War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. In this episode of Crash Course, US territory finally reaches from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. After Oregon was secured from the UK and the southwest was ceded by Mexico, that is. Famous Americans abound in this episode, including James K Polk (Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump), Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, and Winfield Scott. You'll also learn about the California Gold Rush of 1848, and California's admission as a state, which necessitated the Compromise of 1850. Once more slavery is a crucial issue. Something is going to have to be done about slavery, I think. Maybe it will come to a head next week. Support CrashCourse on Patreon: / crashcourse
Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. America’s Westward expansion was fueled by both Manifest Destiny and a desire to grow the nation and its resources - though at a cost: www.commonlit.org/texts/manif...
Chapters:
Introduction: Texas & California 00:00
Manifest Destiny 0:41
The Oregon Trail 1:21
Western Settlements 1:37
How Texas Became a State 2:02
Polk's Wars for Expansion 4:04
Critics of the Mexican-American War 4:51
The End of the Mexican-American War 5:32
The Know-Nothings 6:20
The California Gold Rush 7:26
Mystery Document 8:08
California & the Free Soil Party 9:21
California Statehood and the Compromise of 1850 10:25
The Problem with Manifest Destiny 11:40
Credits 12:14
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They were like 'no' which is Spanish for 'no'
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Kk Kk k
kkk which is the best kind of k
Max rux in Philippines it means kataastaasang, kagalanggalangang, katipunan ng mga anak ng bayan.in english Supreme and most Honorable Society of the Children of the Nation.
+angelawinchester176 ringabell The letter seems always to stand for "great abd supreme things"
"Although to be fair, a majority of Americans will support almost any war"
No truer words have been spoken
Yep, War, Boom, Bust has always been the economic formula in the land of the free and home of the brave. The rich stealing and killing from the poor to give to the rich!
I think you’re wrong
Ok “Soviet Roll” lol
Except throughout the glut of US history where Americans strongly desired to remain uninvolved in foreign wars.
Well except for the Vietnam war
I actually wouldn't survive if it weren't for Crash Course and Khan Academy.
amen
HAHA SAME
I use both of these, thank you
DUDE SAME they save my life lol
IM CRYING BC SAME
when you realize this is the guy who wrote fault in our stars
+Shay Powell WAIT WUT WAIT WUT WAIT WUT WAIT WUT WAIT WUT! so thats why his brother also hates it openly.
Cody Bibeau he denounces every so often he says something close to terrible by displaying the book
L A T E
And furthermore, what about, ...
Late'
this man is the only reason i pass any of my AP US history tests
+Kyra Michelle I wouldn't say this should be your APUSH tool for studying... This is a good overview but people like Adam Norris and Jocz Productions is better since they teach the curriculum and cut the extra fat
TheArtunism -ik this comments old but I just gotta reply- I use Adam Norris over the course of the class/whenever we're going over a chapter, but I use Crash Course for unit tests or in my current case, when the AP exam is on Friday lol
Moonfire121 Adam Norris is my teacher in school
Moonfire121 he is awesome
TheArtunism My teacher uses Jocz as guided notes and teaches along the same way they do.
We do, we do. I'm always happy to see civil discourse between people who genuinely want to learn more about the subject at hand. -stan
"I'm either shocked by the pen or the fact that I got it right"
me in class tbh
July Myers Norman osing
Zeugma!
*"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" WAS NEVER A REAL STICKER!?!*
College Debt my favorite part of crash course was fake all along :,-(
College Debt no, it was on johns laptop but he was using stans in this episode
Woody Guthrie.
I imagine John had it as a homage to Guthrie.
I know right!!!
I should put that on a t-shirt.
Wait, I'm not a machine.
**insert zucculous memes here**
Hah, get it? He was looking for Alaska? No one? Okay
It's okay John I get the references
OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE NEVER REALIZED THIS
But how would "Me from the Past" have known about Looking for Alaska? :)
Zoe Colier wow Wow
I’m sadly lost
Who’s here watching this video for there online classes bc of corona
I am!
literally everybody
How bad is it where you are?
@Luz Velasco-Roque the answer to 1 is that I learned that the video exists
Lmao hi guys
FYI in Oregon trail you can only carry back like 100 kg of meat from a buffalo... the game told me this AFTER I shot ten.
Anyways that's why the buffalo are extinct.
Henry David Thoreau was Thoreau-wn in jail.
That pun is Thoreaughly funny!
+radioactivated I would respond with a pun, but I'm just not good at history puns.
I make science puns periodically though.
Jacob Traum Your joke has many nice elements to it.
+Enna Silkov I had a nice reaction to that. #nerdypuns
+radioactivated wow just wow
Puerto Rico is extremely interesting. Hank did a good video about Puerto Rico over at the Vlogbrothers channel. -stan
"Noted asshat John C. Calhoun" 🤣 Every time I watch one of the Green brothers, I love them more
I only have 6 and a half hours of crash course left to watch in 2 hours
I feel that.
+Milli Wright OMG THE GRIND! XD
put speed on1.25
Milli Wright gotta up that speed
With 2x speed, you can get to the 50's at least.
I would just like to point out that these videos have greatly helped me study and review for my World History quizzes and tests. And they are so interesting that, even though I study Neuroscience and not History, I plan on watching them all to better understand and be aware of all that has happened in history up to now. Thank you John Green.
That amount of electrocution cannot be accomplished by a pen, only by Emperor Palpatine.
Kingdom hearts
Aretha Coleman Best. Comment. Ever.
Huh?
It was quite funny +Aretha Coleman
😊
Dear Crash Course team,
Thank you for helping me cram for my weekly US History tests this year. You helped me cram for World History last year as well. You truly make learning fun and thank you for all of your efforts.
who else watching all of these night before apush exam
daniel czerwien I will lol
daniel czerwien me
Two nights before ha ha
how'd you do??
Night before midterm
John Green for President!
yes. Lol.
absolutely!
John Green from the past made me genuinely chuckle
They were like "no"
Which is Spanish for "no"
There's a reason I watch this stuff
hello fellow APUSH crammers, y’all will be fine
The Mexican-American war was one of the wars I've had to study for myself because the history of that war wasn't even touched when I was in high school. Just WWI, WWII, the war in Korea, and the war in Vietnam (with a "side order" of the ridiculous "We Were Soldiers" American film).
***** funny because now WWI, WWII, Korean and Vietnamese war are only touched on in today's school. I went to private school, so I learned about all of them, with an emphasis on WWII and Korean (mainly because at that school we choose what we liked to learn) and I started in the 1st grade. Now my daughter(8), the product of public school, was so lost when I taught her about Anne Frank and took her to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. I was so embarrassed I taught her about all of wars and current events a few months before we went to the Anne Frank house.
***** They don't want you to know about it
***** Thailand
TheMightyByron
I consider myself to be a German rather than Mexican. What you view as obvious is all on your perspective entitlement. The Invasion of Mexico is not the only history I study on my free time. I made myself aware of other historical events like the tragic death of one person that launched WWI, The Battle of Gettysburg, The Battle of Waterloo, The Battle of Stalingrad, the scorched earth policy that foiled the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia, (and yes) the US take over of Hawaii, so and so on.
***** Que what?
These are my favorite! I love Crash Course- it makes learning US history fun and easy. I am studying for a huge exam that could potentially ask me any question about US history, and I feel more prepared now than ever. Also, Mr. Green is hysterical, and he's clever in his various descriptions about the rules of the Mystery Document :D
Danica pushes the globe, and she does a wonderful job of it. Although Mark had to push it a couple of times while she was on vacation. -stan
John Green et al., y'all are the best! I benefitted so much from watching these videos before taking my CLEP US History I Exam. You made re-learning the material (5 years since I took US History in high school) a blast. Thank you!
I believe the state that you are LOOKING FOR is ALASKA
omg
+Valerie Lehr ahhh i just got it! haha
Valerie Lehr I don't get it
John Green
has a book called Looking For Alaska
Your videos are the main thing that prevents me from failing history. Thank you so much! I love all the visual aid that you provide! This video was especially helpful, as this war in particular seems to be quite difficult for me to understand. Also, there is a really important test about it coming up.. Thanks again!
Love your books btw!
"It was the first war Americans fought primarily on foreign soil"
*_USS Enterprise, Tripoli Marines & that mad lad John Paul Jones have joined the chat_*
i just wanted to thank you guys at Crash Course. Because of these videos, I was able to go into my AP US History test with loads more confidence and feel solid on my essays. So thank you and keep it up.
Hey Crash Course team. Love your work. Would like to point out here that the term "internal imperialism" at 1:02, is in itself a Manifest Destiny way of describing American expansion. America began as a 13 state union clustered on the Eastern seaboard and has since expanded to control more than twice the land that the Roman Empire controlled at its height. There was nothing internal about it. Also, unlike the Roman Empire, that expanded but left cultures alone as long as they paid taxes, the U.S. "union" wiped away peoples and cultures in front of it in the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide known to human history as your video attests to when it speaks of the drop in California's Native population from 150,000 to 30,000 in 12 years (9:49). I appreciate all of the work that Crash Course does to bring knowledge to so many, and I hope that Crash Course U.S. History can make young Americans aware of this history so that we can choose how our country will wrestle with its implications and open wounds.
Who noticed that he said 48ers instead of 49 ERS?
i might be completely wrong about it, but I think it was supposed to be a joke since gold was discovered in 1848 but the team is the 49ers not the 48ers
ObsessivelyAspen While you are correct that it was a joke and that gold was discovered there in 1848, the majority of the rush occured in 1849, as that is when most of the immigration to California (primarily San Francisco) took place.
As it did start in 1848, the first miners and prospectors were the 48ers
i think it was a joke….
ccorrecto
I love how John always looks like he's on the verge of bursting out laughing when he does the credits.
2:37 THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY STUDYING FOR APUSH TESTS MARGINALLY MORE ENTERTAINING BY INCLUDING THE PRINCESS BRIDE
The painting at 1:06 is an 1855 work depicting the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia with the town of Liberty (present day Bedford) in the foreground. The original painting is on display at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. It's cool to recognize that; I've hiked that prominent mountain on the left hand side of the work many times!
Summarize this video with at least 5 of these terms:
Dysentery
Mexico
Santa Ana
"Remember the Alamo"
Annexation
Nativism
Know-Nothings
Catholics
Forty-niners
Chinese
Henry Clay
Popular Sovereignty
Are you secretly my history teacher?
On the 17 episode of an online educational video series about American history, there was a comment that asked me to use the words: "Dysentery", "Mexico", "Santa Ana", ""Remeber the Alamo"", "Annexation", "Nativism", Ect.
I've been out of grad school for 2 years and haven't taken a history course in 4 years but I still love watching these videos.
I love the shirt that says "Save Ginny." That was one of the first things I realized! Love the video, very helpful!
It's Manifest Destiny that gold was discovered like right after Mexico gave up its land. And it's the San Fransisco 49ers, not the 48ers
Silent Weeping Cyberman I think it was a joke because the gold rush was in 48 but they named them the 49ers
+Silent Weeping Cyberman Manifest Destiny is a phrased that wasn't used much until after Westward expansion. In fact it was just greedy Americans that wanted money and land- and if you don't believe me look at the genocide of Native Americans and tell me it was anything else.
Just curious, but how many viewers are actually old enough to have played Oregon Trail? Very few, I'm sure.
I didn't know Oregon Trail had an age requirement.
Bailey Young it doesn't, the thing is that the game came out around 1971
Despite having been born in the late 90s rather than the 70s, I was lucky enough to play the game~
it was my favorite game in 4th grade. Our class had a competition to see who could beat the game the most times.
I am only 16 and I played it all the time growing up. We had it on a CD that we put in the computer and then played it on. Apparently this wasn't the original version, but many, many teens now a days did play it growing up
Ready for my test next period. Thanks John. Sincerely, avid study hall watcher.
#AVIDSquad
Lol, I've watched this video a couple times to try to wrap my mind around this before tomorrow's test (which will be last test of this quarter. It's also much longer and more difficult than most tests he gives... Gah.) It's currently 11.30 pm. Oh my gosh.
4:55 I can confirm this as a being high schooler now
John would be proud, I'm listening to this while playing Tetris.
"Mexico was all like 'No.' That's Spanish for no." DEAD lmao
Also i thought it was the 49ers...
Thank you so much! I love this show especially when it relates to what we are learning. We have a debate on why the U.S. was not justified to send troops over the Nueces river and I was wondering if I could get a little help with a summary of arguable points. Thank You!
--Amritha Iyer (A student from Plano, Texas)
"I believe the answer you're LOOKING FOR is ALASKA"
Oh John Green, I love your unintended nudges. Look the book and these videos!
4:56 LOLOL. You don't really understand the book "Civil Disobedience" until you refused to do your assignment to read the book :)
"'No', which is Spanish for 'no'"
"Hello. My name is Antonio Lopez. You killed my father. Now prepare to die!"
LOL
I love the reference to Princess Bride "Hello my name is Inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die" (in the description on Antonio Lopez)!
It breaks my heart every time you diss New Jersey, John. But thank you for these videos.
"oh your back hurts here's some pot"
I watched this video in an Amarillo high school class and we were all both deeply offended and understanding
In reference to 'On civil disobedience' That was almost what I did, however I found it too fascinating and actually re-read the document on my own time since I just skimmed it the first time.
My teacher also called me a transcendentalist before I knew what he was talking about.
Ahhh the humor you add to videos really does help me remember key concepts. Love you thanks
Love the Looking for Alaska reference ;)
Diablo 2 Barbarian reference in the Mystery Document! Epic! :D
This video helped me so much on my essay, thank you so much. I don't know how I could've done any of it with this! :)
This is my first John Green video. I had to slow it down to match my slow thinking but super informative. I'm a fan.
It seems to me that everything in history is inevitable. Past events are set, and aren't going to change at this point. The Civil War was definitely inevitable by this time. We know this because the Civil War happened, and was very much related to the stuff we discuss in this video. Now, you could say nothing in the future is inevitable, but there are people who would argue that point with you, too. -stan
Best me from the past shirt yet!
"And as always happens when Dreams come true....Trouble starts." That hit home lol
my assigned reading today is actually "On Civil Disobedience" and upon hearing Green's comment, I cried a little on the inside.
did no one else recognize the Looking for Alaska reference in the beginning???
It's sad that they took away territories that belonged to Mexico, and that the mexicans that live there today are being discriminated
The Spaniards did, not Mexicans. Mexicans are all the people who were left in Mexico after independence. That included native Americans.
Solorhurricane 695 boy they lived in peace hell a law was no slavery with natives and blacks for Mexicans back then
It's Mexico's fault. They took power from the states and almost every state revolted and Texas succeeded in getting independence. And then they ambushed American troops in Texas which kick started the war.
@Hello World! You are very uneducated on history. Mexicans invited Americans to act as a buffer between their own Spanish settlers and Native American tribes. And then when the central government took power from the states, most of the states revolted and Texas succeeded in gaining independence.
@@prodigiii712 you should really watch the video before you open your mouth.
John Green, you’re one of the best U.S. historians with a strong moral compass! Your parents must be proud of you and your brother! 👩🏽🦱✌🏾From Colorado
I love the crash course videos, they help me sooo much on my school projects and my teachers love him!!
Funniest educational lecture I have ever experienced!
Norman Asing, was the owner of a restaurant in San Francisco.
"Sir: I am a Chinaman, a republican, and a lover of free institutions; am much attached to the principles of the government of the United States... The effect of your late message has been thus far to prejudice the public mind against my people, to enable those who wait the opportunity to hunt them down, and rob them of the rewards of their toil... You argue that this is a republic of a particular race - that the Constitution of the United States admits of no asylum to any other than the pale face. This proposition is false to the extreme, and you know it. The declaration of your independence, and all the acts of your government, your people, and your history are all against you."
This is my favorite crash course us history so far because of John's snarky remarks.
we read "on civil disobedience" in my English class today and then all turned in our essays we were supposed to write after with nothing on them but the words "Civil Disobedience." Our teacher thought it was great and gave us all a bonus point, but we had to write the essays anyways. Worth a shot though!
decided to play the orginal the oregon trail after this
Thoroughly entertained by the San Francisco 48ers.
My number 1 UA-cam channel ! the mystery document is always a classic!
excellent. So much in our schooling we are taught to memorize facts and dates but it is not until adulthood and lived life that we have a true understanding of our history. Many people ignore it and it's just business as usual. thank you for your presentation.. Edifying.
anyone else see the batman reference during the mystery document?
How come John Green has a vendetta against New Jersey?
irony? humor? accidentally neglecting to mention new jersey enough in previous videos and people teasing him for it?
Because New Jersey
People have made fun of NJ for over a century. This isn't a new thing.
KingdomOfDimensions I'm sorry I'm from Australia, what is wrong with New Jersey?
theGoannaMan As far as I know, nothing actually. My theory is that NJ just isn't New York, which has songs and the like written about it. The NJ joke was probably revitalized recently by Jersey Shore though.
Here's what I could find www.cbsnews.com/news/why-does-new-jersey-get-no-respect/
One of your better segments. I was thoroughly entertained.
I watched this in my history class today and I live in Amarillo. Needless to say the whole class burst out laughing and saying "no offense taken John"😂👌🏼
Looking For Alaska reference unintended?
"I believe the state you are looking for is Alaska"
OMg LOOKING FOR ALASKA
I earned an A for my History class because of these detailed videos. Thank you very much, and happy holidays.
Love your videos! would love to see you do a video on Institutionalized Cruelty
Watching in new jersey like ☕
Go devil's
Let's go Avs!
John, the people of NJ have banned you.
good
Is this true?
That's a service not a punishment. Can I be banned too? Please...
Zach Moyer New Jersey is beautiful, the only part you see is the airport (the ugly parts) there is so much more that New Jersey has to offer other than the airport etc
CrashCourse videos are literally the only thing i use to study for my history tests
did anyone else notice that during the mystery document when they put up a picture representing science, it was Bil Nye the Science Guy? (8:30)
My History teacher assigning this for us to watch and answer these questions thinking all his students are smart: '"please answer these questions by tomorrow :)"
""1. Summarize (briefly) how the Texas and California went from a Mexican possession to a US possession.
2. What were the impacts of the US acquisition of Texas and California?
3. What role did slavery play in this?
4. Describe (briefly) the Compromise of 1850
""
Me being the absolute idiot I am re watching this 3 times and still having no answers: ":') eVeRyThInGs fInE" **fails class**
Same
Nataly Kin you literally are so amazing like I didn’t even need the answers to the questions but ur just such a sweet person for answering them for the person
Will that song he sang be available on Itunes?
***** Stab me 29 times, shame on senate, stab me 30 times shame on me.
***** Frick my wife! And the praetorian guard! I dont need them I can protect myself! Mind as well send them away while im in a room by myself with my most hated rivals.
+Gaius Julius Caesar Not to mention it's been over 2000 years and over 99% of the world still can't pronounce your name right.
+Gaius Julius Caesar but hey
The Russian and German monarchs
(When they still existed) were both named after you
***** French and Italian Absolute Monarchs, wannabe romans...
I love the Princess Bride allusion they did with Antonio Lopez De Santa Ana.
Awesome video because when I read the textbook I am given I sometimes don't understand what they mean because they make such a simple thing sound so complicated. Which this video doesn't do that because it is made so common people can understand what we are trying to learn, which I love about Crash Course
For some Americans seem to think imperialism is bad. Not only did it form them, but is is how America acquired it's territory. And you poke at the British, when in North America they were far more nice to the natives then the U.S.
omg...when he said "dont forget to be awesome".. i thought of my principal and now im starting to think he watches some of these vids. :/.
he ALWAYS says, "and as I like to say.. DONT FORGET TO BE AWESOME!!(or DFTBA) ;-;
I love how there's always a fire flower (mario) in these videos. But anyway, great video! I learned a lot. (By the way, I'm in APUSH!)
I was hoping for a little more on the journey west and what it was like for settlers. The reasons why people made the move, etc.
While I generally very much enjoy his videos, in this video, Mr. Green actually is wrong. At 11:35 , he claimed that the Compromise of 1850 passed despite all of the controversy in the legislature. Actually, that is not entirely accurate, at all. The Compromise of 1850 actually did not pass in the legislature, in fact, it was actually voted down. The only way for the contents of the Compromise to pass is if they were broken up as smaller acts. Stephen A Douglass from Illinois took the initiative to break up all of the different components of the Compromise of 1850 and present them to Congress. Every component passed except for one. While practically all of the aspects of the Compromise of 1850 were passed, they weren't passed under that title. The accuracy is in the details.
Did he seriously call them the 48ers?
I know show some respect they’re tha 49ers
this channel is the best!
It can help me with my History subject!!! I love HISTORY