the revolutionary set! I came from afar just to say “Bonsoir!” Tell the King Casse toi! Who’s the best? C’est moi! Yeah I did come here just to quote my favourite Hamilton line...
I love you John Green. But I must insist:
1. Mountain Dew is poison.
2. Stephen Colbert wants his eagle back.
Keep up the great videos.
Kinda odd, my great grandfather on my moms side fought for the Continental Army and my great grandfather on my dad's side fought for the Crown... guess I'm a mix breed 😂
So your dads side is the smart side
You mutt
Fun fact: The South was more loyal to England than the North.
If England won the war, I doubt they would have banned slavery at the time they actually did. It would have made more profit for them. The south made huge profits from slavery, and one of their main customers were the British empire. The British Empire even supported the Confederacy during the American civil war.
I love my country. We may not be perfect, but I still think America is pretty awesome.
América isn't a country, perharps you mean US
Otra Camila many europeans refer the United States as America
America iz great....not americans(call me racist idc)
America is not a country, its a business.
@@BananaNik *You're
OK is it just me, or did Paul Revere bear a resemblance to Jack Black?
MintyMentoes I keep seeing that lol !
MintyMentoes maybe a little
OMG YESSSS
Crash course is the absolute easiest source for knowledge
Awesome ending statement. Loved it. The people executing the ideas are not always ideal :D
"All men are created equal. Some are just more equal than others."
John and team Crash Course: It would be great if you guys can do a more in depth episode on the relationships between the American & French Revolutions; how the philosophies, histories, politics, etc. are intertwined. For example; one interesting note I discovered from Jon Meacham's Art of Power is the importance of per-revolutionary France on Jefferson, Revolutionary America on Lafayette, and the writing of the Les Droits..
The last statement was really deep. I hope people appreciate John Green.
"This was back when congress did things, by the way, it was awesome." -best line in the whole series.
im procrastinating from watching crash course biology for my bio final tomorrow by watching crash course world history what even
Thank you these videos, they made the american and french revolution very interesting and at the same time extremely informative.. thanks again!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
John:Life, Liberty
Me:And the Pursuit of Happiness! We fought for these ideals, now we shouldn't settle for less!
i really like how in all of this channels videos they try to show every side of the story i love it keep the good work
I know we prefer to talk about world changing stuff on this channel, but a video about the Texas Revolution would be cool.
YESSSSSSSS
HyaenusDominae sorry but what is texas
I caught so many references from Hamilton in this
SAME AKBKAHDN
geecomics same
In the comment section or in the actual video? If you were referring to the video, well, that would probably be because Hamilton is based off the American Revolution, AKA actual historical happenings.
You mean, you caught so many references from this in Hamilton ...
What's hamilton
i think he just saved my history class. the way the story is getting to me is way better than any history class
Did anyone else sing "We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" in the voice of Angelica in the song The Schyluer Sisters?
Me lmao
YAAAAAAAAS
cringe
Nope
[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal”
[ANGELICA]
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson
[COMPANY]
Unh!
[ANGELICA]
I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!
[WOMEN]
Work!
You should do a Crash Course series on Philosophy. I want cartoons to tell me about Sartre and Socrates!
agreed philosophy doesn't have many videos. I would like someone notable like him to inform the public about philosophy.(philosophy goes beyond sarte and Socrates)
Lovely. I have to sit for a final exam tomorrow and this was really, REALLY summarized and helpful. Thank you!
Who's here just to make Hamilton references
Yep
That depends. Who's asking?
Who's here just to make Hetalia references?
Anna Lahr OUI OUI MONAMI I AM HERE OHONHONHON
That's the only way I knew the famous line, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal!"
have an exam tomorrow, watching this
Thank you, John Green, for making studying for my midterms a hell of a lot easier.
Anyone now have Hamilton songs stuck in their heads? Nope just me? Ok
Me.
+Amiel Morris
You know, the weird thing with that musical is how its fans seem totally oblivious to the fact that that style of music isn't actually popular with most people.
L1ttleT3d ever look at billboard and music genre sales? Moron lol
Amiel Morris me
Amiel Morris youre not alone
I have an exam in US civilization tomorrow, this was helpful thank you John
Who’s here in 2024
When I become a teacher, I am so going to use your videos. They are often a lot more interesting than what I'm learning at University. Love your work!
My niece loves these videos because they real help her get ahead of her class
The deceleration of Arbroath was penned 500 years before the American declaration of independence and was the first to advocate that the government was subject to the will of the people. It also bears a striking visual resemblance to the deceleration of independence and its no coincidence that many of those who signed the latter were of Scottish extraction.
i wouldnt be able to get good grades in world history without this channel! Love it!
That laptop never gets old
I have been watching these video us for years and am subscribed to this channel but I just found out he's the author of The Fault in Our Stars. I'm humbled by how ignorant I've been to that for so long. John Green is incredible
What was interesting was that in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence there was a section written that would free the slaves. The council assigned to write the document, which then promptly put it on Jefferson, said that not all of the people at the convention would agree to this and would make the convention longer than it already was. Jefferson "fixed" this after a heated argument with the rest of the council and thus we have our Declaration, also the original draft cussed a lot.
But tea is delicious.... Much better than coffee. >o< Bluh!
it sucks
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but tea is not delicious thank you clearing that up for us real americans drink coffee
One thing to point out, Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought up of the concept of a decentralized gov't that allowed the provincial gov'ts have more autonomy, in his 1762 work The Social Contract; which is how the US of A is organized. So yeah he did have some influence on America's formation.
Also, I find that America to be founded solely on Locke to be an oversimplification as Montesquieu, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Epictetus, Epicurus, and Voltaire had much to do with the formation of America. Also, I kind of feel that John Green seems to misunderstand philosophy as it is not a monolithic study.
+CosmoShidan And why would anyone want to go back to a nation where the sovereign is the head of a specific church instead of a secular society? I'm talking about how Britain as the former of course.
These videos have THE BEST UA-cam discussions
In presenting that the British were so anti-slavery John kind-of ignores a few important facts. The anti-slavery movement didn't gain any significant force until the 1780's. They didn't stop the slave trade until 1807 and then didn't free slaves across the empire until 1833. This was definitely before the US, but to say that the British saying they would free the slaves meant that they were being beneficent is reading a little too much into it. There were a lot of slaves in the Americas, and the British wanted allies. This is like the Emancipation Proclamation that DID NOT free the slaves. It only freed slaves in states that continued to rebel (meaning the Confederacy) but didn't address at all those from states in the Union, like Delaware.
"A civics lesson from a slaver, hey neighbor. Your debts are paid because you don't pay for labor"
"And keep ranting...we know who's reslly doing the planting..."
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@David VazquezHe plays Alexander Hamilton in a play called "Hamilton" It's a dramatization of the story of the Revolution, from Alexander Hamilton's point of view.
"Ow, oh, that did not go well."
I smirk every time!
It's gives such great pride to be watching this on Martin Lurther King Jr. Day!
Really loving the the world and US history series. So refreshing to get a more balanced view of US history that isn't so steeped in mythology and irrational patriotism. Though I'm real surprised that you don't have an episode on the English civil war and revolution, as it's probably the biggest influence on powers in america and is a precursor to the american revolution i.e. much of the powerful american elite who went on to start the US are of the same stock as those who over threw the English crown over 100 years previously. Plus you shouldn't miss out the story of the world's first Republican Democracy in a series on world history, even if it did only last a decade.
"All men are created Equal"
Apparently some Women are more important than others.
+Imperator Times But some are created more equal than others
@@DM-kn1rk yes they can. Ever heard of transgenders?
@@DM-kn1rk Yes I have ADD. Does that answer the question, homophobe?
@@DM-kn1rk Ever heard of a overused line?
@@icegamer2696 Yeah, I have heard of it multiple times in a number of psychology and biology text books:))
can you please do a world history about the mayans, Aztecs, and incas?
btw love ur show. its an awesome study tool
I learn more from you in under 11 mins, than my teacher trying to teach us this during 2 hours.
Hello,
I'm really enjoying these videos! Thank you so much for all of the work that has gone into them. I see that you sometimes put up banners in the videos to correct mistakes, so in the spirit of contributing to an excellent resource, I thought I should draw your attention to a mistake you made in this episode.
You say that Kant claimed: "Human reason rendered a belief in God unnecessary... Any belief in divine intervention or a divine plan for humanity was just superstition." I spend quite a lot of time studying Kant's works, and I would have to say that this is a serious misrepresentation of his views.
True, in the *Critique of Pure Reason* (1781/7), Kant argued that there cannot be any proof for the existence of God. But in the introduction to that book, he summed up what he was doing as "denying knowledge, in order to make room for faith". And in the *Critique of Practical Reason* (1788), Kant argues that for rational, moral beings, it is necessary to postulate a belief in God. So Kant explicitly argues that human reason renders a belief in God *necessary*.
Kant makes a lot of the distinction between 'cognition'/'knowledge' (Erkenntniss) and 'faith'/'belief' (Glaube), but it's wrong to characterise the latter as "superstition". He thinks that there is a difference between 'rational faith', which is based on things like our experience of moral agency, and 'enthusiasm' (Schwärmerei), which is baseless. He spends a lot of effort trying to show that there is such thing as "rational religion", which falls into the former category. Belief in God, according to Kant, is a matter of rational faith, not of superstition. (On these matters, see, e.g., 'Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason' (1793); 'What is Orientation in Thinking?' (1786))
This is not to say that Kant ends up as a completely conventional Christian. He thinks that all natural occurrences are subject causal laws, discoverable by science, so he would deny the existence of miracles. But nevertheless, he thinks that it is rational for us to use the idea of a "divine plan" to guide our inquiries into the biological world (see *Critique of Judgment* 1790) and human history (see 'Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim' (1784)). Once again, Kant doesn't think that we can have knowledge that there is a divine plan. But he thinks that belief in a divine plan is "rational faith". So Kant argues that belief in a divine plan for humanity is *not* superstition.
All in all, there are lots of subtleties in Kant's views, and his philosophy of religion is definitely radical. But the terms you use get his views dramatically wrong -- in fact, Kant denies the claims you attribute to him. I hope that this comment will be helpful to you, and I am extremely grateful for all of the work you put into making this excellent series.
Kind regards,
James
First I'd like to clarify that I am in high school and by no means a qualified expert about these subjects (please don't bash me), but I'd argue that the claim that slaves would've been better off if the British won isn't necessarily true. First of all, assuming the British actually managed to keep a hold on the colonies for the next 70 or whatever years, the British could so easily get rid of slavery because they weren't dependent on them. There were very few slaves in Britain, and furthermore, they didn't exactly encourage the dissolution of a slave-culture in any of their other or future colonies (*cough cough India*). Especially if they benefited from the slavery in the Americas, it really would've been an upward climb to ban it.
+Grace McKinley I think In the long run one they would be maybe not immediately because the practice of slavery was considered barbaric part of the reason it survived as long as it did was because it was far away from home and few normal brits saw it. Maybe having it in america would awaken people earlier also they were not slaves in India, servants maybe but not slaves certainly there was nothing like the slave trade that came from Africa.
Grace McKinley the only reasons people had slaves was to make more money. They would for sure keep slaves if it would help make money for Great Britain
Me: **sees Thomas Jefferson and George Washington**
Also me: **falls out of chair**
I like how this has a lot of facts while still making it a fun video to watch
I'd love to hear about(if possible) the history of language, Irish revolution, Normandy & The Vikings, I think it would be really interesting!
I love tea. Forget Mountain Dew. I will chose chamonile, mint, peach, chrysanthemum, and seven blossoms tea over soda (which I hate) any day.
Have you ever tried coconut chai tea?! So good!
+Ethan Kinerso No, but it sounds good. I'll definitely try it in the future.
im drinking mtn dew rn lmao
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Committees of Correspondence: "Drinking British tea is gay."
American men: *gasp*
@@captainbaronfluffy I'm making a comparison between ye olden days' use of a lack of traditional masculinity as an insult and today's. Kids today insult each other saying "you're gay" when the person is straight. The Committees of Correspondence claimed that a man being loyal to the British meant he lacked masculinity.
Thank you so much for NOT telling the story of the revolution. Also, yay for no quirky facts. I loved the Venn Diagram of the war vs. the internal revolution. Thanks for being awesome!
am I the only person who thinks John talks at an average speed? I mean, heck, I talk faster than that when I'm trying to talk slower than I usually do.
Never mentioned how the Spanish and French aided the Americans gaining Independence.
There was still fighting in 1782. John Laurens died in the Battle of the Combahee River. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Combahee_River
IM CRYING DON'T MENTION MY BEAUTIFUL TURTLE BABY, WHAT DID HE DO TO ANYONE,, HE DIDN'T KNOW THE WAR WAS OVER, PRAY FOR HIM
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Loved the last minute of the episode!
Me: *watching this video before a test*
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Congress did things? LIES
HERESY!
Orwell's pigs are the best ... Down with snowball
haha that took me a moment! hilarious!
NAPOLEON!!!
This video was a life saver for me tonight along with many of the other videos on other nights, thank you!!
bro just started yapping after 8:00 💀
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Jefferson's first draft of the DOI have a part that said slavery would end, but was forced to take it out or some wouldn't sign it? I don't know that is just what I thought for some reason.
that is actually a mystery you know like stories that some people support and some refuse but there is nothing that can prove it
nasa852 I actually found this www.blackpast.org/primary/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery
As far as I knew, Jefferson struggled with the idea of slavery, but only had slaves because it was a social norm.
Britain: the sugar act
Sweden: still vikings