I don't remember receiving any e-mails about this video. You seriously missed out on an excellent source. Also "The fault in our stars" was decent at best.
RonPaulHatesBlacks It wasn't a war it was a coup d'etat staged by Lincoln and the Republicans. It's all about DEMOCRACY. We had it before Lincoln but not after.
+John C. Calhoun You're right the south didn't have democracy after Lincoln, because they had Johnson(unelected), the klan, and Jim Crow, until the federal government restored democracy in the south, by passing the civil rights act, It revoked the state right to deny black people from voting. The only people complaining about "violations /trampling" by the federal government on the states rights -are those who liked the Jim Crow laws and we're appalled by black people voting.
***** I am in utter shock. I never read that before. Now l see the light. Thank you so much for that astounding fact that will truly change how Americans view the Civil War.
I still can't believe the amount of people who are still bitter over losing the Civil War. We lost, get over it. The South is a better place now than if it had actually stayed the Confederacy.
This is about a year late, but it's because people don't like being painted the bad guy. Two hundred years later and the primary focus of social studies, American history, and in many ways politics, is still slavery and how evil southerners were/are.
***** Socialists? No one's doing away with Capitalism. It's the foundation of everything here. No countries are taking over, nor would it be in their best interest to do so; they depend on our spending power.
Okay dude, your bias is coming off a little strong. Relax. Other countries want what we have? Other countries HAVE better things than we have (e.g. healthcare and education) precisely because we're too occupied with paranoia and infighting.
For those who are doing the same thing as me, here are the answers. Thank me by subscribing. 1. April 12 1861 2. Abraham Lincoln 3. North of the United states and the south of the United States 4. A border state is a state that was part of the slaves states that wasn't part of the confederacy. Such as Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. 5. The union won the war 6. Advantages such as many more people, also manufactures more than 90% of all goods in America 7. The only advantage the south had was better military leaders 8. They had to outlast the Northern efforts to bring them back into the union 9. His strategy was to wear down the south 10. It gave them control to the Mississippi river 11. Gettysburg was a decisive victory for the Union Army and was the last time the Confederacy ever attacked Union soil. 12. The political importance of the capture was that it happened close to the election
I never had the war presented to me from a perspective other than its battles - and yet it wasn't in a vacuum, politics and economics shaped it to a powerful degree. Thank you CC
There was actually a catuar on screen at 2:20. Its in the bottom left side of the screen I love crash course/thought bubble for making easter eggs like this
Cloud from Final Fantasy is the one that pointed that out if you didn't realize, they gave you cactuar. Cloud being from the same game series is the real easter egg.
The reason you had to slow this down, because this catholic fraud has to do what most vatican controlled frauds and suckwads usually do do. They give you a brief lesson on how dumb Abraham Lincoln was, and pretty much never give you the fact that the catholic "church" gave the green light on his assassination as well. The s.o.b. in this video is no better than having the catholic criminals at Georgetown University giving "lessons" on the civil war.
In my US history textbook it showed that Delaware was a little important. If DE decided to secede from the Union, then Philadelphia would lose access to the sea, which was a major city of importance in those days. However, DE still isn't that important, you are right. Love the videos, and this is helping me solidify concepts for my last essay of the Semester. :)
My great great great grandfather Frank Allen Pettys and his father Amos both served in the 19th Wisconsin regiment during the Civil War and that particular regiment was the first to fly its colors over the Confederate capital when it was defeated.
As always, great video, but I wish you had spent a bit more time on the causes of the war (might have been worthwhile to explain the differences of the northern and southern interests a bit more). Anyway thanks a lot !
+Malik Walker Lincoln's main goal was to preserve the union. He was against slavery, but he said, "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."
+Malik Walker I meant to respond to the original comment whoops, I was elaborating bc I have a civil war test tomorrow and I was like WAIT I HAVE A GOOD QUOTE FOR THIS IN MY TEXTBOOK
Southern rebels knew, according to their written correspondence, that they were fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. Sure, the rhetoric was typically, “We are fighting for our rights!” ...but they knew that they fought for the right to preserve slavery, the foundation of their economy.
The government wanted to preserve slavery, but I will argue that most of the people who fought in battle only did so to protect their land and their families such as Robert E. Lee who was adamantly against slavery, but was from Virginia.
These history videos always have students doing the same, last minute cramming. Always makes me wonder how they have the time to strike up chats in the comments sections...or even read the comments sections for that matter.
This example of the woman mailing her boyfriend the dress and saying that "He should start wearing the dress if he's not willing to fight," is an example of how some women still greatly influence politics and war even if they seem like they are just in the background, for example, wives of male presidents.
See I lost a percentage on a test because one of their questions was, “what caused slavery” and it gave options and one was just slavery, and I just circled that. But my history teacher was like That’s wrong, it was more about the states rights and I was like No
If I read one more ignorant comment about how the North bullied the South and that's how the Civil War started, I may have to jump out my window. Slavery was the central issue. Slavery drove the South's entire economy, slavery was the main reason the South left the Union, slavery was the issue that led people to claim it was about "state's rights." The South wanted to keep slavery, that's what the "rights" were that they wanted to keep. I live in Massachusetts, so I can gladly say the North won and the country's been better off with that outcome.
pernicious ignorance via vague generality. the political contest over extension of slavery into the territories is the proximate context for why SC & most of lower south seceded (still they didn't want war & made every effort to be allowed to go in peace). it remains for you to discover why upper south which was overwhelmingly pro-Union decided to secede (asking again to be left to leave in peace w.their honor & constitutional rights intact). there is absolutely no way this war would have been fought if the moral question of slavery was presented as the issue. the overwhelming majority of northerners had no wish to abolish slavery in the south. no one cared about the poor negro. Yankees wanted the territories for whites only.
Racist attitudes in the North didn't generally extend to the notion of owning human beings, which had become a religious moral question. Plenty of Northerners held the racist belief that black people were not their equals while also holding the belief that black people shouldn't be owned as property. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and to claim otherwise is to try and make excuses for the real cause of the war: Slavery.
First off. I love CC thank you for all your hard work in bringing this AWESOME youtube channel to us. As an ADD child, now an adult. It has been a huge resource. but episode #20 before #19 would have helped.
Great video, although if I'm not mistaken, it should have been noteworthy to mention the Battle of Antitem. Although it was a stalemate, it convinced countries like Britain and France not to back the Confederacy and was the turning point in the war.
During the American Civil War, Russian-American relations were very good. Alone among European powers Russia offered rhetorical support for the Union, largely due to the view that the U.S. served as a counterbalance to the British Empire.[16] During the winter of 1861-1862, the Imperial Russian Navy sent two fleets to American waters to avoid their getting trapped if a war broke out with Britain and France. Many Americans at the time viewed this as an intervention on behalf of the Union, though historians deny this.[17] Alexander Nevsky and the other vessels of the Atlantic squadron stayed in American waters for seven months (September 1863 to June 1864).[18]
Martiez Scott What the hell are you talking about? Also they didn't fly in space together, they fought to see who could get the most technological progress and goals reached (like first animal, first person, etc) in the new frontiecr of space in the Space Race. Also the American Civil War happened almost 200 years before the Space Race began.
Darian Figueroa I'm talking about now... you're talking about then. And again you didn't know the Civil War happened 200 years ago. Who do you think you're talking to an alien?
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." A Lincoln.
RonPaulHatesBlacks Letter to Horace Greely. Written during the heart of the Civil War, this is one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous letters. Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, had just addressed an editorial to Lincoln called "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," making demands and implying that Lincoln's administration lacked direction and resolve. President Lincoln made his reply when a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation already lay in his desk drawer. His response revealed his concentration on preserving the Union. The letter, which received acclaim in the North, stands as a classic statement of Lincoln's constitutional responsibilities. A few years after the president's death, Greeley wrote an assessment of Lincoln. He stated that Lincoln did not actually respond to his editorial but used it instead as a platform to prepare the public for his "altered position" on emancipation.
Mikey T "There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery." -- Senator Robert Hunter of VA "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves...freedom is not possible without slavery" -- Richmond Enquirer, 1856 "We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing" -- Atlanta Confederacy, 1860 "African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism" -- Congressman Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina, January 25, 1860 "If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question of political and social existence." -- Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator
I think it is interesting that those who try to claim the war was not about slavery often only talk about Lincoln and the North's motivations. I would cede that the North was primarily with forcing the Southern States to remain in the Union, but they were not the ones who started the war. The South, who started the war by their succession, were clearly motivated to protect their right to own slaves.
Well, it was also about agrarian economics, economics which relied on slavery, federal and state governmental powers, a conflict that came to a head over slavery, and cultural differences between the North and the South, differences which largely centered on slavery. While the Civil War was a conflict over several issues, all of those issues returned back to the central issue of slavery. Unless someone is trying to have an in-depth, specialized, and specific discussion of, for example, antebellum agrarian economics (even in which case slavery is a major constituent element), pretending that the Civil War wasn't about slavery is dangerously stupid.
No, the South seceding was a response to Lincoln's election. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. He didn't want to end slavery, he wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. When the Union started falling apart, he went to war with the South. Sure, slavery was a big factor in this regard, along with tariffs, and too strong of a central tyrannical government (hmmm, Britain)... Lincoln when to war to preserve the union - there's a famous quote where he says that if "I could've preserved the union without freeing any slaves, I would have done so."
Lincoln's election as a motivation for the south secession is only valid when you remember they firmly believed Lincoln would push hard for emancipation. Which he did. So, as a cause of the cause of the Civil War, Lincoln's election is a long winded way of saying slavery. High terifs as a motive? Teriffs apply to *imports*, not exports. The south was *exporting* cotton. So that argument is just ridiculous on the very face of it. I'll admit the war powers of the president were expanded. As a result of the war. Not a cause. So, if the "tyranical" expansion of the powers of the federal government you're referring to is actually southern fears of "they're coming for our slaves," thank you for reinforcing my point that Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. If you doubt that the cornerstone of the Confederacy's very existance was to preserve slavery, alow me to quote Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephen's Cornerstone Speech Ahem, "Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth." So, the Confederacy itself cites slavery as the cause of its own existance, and thus, the Civil War. Don't try me pal, *I woke up earlier than you.*
@@thirteenpixelz7365 - Lincoln was the first Republican president. The Republican Party was founded only 6 years prior to his election with an anti-slavery platform as the cornerstone of its identity. The southern states know this in 1864, long before Lincoln was even known to them. Regardless of Lincoln's personal views, South Carolina and indeed the remaining slave states saw his election as the beginning of the end, thus their urgency to leave the Union, so as to avoid going in directions they cared not to go.
Shout out to Crash Course and John Greene for doing my American History 1 professor's job for her. She has a doctorate yet makes us watch these instead of hear her lecture. And we're ok with that and so is she.
This is a link to the Declaration of Causes for each Confederate state that wrote one. www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html Each and every one mentions slavery pretty liberally as a cause of the war. It isn't just the opinion of people who actually have degrees in American history. The Confederacy knew slavery to be the cause too.
To everyone in this comment section saying 'I didn't study', I am sorry. This IS what our teacher told us to study, that this information would be on our final exam. Thank you, Mr. Kollasch!
Well, you are the "Gateway to the West". All that my home state of North Carolina is known for in the Civil War was shooting Stonewall Jackson because North Carolinians are bad at seeing in the dark...
Your quote is incorrect. He said "We will not be describing BATTLES and tactics" , referring to the military aspect. He did not say "STRATEGY and tactics". It would be very hard to summarize the war with no mention of strategy.
3:54 My dad made me read that book. I hated it so bad, I swear on my life i'll post a link of my essay describing why I hated 'The Red Badge of Courage' in a reply.
John, what about the Navy? The CSS Arkansas was one of the most incredible ships on the Mississippi during the Civil War. It ran the gauntlet of the entire Union River Fleet, survived, and lived to engage the fleet again. Her end came only because she grounded near New Orleans, and one engine was beyond repair. She died undefeated.
Jeremiah Brand The Union saw it as a rebellion and the Confederacy saw it as getting the Union out of their new found nation. Neither side saw it as a civil war since the Confederacy didn't consider themselves as being part of the US and didn't want anything that the US owned. A civil war is when two (or more in cases) groups fight over the same nation, state, etc. By definition it is not a civil war. Unfortunately "Civil War" stuck as a word cus' the human race as an organism is lazy in language. Reminds me of the Seven Years War which in fact lasted nine years.
once again, you refuse to see from any other persons point of view, 300,000 southerners did not die to keep their slave, infact most did not have a slave. 300,000 Confederates died defending their culture, wife's, and children, against what they saw as nothern oppression.
@@appalachianvolk1958 I'm not sure how pointful it is to argue with you, given that your profile pic is the confederate flag, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The reason that the conflict arose in the first place was slavery- the motives of individual soldiers can be partially chalked up to propaganda and necessity. The Northern & Southern cultures (excluding the parts pertaining to slavery) would have had little trouble coexisting otherwise. The deep divide over a moral atrocity- for and against which the convictions became more radical over time, under the weary defense of "cultural heritage"- was the crux of the argument, in a way that no other aspect of southern culture could claim to be. Culture is important, but not all-encompassing, and just because you were born and raised in a place that has done something for a century doesn't mean that's the correct thing to do.
Look at bloody Kansas, almost ten years before the civil war fighting broke out in Kansas over whether or not it would be free state or not. Here's the thing the south beviled their states had rights over the federal gov't, yes, and the federal gov't wasn't onboard with that, yes. However the reason to excise and attempt to establish such state rights were in the defense of slavery which was driven the southern economy. There was no looming threat from the north that they may come for your wife or kids back then. Only that friction caused by the debate of slavery which they tried to use state rights to help protect.@@appalachianvolk1958
BlueHooloovoo Mario sports mix!! I went back and watched it again because I wasn't sure and then right after I saw him I headed straight to comment section! 😂
I remember some kid in my class wrote about the Captain America:Civil war instead of the actual Civil war on a essay.....he got an 80 because he was on team Captain.
I have to take a US History class at my university and here in Hungary we are taught that the civil war wasn't about slavery but state rights. Slavery played a major role though. My professor also said that Lincoln gave an interview to a paper in which he said that his main objective was to keep the union together and if this meant the slaves must be freed than he would do that but if there is no need to abolish it, then he's fine with that too. It's a good reminder that despite the epic speeches about freedom and equality, everyone was actually pretty racist in this time period :D
the whole country was falling apart his goal was to keep it together I would like to argue that the war was because of states rights, slavery and industrialization vs agricultural
+Chris Hall But it could've been any "State Right" that triggered the Civil War. It happened to be Slavery. Please understand that the "State's Rights" element is not meant to undermine the importance of the war ending slavery, it's meant to show that not only slavery was radically changed. Before the Civil War, states had enormous powers and sovereignty, far more than any living American can comprehend in light of our current government structure. The Civil War confirmed federal supremacy over the states, and finally curtailed the, frankly ludicrous, amount individual states possessed.
revolrtol wait what? Why would you need to take a US history class in Hungary. And I can't believe it was coney around 200 years ago when they abolished slavery. :/
The battle of Shrute Farms was the most northern offensive of the civil war
Yes yes YES. I second this.
You are so right
YES
Correction, the battle of Shrute Farms was the only battle of the civil war
@@cluck9692 false, black bear
anyone else hoping this will replace the hours of studying that you should've done for your final
Shannon Chaney If you got a genuine American history class you will fail.
Nationalist Canuck Ap exam tm lmfaooooooo
Carina Folescu In the same boat bro
Alex Rodriguez it’s super depressing, hope I at least get a 3! Lmfao we just started reviewing for the exam this week👍🏼
Carina Folescu How'd you do lol? The DBQ stumped me for a little bit and the LEQ was ehh
4:30 - reasons why the north won
5:54 - reconstruction attempts
7:39 - ulysses s. grant
9:23 - most important union victories
Amanda Kanaly queen
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Thank you
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I don't remember receiving any e-mails about this video. You seriously missed out on an excellent source. Also "The fault in our stars" was decent at best.
Lincoln! Did you know we put your face on money?
LINCOL PLS RESPOND TO THIS COMMENT!
The Fault in our stars was an incredible read. I'm sorry that your miniature brain could not see that.
ThatSpicyFoodMoron "WHY IS MY FACE ON A COIN THAT IS WORTH 1/26 OF WHAT A PENNY WAS WORTH WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT?"
(watch?v=77C47XYm_3c&t=2m59s)
@@janetracy1399 I so agree.
I'm playing this in the backround hoping my subconscious will absorb this and spit it out by the exam
Hahhaha So I'm not the only one here having an exam for this period of time !! LOL
Nope.
Pretty much like yes
literally me
@@darlin4818 well everyone has to when school goes down.... but its ok
Lincoln downplayed slavery because he didn't want to piss off the slave states that stayed in the union. He personally was an abolitionist.
RonPaulHatesBlacks It wasn't a war it was a coup d'etat staged by Lincoln and the Republicans. It's all about DEMOCRACY. We had it before Lincoln but not after.
Yeah Andrew Jackson did more to reduce states' rights than Lincoln did, and there was no civil war then.
+John C. Calhoun
You're right the south didn't have democracy after Lincoln, because they had Johnson(unelected),
the klan, and Jim Crow,
until the federal government restored democracy in the south, by passing the civil rights act,
It revoked the state right to deny black people from voting.
The only people complaining about "violations /trampling" by the federal government on the states rights -are those who liked the Jim Crow laws and we're appalled by black people voting.
Wheres the evidence?
***** I am in utter shock. I never read that before. Now l see the light. Thank you so much for that astounding fact that will truly change how Americans view the Civil War.
USA: We lost 8% of our male population in a war
France: Hold my beer
*baguette
Avocado*
Paraguay: AMATEURS
Poland(2 World war): Hold my beer!!!!
Soviet Union: HOLD VODKA COMRADE CYKA
I still can't believe the amount of people who are still bitter over losing the Civil War. We lost, get over it. The South is a better place now than if it had actually stayed the Confederacy.
What do you mean with "we lost"?
We meaning "The South." I'm from the South.
BadgerCheese94
It is not surprising. Civil unrest in the past can last generations before they are fully healed.
because without slavery the south was nothing but a bunch of stupid morons. true. im from the south as well.
This is about a year late, but it's because people don't like being painted the bad guy. Two hundred years later and the primary focus of social studies, American history, and in many ways politics, is still slavery and how evil southerners were/are.
Attention Lincoln haters:
Lincoln had a cool hat, therefore, Lincoln is great
I rest my case
🆒🆗
***** freakin conservatives.
***** Freakin' conservatives, just what are you trying to conserve? 'Murica?!
***** Socialists? No one's doing away with Capitalism. It's the foundation of everything here. No countries are taking over, nor would it be in their best interest to do so; they depend on our spending power.
Okay dude, your bias is coming off a little strong. Relax. Other countries want what we have? Other countries HAVE better things than we have (e.g. healthcare and education) precisely because we're too occupied with paranoia and infighting.
Thank you John. One for giving me a quick recap of the Civil War before a history test, and second acknowledging my home state of Delaware :)
For those who are doing the same thing as me, here are the answers. Thank me by subscribing.
1. April 12 1861
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. North of the United states and the south of the United States
4. A border state is a state that was part of the slaves states that wasn't part of the confederacy. Such as Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland.
5. The union won the war
6. Advantages such as many more people, also manufactures more than 90% of all goods in America
7. The only advantage the south had was better military leaders
8. They had to outlast the Northern efforts to bring them back into the union
9. His strategy was to wear down the south
10. It gave them control to the Mississippi river
11. Gettysburg was a decisive victory for the Union Army and was the last time the Confederacy ever attacked Union soil.
12. The political importance of the capture was that it happened close to the election
99.9% of comments be like..
“I gotta test tmrrw”
I never had the war presented to me from a perspective other than its battles - and yet it wasn't in a vacuum, politics and economics shaped it to a powerful degree. Thank you CC
North or South, we must all agree, everyone major figure had awesome beards.
There was actually a catuar on screen at 2:20.
Its in the bottom left side of the screen
I love crash course/thought bubble for making easter eggs like this
Cactus*
+Jason Tan Cactuar*
oh, i never realized cactuar was a real thing
+Jason Tan It's a monster/summon from Final Fantasy.
Cloud from Final Fantasy is the one that pointed that out if you didn't realize, they gave you cactuar. Cloud being from the same game series is the real easter egg.
I slowed it down .5 speed and now I can understand what he is saying.
you put it at 2x speed, you learn twice as much, twice as fast!
so 4x?
Polite Conversation yeah but then it's a painful 24 minutes long
The reason you had to slow this down, because this catholic fraud has to do what most vatican controlled frauds and suckwads usually do do. They give you a brief lesson on how dumb Abraham Lincoln was, and pretty much never give you the fact that the catholic "church" gave the green light on his assassination as well. The s.o.b. in this video is no better than having the catholic criminals at Georgetown University giving "lessons" on the civil war.
It's supposed to be a brief lesson. It's called Crash Course.
When your favorite author teaches history lessons for your final exam. Bless
"OH!! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?!?" -John Green, 2013
Favourite quote of the month award goes to...😂😂
Our history teacher told us to watch this during quarantine and I noticed right off the bat that the guy making this is a big fan of final fantasy.
Could you imagine being wounded in battle and choosing the pet name “honeybun” to refer to your comrade.
Thank you, Crash Course, for helping me study for (and hopefully NOT fail) my AP US History class final this semester (and also probably next).
How many people went back to 2:20?
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I did, and there was a cactuar there. I was not disappointed.
me
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I was not disappointed.
In my US history textbook it showed that Delaware was a little important. If DE decided to secede from the Union, then Philadelphia would lose access to the sea, which was a major city of importance in those days. However, DE still isn't that important, you are right. Love the videos, and this is helping me solidify concepts for my last essay of the Semester. :)
2:54 love how they added a picture of Cloud in there
My great great great grandfather Frank Allen Pettys and his father Amos both served in the 19th Wisconsin regiment during the Civil War and that particular regiment was the first to fly its colors over the Confederate capital when it was defeated.
Cinema Knight how old are u
As always, great video, but I wish you had spent a bit more time on the causes of the war (might have been worthwhile to explain the differences of the northern and southern interests a bit more). Anyway thanks a lot !
Of course, he also said: "If I could preserve this Union without freeing the slaves, I would."
Okay and?
That was his goal. He opposed slavery but not to the extent of the radical republicans.
+Malik Walker Lincoln's main goal was to preserve the union. He was against slavery, but he said, "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."
Sonia Dean That's what I said.
+Malik Walker I meant to respond to the original comment whoops, I was elaborating bc I have a civil war test tomorrow and I was like WAIT I HAVE A GOOD QUOTE FOR THIS IN MY TEXTBOOK
Southern rebels knew, according to their written correspondence, that they were fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. Sure, the rhetoric was typically, “We are fighting for our rights!” ...but they knew that they fought for the right to preserve slavery, the foundation of their economy.
The government wanted to preserve slavery, but I will argue that most of the people who fought in battle only did so to protect their land and their families such as Robert E. Lee who was adamantly against slavery, but was from Virginia.
I have my midterms tomorrow and i'm like trying to learn all this in one night
melanie burciaga same dude
These history videos always have students doing the same, last minute cramming. Always makes me wonder how they have the time to strike up chats in the comments sections...or even read the comments sections for that matter.
Did u do well in the exam from this video?
"this is crashcourse history" do you mean this is the youtube channel that is going to help me pass my history class
I just realized. He’s the author of The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking For Alaska, and other notable books😲😲😲
"Anyone see the cactus at 2:20? OMG?"
*Goes back a minute to check the cactus*
Yep! Saw it
"He should start wearing the dress if he's not willing to fight."
LOL
I think she should have gone to fight.
Today's American men...wears the dress and does YMCA!
This example of the woman mailing her boyfriend the dress and saying that "He should start wearing the dress if he's not willing to fight," is an example of how some women still greatly influence politics and war even if they seem like they are just in the background, for example, wives of male presidents.
And here's some Asian dude, knowing that the comment section will be controversial without even looking at it.
You correct. You so wise.
찬찬 yOu aSiAN zIPpErhEaDs rUiNING oUr cOnTry! I’m joking but that’s the south for you they hate everyone
Thought I was the only Asian watching.
Another asian here
I have to do a presentation abt this😉😉
Lol
See
I lost a percentage on a test because one of their questions was, “what caused slavery” and it gave options and one was just slavery, and I just circled that.
But my history teacher was like
That’s wrong, it was more about the states rights and I was like
No
cj Hunter you should have responded “A State’s right to what Sir?”
Evan McConnell teacher would've probably got him expelled
cj Hunter. Let me guess he came from the south lol.
Listening to crash course as I work out was the best decision I’ve made all day. Thanks Crash Courae!
If I read one more ignorant comment about how the North bullied the South and that's how the Civil War started, I may have to jump out my window. Slavery was the central issue. Slavery drove the South's entire economy, slavery was the main reason the South left the Union, slavery was the issue that led people to claim it was about "state's rights." The South wanted to keep slavery, that's what the "rights" were that they wanted to keep. I live in Massachusetts, so I can gladly say the North won and the country's been better off with that outcome.
no, no it wasn't...
pernicious ignorance via vague generality. the political contest over extension of slavery into the territories is the proximate context for why SC & most of lower south seceded (still they didn't want war & made every effort to be allowed to go in peace). it remains for you to discover why upper south which was overwhelmingly pro-Union decided to secede (asking again to be left to leave in peace w.their honor & constitutional rights intact). there is absolutely no way this war would have been fought if the moral question of slavery was presented as the issue. the overwhelming majority of northerners had no wish to abolish slavery in the south. no one cared about the poor negro. Yankees wanted the territories for whites only.
Racist attitudes in the North didn't generally extend to the notion of owning human beings, which had become a religious moral question. Plenty of Northerners held the racist belief that black people were not their equals while also holding the belief that black people shouldn't be owned as property. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and to claim otherwise is to try and make excuses for the real cause of the war: Slavery.
brittany gomez from the North?
Idiot South Carolina was the first to secede yet states rights were more important than slavery in South Carolina.
When you're reminded of that one guy in a book who loved to memorize last words and suddenly realize that book was looking for Alaska by John Green
I love these crash course videos! I have short attention span, but these videos always keep me interested and paying attention!
0:55 when you call yourself a "sniveling little ghoul"
Not to mention the north had naval supremecy which pretty much meant that they could prevent the suth from trading more or less indefinatly.
First off. I love CC thank you for all your hard work in bringing this AWESOME youtube channel to us. As an ADD child, now an adult. It has been a huge resource. but episode #20 before #19 would have helped.
can you imagine living in those times for a year?
HorrorMovieReviewGuy no toilet and basic plumbing.
Pass. Take my I pad but when you take my toilet away I draw the line. :(
HorrorMovieReviewGuy Ikr no Panin presses
500 hundred years from now, some people would say how one could live in 21th century.
I'm Asian so I would probably be mistreated for my skin color during that time.
Anyone else just watching this because it's interesting and moderately entertaining, not to mention pretty accurate?
This video was very informal and I liked how unbiased it was.
Great video, although if I'm not mistaken, it should have been noteworthy to mention the Battle of Antitem. Although it was a stalemate, it convinced countries like Britain and France not to back the Confederacy and was the turning point in the war.
During the American Civil War, Russian-American relations were very good. Alone among European powers Russia offered rhetorical support for the Union, largely due to the view that the U.S. served as a counterbalance to the British Empire.[16]
During the winter of 1861-1862, the Imperial Russian Navy sent two fleets to American waters to avoid their getting trapped if a war broke out with Britain and France. Many Americans at the time viewed this as an intervention on behalf of the Union, though historians deny this.[17]
Alexander Nevsky and the other vessels of the Atlantic squadron stayed in American waters for seven months (September 1863 to June 1864).[18]
Cool factoid!
Wow I didn't know that U.S.-Russian relations were good, I thought they were mostly neutral towards each other until WWII.
Darian Figueroa what you didn't know that. Shit they fly in space together.
Martiez Scott What the hell are you talking about? Also they didn't fly in space together, they fought to see who could get the most technological progress and goals reached (like first animal, first person, etc) in the new frontiecr of space in the Space Race. Also the American Civil War happened almost 200 years before the Space Race began.
Darian Figueroa I'm talking about now... you're talking about then. And again you didn't know the Civil War happened 200 years ago. Who do you think you're talking to an alien?
2 years ago I stayed up ALL NIGHT watching crash course for my midterm... WE GOT A B!!!
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." A Lincoln.
RonPaulHatesBlacks Letter to Horace Greely. Written during the heart of the Civil War, this is one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous letters. Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, had just addressed an editorial to Lincoln called "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," making demands and implying that Lincoln's administration lacked direction and resolve.
President Lincoln made his reply when a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation already lay in his desk drawer. His response revealed his concentration on preserving the Union. The letter, which received acclaim in the North, stands as a classic statement of Lincoln's constitutional responsibilities. A few years after the president's death, Greeley wrote an assessment of Lincoln. He stated that Lincoln did not actually respond to his editorial but used it instead as a platform to prepare the public for his "altered position" on emancipation.
Mikey T "There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery."
-- Senator Robert Hunter of VA
"Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves...freedom is not possible without slavery"
-- Richmond Enquirer, 1856
"We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing"
-- Atlanta Confederacy, 1860
"African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism"
-- Congressman Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina, January 25, 1860
"If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question of political and social existence."
-- Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator
Smithy0013 interesting.
Yeah, Grant was crucial to the Northern win but Sherman is definitely a best general in the Union army
Yes because massacring Atlanta's civilians is crucial to the Yankee war effort -_-
+TheLonestarWanderer It worked though
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@@CrabCakes4Sale They weren't massacred and burning it was necessary and badass.
Happy Juneteenth!!
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I don't know why, but every time I learn something new I get anxious and excited and curious. Man I like knowing new things.
I think it is interesting that those who try to claim the war was not about slavery often only talk about Lincoln and the North's motivations. I would cede that the North was primarily with forcing the Southern States to remain in the Union, but they were not the ones who started the war. The South, who started the war by their succession, were clearly motivated to protect their right to own slaves.
You shall not pass......this test said no one thanks again for the amazing work you did
Well, it was also about agrarian economics, economics which relied on slavery, federal and state governmental powers, a conflict that came to a head over slavery, and cultural differences between the North and the South, differences which largely centered on slavery.
While the Civil War was a conflict over several issues, all of those issues returned back to the central issue of slavery. Unless someone is trying to have an in-depth, specialized, and specific discussion of, for example, antebellum agrarian economics (even in which case slavery is a major constituent element), pretending that the Civil War wasn't about slavery is dangerously stupid.
No, the South seceding was a response to Lincoln's election. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. He didn't want to end slavery, he wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. When the Union started falling apart, he went to war with the South. Sure, slavery was a big factor in this regard, along with tariffs, and too strong of a central tyrannical government (hmmm, Britain)... Lincoln when to war to preserve the union - there's a famous quote where he says that if "I could've preserved the union without freeing any slaves, I would have done so."
Lincoln's election as a motivation for the south secession is only valid when you remember they firmly believed Lincoln would push hard for emancipation. Which he did. So, as a cause of the cause of the Civil War, Lincoln's election is a long winded way of saying slavery.
High terifs as a motive? Teriffs apply to *imports*, not exports. The south was *exporting* cotton. So that argument is just ridiculous on the very face of it.
I'll admit the war powers of the president were expanded.
As a result of the war. Not a cause.
So, if the "tyranical" expansion of the powers of the federal government you're referring to is actually southern fears of "they're coming for our slaves," thank you for reinforcing my point that Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
If you doubt that the cornerstone of the Confederacy's very existance was to preserve slavery, alow me to quote Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephen's Cornerstone Speech
Ahem,
"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
So, the Confederacy itself cites slavery as the cause of its own existance, and thus, the Civil War.
Don't try me pal, *I woke up earlier than you.*
@@thirteenpixelz7365 - Lincoln was the first Republican president. The Republican Party was founded only 6 years prior to his election with an anti-slavery platform as the cornerstone of its identity. The southern states know this in 1864, long before Lincoln was even known to them. Regardless of Lincoln's personal views, South Carolina and indeed the remaining slave states saw his election as the beginning of the end, thus their urgency to leave the Union, so as to avoid going in directions they cared not to go.
I like how you always put "me from the past in all of your videos". Also you have a good sense of humor.
Oh my god I guessed the Mystery Letter! Then again Grant was like the only decent Union General I know of lol
I love your videos! They've helped me with assignments and exams! Thank You so much! Keep them videos coming!
“Delaware..... actually wasn’t that important.” Bahahaha
Shout out to Crash Course and John Greene for doing my American History 1 professor's job for her. She has a doctorate yet makes us watch these instead of hear her lecture. And we're ok with that and so is she.
This is a link to the Declaration of Causes for each Confederate state that wrote one. www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html
Each and every one mentions slavery pretty liberally as a cause of the war. It isn't just the opinion of people who actually have degrees in American history. The Confederacy knew slavery to be the cause too.
Thank u u just saved my test tomorrow
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Who else is studying for their final or AP exam
To everyone in this comment section saying 'I didn't study', I am sorry. This IS what our teacher told us to study, that this information would be on our final exam.
Thank you, Mr. Kollasch!
I was watching this in class when I saw that ff reference, made my day.
I continue to be enlightened and entertained so much by these videos! Keep them coming!
John ; we will NOT be talking about battles and tactics !!
Also John ; talks about Grants battles & tactics
This guy talks so fast but give so much information
Its amazing
Imagine having to tell General Lee that you shot Stonewall Jackson
Let us not forget the most important battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Schrute Farms
July 2019 anybody?
Comments like these make me want to run into gun fire
July
Without your past self, you couldn't become yourself today. Embrace your transition and keep improving.
Yay!!! My home state (missouri) was actually important to a war!!!
Yeah!
Well, you are the "Gateway to the West". All that my home state of North Carolina is known for in the Civil War was shooting Stonewall Jackson because North Carolinians are bad at seeing in the dark...
It was still a slave state
I’m so thrilled to see that we (African Americans) had someone fighting in our corner to Equal Rights.
"I am never right because Stan makes it too hard..."
This sounds like my APUSH teacher and I.
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This improved my report in school from DISAPPOINTMENT to BRILLIANT
Anyone watching these vids in 2019?
Me
Of course I am.
@@abrahamlincoln6789 the way you responded to the comment with your user name lol
Yes
@@savvisentertainmentchannel45 I'm glad I connect with the young people. Sskskssksks and I oop!
"I'm not gonna talk about strategy or tactics"
talks about strategy and tactics
Your quote is incorrect. He said "We will not be describing BATTLES and tactics" , referring to the military aspect. He did not say "STRATEGY and tactics". It would be very hard to summarize the war with no mention of strategy.
Am I the only person that saw the Cactuar at 2:18
EDIT: LOL wow 2:54.
it's okay... Cactuar is a rare encounter anyways :(
i saw it too man
I saw man at school
No I saw it too
i saw it my brother thought it was a Pokemon
Thanks! I hope I'll pas my test tomorrow, if so I will give another book by you a chance!
Cactus man @2:20 is my hero
lol
3:54 My dad made me read that book. I hated it so bad, I swear on my life i'll post a link of my essay describing why I hated 'The Red Badge of Courage' in a reply.
John, what about the Navy? The CSS Arkansas was one of the most incredible ships on the Mississippi during the Civil War. It ran the gauntlet of the entire Union River Fleet, survived, and lived to engage the fleet again. Her end came only because she grounded near New Orleans, and one engine was beyond repair. She died undefeated.
John, I felt your victory today, as I guessed the author of the mystery document for the second time ever!
ANYONE ELSE SEE CACTUAR AT 2:20? OMG?!?
Becket Clark nope
nope
yes i did
Doesn't look like anything to me.
Becket Clark anyone see the profile pic was cloud strife?
What's so civil about war anyway?
+CharethCutestory It wasn't a Civil War.
Misnomer.
+Tina Hunt how's that???
Jeremiah Brand The Union saw it as a rebellion and the Confederacy saw it as getting the Union out of their new found nation. Neither side saw it as a civil war since the Confederacy didn't consider themselves as being part of the US and didn't want anything that the US owned. A civil war is when two (or more in cases) groups fight over the same nation, state, etc.
By definition it is not a civil war.
Unfortunately "Civil War" stuck as a word cus' the human race as an organism is lazy in language.
Reminds me of the Seven Years War which in fact lasted nine years.
Was that a Guns N' Roses reference?
+CharethCutestory You help people die. Quicker. What's more civil than.
Fun fact: Grant actually hated the sight of blood, which is ironic because of his nickname "The Butcher."
grant was far from a butcher
back for my daily viewing of john green
aww u funny ,I really enjoyed u r video. I wish u were my history teacher so that way people WON'T be sleeping in our class
"I only listen to The Mountain Goats" best shirt I've seen on your angsty teen self lol.
We should all know that the war was about slavery, but the south DID use states' rights as an excuse to secede.
Not always. Read the Mississippi secession document. It straight up says they are leaving because of slavery.
once again, you refuse to see from any other persons point of view, 300,000 southerners did not die to keep their slave, infact most did not have a slave. 300,000 Confederates died defending their culture, wife's, and children, against what they saw as nothern oppression.
@@appalachianvolk1958 I'm not sure how pointful it is to argue with you, given that your profile pic is the confederate flag, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The reason that the conflict arose in the first place was slavery- the motives of individual soldiers can be partially chalked up to propaganda and necessity. The Northern & Southern cultures (excluding the parts pertaining to slavery) would have had little trouble coexisting otherwise. The deep divide over a moral atrocity- for and against which the convictions became more radical over time, under the weary defense of "cultural heritage"- was the crux of the argument, in a way that no other aspect of southern culture could claim to be. Culture is important, but not all-encompassing, and just because you were born and raised in a place that has done something for a century doesn't mean that's the correct thing to do.
Look at bloody Kansas, almost ten years before the civil war fighting broke out in Kansas over whether or not it would be free state or not.
Here's the thing the south beviled their states had rights over the federal gov't, yes, and the federal gov't wasn't onboard with that, yes. However the reason to excise and attempt to establish such state rights were in the defense of slavery which was driven the southern economy. There was no looming threat from the north that they may come for your wife or kids back then. Only that friction caused by the debate of slavery which they tried to use state rights to help protect.@@appalachianvolk1958
Reading 'Rolling Thunder Hear My Cry' .......It leaves a sour taste in my mouth and a deep hurt boiling in my stomach .
"Honey Bun, How do I look in the face?"
Best.
Last Words.
Ever.
Anyone else see Cactuar at 2:20? OMG?!? XD
I saw it! I saw It!!
BlueHooloovoo Mario sports mix!! I went back and watched it again because I wasn't sure and then right after I saw him I headed straight to comment section! 😂
So we gave them hardy cheers me boys, which was greeted with a smile, singing "here's the boys who fears no noise, WE'RE THE FIGHTING 69th!"
Very helpful recourse to look back on
That was for and extra credit assignment.
I remember some kid in my class wrote about the Captain America:Civil war instead of the actual Civil war on a essay.....he got an 80 because he was on team Captain.
I have to take a US History class at my university and here in Hungary we are taught that the civil war wasn't about slavery but state rights. Slavery played a major role though. My professor also said that Lincoln gave an interview to a paper in which he said that his main objective was to keep the union together and if this meant the slaves must be freed than he would do that but if there is no need to abolish it, then he's fine with that too.
It's a good reminder that despite the epic speeches about freedom and equality, everyone was actually pretty racist in this time period :D
the state right they fought for was god damn slavery,
the whole country was falling apart his goal was to keep it together I would like to argue that the war was because of states rights, slavery and industrialization vs agricultural
+Chris Hall But it could've been any "State Right" that triggered the Civil War. It happened to be Slavery.
Please understand that the "State's Rights" element is not meant to undermine the importance of the war ending slavery, it's meant to show that not only slavery was radically changed.
Before the Civil War, states had enormous powers and sovereignty, far more than any living American can comprehend in light of our current government structure.
The Civil War confirmed federal supremacy over the states, and finally curtailed the, frankly ludicrous, amount individual states possessed.
revolrtol wait what? Why would you need to take a US history class in Hungary.
And I can't believe it was coney around 200 years ago when they abolished slavery. :/
Why do you need to take a US History class in Hungary?
he talks at like 1000 speed learned so much thank you