Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22

[@crashcourse]

We made an error in this video. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 wasn’t the first time Congress overrode a presidential veto. The first time was in 1845 when Congress overrode President John Tyler’s veto of an act relating to revenue cutters and steamers. After that, Congress overrode five of President Franklin Pierce’s vetoes before they overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of The Civil Rights Act. We apologize for this mistake and thank our thoughtful viewers for pointing out potential errors.

[@jomanom8651]

"Americans hate taxes" *glares at cup of tea*

[@poseiidon725]

xD

[@caleb9570]

lol

[@john197039]

Johnny B, If you believe the US Revolution was simply over the tea tax then you should probably crack a book and start reading some history before you comment on history.

[@lucyfm7616]

hamfam ;)

[@gpt9127]

Hilarious

[@Corristo89]

They got rid of the institution of slavery but didn't get rid of the mindset that made it possible and sustained it. It's like extinguishing a fire but leaving the source still smoldering.

[@Drkbowers1]

There's no really good way to get rid of a mindset through the government without oppressing the freedoms of the people.Propaganda would probably seen as "Evil Northern Propaganda".

[@hunterhoffman4465]

What you are talking about is "De facto" segregation. Where segregation takes place in the form of habit. (The opposite of "De jure" segregation, which relates with segregation by law)

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Ironically, it's the same mentality that exists with extremists in the Middle East. No amount of bombing and gerrymandering of politics there will change the hearts and minds of the people who believe what they do. There will always be whites in America that believe they are better than black. Always. That's why even after enslavement, you had the Black Codes, you had Jim Crow, you had de facto segregation, you had discrimination, you had a radical rise in black incarceration after the civil rights movement, you have disproportionate sentencing for drug usage/sale...there will ALWAYS be something in this country because the root of it was poisoned. Black people weren't even truly considered citizens until the late 1860's. C'mon! There will never be true equality because the mentality so many have is that whites are first and that everyone comes after. That's where the conflict is with immigration...it's the fact that so many non-whites are here more than anything else.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

Nietzsche's Ghost Actuall6, that isn't the complete story.

[@calamityamity3706]

Ike Okereke 4 months later and still the story is not filled in; I declare +Nietzsche's Ghost the winner and Arbiter of Facts

[@annelmoreno6862]

Seriously... Crash Course team, THANK YOU!!!!!! Your series of videos help a college student out better than any textbook we could ever buy. The videos are short and concise but still informative enough without just stating basic, useless facts. I love how you guys provide causes and effects of the decisions made throughout history. That's what makes history so important.

[@righteousavalanche]

Damn it takes me 4 hours to take notes while reading my APUSH textbook and I can barely understand what's going on but you can go through this and help me make sense of a whole chapter in less than 20 minutes. Thanks John you're my hero

[@ComputerGeek1100]

Forgot my notes, test tomorrow... So glad this series exists

[@AikaLove629]

My teacher goes so fast that i dont even have time to take notes. my notes are less than 1 page e.e

[@bicicleta9481]

+MCBlenderGeek this actually saved my grade

[@AikaLove629]

+ana zalles hope it saves mine too xd. cause i dont understand the teacher at all. tomorrow got my first test after the break and dont want to mess it up D:

[@GoskatePanda]

when ur in highschool and still play minecraft

[@carlag8589]

I have a test on Friday and I'm kind of glad we have a test about reconstruction and I'm glad this is all true 😁😁😁

[@katherinebreeggemann6973]

John Green just quoted his own best selling book-turned-movie on his very popular KZbin channel that millions of people watch. Life goals

[@noahbalamut9543]

I just looked what you said and found out they're the same John Green. Oh. That's all I have to say. Oh.

[@jasonmartin8883]

Where at?

[@fireteamkaml1763]

What's the movie/book called?

[@katherinebreeggemann6973]

Right at the beginning he quoted The Fault In Our Stars when he said "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up"

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

@@katherinebreeggemann6973 He quoted that in a video once, too. I don't recall which, but l distinctly remember that sentence, despite having never read any of his books. (I realise l'm 3 years late to answer this, but l'm currently on day 1 of re-watching this series.) ~ TDG

[@rosabellle]

"i would celebrate not getting shocked, but now i am *depressed*." john green

[@jennykapau4845]

My ancestors from Bohemia were non-slave holding farmers in the Texas hill country when the war broke out. Like Sam Houston, they did not agree with the war. They risked their lives to avoid fighting for a cause they did not believe in, and I am proud of them for doing so. They were not cowards, and their descendents went on to fight in both world wars in the ensuing century. One of them, part of Patton's army during the Sicily campaign, was bayoneted in the stomach in hand-to-hand fighting in a fox hole and left for dead. He survived for 25 years after the war's end. I am proud of my family's heritage of not fighting for the Confederacy, and I am proud that my grandmother and her sisters stood up for a group of young African American children walking to their separate and unequal school during the 1910s when they were being harassed by a group of older white boys. They reported what happened to their parents, and their parents talked to the other parents. Very quickly, they put a stop to that racist behavior.

[@eonstar]

Awesome

[@GigsofRam]

I love stories like this because it shows that people did know racism was wrong and judging those from the past with contemporary morals is not unfair. Thank you for sharing your family's story.

[@christiansouthwick4712]

@@GigsofRam That was a small minority though, like a very very very small minority.

[@davids1854]

My great grandparents in my dads friends came from Europe after the war

[@JesseLockeHere2Do]

@@christiansouthwick4712 A War was fought to free our ancestors. So why do you think it was a "very small minority?"

[@stateofthenihil8352]

It's sad, seeing how long it took for change to come about. Literally a century from the end of the civil war until MLK's successes in the 1960s.

[@theotherview1716]

And we're all worse off.

[@EveryDayLifeChannel9777]

And you think these discriminatory practices went away in the 60s and today?

[@stateofthenihil8352]

Kenith McIntosh Lol. Construct that narrative.

[@EveryDayLifeChannel9777]

StateoftheNihil That's just stuff white people say to deflect from the atrocities they commit. It's ok devil! discriminatory practices don't exist and everything is good now that MLK got his brain blown out by a white man.

[@stateofthenihil8352]

Kenith McIntosh "That's just stuff white people say to deflect from the atrocities they commit." All white people have in common is complexion, and ancestry in some cases. What point could you possibly be making here? Are you assuming I'm white, or are you accusing me of acting white? "It's ok devil! discriminatory practices don't exist and everything is good now that MLK got his brain blown out by a white man." Lol. And what makes you think I deny any of this? Construct that narrative.

[@hi-xy6nr]

Who else’s history teacher assigned this on google classroom

[@hi-xy6nr]

imagine if the person who liked this was someone im my class LmAo

[@alexisporubsky2971]

MINEEE!!!!

[@kqueenswanroan9720]

Y’all must be ahead of us because we just got it , or maybe I need to keep up with my online schooling 😅

[@Nathaniel_the_4th]

Same the pain is real

[@Blanks_]

Mine did

[@yukon2445]

Is it normal that I'm French and I find the American history more interesting than the French history? Your country is so, so fascinating.

[@jonathandufern7421]

Thomas Jefferson, one of our most wonderful Fathers of the nation was a diplomat for France, lived there for almost 2 decades off an ond on and had the French help us in our quest for independence. French and American history in that era both fought for freedoms in different way s and are and hopefully will forever be tied as friends due to Americas need and thankfulness in helping us become an independent nation.

[@siddu4960]

French revolution was much cooler though

[@kylemazur1447]

@@siddu4960 You mean Les Miserables? Haha

[@wildchicken679]

Nashi _ Yup. We a weak rebel force took on the most power nation in the world at the time but we had help from the ocean and the French. But the French civilians took on an ENTIRE military on. 🤭

[@kylemazur1447]

c a n i g e t a d a m n h u g ? U You’re forgetting one thing though... even though the French rebels did a great job and fought really well. They still failed to win the French Revolution. It wasn’t until years later that anything changed. The rebels in France were either all killed or they surrendered...

[@renzopeterson153]

CrashCourse should expand on Jim Crow.

[@chadc437]

Corrado Junior Jim Crow laws would be a good thing for people to learn about. They can see that gun control was initially put into place to make it difficult for blacks to own a firearm and effectively defend themselves.

[@adambeehler5814]

Corrado Junior hi

[@0BradCraft0]

this kind of stereotyping is what causes so much conflict in this country. and also there is a lot about Jim Crow in this series, and multiple videos entirely or partially on slavery.

[@microsoftaxell1596]

Corrado Junior I think they try to focus on the non covered areas of historical events, most people know about the Jin Crow laws so they probably don't want to use an entire video explaining which most people who watch these videos would know already.

[@LB-of6yf]

I wish they did one on Jim Crow laws as well, they dont cover that in my country (or virtually any u.s. History)

[@isnortredstone4life560]

Anyone here trying to cram this knowledge into there heads before a test. Edit: Just in case you wanted to know I passed the test 😎. Did any of y’all

[@albikasemi2322]

Yup hahaha

[@anyad6131]

Exactly it feels like I'm trying to trap air

[@raynalaufeyson4008]

yes sooooo much info

[@thomasinaandgrantmadden9987]

No cuz I am not so foolish to think cramming ever works well enough to be a good idea and even less so a legitimate study method.

[@albikasemi2322]

@@thomasinaandgrantmadden9987 Well, I got a 91 on my test soooooooo

[@BFFBuddyFionaandFriends]

He’s very good at explaining history quickly so it doesn’t get boring.

[@heyitzjustme]

A semester of APUSH conveniently crammed into 22 videos. Thank you, John. I don't know what I would do without Crash Course!

[@zoeglass]

Thanks for helping an overwhelmed college student study for the CLEP exam 💚 John Greene, you're the best history professor I could ask for!

[@secretsanta3501]

when you discreetly quote your own book.... "the roller coaster only goes up from here my friends."

[@ikoikjji5548]

shmik lol I didn't catch that

[@secretsanta3501]

Ikoikjji yep. its from the fault in our stars 😂

[@yuviamendoza4317]

@@secretsanta3501 wait this is John green John green? or is this just a joke

[@johna.favata5909]

@@yuviamendoza4317 it's him John Green

[@sophiaazuero1024]

trying to cram 3 hours before the ap exam >>>> studying during the three months of quarantine I've had

[@mtmgaminggg]

Apush test tomorrow rip

[@mattmangan20]

+Miguel Vazquez feelsbadman

[@crusadernikolai1996]

Same

[@LeonWolves]

Rip the ap exam

[@confuciassays4426]

Aaron Mourousas did you pass?

[@ryanhenry3694]

How'd ya do ?

[@MrK67017]

Man. can you imagine where we'd be now had Reconstruction not been interrupted or Lincoln not murdered? Somebody needs to make a movie!

[@zoroark9733]

Cheers to everyone studying for finals and trying to watch every crash course video to cram everything back into their brain

[@seooliviachang3057]

Hi! I'm 11 and learning about the Civil War at our school. Our teacher's notes are long, but CrashCourse is easy to understand. Thanks, CrashCourse!

[@theatagamer90]

Sharecropping= "HMMMMMMMMM That is Worth...... 1/4 portion"

[@mak63gmail]

+TheataGamer haha lol Star Wars TFA for the win!

[@AstralDrake]

Great joke!

[@theatagamer90]

+dragon artist 2620 thx posted after I saw the movie.

[@porky8278]

I love you

[@leebojr1]

TheataGamer

[@emilybrownbaker7433]

"Man, we would sure win more elections if black people could vote." OMg laughed s hard!

[@furret1927]

yes

[@dlseller]

Watching in 2024. Hearing John speak about disputed electoral college votes and congress deciding the election fills me with dread. Stan can we get the foreshadowing filter?

[@lm8772]

When Lincoln's bruised head sticks back into the screen after John chucks him out :)

[@leigha.b.1875]

My history teacher has taken a week to teach the first 2 Minutes of this video. It is no surprise that I HATE HIM WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS. It would be the force of million suns but he really likes lord of the rings and I really can't not like that.

[@noahbalamut9543]

Taking time isn't always a bad thing. Assuming that it's pretty much impossible to take a week to teach what could be taught in two minutes (if he had to go over only what's in the video), then he was more in-depth. Which isn't a bad thing at all, actually.

[@leigha.b.1875]

It wouldn't be bad if it was more in depth. It isn't more in depth. I learned more from 2 minutes of this than listening to him for a week because he just kept saying stuff over and over that really had nothing to do with this part of history. This video goes deeper into history that my AP US History class and I find that extremely sad

[@noahbalamut9543]

Leah B As much as I doubt it, I'm forced to believe it. So, all I can do is give you my sympathy.

[@ShudowWolf]

Noah Balamut one of my friends claims in his US AP history class that the teacher made him stop reading a book on history so the teacher could teach the class on how to take a test. The worst part is that my friend says he does that EVERY WEEK.

[@katierobey-bhamani4435]

Leah B My history teacher uses these videos lol. thats why I have been watching them.. also 10 things I hate about you reference huh?

[@lindsey4227]

Had all of quarantine to prepare for my AP exam tomorrow but we’re just starting now lol

[@beautifulqueen3883]

I got a whole essay 😭😭😭😶

[@July_2142]

Did you pass? XD

[@beautifulqueen3883]

Julio Alcazar uhhh well she said it was good 😏

[@keshavmenon3920]

Wheres my AP procrastinators at

[@aral4672]

Keshav Menon I’m on a crash course marathon rn 🗿

[@cristianc9845]

Ayyy

[@groovyshroomy]

wassupppp

[@mikeycost6917]

I really hate reconstruction, it’s essentially a couple needlessly bickering over how to fix the house(U.S.) after a huge family feud (civil war). Then as the mother is about to kick it into high gear(Lincoln) the abusive husband comes in and hits her( Johnson). So the family just either argues, hopelessly try to fix the house, or sabotage the fix’s of the person, until everyone loses interest and doesn’t dwell on it. Then the next generation sees how stupid the past generation was for bickering and actually try’s to make amends.(Civil rights movement). (And yes this is not to be taken seriously it’s just the ranting of someone who’s cramming reconstruction in there skull.😢)

[@geekgod420]

I've always hated Andrew Johnson because of how he handled reconstruction. I think the only other chance for making things better after a war that was squandered that badly was the mishandling of the middle east after WWI. I truly view WWI as a huge opportunity to have prevented many of the conflicts that followed, and not just WWII.

[@IzzieToastie]

My history teacher showed this in class today, she said it was one of the best videos explaining the reconstruction she's ever seen, and that it was very entertaining at the same time. I was so happy to see my favorite author and youtuber on the projection screen in my own classroom. Thanks John Green for making my history class ten times more interesting today !!

[@BambiTrout]

I find it weird that Republicans and Democrats have almost completely swapped political positions

[@theotherview1716]

Don't fool yourself. Dems don't really care about blacks and pubs don't hate blacks.

[@danielnewman1350]

they haven't actually. Both party's have always had a racist element, however as a general rule republicans have always fought for equality. The Democrats changed from an 'anti black' position to a 'win votes with welfare/equity' position. Both slavery and welfare are immoral so republicans are against both on principle. The black demographic just moved to the party that gives them the most stuff.

[@danielnewman1350]

SmithTrends Int'l nah, blacks are poorer today than whites on average because of poor financial decisions they make in the here and now. If we gave them that reparation money and waited a few years it would disappear. I used to work in a car dealership, and sold to lots of different people. The current wealth of each demographic group is directly tied to the average financial responsibility of the group.

[@josephc7232]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election#Realigning_elections_in_United_States_history

[@youtubealert6176]

Spartan057J no Republicans just thought that they had secured all the liberties African-Americans so they kept it to the South

[@lisaliubovich8478]

it is currently 3 am and i spent all day working on my apush notes that i don't have the energy to finish. now i'm here. i hear colors. i see sounds. there is no silence, only apush

[@Potaters12]

The cartoon drawing at the intro depicting the Battle of Gettysburg shows a Union soldier holding a rifled musket with the flintlock mechanism. A Union soldier would have most likely used a rifled musket with the caplock mechanism. Nitpicking FTW.

[@Bird_Dog00]

How do you know it's rifled? btw. if it were rifled, it wouldn't be a musket, as muskets are defined as being smoothbore muzzle loaders. hey, you startet the nitpicking ;)

[@Potaters12]

Bird_Dog en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifled_musket I assume it's rifled, because at the time of the Civil War, Union soldiers would have mostly all had rifled weaponry. Of course there were still lingering smoothbores, but those were mostly used by the CSA, especially in the latter stages of the war. Let the nitpicking continue... ;)

[@Bird_Dog00]

Hmm.. they were indeed called "rifled muskets". Crash between old and modern naming conventions?

[@Potaters12]

Bird_Dog I think nowadays musket refers to the overall design and mechanism i.e long flintlock/caplock/matchlock firearms. They can be rifled or smoothbore, doesn't really matter.

[@macvena]

Potaters12 That's such an important observation. It may take years of contemplation to conclude it was a cartoon.

[@blueberry9994]

literally havent paid any attention at all in my us history since 1877 class, but binging your videos is helping me pass my final.

[@bac0nand3ggs]

He just explained fully what my teacher who skims over the top of subjects. If John was a teacher, I would pay to listen to him talk.

[@supizgamerpro101]

While I was scrolling through a "fresh" KZbin (that is, in private browsing, logged out) I found this recommended. It's interesting because I learned this in my history class 2 months ago.

[@kateoneill4983]

I'm watching this sped up and internally screaming

[@foof9989]

surprised "slavery by another name" wasn't mentioned here, but I guess that's fair since it technically came after reconstruction. The south basically passed a bunch of laws that made it super easy for black people to get arrested in addition to peonage which went hand in hand with share cropping, putting black people in a giant cycle of debt that they couldn't repay or even just falsely accusing them of a debt they couldn't repay to get them arrested. They then created a system of prisoner renting, where big industries could rent people who were arrested, which ended up being worse than slavery in many ways. They rented them pretty cheaply and weren't required to give them back, unlike slave owners who invested a lot of money into the slaves and had incentive to keep them alive, renters had felt no guilt in working them to death in the worst conditions possible.

[@zachandjack]

i love how tired this guy sounds. it's brilliant, and so relevant now.

[@kriskenmonroe1]

"Congress, shockingly, proved unable to accomplish something" My favorite bit if the video!

[@Sydney-lq2dt]

"This roller coaster only goes up from here!" RIP Augustus Waters :'(

[@mdstarfaith706]

I got the Mystery Document right! That's 2/22 now! ...go me...

[@obnoxiousminecrafter7719]

Same

[@jemp4291]

same here XD

[@ddmagee57]

Wow! That's a lot of history students out there! I'm an engineer to whom history is (regrettably) a big blank spot. This John Green series lets me fantasize that I have a well rounded education!

[@julienichols5490]

me too i didn't get an education i was expelled from public school in the 3rd grade never allowed back in middle/jr high school or high school

[@SiVlog1989]

An overlooked aspect of the 13th Ammendment, it didn't end Slavery completely, one loophole that states utilised was the provision that Slavery as a form of punishment was allowed

[@johnbrownsahero315]

The huge mistake of the union after the civil war was not punishing the instigators of succession, all Confederate generals and officers should have been tried and exicuted for treason, troops should have hunted down and aressted killed the kkk members. General clemency should have been given to Confederate infantry since 90% were conscripts.

[@Phoenix00756]

Anyone here before the test on may 10th 2019?

[@lizardbrain1077]

Phoenix007539 we gettin 5s bois

[@RosePatty]

peach pit ayyyyy that’s the spirit

[@danielmcgregor1042]

Who still hasn’t gone over how to write a dbq?

[@augustus6254]

@@danielmcgregor1042 ayyyyy

[@vimjayalal2776]

me

[@xaixmaster]

John Green and Company, you are my guiding light as I go forth to tackle the CSETs in a week! Godspeed you amazing people!

[@denkindonuts7186]

literally these videos are so calming for some reason

[@shootingstar370]

this is literally my lifesaver during finals week

[@kristenberg4906]

This is a wonderful youtube page? I am a nurse who needs US History to finish my bachelors degree. These videos are an overview of historical events. I am a visual and auditory learner!!! Thanks so much for the great content!!

[@laurentrygstad439]

Are you feeling ready for tomorrow my apush people?

[@galapagospenguin5708]

NOPE

[@azisshelab2542]

YEP

[@ReneterGrenade]

:(

[@epicboy9906]

Nope, that’s why I’m here half an hour before taking exams :)

[@biggieyt6407]

Me sitting here 9 minutes before my AP test starts cramming

[@Henry_NYC]

Incase yall got a True or False Assignment 1. True 0:46 2. True 1:02 3. False 1:15 4. True 1:31 5. True 1:47 6. False 2:04 7. True 2:57 8. False 3:19 9. True 3:55 10. True 4:03 11. False 5:17 12. True 5:30 13. True 5:39 14. True 5:48 15. True 6:11 16. True 6:35 17. False 6:50 18. True 7:22 19. False 7:41 20. True 8:47 21. False 9:08 22. False 10:41 23. True 11:14

[@myamagnolia8946]

Not me watching this five minutes before a test

[@fiddlerize]

dear crash course history, it is incredible that we can listen to history like this in such an unbiased manner and with the freedom to tell history how it is! i love crash course history. school always missed out so much history and really did tell things from a eurocentric point of view. on the other hand i worry that people will make the same mistakes again. i.e slavery and facsism in first world countries because we dont use these sorts of freedoms now

[@spacedragon8929]

I just wanted to say that my teacher played this in class when I was having a really bad day, and it made my whole terrible day a million times better, so thank you.

[@SirDippingsauce101]

Funny story, I'm watching the extended version of The Fault in Our Stars, and it's the part where Hazel is talking to the little girl at the airport. Suddenly I gasp and say, "It's the guy from Crash Course!" My cousin tells me that it's John Green. I look it up, and sure enough it is! I can't believe I never made the connection! XD

[@milkpoint_]

my teacher sent us this link for online school and he was like watch this and its your favorite person JOHN GREEN and I wanted to cry. He also said that he could hear our sighs through the computer screens

[@empoleonz0]

"...and of course, Florida" Was that a reference to the incident with Al Gore? :O

[@BLangeTheThird]

Grant Way As well as subsequent elections.

[@bunney3272]

Down with the Electoral College! I would prefer Gore over Bush. Bush was a terrorist who did not really care much other than 'God' (who obviously isn't there) and his own image.

[@holasoyalejandro9822]

yes

[@raghugudi8111]

Weltschmerz yeah no

[@blairthrelkeld4680]

AP National Exam in 2 days. These videos are my rock

[@dakoduh]

honestly same

[@mockingbirdlover99]

+dakoduh same for me...

[@jn8712]

Am I the only nerd watching these just out of interest in foreign history instead of cramming for exams?

[@bigvoiceguy]

Nah bro. I'm out of school and I'm watching these for fun.

[@henrg]

Seems like it but don't worry, we are out here

[@孙明亮-w8z]

Nope, same here.

[@prouddegenerates9056]

no

[@kalliopekobotis5221]

hahaha no

[@chandler702]

It's a different feeling watching this alone at home and not in a class room around my classmates.

[@deedavis6981]

idk if ill get through all of these videos by Friday for the APUSH test

[@chanie2197]

my teacher makes us watch your videos and IVE BEEN READING YOUR BOOK AND DIDNT EVEN REALIZE IT WAS YOU OMG

[@JhoRPG]

Im so glad people here are mature enough to let the dude say Negro a few times for educational purposes as per the ammendment states.

[@nikkie9640]

its that time of the year again /: #finals

[@Rahel_Rashid]

hahahaha

[@aydngg113]

so how did you do

[@nikkie9640]

Can Aydin I got an A!! bless this channel haha

[@NEe3tHeLLZz]

Well it's that time of the year again haha

[@Rafa-ke2sz]

and it is for me now, did any of you pass by just watching theese videos and writting essays on the mid terms?

[@fionamaack4338]

10:24 pm and i have to write an leq about this tomorrow, and i haven't retained a single piece of information from class in the last month. wish me luck !!!

[@sarahellis1665]

I'm quietly dying as I stress over midterms, WHO'S WITH ME!

[@yaboy5398]

Ya boy got college history exams let's get this bread

[@youvegot]

I just love all these easter eggs hidden in your videos such as mario flowers in this and a cactuar which is later pointed out by Cloud Strife in another

[@YellowApprentice]

"I would celebrate not getting shocked, but now I am depressed." :C

[@SuperSerum114]

General Sherman's Special Field Order #15 be like "What you want? You a house or a car? Forty acres and a mule, a piano, a guitar?"

[@oliviafirmani7119]

Love you, John Green!! Thanks for all you do on behalf of myself and my students.

[@tamaraedgar8686]

My 7 month old loves you. Smiles and waves every time she sees you :D

[@PrepTopia1]

I love these videos! One comment about land reform: the original name of the Freedman's Bureau was the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (or something very close to that). I think that the plan to re-distribute plantation land to freedmen might have worked if the Radicals had adopted a broad conception of "abandoned" lands. For instance, if they had said that, in declaring themselves a separate entity from the United States, former Confederate planters had basically forfeited any claim they had to property rights granted by the US government. So once their land had officially been re-incorporated into the US, it could have been considered "abandoned," and eligible for re-distribution among the former slaves.

[@livsalinger2935]

Hello John Green, you're unlikely to ever see this, but on behalf of everyone in my AP US History class: thank you so much for these videos, they've helped us with so many tests and essays, and are you using our textbook because it's scary how much of it you cover.

[@pivotkid82]

jesus christ man thank you my sister showed me this a while ago and i decided to look you up because i have a papaer over reconstruction but reconstruction is so boring. its basically "hey south stop being mean to black people! no? oh... okay"

[@nathenhutchison6182]

To me, Reconstruction is one of the most interesting periods in U.S. history because the federal government did so many things that were Constitutionally questionable during that time. The federal government basically tried (with limited success) to strong arm the southern states into doing what it wanted. Take the 14th Amendment, for example (the amendment that guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law for black people). For an amendment to become part of the Constitution, 75% of the state legislatures have to ratify it. Do you think any of the state legislatures in the southern states were going to ratify that? Hell no. But the northern states wanted it ratified, so what did they do? They refused to let the southern states rejoin the union (and thus, have representation in Congress) if they didn't ratify the 14th Amendment. The federal government basically revoked their statehood until they ratified the 14th Amendment. They weren't allowed to leave the United States (we had just fought a war to stop them from leaving) but they also weren't allowed back into the United States until they ratified the 14th Amendment. None of this is really allowed by the Constitution, but the federal government kind of had to fly by the seat of its pants because there aren't really any provisions for "what to do in the aftermath of a civil war" in the Constitution.

[@veena-zi3fj]

Nathen Hutchison Overall, the Constitution has evolved but sadly till this day people haven’t.

[@lil18thletterking77]

@@nathenhutchison6182 yea, they also confiscated people's property...I feel what they should have done is buy land for the newly freed slaves faaarr away from the south and let them live and work there in peace until the racism died down.

[@nobody-ns4jf]

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[@iplaygamess3760]

I watch him at night. He puts me to sleep from boredom

[@ocean6828]

I binged all of these videos, and now i have to watch them again for school.

[@amandamariscal5812]

John is wearing a Harry Potter, my love for him just skyrocketed.

[@gilvansilva585]

me to

[@aaronbaum54]

Poor Oregon.... Everyone forgets that you had a disputed electoral vote as well.

[@stephperez6035]

IB exam in an hour, these videos are more than just my rock

[@davidval7188]

This was a great video explaining why reconstruction in the south was stalled or delay for 100 Years.

[@CharmingReality]

These videos are excellent. Congratulations on them and thanks for educating us in digestible, informative and interesting ways.

[@jjebannon]

Thank you!! My professor has included this video for our chapter discussion on Reconstruction. GREAT stuff, thanks again.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

“I can’t pick up my musket and fight em now no more. But I ain’t gonna love em, now that’s for certain sure. I won’t ask any pardon for what I was and am. I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn!”

[@notlikewater]

As a recent Kenyon alum (class of 2017!), I love all the references and love in this video.

[@98angelblue]

Yeah this youtube channel makes way more sense than any of my teachers

[@ace-fn2hp]

crash course speedrun and I’m barely going to get through the 1920s by 12:30

[@cheerie]

learnyourlessonswell sammeeee good luck! Hopefully this cramming will pay off and we can snatch that 5 :,)

[@aloduran894]

omg i love how people are arguing about the reconstruction like this is life

[@cherriebomb12]

"the republican party came to dominate politics in the south, just like today! Except totally different..." LMAO idk what it is but that part gets me every time hahhahahHAHAHAH

[@anastasiajacquez4308]

I love your videos, I am a college student going for a bachelor's in history, your videos help give me that extra bit of knowledge from an audio/visual point of view, thank you.

[@AlanNadeauIII]

3-2 in no shock to shock. 3 NO SHOCKS IN A ROW! GREAT JOB!

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Hello!! I'm a high school apush student and I'd just like to say that I've been watching your videos for a while including your ones for ap world. I really like these videos because they are so much fun and really educational. I was lucky enough to come across this particular video this morning and it really saved me on one of the FRQs. Thank you so much :))

[@NikkiNikoleSharpe]

Thank you Crash Course. You helped me get a B+ in my college Anatomy and Physiology course last semester, and this semester you're going to help me get an A in American History Since 1877. *fingers crossed*

[@sirpixelot8853]

Restoring rights to former slaves is a really hard thing to do and giving those former slaves economic equality is really hard. America did alright with the first thing, but we are still struggling with the latter.

[@LizardyLizard97]

Guess who’s not gonna have to take notes now! Thank god I found this series. I completely forgot about it!

[@audreycalloway3566]

"I would celebrate not getting shocked, but now I am depressed." - John Green