Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24

[@sigbaconater910]

Online clases, exam due tonight at 11:59 PM, time is 10:21 PM I have to write two 750 essays about this. Wish me luck!

[@hannahl.8635]

"And it was a lot of beef, if you know what I'm talking about. I'm actually talking about beef." I almost spit out my soup.

[@vincentyang7415]

it had beef in it?

[@MarkMcDaniel]

*spat.

[@11thNite]

The best US history teacher I had in high school did not shy away from the sadness, moral degradation and mortal consequences of the westward expansion, but neither she nor I nor any history teacher I have yet met were able to drive home the correlations, causes and momenta that related industrialization to westward expansion. Kudos.

[@aydeflor18]

I feel like people completely blow past the channel name "Crash Course." He's not going to discuss every single thing in US History. People are mad because he leaves out important bits of American history that they themselves declare more important than others. I would think it important for him to expand on the Mexicans turned Americans who lived in the West a long time before the country's expansion and their assimilation to the change -- but that's only an opinion! not something turned to true importance to the country's history just because I deem it important. It's also not something that should be brushed aside as unimportant, however understandable why it wouldn't be included in a (what?) crash course! Just enjoy whats given to you for free as a subscriber and stop criticizing. If it bothers you that much, do the work yourself -- make you're own crash course (and I mean that seriously, not as a form of insult).

[@Slyismylife54321]

***** You're name is console peasant, so I know you're PC Master Race.

[@fuge511]

tell them to read their APUSH textbooks hahaha

[@leahb3384]

"kill the indian, save the man" my apush teacher would constantly quote a "paraphrase" of that when we got on her nerves and instead say "kill the teenager, save the man"

[@paulcosby8662]

Leah B dang that's depressing

[@pollyeffinpocket1644]

Wow

[@iheartamerica100]

I am so glad these crash courses exist. My teacher doesn't help me at all. These help a lot. Thaaaaanksss

[@Groot-yp5hd]

i feel you pain

[@surpriseshotty2383]

my teacher helps but these are awesome

[@n3v3rg01ngback]

highawesomeness Maybe you’re a shitty student.

[@Rea13434O]

Dark Rainbow I doubt they’re taking the initiative to watch history videos if they’re a shitty student

[@not_obsidian]

My teacher throws crash courses at us instead of teaching lmao

[@SebastianMuriel]

I would like to thank Crash Course for being helping me get an A in APUSH this semester. I have my final tomorrow and I'm so ready! You guys are awesome!

[@ajk9585]

"Books for putting on your shelf and pretending to have read..." Yup, we've all done that XD

[@kennedygreen-hawkins8999]

"What’s that? It’s going dry. MY GOD THIS IS A DEPRESSING EPISODE"

[@therealxenith3237]

I died at that part! LOL XD

[@rebecca9725]

thats what she said

[@KellyNaylor]

As depressing as this is, I've studied so much about the history of the Indigenous People of North America that I can say it's not really as depressing as the reality... but mostly because it only scratches the surface of the topic. But thank you, John, for at least shedding more light on the topic than any of the history classes I had from grade school through college.

[@mackenzie7144]

*Quarantine squad where you at*

[@yne_aspekt7249]

Just a Beanut Butter Cup right here🖐

[@vP3ppy]

Here

[@ImS0ulidify]

I’m here yeet

[@songmingi3703]

Here

[@Delta285]

homeschooling with this as part of my collage coarse. Looks like this is coming to an end.

[@Cherry-hu4xm]

I’m here because the quarantine means no history lessons and I need to pass my exams 😬

[@neilchintalapudi4184]

2020 gang!

[@bethanyreese2937]

Same. My teacher said if I dont watch this I wont get my notes😂😣

[@jorgemarques739]

What's the situation there in U.S ? I'm from Brazil

[@codymann2980]

Same I have to do this for my U.S. History Class

[@jaketaubman9607]

My teacher sends me these videos.

[@madisonsappia7124]

I have been watching Crash Course for about 3 years now, and I just realized that this John Green is the same one that wrote Paper Towns, Fault in our Stars, Looking for Alaska etc. I love this man!!!!

[@AironExTv]

Good episode. Makes we want to learn more about that period. Btw, when I was in school (here in Berlin, Germany), it wasn't up until 12th grade that we learned about the charming horrors of 1933 - 1945 in this country. We were kinda surrounded by history with the Berlin Wall all around us and several divisions of soldiers occupying the city, but the actual history of the first to second world wars was was not taught to us. I learned that from TV documentaries and later books. All pre-web.

[@maceym.3162]

For those of you who have read the little house books by laura ingalls wilder, I'm pretty sure the ghost dance was the Indian dance in little house on the praire, as it was in the same state as laura was ,and is the same time period if i'm not mistaken.

[@crashcourse]

I think it varies depending on the school, the state, etc. There are a lot of teachers out thee doing a great job. Sometimes they run up against problematic textbooks or mandated curricula, and there are all sorts of other issues. -stan

[@bobdull6699]

Hey John Green, I know that AP scores have been posted for over a month but I would just like to take a minute to thank you for helping me get a four on my AP US History test. You rock!!

[@crashcourse]

Well, I don't think use of Crash Course should be the metric for good teaching. But I'm glad the show is appearing in classrooms! -stan

[@dodgev142]

If you use closed captioning/subtitles it says SUCK IT STAN SUCK IT after the mystery document even though he didn't actually say that.

[@cheezeyman0495]

Oh Stan

[@sirpixelot8853]

LOL

[@harutooo_8184]

Shawn Dodge lol

[@LanSu11i3]

my guess would be a mistake in editing haha

[@horus9442]

"mistake" looool

[@frodoswaggins3132]

This was my second correct guessing of the mystery document author. I highly recommend reading about Hinmatóowyalaht’quit (Chief Joseph) and the Nez Perce war.

[@erraticonteuse]

It's astonishing to me that I didn't learn about allotment until literally the last possible moment in my education-- my final semester in law school when I took the totally elective class of Federal Indian Law. It did always feel like there was a gap in my US History classes, where we just stopped talking about the Natives until the 1970s (if we got that far), but then no one had ever taught me that the tribes had been treated as sovereign nations up until a certain point either.

[@BetweenGraces]

John, THANK YOU. I'm a teaching student and I needed something like this for my lesson on friday. You are awesome!

[@TheKenchixx]

uhm my new history teacher is called Mr Green lol

[@vincentyang7415]

hah

[@TheNueKid4]

i had a subsitute teacher name mr green, and he was gae!!! his voice tho it was the funniest thing

[@zacktessean7921]

Kenchixx ahhh you don’t know what it’s like in quarantine

[@TheNueKid4]

@@zacktessean7921 yea ur rite

[@sadgho5t798]

Did I ask

[@harunsuaidi7349]

It was around this time Bioshock Infinite backstory began to took place, right?

[@SyrupFan]

More like 1880s to 1910

[@malkielmirzakandov8565]

Think so.

[@xanderthecommander7491]

Harun Suaidi You're thinking of The Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) 150 Native Americans were slaughtered and Booker DeWitt took part in this

[@sparklejames4614]

Harun Suaidi 1:00

[@0xxdemonxx029]

Harun Suaidi *take* not took

[@lindsayzmail]

You mentioned Australia's policy of removing aboriginal children from families and placing them with white foster families which lasted until the 1970's but that happened in the US and Canada as well. They took children from their mothers in the hospital after they were born and put them in the foster system. That's what happened to my mom, who was born in 1967 and she ended up getting adopted by a white family. Her little brother, who was also adopted, was also taken in this way.

[@BifronsCandle]

Surprised there was no mention of Wounded Knee, both a low point and an end for the Indian Wars'.

[@PlainsPup]

This has gotta be my favorite Crash Course US History episode.

[@vel9761]

Haha, if you turn captions on when he guesses the name, you can read a part of the video they edited out XDXD

[@corscott5]

guys, I don't care where you are in the video, go back/forward to 6:48 and watch with the captions on, it's fucking great

[@vel9761]

Corey Scott That's what I was talking about lol

[@LeenaSregneva]

haha

[@vincentyang7415]

um i dont see it

[@alanmullinax6785]

I love you all I can not thank you enough for all the work you do. I am a non traditional student and without you all help i would probably fail.

[@gabrielelias983]

This series is really starting to hit its stride. I'm enjoying the push and pull between myth and reality, especially when played out in political economic arena. Thanks!

[@lilliansunshine7499]

I was actually really moved when he started showing the pictures of nature and speaking of the atrocities done to Native Americans. That was a good choice, very respectful

[@dubsy1026]

he didn't even cover a fraction of it. have you ever heard of the battle at wounded knee? 400 native Americans were doing the ghost dance, when the 7th cavalry turned up and placed cannons around them. they then confiscated any blade, gun, or even kitchen implements. then, one ONE supposedly resisted, so they started firing indiscriminately into the crowd, killing over 240. 23 Americans were killed by friendly fire. 20 medals of honour were awarded for this and they are STILL valid. this was business as usual for the American army at that point

[@JJ-pm4ob]

+Dubsy 102 That doesnt sound like a battle to me.

[@FoundArchive]

LMFAOO!!! if you guys put on the closed caption on at 7:00 it reads... "suck it "OH YES YES SUCK IT STAN SUCK IT!" i dont think that was suppose to be in there lol

[@thomasmoe9145]

*George Takei Voice* Ooooooooooohhhhh mmmmmmmyyyyyy..........

[@jacobguerra7690]

lololo

[@TheNueKid4]

It doesn't say that. But i know its like 5 years later

[@jaketaubman9607]

uuuh no it doesnt.

[@FoundArchive]

Sorry y’all, u missed it

[@Cheekster15]

This was my favorite episode yet. I liked your point of how American's (and indeed all of humanity) is constantly in a myth making business. The world was not always empirically understood as we think it is. Perhaps the greatest goal of history is not to tell what happened, but how it shaped our current identity. KEEP IT REAL John!

[@ksutubagal]

Thanks for mentioning Abilene, KS as part and the end of the Chisholm Cattle Trail for a time. There's a maker outside our post office denoting the end of the trail. Traffic blocking trains are still active in town despite the lack of cattle!

[@p1nkpumpkin773]

I'm actually from Arizona and grew up on a farm. A litter of chickens is usually 12 chicks it can varie to 6-8 or even 13-15. A litter is amount of whatever animal that is born at the same time.

[@elizabethgrace6382]

I must say that John is getting significantly less confident in his guessing abilities

[@Rix227]

We watched this in my us history 2 class today. Y'all do some great work over there. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@WhitDough]

Watching these with the subtitles on is far more entertaining.

[@kennedygreen-hawkins8999]

"And now let us move from tragedy to tragedy."

[@moodinfinite]

I think most American students experience with U.S. history prior to college is one of disillusionment. So when John doesn't sugarcoat it or is "hating on America" as some people might say, it is very much appreciated and extremely fascinating.

[@garland3rader]

You have provided me lots of help throughout all your videos. Thank you for being detailed and also understandable!

[@blairn9663]

Green rules all things HISTORY and HUMOR!

[@lenanguyen383]

This helped me a lot! I’m in 4th grade and my class is learning about westward expansion!

[@MsCuteliltaz]

I was watching with earbuds blasted cuz ur voice was kinda low....and then the intro music came, I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK. AND IT WAS NIGHT, AND I WAS TRYING TO KEEP IT LOW. xD thank you john u really are the best

[@jaspalmer1730]

thanks for spitting the history, no matter how depressing. This stuff is important to know and poorly taught, at least it was in my school.

[@samwelltarly6700]

We welcomed them as brothers, knowing nothing of their greed. Born hunters, not the hunted, as the white man hunts for me. We are descendants of the animals, we live upon them free. Our trail of tears would end, one day at wounded knee. When we do the ghost-dance, the buffalo will return Paint ourselves for war, let blood and fire burn. Great spirit make us strong, take us to the sky The Cherokee are brave, we are not afraid to die. There has been much killing, there will be much more The medicine man is dancing, he's calling us to war. Hatchets sing with pride, let the white man die. Lyrics from "Spirit Horse of the Cherokee" by Manowar

[@paris2685]

Samwell Tarly thats deep

[@katywilbekin3152]

This is a nice poem with some truth to it; however, no humans are descendants of animals.

[@ValeAzul]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU PEOPLE FROM Crash Course FOR MAKING ME THINK BETTER...really had a romanticised idea of the "Wild" west...because of this episode I can actually feel new sinapsis in my brain...THAAAANKK YOUUUUUUUU...and I´m not even american, but from the good propaganda, soon to be canadian...jejejejeje

[@Kira.D07]

“MY GOD WHAT A DEPRESSING EPISODE!” I almost choked on my water

[@meljac9649]

Are you going to talk about the navajo long walk? and thank you for truths you tell about my people and the respect you give us. Thank you crash course team!!!!!

[@VanRamsey]

I GUESSED THE AUTHOR OF THE MYSTERY DOCUMENT!!! I'm so damned proud.

[@WhoddaWhaddu]

Can you speak a little more on the ongoing inter-generational trauma caused by the boarding schools and reservations? It felt very rushed and it was pretty rushed in my history class, too (until I asked the teacher if I could personally give a talk to the class on it). I just want the information out there so people can know about what we're still fighting against.

[@roking13]

John Green, sometimes you make me feel that nothing good ever happened in history...

[@mikecronis]

Oregon Trail Apple II game reference for 1000 points. White man as Mr. Rogers at 06:28 for 200 points.. and you went over all my entire Native American History College Course in 10 minutes. Robot spider at 10:50 from Wild Wild West. Amazing.

[@jbien-aime9272]

Watching these videos make me slightly depressed. Luckily, it's John Green.

[@jaspalmer1730]

LMAO how could it be MORE interesting? Graphics, wit, pretty colors, dynamic storytelling, jokes, irony, and pretty much first class info all in 12 minutes...you're right! Maybe an explosion at the end please?

[@sbrandybuck]

"If you know what I'm talking about... I'm actually talking about beef." HAHAHA I LOVE YOU

[@naenkota5248]

Thank you for putting this up,It really helps me in My 9th grade us history class😊

[@scarletarmada5637]

+NaeN Kota What? I learned this in 5th grade. Are educational systems different depending on what state you live in?

[@bombasticbrian.]

+Scarlet Armada yes

[@scarletarmada5637]

Patient Zero Good to know. I guess the "American schooling is terrible" argument is unfounded then.

[@bombasticbrian.]

+Scarlet Armada my school system sucks. 10th graders have to do freaking ALGEBRA 1! I should be in Precalc!

[@scarletarmada5637]

smh what state/school district do you live in. my school district is pretty cool. Lots of good school here

[@EmzieEvs]

Please do more on the west, also medicine in history :) I absolutely loved crash course English, will you be doing more? If so, please cover some English literature eg. pride and prejudice please :) thank you so much for making this course!!

[@marthalindout]

x) "Putting books on your shelf and pretending to have read." Thanks for that, John. You know my family too well.

[@jimmyyang9464]

If you’re looking for good reading material, I recommend the memoir Black Elk Speaks. Truly powerful stuff.

[@chipo715]

lol, the subtitles are awesome this episode. " Oh - Oh Yes! Yes! Suck it Stan! Suck it! " lol

[@kennedygreen-hawkins8999]

"And it was a lot of beef. You know what I’m talking about. I’m actually talking about beef."

[@DylanKreutzer]

Oh my god he made an Oregon Trail reference this makes me so happy

[@anchimel]

The animated machine from Wild, Wild West at the beginning was a nice touch.

[@TheArtistOfKuroo]

I could literally see Frederick Jackson Turner's house from the high school classroom where I first learned about the his Frontier Thesis. I always thought that was really cool. His house was two down from the one Aldo Leopold lived in (the two were neighbors for a time.)

[@abrahambestiii2337]

So Canada was using residential schools up until the 1990s. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this.

[@Merlmabase]

Great episode, and I appreciate the ongoing there-are-no-easy-answers theme in crash course. Keep it up!

[@ethant402]

Very good episode. I was considering writing to you guys about the boarding schools because was concerned they would not be covered after I learned about them in Modern American History. Instead you guys somewhat hit on the nail but missed some stuff like the abuses that did happen there. Otherwise you read my mind

[@adinatovalandon3230]

This episode is so depressing... Strangely enough, it has cheered me up from my dour mood that I've been suffering all day.

[@angiefrog81]

Dear John, I know that our little state is only important to us in US history and we're arrogant about how great our state is but would you please please please make a video detailing the Texas Revolution? My 7th grade students would greatly appreciate it as would many 4th grade and 7th grade teachers in Texas. Thank you! Mrs. Angiefrog81

[@reeky8373]

I’m here cause of Coronavirus and have no school and this is for my online school.

[@jp5morin]

Thanks for giving that "point" to Canada, but in reality, we don't deserve it. We had our own residential school system (in fact based on the Carlisle School) which continued well in to the 1970s and the last school didn't close till 1996. I'd suggest looking at John Milloy's "National Crime" or J.R. Miller' "Shingwauk's Vision". Keep up the great work and I'll be showing this episode to my students!

[@Stardweller1]

Behold: Humanity. (This is why I prefer blaming governments to blaming the countries those governments lead).

[@nathenhutchison6182]

As always, the United States can one up you on the shame meter. During the 1960s into the '70s, the "Indian Health Service" in the United States instituted a policy of forced sterilization of Native American women.

[@Lucy-zi4wh]

Nathen Hutchison yeah unfortunately there was forced sterilization for Canadian indigenous peoples as well. I think it’d be pretty difficult to find something shameful that Canada hasn’t done to its First Peoples.

[@shaydag8802]

The Jesus restoration on the wall at 3:30 !!!!!! hahaha!

[@fai1t0liv3]

Dwelling on the past makes us a prisoner to it and feeling ashamed for actions we did not take can't undo them. We can acknowledge the cruelty and ingenuity of our ancestors without getting wrapped up in them. That's all I'm trying to convey. Telling you that you shouldn't feel shame isn't the same as telling you DON't feel shame. I tried to express a different way to view the past, without feeling like you are somehow responsible, but in the end you are free to feel however you want.

[@rochellehall8838]

I wish that you guys would do the captions for American History . The automatic captions really don't work. 1. captions helps with reading practice 2. I have a few hearing impaired students 3. your delivery helps my low readers focus on the important concepts rather than the individual words. I found that the students felt that w/o the captions the material went "too fast". W/ captions most students were able to keep up. . Thank you btw Have you checked out the film "Nobody's Girls" ?

[@andrewthegeek6522]

2:35 in a rpg system known as savage worlds they follow that history and throw in other mythic elements in a setting called the wierd west

[@carterlavering2553]

JUSTICE MENTIONED ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼

[@KarateKidX]

Wow, I actually guessed the mystery document before John did.

[@sprucemoose18]

As far as drilling a shedload of information about a certain period of history into my head within the span of approximately 12 minutes goes, I think they are already very interesting.

[@victoriaalexis1001]

can you do a video on literally, the Louisiana purchase and pros and cons...like it would be greatttt

[@gore4651]

at 3:35 hahahah oh you guys are making fun of that poor lady who messed up jesus!! lol

[@humicroav215]

Came here to say this!

[@kathleens3278]

random star wars blaster sound at 3:57

[@shannon924]

lol

[@kozmo7]

I have a question. When in history do we all just, get along? :[

[@christianhall3348]

never

[@magictelevision3502]

:'(

[@Hector-bj3ls]

Hasn't happened yet...

[@agathaking4255]

65 million years ago

[@JackToeRip]

Tomorrow

[@CapitalMort]

I'm glad this wasn't sugar coated, too many people are ignorant of the crimes against humanity that the Americans committed, and they are still doing it today in the Middle East.

[@imaqt955]

Hah sweet!! I got the mystery document right! Thank you mrs. T for the incessant rambling in junior English?

[@kimwilliams2023]

could you do a video on American exceptionalism?

[@savedthroughgracebyfaith]

The last Native boarding school was closed in 1991, and there is a problem today with Native children being placed with white families. My mother, 100% Ojibwe, was split from her two siblings, forced off the reservation, and put into a white family. Her mother, my grandmother had died from a drug overdose. My moms grandmother could have adopted her but the government wouldn't let her. As for my father, 100% Blackfoot; his mother who lived on a reservation could not afford to keep him, and she was forced to give him up to a white family. The dis-placement of native children is still happening. 1/3 Indigenous women in the United States will be raped at least once in their lifetime. Natives have the highest rate of AIDs related deaths. We are still struggling. stop acting like we're not

[@QuietlyCurious]

:( Sorry to hear that. Native children are still placed with white families? What part of the country are you in?

[@savedthroughgracebyfaith]

Omandita4 It happens on every reservation in America and Canada

[@sydnaestewart2477]

Richy Rich How do you miss a point so spectacularly

[@JeffDvrx]

sydnae stewart ... The comment section on this video is just SO WRONG it hurts. Either people make a serious statement just to get ridiculous answers like that one, or they make hateful, stereotypical comments that are just absurd and filled with hate. Yeah, i know, that's the internet for you, but still... I don't think I've ever been as sad by reading comments on a youtube video as with this one.

[@KillingCrusemsPaige]

I am confused and maybe you can help me with this. I looked a lot into adoption of children, and I was under the belief that most native american children couldn't be adopted by a white person unless allowed to by the chief of what ever tribe the come from.

[@trentthegoat3793]

nobody: Absolutely nobody: *John green: **6:58*

[@brianwalsh288]

Cant say I'm exactly too pleased to hear my hometown of Carlisle, Pa mentioned for said reasons..

[@BardovBacchus]

I am truly enjoying this series and I am reminded of Stephen Colbert who famously said, "reality has a well-known liberal bias." Thank you Crash Course.

[@Obstreperous_Octopus]

"...books for putting on your shelf and pretending to have read" *looks over at book shelf.* : ( So true...

[@southernbeautyblogger]

He talks very fast

[@titimeme8854]

Yup.

[@samuelp6953]

Because He's a part-time Sound Cloud rapper

[@yikesmcgee1283]

.75 playback speed

[@Pytzhi]

yess

[@cbmathews0440]

I put it on 1.25 lol

[@acidlysynth4063]

10:10 Me: laughs then completely cuts if off and says "we're all gonna die".

[@doomdtn]

Why do we even need school? Ive learned more about western expansion in 13 minutes than my entire 4 years of high school.

[@Jorje354]

In Canada, Aboriginal (Indian) children were still being taken from their families and put into schools much later. The last one didn't close until 1996. There is a very good documentary about it called "We Were Children".

[@ladyfoxy223]

And it was a lot of beef, if you know what I'm talking about... I'm talking about beef. Hahaha :)

[@jumpmancami5490]

I'm here bc of red dead redemption 2

[@WhimsicalCyn1]

What's funny is one of the positive points he mentions is how cheap wheat and food had gotten... but if you watch Ken Burns' Dustbowl (avail. on Netflix now!), half of the first episode is about how the dropping prices of wheat and food left farmers starving, homeless, and doing way more farming than what was good for the Earth.

[@bradygriffith1893]

I guessed the mystery document in 1 try! Thank-you Idaho history.

[@biggkemo]

And all this time I thought that Black people were the only ones victimized by European colonialism. I was so wrong...