The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12

In which John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic (if anything in a 30-year-old nation can be called classic) American struggle between the Jeffersonian ideal of individuals sustaining themselves on small farms vs. the Hamiltonian vision of an economy based on manufacturing and trade. I'll give you one guess who won. Too late! It was Hamilton, which is why if you live in the United States, you probably live in a city and are unlikely to be a farmer. Please resist the urge to comment about this if you live in the country and/or are a farmer. Your anecdotal experience doesn't change the fact that most people live in cities. In the early 19th century, new technologies in transportation and communication helped remake the economic system of the country. Railroads and telegraphs changed the way people moved goods and information around. The long and short of it is, the Market Revolution meant that people now went somewhere to work rather than working at home. Often, that somewhere was a factory where they worked for an hourly wage rather than getting paid for the volume of goods they manufactured. This shift in the way people work has repercussions in our daily lives right down to today. Watch as John teaches you how the Market Revolution sowed the seeds of change in the way Americans thought about the roles of women, slavery, and labor rights. Also, check out high school John wearing his Academic Decathalon medals.
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. As America invested in its market economy, certain transcendentalists resisted the rise of production and consumerism over individual freedoms, including Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden: www.commonlit.org/texts/excer...
Ralph Waldo Emerson promoted transcendental values as well in his essay “Self-Reliance”: www.commonlit.org/texts/excer...
Chapters:
Introduction: The Market Revolution 00:00
The Era of Good Feelings 1:00
New technology in transportation 1:43
Steamboats and canals 2:45
Railroads & telegraphs 3:35
Factories & interchangeable parts 4:02
The rise of modern banking 4:51
Encouraging Competition 5:37
Work & life during the Market Revolution 6:29
Westward expansion & "Manifest Destiny" 8:32
Mystery Document 10:09
Transcendentalists 11:28
Wealth disparities after the Market Revolution 11:53
Credits 13:33
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Shout out to all the APUSH students frantically watching all the US history crashcourses in preparation for the AP exam.

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Magic Penguin Hooray for the new test format! +1 hype

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Magic Penguin Lol ya same here man. Freshman studying for my only AP exam

[@skunkfu6ultimatee]

Magic Penguin Not frantically watching them per-say, but just refreshing my mind on the general time eras. These videos will NOT do you any good on the AP exam, as they give only very brief summaries of the time eras, and is not what is expected of an APUSH student to know at all!

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Aaron Dober Thanks for preaching and for making already anxious students come even closer to absolute panic.

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April Jones Your sense of hysteria is only going to grow if you seriously feel the need to troll someone on the comments of a video of which you should be using to study. I was putting word out there that these videos aren't a super huge help if they are looking for specific evidence, and they should only be used for Just saying, and if you continue this altercation, I hope you enjoy your 3 or lower on the AP exam because you failed to do what was necessary, and instead made snobby comments toward someone whom you don't even know! :)

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shout out to all the AP students in 2020 trying to cram all this in before be write our singular essay

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@Joseph Lancon This is our lives now.

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@Joseph Lancon is complexity part of the rubric

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i have no way to prove it but im so so sure its gonna be the gilded era

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@Joseph Lancon No you won't lol. This isn't AP Lang. There has never been a complexity point on DBQs ever. This test won't change that.

[@brendan3855]

yes.

[@StanMan6000]

Am I the only person who tries to predict which words will be highlighted while reading the mystery document?

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Nope

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From now on I think I will do that.

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Hell no.

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No.I always do.It's so satisfying when I do it completely correct.

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I Thought i was the only one

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So many 19th century writers had way too much to say.

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"People even took up the motto 'Malaria isn't going to catch itself' and moved to Florida!" I don't think a lot of people realize how crappy of a place Florida would be without modern medicine and A/C. Thanks for pointing it out a few times in your videos. Florida was definitely not seen as a paradise in the past.

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It shouldn't even be seen as a paradise NOW. It's essentially the American version of Australia, except with more drugs and Republicans.

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Well at least we have Walt Disney World, so we have something going for us (But yeah, I live in Jacksonville Florida which is like the crime capital of basically the entire universe)

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Dade county-Miami-is close behind.

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California was horrible too because of the climate and fires nad overall nothingness and not being really relatively important at all

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Shoutout to all the APUSH students

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Makenzie White Me with a unit test tomorrow and midterm Friday 😢😳

[@LivingWaterStreamJohn738]

thx

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2020 APUSH kids, let's go! Even through the coronavirus, let's get those 5's! WOOOO

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1 and half hour left until testing😬

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15 minutes guys, we've got this.

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@Person Hello You're going to do great.

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@@charisalexander9480 Hell yeah

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Welp it's over boys

[@fatimaalibhai3131]

I used to disdainfullly sniff that I would never be like the people in the comments who watch crash course a night before the exam - never say never kids.

[@nannette5754]

"I am in the business of teaching you history not in the business of faking pain." Pain demands to be felt...

[@noxumbra173]

If you get the mystery document right, Stan should be shocked.

[@basilanan]

I guess you could say the unlike Hamilton, his ideas weren't shot.

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I see what you did there, damn!

[@TheBrosVSGaming]

Ba-dum tssh

[@aux9513]

He seems to be Burrsting with ideas.

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He may have been shot but he didn't throw away his SHOT!

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CocoMitts I love this fandom

[@ramhassful]

APUSH BINGE WATCHING PARTY

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+Ramy and then we have the SAT the very next day :'(. my brain will be fried by apus and ill do terrible.

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NuclearByte How did it go?

[@timmieslimmie]

LEGGO

[@DelilahZoe]

This episode is so incredibly relevant to what's happening now --- and as someone born to the working class, this speaks volumes.

[@Trent0123210]

John Green coming in so clutch right before my midterms, I've learned more in the past 12 videos than the whole 1st semester of APUSH.

[@Ayo22210]

The Bartleby really resonated with me. I don't have depression but i have anxiety and introverted so coworkers in the the workplace is tough to deal with. Unless your doing important work you just feel like a squirrel trying to get a nut.

[@MrKarma40]

For those of you claiming the shock pen is fake, it's actually real. Not like the dramatic electrical charge in the video, but it shocks your hand, and isn't pleasant.

[@kaylinguyen873]

Okay, but nobody is talking about how smoothly he reads the mystery documents. like how does he read them so well I would stutter and tumble over my words

[@matthewmitchell68]

I like how Mr. Greene mentioned how work changed and that jobs provided different kind of work but also limited freedom in making more choices in life

[@didiwin78]

Does anyone else get a feeling that thought cafe and a game developer could get together and make a sweet old-timey economy game? It would definitely be an above view strategy like age of empires or sim city. Preferably with a campign mode narrated by John Green, plz! B)

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didiwin78 Dude that'd be awesome

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didiwin78 You have the idea. Get someone who can write computer code, and die rich!

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+didiwin78 You would probably like Europa Universalis 4

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+RavagersPrey Wrong. Play Victoria 2. EU4 has very little economics built into the design. Victoria 2 is essentially an economics game.

[@OutlawSlayer]

Has anybody ever wondered if Stan is actually a real person?

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He is, he is in a CC World History video

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@Myriam Aguilera r/wooosh?

[@kevinwalker6840]

He is. His mother taught me freshmen English.

[@Iamfree14]

As someone getting ready for the SAT subject test in U.S. history, this is the most enjoyable and profoundly in-depth analysis of American history on KZbin. I can't help but envy every other U.S. History Student next year who will have a completed set.

[@krttd]

Who else here is an APUSH student?

[@BlackTemplar6th]

Mitchell Dodson Heyo!

[@TitusWang375]

Me unfortunately

[@rosaliewillard464]

me

[@christopherreyes1564]

Me because all of the honors U.S. classes were full

[@jasonbracewell6279]

Mitchell Dodson me

[@pedromagaraoribeiro2269]

Who is here for Apush 2019

[@hacheefamily9066]

Pedro Magarao Ribeiro Watching these while I eat, brush my teeth, or basically anything that keeps me from studying normally.

[@jaredthompson5323]

Me, test is in half an hour

[@K..C]

@@jaredthompson5323 How did you do?

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Yeah

[@LivingWaterStreamJohn738]

me

[@JD-sf4lr]

I was writing notes and couldn't keep up, so I lowered the speed to 0.5 and now I can't keep up from laughing. He sounds like a really insightful drunk :)

[@evelynsambrew6071]

shoutout to all the APUSH students who procrastinated to study

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Evelyn Sam Brew lol hi

[@andreagwlo]

13:51 Why did he say "Thanks for watching Crash Course World History"?!?!

[@angthought]

The last time I checked the US is part of the work ^ And thank you, John Green for saving my b in APWH and APUSH!

[@BeautifulYou501]

+Andrea Lo he corrected himself right after :)

[@jokernu1fan]

I'm just re-watching these early videos BECAUSE THERE'S A MILLION THINGS I HAVEN'T DONE, BUT JUST YOU WAIT, JUST YOU WAIT

[@nikolamaticki9255]

I can't stop watching these...and I should be doing so many things right now. No real regrets. Cheers from Serbia John and Co.

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and no, that's not Siberia, Russia!

[@lanaiajasmine944]

This is my APUSH grade savior! The Textbook has me fuckin dead! Praise you, John Green!

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Lanaia Hubbard same

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Lanaia Hubbard Ikr!

[@canyounot313]

I liked the American Pageant tho, the authors incorporated a ton of humor so I rarely ever get bored lol.

[@laurazaetz9505]

I'm assigned to watch your videos, but I actually enjoy them, which is why I subscribed!

[@jasonbracewell6279]

Laura Zaetz I had to in AP world last year. This is useful for APUSH to though

[@cassidynowlan6147]

And even more in the end, you got an awesome musical about your life too Hamilton.

[@spencermyers8173]

Well 05 days till APUSH... Currently binge watching these

[@thawthepast]

Born out of wedlock and raised in the West Indies, Hamilton was effectively orphaned at about the age of 11. Recognized for his abilities and talent, he was sponsored by people from his community to go to the North American mainland for his education. He attended King's College (now Columbia University), in New York City. After the American Revolutionary War, Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress from New York. He resigned to practice law and founded the Bank of New York-source: wiki

[@evelynp1686]

Apush 2019 gang here. Whew boy, it's been rough.

[@bojczukm]

Just had to throw this out there.... My 11 year old loves to watch these for homeschool history. After we read a section of the history book we watch a video and he understands it a lot better.

[@Tytoalba777]

I love on the map of the National Road, you had an Eagle (or just a regular bird?) poop on New Jersey. A+ work, Thought Cafe

[@tappie9731]

I just want to say, thank you John Green for letting my school take notes off of your entertaining Crash Course videos instead of having to listen to a lecture.

[@Phenyosekele]

The shock's that John Green gets everytime he gets the mystery document wrong is 100% real

[@hnt77]

Holy cow. I didn't think that anyone could make me despise Bartleby the Scrivenor LESS. Well done, sir.

[@SGTSlashRazor]

That Bender animation made me so happy.

[@Thought-Cafe]

Your welcome!

[@20centuryfox100]

"The great American pastime of lighting out for the territories." Love it.

[@wades_world22]

I learn so much watching these, and i love they always here for a quick memory refresh :)

[@hannahbee264]

Just a random Dutch person who's very excited about Johns t-shirt. It's the Netherlands, btw.

[@JimmyCurry]

Great videos. Haters will come here and post in attempts to detract from your team's work. Forget them, they can't stop the bum rush. Humanity is moving away from their racism, and imperialism, etc and towards more unity, and truth. Keep up the great work.

[@johnbenton4488]

Jimmy Curry Well said, and put with just the right amount of force.

[@toastybatch565]

+Jimmy Curry There's nothing left to imperialize LOL. As soon as we have the technology, watch us freak out and destroy each other over the moon and mars or something.

[@bleggsbleggs]

noted tween fiction writer john green insults nathaniel hawthorne's writing abilities

[@Katie-md7mh]

Wasn't he insulting Mark Twain?

[@nospam3327]

Yes, sorry, long after John's novels are forgotten people will still be reading The Scarlett Letter, so I must assume that his comments are coming from professional jealousy ;)

[@marshallcook3113]

One thing I like about you Mr. Greene, is that you do not let your political beliefs dictate what you are teaching. A lot of the time, historians and teachers let there political beliefs interfere with fact. I can see you are somewhat of a democratic liberal, but you do not let that interfere with your teachings. I highly respect you for that.

[@thevampirefrog06]

Hurrah! John C. Calhoun was the absolute star of my high school American history class. Him and Henry Clay.

[@cecekelly3595]

Shoutout to the APUSH students that are using this to study for finals/ AP test (me)

[@jamesnjoshproductions]

+CeCe Kelly Finals tomorrow! Wish me luck!

[@reneleal6517]

+Home On a Weekday well how'd you do?

[@jamesnjoshproductions]

82%, but still have an A! :D

[@reneleal6517]

Haha good for you

[@jonahcrosby4916]

+CeCe Kelly same

[@cristianreyes9765]

I like Crash Course very much. I have not made a donation on patreon, but I always watch the comercial before the videos so youtube pays them more. I guess that's something.

[@kirasinclair1061]

Woo! Rochester NY! Is it silly I get so excited that my old home town got mentioned on Crash Course? I live in between Rochester and Buffalo now just north of Medina, and I cross the Erie canal all the time! Incidentally, I was born in Rome NY, where the first shovel of dirt was dug for the Erie Canal. Rome is also where Fort Stanwix is. I got excited a few episodes back when you mentioned it too. I grew up learning about how important and historical Rome NY was.

[@moujhurisau2808]

I live in Wheeling WV and I got irrationally excited too XD

[@marizamp27]

I love these videos so much!!!!!! I'm currently in Honors US History 1 and these videos always come either after or before I learn about the subject in class! They're such a great review!!!( or preview for some matters :)

[@f1sh98]

Make a crash course series on macro and micro economics! Please...

[@janinabnm]

An episode about the history of maps would be great- I don't have to tell John Green of all people how important maps are but I was recently doing some research on old maps and it's very interesting to see how they change.

[@speaker_of_the_house66]

petition to have john green record audiobooks anyone?

[@franciscosalanga]

You gotta love the insightful endings to these videos. Cheers, Mr. Greene!

[@samoseytanki6726]

i bet they make all their money the day before the AP exam

[@mythics102]

I got emotional as soon as he said Hamilton

[@vanshchauhan7874]

id like but I dont want to change the number

[@mgee1016]

Thanks, John Green! You've helped me once again!

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Love this video! So far it is my favorite and the one I will refer people to when I tell others how much I LOVE your channel!!

[@musicninja55]

Thanks for all of your help! I'm definitely going to get a 4 or a 5 on Wednesday. P.S: Do you think that you guys could make a crash course on economics?

[@LegoGirl1990]

For some reason, I now feel the want to play Oregon Trail. Yay, school "computer class". We did almost nothing other than play that game for two years.

[@bryantonti7551]

same here haha

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to that cheap propaganda? Did you even pay attention during the video?

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Salvatore Shiggerino you must have dysentery. you probably wouldn't get that though because you didn't "voluntarily subject yourself to that cheap propaganda".

[@amygonzalez-fowler6177]

Thank you so much!! I'm using your videos to study for the CSET and once I become a teacher will definitely use them for my students!

[@adub4ever]

Awesome info on wage earners. The clock changed the game from price to hourly wage. Businesses

[@Tandreada]

Heh, my history book makes the transcendentalists sound like some very interesting writers, but the mystery document made me rethink that.

[@robertorios2032]

If I had $1 for every time someone said the wage gap was real, I'd have 77¢

[@leepoling4897]

Mah wage gap!

[@zoekirk1848]

I personally do think it is but I also find this joke very clever

[@robertorios2032]

Zoe Kirk wait you think the wage gap exists?

[@SynsityGW]

There is no "I personally think" on this topic. It either is or isn't real. In this case, it isn't. Choosing to believe something is real just because it has some intangible benefit for a group of people you belong to is extremely silly.

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Roberto Rios That took me a minute.

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I love crash course, not only the videos and the very clear detailed explanation and also the people in the comment sections, a great way to get myself off the stupid internet.

[@arlenearp]

Thank you for all of your work. My homeschool kids actually enjoy history because of you. Arlene and So Much 2 Learn Home School.

[@sarahmclaughlin3482]

Thank you for making these....they save me in my APUSH class. Can you guys put a table of contents at the end of the video or in the description (similar to the ones in Crash Course Chemistry)? It would make it so much easier to navigate to find the topics I need to study!

[@nitinvarghese7629]

is it possible to start creating physics videos? just a suggestion. your vids are helpful to all the subjects and i feel the one subject most juniors are struggling with is physics. thank u

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+Nitin Varghese truuuuuuuuuuuuu (but apparently they're working on it)

[@ws04]

+Nitin Varghese so we can start not failing after killing our grades with midterms

[@2002cc]

Aha this episide was so fun to watch! Thank you crash course for helping me with studying for APUSH!

[@audreyjohns7056]

Thank you for helping me study for my US History Final! these videos really help

[@xmikachirifu]

Just realized the bird poops on NJ at 02:30

[@e7venjedi]

haha. good catch sir.

[@g3mstone19]

shoutout to 2020 apush students who are desperately trying to learn everything bc their teacher tuned out as soon as school moved online

[@450011278a]

APUSH test this Friday. Studying periods I have trouble remembering. Thanks John Green!

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Mr.Green you are such a history geeks,, I love A Abundance Of Kateherine

[@marleyandmitchg4204]

"I can't remember what excuse we have now, but I'm sure it's a great one!" John Green is a feminist and anyone who disagrees is incorrect.

[@NoelG702]

MarleyandMitchG He is a liberal douche bag.

[@tomslade98]

Nobody, including John Green, would disagree that John Green is a feminist. What you're trying to contend is whether or not feminism, or this view on the wage gap in particular, is a good thing.

[@cardigan.d]

Any APUSH kids in 2019?

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Meee

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Yo

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Aloha!

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Meeee

[@nickj.648]

DAMMIT I HAVE WATCHED LIKE 15 OF THESE AND NOT ONCE HAVE YOU BEEN SHOCKED!

[@soapabelle]

OMGOSH THIS STUFF REALLY HELPS!!!! Mid term Review and Exam for American history...im not a big fan of history buts its cool at the same time! Thank you CrashCourse! :D

[@symac6813]

I was discouraged to watch the full video when you said that the Market Revolution is one of the "least studied" and that there "weren't any fancy wars, or politically charged debates". The Market Revolution is very interesting to me. So to complete watching this episode of the Crash Course, I skipped 0:37 and went to the middle part of video.

[@g.w.leibniz6055]

Eric Foner said that the discourse on the private realm of freedom reflected the spread of the Market Revolution. In his own words, "getting this private realm of freedom being articulated both getting ahead individually, choosing your own line of work, the rights of free labor competing in the marketplace this is a reflection of the spread of the market revolution".

[@symac6813]

Yes, Mr. John Green spoke about freedom in the context of the Market Revolution: from 12:14 to 12:24. In contrast to Mr. Foner's quotation, Mr. Green said that many people "recognized that the Market Revolution left them with much less freedom". This could be a debate: whether or not freedom was possible in the Market Revolution?

[@johnbenton4488]

Sy Mac The Market Revolution is still with us, and there is no freedom except for the freedom to obey.

[@11ellie7]

APUSH got me like

[@spiderman20088]

yep

[@fatimafaridi8430]

+11ellie7 are u Emilys freind Maria?

[@daddyd0c]

Great stuff John. Thank you so much for your contributions.

[@otmrs]

As do most Crashcourse, SciShow etc, videos. The overwhelming consensus after John and Hank's discussion on ads is that the community wants to support the endeavors of John and Hank (and others, like BrainScoop). Since they don't much like ads, they keep video ads off Vlogbrothers videos because that is, at heart, still just their 6 year conversation. But as their jobs are more and more creating online videos, we the community want to support them with a few seconds of our time.

[@bunkhouse]

One of the most interesting Crash Course episodes-even without the Mongols in it.

[@DragonflightProduct]

OOOOO! I read Bartleby in my literature class!

[@janawhitaker8296]

Thank you for doing this. Students reallly appreciate it.

[@mercyfire]

I could certainly use a brush up/explanation of our economy and its history. Good suggestion!

[@ThirtykNinetyfour94]

8:25 Hey there Bender... What are you doing here?

[@ohhifriendxd7714]

Nathaniel Crichton it's been 3 years and you have 12 likes and 2 comments ._.

[@saltpappy9821]

Hey John, I think your shock pen is real and you are not faking your shocks :)

[@soapabelle]

They're probably just adding affects to make it look cool or funny :D

[@HeBreaksLate]

As a resident of Upstate New York, I was excited to hear you talk about the importance of the Erie Canal, but then disappointed that, in your discussion of factories, you ignored Burden Iron Works of Troy, NY. Burden's water wheel and railroad spike machine are prime examples of changes in manufacturing in this era.

[@TheRamroosh]

I love that hint of seriousness that enters his voice at the end of each video

[@thenotorioushaz1236]

Shoutout to APUSH Students studying for the exam tomorrow!!

[@LinusE]

everyone else: Here for APUSH me a Swede just genuinely interested: What's APUSH?

[@wargamer2962]

Advanced United States History class

[@crowthebro]

AP for US History. they kinda suck.

[@Divology]

My history teacher would play these all the time but at the beginning of the video, he would always force the entire class to respond to the screen with "Hi, John Green."

[@PlainsPup]

Another great Crash Course US History episode!

[@lauradugan5651]

anybody else watching 12 videos a day to cram for the APUSH exam lol

[@joannachavez9990]

Laura Dugan try 24 per day

[@thesaladlivesoncemore6676]

Try all of them in a day

[@meghaandrews8594]

You should do CrashCourse for Economics! :)

[@blownspeakersss]

Megha Andrews It just started this week! I'm a little apprehensive about it, but I hope it turns out okay!

[@joshward4983]

Thank you for clarifying that. I had never really heard that term before.

[@hannahvoros5601]

Thanks for making these videos helping me hopefully ace my AP us history final