The Civil War, Part I: Crash Course US History #20

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In which John Green ACTUALLY teaches about the Civil War. In part one of our two-part look at the US Civil War, John looks into the causes of the war, and the motivations of the individuals who went to war. The overarching causes and the individual motivations were not always the same, you see. John also looks into why the North won, and whether that outcome was inevitable. The North's industrial and population advantages are examined, as are the problems of the Confederacy, including its need to build a nation at the same time it was fighting a war. As usual, John doesn't get much into the actual battle-by-battle breakdown. He does talk a little about the overarching strategy that won the war, and Grant's plan to just overwhelm the South with numbers. Grant took a lot of losses in the latter days of the war, but in the end, it did lead to the surrender of the South.
If you want to learn more about the Civil War, we recommend these books:
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson: bit.ly/3jAtBzo
The Civil War by Shelby Foote: bit.ly/38VXTKZ
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. There were many causes of the American Civil War and events that led to disunion: www.commonlit.org/texts/cause...
Once the war started, its outcome was determined by the different abilities and resources of the divided North and South: www.commonlit.org/texts/a-nat...
Learn more about Black Americans in the Civil War in episode #18 of Crash Course Black American History: • Black Americans in the...
Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Basic Facts of the Civil War 1:21
Free and Slave States 1:46
Causes of the Civil War 2:15
Religion and the Civil War 3:19
Union Advantages in the Civil War 4:24
Confederate Advantages in the Civil War 5:11
Was the Union's Victory Inevitable? 5:53
Mystery Document 6:43
Ulysses S. Grant 7:39
Union Weaknesses in the Civil War 8:18
Turning Points in the Civil War 9:20
Lincoln's Reelection 10:47
Credits 11:28
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@shannonchaney6419 7 жыл бұрын

anyone else hoping this will replace the hours of studying that you should've done for your final

@nationalistcanuck2877 6 жыл бұрын

Shannon Chaney If you got a genuine American history class you will fail.

@carinafolescu8798 6 жыл бұрын

Nationalist Canuck Ap exam tm lmfaooooooo

@AlexRodriguez-oo9yu 6 жыл бұрын

Carina Folescu In the same boat bro

@carinafolescu8798 6 жыл бұрын

Alex Rodriguez it’s super depressing, hope I at least get a 3! Lmfao we just started reviewing for the exam this week👍🏼

@AlexRodriguez-oo9yu 6 жыл бұрын

Carina Folescu How'd you do lol? The DBQ stumped me for a little bit and the LEQ was ehh

@NT-co1qw 4 жыл бұрын

The battle of Shrute Farms was the most northern offensive of the civil war

@lennywoodman2193 4 жыл бұрын

Yes yes YES. I second this.

@fredserrato7173 4 жыл бұрын

You are so right

@roryyoust5115 4 жыл бұрын

YES

@cluck9692 4 жыл бұрын

Correction, the battle of Shrute Farms was the only battle of the civil war

@obalitkhana8694 4 жыл бұрын

@@cluck9692 false, black bear

@amandakanaly6643 4 жыл бұрын

4:30 - reasons why the north won 5:54 - reconstruction attempts 7:39 - ulysses s. grant 9:23 - most important union victories

@haeleekim6189 4 жыл бұрын

Amanda Kanaly queen

@haeleekim6189 4 жыл бұрын

apush me off a cliff

@amandakanaly6643 4 жыл бұрын

omg yaaasszzz

@thechosenone3163 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@dillfeet269 4 жыл бұрын

bruh thank you homie

@trapdontaris 5 жыл бұрын

USA: We lost 8% of our male population in a war France: Hold my beer

@appalachianvolk1958 5 жыл бұрын

*baguette

@frisk4520 5 жыл бұрын

Avocado*

@maximusmedia8412 5 жыл бұрын

Paraguay: AMATEURS

@distorres4521 5 жыл бұрын

Poland(2 World war): Hold my beer!!!!

@believemeimherman4319 5 жыл бұрын

Soviet Union: HOLD VODKA COMRADE CYKA

@meyerpeterson7856 5 жыл бұрын

I'm playing this in the backround hoping my subconscious will absorb this and spit it out by the exam

@darlin4818 5 жыл бұрын

Hahhaha So I'm not the only one here having an exam for this period of time !! LOL

@MrSupernova111 4 жыл бұрын

Nope.

@karojen6764 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much like yes

@karmabakescakes 4 жыл бұрын

literally me

@karmabakescakes 4 жыл бұрын

@@darlin4818 well everyone has to when school goes down.... but its ok

@abrahamlincoln6789 4 жыл бұрын

I don't remember receiving any e-mails about this video. You seriously missed out on an excellent source. Also "The fault in our stars" was decent at best.

@cringefailtastic 4 жыл бұрын

Lincoln! Did you know we put your face on money?

@khaoticlol 4 жыл бұрын

LINCOL PLS RESPOND TO THIS COMMENT!

@janetracy1399 4 жыл бұрын

The Fault in our stars was an incredible read. I'm sorry that your miniature brain could not see that.

@johnchessant3012 4 жыл бұрын

ThatSpicyFoodMoron "WHY IS MY FACE ON A COIN THAT IS WORTH 1/26 OF WHAT A PENNY WAS WORTH WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT?" (watch?v=77C47XYm_3c&t=2m59s)

@isabellaanderson8174 4 жыл бұрын

@@janetracy1399 I so agree.

@CFM2 4 жыл бұрын

For those who are doing the same thing as me, here are the answers. Thank me by subscribing. 1. April 12 1861 2. Abraham Lincoln 3. North of the United states and the south of the United States 4. A border state is a state that was part of the slaves states that wasn't part of the confederacy. Such as Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. 5. The union won the war 6. Advantages such as many more people, also manufactures more than 90% of all goods in America 7. The only advantage the south had was better military leaders 8. They had to outlast the Northern efforts to bring them back into the union 9. His strategy was to wear down the south 10. It gave them control to the Mississippi river 11. Gettysburg was a decisive victory for the Union Army and was the last time the Confederacy ever attacked Union soil. 12. The political importance of the capture was that it happened close to the election

@kayrao.862 4 жыл бұрын

99.9% of comments be like.. “I gotta test tmrrw”

@LegoJunk128 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you John. One for giving me a quick recap of the Civil War before a history test, and second acknowledging my home state of Delaware :)

@MrZattack101 8 жыл бұрын

There was actually a catuar on screen at 2:20. Its in the bottom left side of the screen I love crash course/thought bubble for making easter eggs like this

@machination2166 8 жыл бұрын

Cactus*

@Luuuumaaaa 8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Tan Cactuar*

@machination2166 8 жыл бұрын

oh, i never realized cactuar was a real thing

@mdstarfaith706 8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Tan It's a monster/summon from Final Fantasy.

@youvegot 8 жыл бұрын

Cloud from Final Fantasy is the one that pointed that out if you didn't realize, they gave you cactuar. Cloud being from the same game series is the real easter egg.

@saman9291 5 жыл бұрын

"OH!! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?!?" -John Green, 2013

@NotWithThatAttitude 5 жыл бұрын

Favourite quote of the month award goes to...😂😂

@JohnBrownsArmory 4 жыл бұрын

North or South, we must all agree, everyone major figure had awesome beards.

@bleggsbleggs 9 жыл бұрын

Lincoln downplayed slavery because he didn't want to piss off the slave states that stayed in the union. He personally was an abolitionist.

@johnc.calhoun7755 9 жыл бұрын

RonPaulHatesBlacks It wasn't a war it was a coup d'etat staged by Lincoln and the Republicans. It's all about DEMOCRACY. We had it before Lincoln but not after.

@bleggsbleggs 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah Andrew Jackson did more to reduce states' rights than Lincoln did, and there was no civil war then.

@lorrainecarrillo5210 9 жыл бұрын

+John C. Calhoun You're right the south didn't have democracy after Lincoln, because they had Johnson(unelected), the klan, and Jim Crow, until the federal government restored democracy in the south, by passing the civil rights act, It revoked the state right to deny black people from voting. The only people complaining about "violations /trampling" by the federal government on the states rights -are those who liked the Jim Crow laws and we're appalled by black people voting.

@PirategamingClan 9 жыл бұрын

Wheres the evidence?

@gingerdavis8071 9 жыл бұрын

***** I am in utter shock. I never read that before. Now l see the light. Thank you so much for that astounding fact that will truly change how Americans view the Civil War.

@SuperHamsterhuey 9 жыл бұрын

Attention Lincoln haters: Lincoln had a cool hat, therefore, Lincoln is great I rest my case

@samfam3660 9 жыл бұрын

🆒🆗

@redcoat4348 8 жыл бұрын

***** freakin conservatives.

@EnragedSephiroth 8 жыл бұрын

***** Freakin' conservatives, just what are you trying to conserve? 'Murica?!

@EnragedSephiroth 8 жыл бұрын

***** Socialists? No one's doing away with Capitalism. It's the foundation of everything here. No countries are taking over, nor would it be in their best interest to do so; they depend on our spending power.

@EnragedSephiroth 8 жыл бұрын

Okay dude, your bias is coming off a little strong. Relax. Other countries want what we have? Other countries HAVE better things than we have (e.g. healthcare and education) precisely because we're too occupied with paranoia and infighting.

@BadgerCheese94 7 жыл бұрын

I still can't believe the amount of people who are still bitter over losing the Civil War. We lost, get over it. The South is a better place now than if it had actually stayed the Confederacy.

@gamerN77 7 жыл бұрын

What do you mean with "we lost"?

@BadgerCheese94 7 жыл бұрын

We meaning "The South." I'm from the South.

@IkeOkerekeNews 6 жыл бұрын

BadgerCheese94 It is not surprising. Civil unrest in the past can last generations before they are fully healed.

@tombahma 6 жыл бұрын

because without slavery the south was nothing but a bunch of stupid morons. true. im from the south as well.

@plasmoxxie8275 6 жыл бұрын

This is about a year late, but it's because people don't like being painted the bad guy. Two hundred years later and the primary focus of social studies, American history, and in many ways politics, is still slavery and how evil southerners were/are.

@mariotrouncer1794 6 жыл бұрын

2:54 love how they added a picture of Cloud in there

@hinokochan4358 5 жыл бұрын

When your favorite author teaches history lessons for your final exam. Bless

@AwesomeFroggy 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Crash Course, for helping me study for (and hopefully NOT fail) my AP US History class final this semester (and also probably next).

@melissablake5961 4 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine being wounded in battle and choosing the pet name “honeybun” to refer to your comrade.

@calamityamity3706 6 жыл бұрын

I never had the war presented to me from a perspective other than its battles - and yet it wasn't in a vacuum, politics and economics shaped it to a powerful degree. Thank you CC

@CinemaKnight 8 жыл бұрын

My great great great grandfather Frank Allen Pettys and his father Amos both served in the 19th Wisconsin regiment during the Civil War and that particular regiment was the first to fly its colors over the Confederate capital when it was defeated.

@Shaheer4771 4 жыл бұрын

Cinema Knight how old are u

@Gorlaz34 8 жыл бұрын

It's so refreshing to hear someone accurately explain the reason for the civil war: slavery. Slavery was the driving force that fueled southern economics. So when people like to bicker about how it was actually fought for another reason, it all ties back to slavery. Thanks John Green for your frankness and clarity.

@TigerRifle1 7 жыл бұрын

the south fought to preserve it.

@mrsuns10 6 жыл бұрын

Your stupid if you think slavery was the only reason for war

@btdpro752 5 жыл бұрын

mrsuns10 Nobody in their right mind would think that. Do think that anybody is that stupid. Slavery played a major role in the Civil War as the phrase "Rich man's war, but the poor man's fight"

@toddaustin2198 5 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@quartratic2389 5 жыл бұрын

Zachary Christy Another huge reason is that the South felt left out. The North was industrializing and the South wasn’t that much. They kept to basic farming for instance. The South felt out of place by being in the Union, so they wanted to leave.

@lorddetrivore60 7 жыл бұрын

I slowed it down .5 speed and now I can understand what he is saying.

@alexaliona 7 жыл бұрын

you put it at 2x speed, you learn twice as much, twice as fast!

@PlatinumSpoons 7 жыл бұрын

so 4x?

@marcusfillard9578 7 жыл бұрын

Polite Conversation yeah but then it's a painful 24 minutes long

@stratoleft 7 жыл бұрын

The reason you had to slow this down, because this catholic fraud has to do what most vatican controlled frauds and suckwads usually do do. They give you a brief lesson on how dumb Abraham Lincoln was, and pretty much never give you the fact that the catholic "church" gave the green light on his assassination as well. The s.o.b. in this video is no better than having the catholic criminals at Georgetown University giving "lessons" on the civil war.

@audreylai8168 7 жыл бұрын

It's supposed to be a brief lesson. It's called Crash Course.

@janelim9496 4 жыл бұрын

"Anyone see the cactus at 2:20? OMG?" *Goes back a minute to check the cactus* Yep! Saw it

@alozzzy1213 6 жыл бұрын

In my US history textbook it showed that Delaware was a little important. If DE decided to secede from the Union, then Philadelphia would lose access to the sea, which was a major city of importance in those days. However, DE still isn't that important, you are right. Love the videos, and this is helping me solidify concepts for my last essay of the Semester. :)

@reubenelijah1258 7 жыл бұрын

"He should start wearing the dress if he's not willing to fight." LOL

@rezkalla 4 жыл бұрын

I think she should have gone to fight.

@ameyas7726 4 жыл бұрын

Today's American men...wears the dress and does YMCA!

@kaizen5023 4 жыл бұрын

This example of the woman mailing her boyfriend the dress and saying that "He should start wearing the dress if he's not willing to fight," is an example of how some women still greatly influence politics and war even if they seem like they are just in the background, for example, wives of male presidents.

@jpoplistener5559 4 жыл бұрын

0:55 when you call yourself a "sniveling little ghoul"

@mrsnakesmrnot8499 4 жыл бұрын

Southern rebels knew, according to their written correspondence, that they were fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. Sure, the rhetoric was typically, “We are fighting for our rights!” ...but they knew that they fought for the right to preserve slavery, the foundation of their economy.

@willmaples4062 3 жыл бұрын

The government wanted to preserve slavery, but I will argue that most of the people who fought in battle only did so to protect their land and their families such as Robert E. Lee who was adamantly against slavery, but was from Virginia.

@socalmatt 8 жыл бұрын

First off. I love CC thank you for all your hard work in bringing this AWESOME youtube channel to us. As an ADD child, now an adult. It has been a huge resource. but episode #20 before #19 would have helped.

@saramcknz 4 жыл бұрын

"this is crashcourse history" do you mean this is the youtube channel that is going to help me pass my history class

@reddhawt2378 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Juneteenth!!

@Ksb88 3 жыл бұрын

🤗🤗

@melanieburciaga8682 7 жыл бұрын

I have my midterms tomorrow and i'm like trying to learn all this in one night

@Jennifer-ws2vb 7 жыл бұрын

melanie burciaga same dude

@secondstring 5 жыл бұрын

These history videos always have students doing the same, last minute cramming. Always makes me wonder how they have the time to strike up chats in the comments sections...or even read the comments sections for that matter.

@diddyange2258 4 жыл бұрын

Did u do well in the exam from this video?

@funnyfosteranimals 4 жыл бұрын

I love these crash course videos! I have short attention span, but these videos always keep me interested and paying attention!

@pranzfegidero2558 4 жыл бұрын

I just realized. He’s the author of The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking For Alaska, and other notable books😲😲😲

@GrantsGaming 4 жыл бұрын

Our history teacher told us to watch this during quarantine and I noticed right off the bat that the guy making this is a big fan of final fantasy.

@sarahmoosa1172 7 жыл бұрын

I love your videos! They've helped me with assignments and exams! Thank You so much! Keep them videos coming!

@alisonbryan8488 10 жыл бұрын

I'm reading "Looking for Alaska" at the same time as studying the Civil War, I had a lightbulb moment when I realized that John Green was the same John Green that's taught me everything I know about history o.O

@forrestweintraub9858 8 жыл бұрын

How many people went back to 2:20?

@randomgirl833 8 жыл бұрын

🙍🙋

@NemesisMKIII 8 жыл бұрын

I did, and there was a cactuar there. I was not disappointed.

@catelynsaunders978 6 жыл бұрын

@c0smicc0re 5 жыл бұрын

🙋 👖

@hellasenpai 5 жыл бұрын

I was not disappointed.

@user-dr5nt2is7f 5 жыл бұрын

And here's some Asian dude, knowing that the comment section will be controversial without even looking at it.

5 жыл бұрын

You correct. You so wise.

@iamaspaceman8533 4 жыл бұрын

찬찬 yOu aSiAN zIPpErhEaDs rUiNING oUr cOnTry! I’m joking but that’s the south for you they hate everyone

@syedzaid5771 4 жыл бұрын

Thought I was the only Asian watching.

@user-pm9ec7gn4g 4 жыл бұрын

Another asian here I have to do a presentation abt this😉😉

@GOWIN8109837 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@charlottelowe9718 Жыл бұрын

Listening to crash course as I work out was the best decision I’ve made all day. Thanks Crash Courae!

@Noutchka 6 жыл бұрын

As always, great video, but I wish you had spent a bit more time on the causes of the war (might have been worthwhile to explain the differences of the northern and southern interests a bit more). Anyway thanks a lot !

@pensandshakers 8 жыл бұрын

Of course, he also said: "If I could preserve this Union without freeing the slaves, I would."

@AstraAnima 8 жыл бұрын

Okay and?

@AstraAnima 8 жыл бұрын

That was his goal. He opposed slavery but not to the extent of the radical republicans.

@anne7929 8 жыл бұрын

+Malik Walker Lincoln's main goal was to preserve the union. He was against slavery, but he said, "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."

@AstraAnima 8 жыл бұрын

Sonia Dean That's what I said.

@anne7929 8 жыл бұрын

+Malik Walker I meant to respond to the original comment whoops, I was elaborating bc I have a civil war test tomorrow and I was like WAIT I HAVE A GOOD QUOTE FOR THIS IN MY TEXTBOOK

@mikali3461 4 жыл бұрын

When you're reminded of that one guy in a book who loved to memorize last words and suddenly realize that book was looking for Alaska by John Green

@CBeard849 6 жыл бұрын

I continue to be enlightened and entertained so much by these videos! Keep them coming!

@Mikeyvellii 9 жыл бұрын

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." A Lincoln.

@Mikeyvellii 9 жыл бұрын

RonPaulHatesBlacks Letter to Horace Greely. Written during the heart of the Civil War, this is one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous letters. Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, had just addressed an editorial to Lincoln called "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," making demands and implying that Lincoln's administration lacked direction and resolve. President Lincoln made his reply when a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation already lay in his desk drawer. His response revealed his concentration on preserving the Union. The letter, which received acclaim in the North, stands as a classic statement of Lincoln's constitutional responsibilities. A few years after the president's death, Greeley wrote an assessment of Lincoln. He stated that Lincoln did not actually respond to his editorial but used it instead as a platform to prepare the public for his "altered position" on emancipation.

@Smithy0013 9 жыл бұрын

Mikey T "There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery." -- Senator Robert Hunter of VA "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves...freedom is not possible without slavery" -- Richmond Enquirer, 1856 "We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing" -- Atlanta Confederacy, 1860 "African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism" -- Congressman Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina, January 25, 1860 "If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question of political and social existence." -- Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator

@Mikeyvellii 9 жыл бұрын

Smithy0013 interesting.

@myopic_cyclops 9 жыл бұрын

I think it's too simplistic to say that the Civil War was caused by slavery alone, and immature to so flippantly dismiss any arguments made about what else might have caused the conflict. Was slavery the galvanizing factor that ignited and then perpetuated the war? Yes. But the polarized economic and political structures between the north and south had laid the foundation for such a conflict to come about. There was indeed an abolitionist movement in the north that championed the emancipation of blacks on the grounds of moral justness and liberty, but as a nation people were much too selfish and petty to fight against their own families because of conflicting ideological stances.

@myopic_cyclops 9 жыл бұрын

RonPaulHatesBlacks Yes. I agree; there is absolutely no shame in saying that's what it was about. But simply stating that the war was about slavery, without offering clarification, ignores the complexity of it and makes it seem primarily like an altruistic morality crusade by the North against the tyrannical South (which to some extent is true). Did the North, as a majority, actually believe that slavery was wrong? Or was their political and economic stability threatened by it? A combination of both? That's why I don't think the statement "the Civil War was about slavery" does the topic justice. The polarized economic and political structures refers to the radically different (you guessed it) political and economic structures between the North (industry; Republican/Whig) and South (farming/slavery; Democrat). Also, the southern religion wasn't based around slavery, though it was pivotal in its justification and the racial philosophy that followed after abolition.

@markscott9259 9 жыл бұрын

no no the Civil War was not fought over slavery because the union was already at war with the Confederates and the North lost the first battle while the North Union was loosing power in the first place. The Gettysburg address never made it to Vargina never made out of Gettysburg. Why...? because there was a new address, addressed from the South slaves that was willing and able to move up North with the promise to President Lincoln that the blacks that are now northren will help the Union win the war for taxation towards the South if he free the slaves. President Lincoln thought it was a bad ideal and didn't bite so easy, until the first battle for the north was lost. So now there's another address which personally I think is Connie on Lincolns part, and it was called the emancipation of proclamation that was addressed in Vargina meaning all citizens of the South free your slaves including the ones that owned 80% of the slaves the cotton field businesses. Most of the Confederate citizens except the emancipation of proclamation address and free the slaves to the North,but the mayjor cotton businesses was not going for that. Now once 20%of South slaves was free by home slave owner the Union dug in for the second battle which there were 30,000 angry black men in Union blue civil military suits that was ready to go to battle against their old slave owners. Can you imagine the hate, anger and attitude that black soldiers had..... totally slaughtered the white South. First time in history of black man can practice he Second Amendment rights. The Union got his power back. The promise to free the slaves was granted. And the Gettysburg address remained in the drawer.

@gingerdavis8071 9 жыл бұрын

Martiez Scott l think you meant to post on one of the Drunk History sites. See Jen Kirkman on Lincoln & Douglass.

@shamrockrancher7673 9 жыл бұрын

RonPaulHatesBlacks Go back and re-read the actual SC declaration of sucession. Seemingly, you didn't read it or you focus on just the slavery aspect. Slavery isn't even mentioned in it until 2/3's of the way down. SC's beef, so to speak, wasn't with the abolition of slavery. When the original 'compact' between the states had taken place, all parties agreed that seized or captured 'property' (sadly, people (slaves) were viewed also as property) would be returned to the rightful owner, regardless of crossing state lines. It became more and more of an issue that run away slaves weren't being returned and in fact, helped to escape. The game had changed. The rules were not what SC had agreed to, to accept 'the compact'. So, they wanted to go their own way. It would be similar to you getting a new cell phone provider and then 6 mos later they start throttling your data speed, no longer offering access to voice mail except on weekends, etc. You'd want to nullify your compact with them as well. Mind you, I am not pro-slavery in the least. It is a sad part of American (AND SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES history). But I have studied their declaration with an open mind and I understand why they wanted out. I have not studied the other three states you mentioned. Peace.

@gingerdavis8071 9 жыл бұрын

Shamrock Rancher So, they seceded because their property wasn't being returned? Was the Civil War started because of secession? l am not pro slavery either. I read SC's beef with the Union with an open mind. I came to the conclusion that they seceded over the issue of slavery & took with them what they felt was rightfully theirs. The US government disagreed. It would be like me changing the locks on my home before my husband came home from work and then threatening to shoot him if he entered the property to retrieve his belongings. Sorry, l know we're married, but l decided l want out, l never agreed you could play golf every Saturday.

@remyolson3635 6 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome video! It helped me a lot and all the facts were super interesting. Keep up the good work!

@tomreed2417 6 жыл бұрын

2 years ago I stayed up ALL NIGHT watching crash course for my midterm... WE GOT A B!!!

@thekillers1stfan 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Grant was crucial to the Northern win but Sherman is definitely a best general in the Union army

@CrabCakes4Sale 8 жыл бұрын

Yes because massacring Atlanta's civilians is crucial to the Yankee war effort -_-

@benwalker2234 8 жыл бұрын

+TheLonestarWanderer It worked though

@icey5046 6 жыл бұрын

thekillers1stfan a

@cs0345 5 жыл бұрын

@@CrabCakes4Sale They weren't massacred and burning it was necessary and badass.

@gracielac6841 9 жыл бұрын

This video was very informal and I liked how unbiased it was.

@coltenhunter2000 5 жыл бұрын

See I lost a percentage on a test because one of their questions was, “what caused slavery” and it gave options and one was just slavery, and I just circled that. But my history teacher was like That’s wrong, it was more about the states rights and I was like No

@evanmcconnell6764 5 жыл бұрын

cj Hunter you should have responded “A State’s right to what Sir?”

@darrianweathington1923 5 жыл бұрын

Evan McConnell teacher would've probably got him expelled

@ID-gt8zs 4 жыл бұрын

cj Hunter. Let me guess he came from the south lol.

@33phi 6 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video, and I love the way that it is quick, but still understandable.

@HorrorMovieReviewGuy 7 жыл бұрын

can you imagine living in those times for a year?

@culturehub2628 7 жыл бұрын

HorrorMovieReviewGuy no toilet and basic plumbing. Pass. Take my I pad but when you take my toilet away I draw the line. :(

@TheLegend-mu6zg 7 жыл бұрын

HorrorMovieReviewGuy Ikr no Panin presses

@miladantoine4566 6 жыл бұрын

500 hundred years from now, some people would say how one could live in 21th century.

@jayliherable 5 жыл бұрын

I'm Asian so I would probably be mistreated for my skin color during that time.

@DaDunge 8 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the north had naval supremecy which pretty much meant that they could prevent the suth from trading more or less indefinatly.

@dakshmota3480 6 жыл бұрын

I like how you always put "me from the past in all of your videos". Also you have a good sense of humor.

@sydneylai4835 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! This video was very helpful! Also I love the animations in the video!

@PiznesPiznes 9 жыл бұрын

During the American Civil War, Russian-American relations were very good. Alone among European powers Russia offered rhetorical support for the Union, largely due to the view that the U.S. served as a counterbalance to the British Empire.[16] During the winter of 1861-1862, the Imperial Russian Navy sent two fleets to American waters to avoid their getting trapped if a war broke out with Britain and France. Many Americans at the time viewed this as an intervention on behalf of the Union, though historians deny this.[17] Alexander Nevsky and the other vessels of the Atlantic squadron stayed in American waters for seven months (September 1863 to June 1864).[18]

@krim7 9 жыл бұрын

Cool factoid!

@Vesporeon 9 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn't know that U.S.-Russian relations were good, I thought they were mostly neutral towards each other until WWII.

@markscott9259 9 жыл бұрын

Darian Figueroa what you didn't know that. Shit they fly in space together.

@Vesporeon 9 жыл бұрын

Martiez Scott What the hell are you talking about? Also they didn't fly in space together, they fought to see who could get the most technological progress and goals reached (like first animal, first person, etc) in the new frontiecr of space in the Space Race. Also the American Civil War happened almost 200 years before the Space Race began.

@markscott9259 9 жыл бұрын

Darian Figueroa I'm talking about now... you're talking about then. And again you didn't know the Civil War happened 200 years ago. Who do you think you're talking to an alien?

@BlueHooloovoo 10 жыл бұрын

Anyone else see Cactuar at 2:20? OMG?!? XD

@user-tv4hv7lt9z 10 жыл бұрын

I saw it! I saw It!!

@abcbyuman 7 жыл бұрын

BlueHooloovoo Mario sports mix!! I went back and watched it again because I wasn't sure and then right after I saw him I headed straight to comment section! 😂

@jasonite Жыл бұрын

Anyone else just watching this because it's interesting and moderately entertaining, not to mention pretty accurate?

@begood4689 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know why, but every time I learn something new I get anxious and excited and curious. Man I like knowing new things.

@karojen6764 4 жыл бұрын

“Delaware..... actually wasn’t that important.” Bahahaha

@ank52618 10 жыл бұрын

Great video, although if I'm not mistaken, it should have been noteworthy to mention the Battle of Antitem. Although it was a stalemate, it convinced countries like Britain and France not to back the Confederacy and was the turning point in the war.

@Robopercy 6 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I guessed the Mystery Letter! Then again Grant was like the only decent Union General I know of lol

@kylecasey9254 4 жыл бұрын

Shout out to Crash Course and John Greene for doing my American History 1 professor's job for her. She has a doctorate yet makes us watch these instead of hear her lecture. And we're ok with that and so is she.

@joekennedy4093 9 жыл бұрын

This is a link to the Declaration of Causes for each Confederate state that wrote one. www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html Each and every one mentions slavery pretty liberally as a cause of the war. It isn't just the opinion of people who actually have degrees in American history. The Confederacy knew slavery to be the cause too.

@tonyv2373 9 жыл бұрын

I think it is interesting that those who try to claim the war was not about slavery often only talk about Lincoln and the North's motivations. I would cede that the North was primarily with forcing the Southern States to remain in the Union, but they were not the ones who started the war. The South, who started the war by their succession, were clearly motivated to protect their right to own slaves.

@liamcurtis743 4 жыл бұрын

To everyone in this comment section saying 'I didn't study', I am sorry. This IS what our teacher told us to study, that this information would be on our final exam. Thank you, Mr. Kollasch!

@madkatt333 7 жыл бұрын

Without your past self, you couldn't become yourself today. Embrace your transition and keep improving.

@theeNappy 9 жыл бұрын

Well, it was also about agrarian economics, economics which relied on slavery, federal and state governmental powers, a conflict that came to a head over slavery, and cultural differences between the North and the South, differences which largely centered on slavery. While the Civil War was a conflict over several issues, all of those issues returned back to the central issue of slavery. Unless someone is trying to have an in-depth, specialized, and specific discussion of, for example, antebellum agrarian economics (even in which case slavery is a major constituent element), pretending that the Civil War wasn't about slavery is dangerously stupid.

@thirteenpixelz7365 7 жыл бұрын

No, the South seceding was a response to Lincoln's election. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. He didn't want to end slavery, he wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. When the Union started falling apart, he went to war with the South. Sure, slavery was a big factor in this regard, along with tariffs, and too strong of a central tyrannical government (hmmm, Britain)... Lincoln when to war to preserve the union - there's a famous quote where he says that if "I could've preserved the union without freeing any slaves, I would have done so."

@theeNappy 7 жыл бұрын

Lincoln's election as a motivation for the south secession is only valid when you remember they firmly believed Lincoln would push hard for emancipation. Which he did. So, as a cause of the cause of the Civil War, Lincoln's election is a long winded way of saying slavery. High terifs as a motive? Teriffs apply to *imports*, not exports. The south was *exporting* cotton. So that argument is just ridiculous on the very face of it. I'll admit the war powers of the president were expanded. As a result of the war. Not a cause. So, if the "tyranical" expansion of the powers of the federal government you're referring to is actually southern fears of "they're coming for our slaves," thank you for reinforcing my point that Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. If you doubt that the cornerstone of the Confederacy's very existance was to preserve slavery, alow me to quote Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephen's Cornerstone Speech Ahem, "Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth." So, the Confederacy itself cites slavery as the cause of its own existance, and thus, the Civil War. Don't try me pal, *I woke up earlier than you.*

@secondstring 5 жыл бұрын

@@thirteenpixelz7365 - Lincoln was the first Republican president. The Republican Party was founded only 6 years prior to his election with an anti-slavery platform as the cornerstone of its identity. The southern states know this in 1864, long before Lincoln was even known to them. Regardless of Lincoln's personal views, South Carolina and indeed the remaining slave states saw his election as the beginning of the end, thus their urgency to leave the Union, so as to avoid going in directions they cared not to go.

@gingerspice5477 5 жыл бұрын

I was watching this in class when I saw that ff reference, made my day.

@nonametyvm 4 жыл бұрын

John ; we will NOT be talking about battles and tactics !! Also John ; talks about Grants battles & tactics

@tulipflower8142 6 жыл бұрын

Very helpful recourse to look back on

@yes-jb9et 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine having to tell General Lee that you shot Stonewall Jackson

@becketclark9942 7 жыл бұрын

ANYONE ELSE SEE CACTUAR AT 2:20? OMG?!?

@pinez2961 7 жыл бұрын

Becket Clark nope

@Conner06 7 жыл бұрын

nope

@gamershawker5558 7 жыл бұрын

yes i did

@slawdog8 7 жыл бұрын

Doesn't look like anything to me.

@mebreevee1997 7 жыл бұрын

Becket Clark anyone see the profile pic was cloud strife?

@andrewnewsome1750 10 ай бұрын

John, I felt your victory today, as I guessed the author of the mystery document for the second time ever!

@marythewinter 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope I'll pas my test tomorrow, if so I will give another book by you a chance!

@mollsgreys5827 8 жыл бұрын

"Honey Bun, How do I look in the face?" Best. Last Words. Ever.

@bostondowns5293 5 жыл бұрын

Thank u u just saved my test tomorrow Eeeeee I got a 98

@TabishBish 5 жыл бұрын

"I am never right because Stan makes it too hard..." This sounds like my APUSH teacher and I. 😂

@mollythepotato6522 4 жыл бұрын

Let us not forget the most important battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Schrute Farms

@majorgunnerducky9273 7 жыл бұрын

You shall not pass......this test said no one thanks again for the amazing work you did

@kudo7821 9 жыл бұрын

Am I the only person that saw the Cactuar at 2:18 EDIT: LOL wow 2:54.

@kudo7821 8 жыл бұрын

it's okay... Cactuar is a rare encounter anyways :(

@qtree1838 6 жыл бұрын

i saw it too man

@ProsperingMan 6 жыл бұрын

I saw man at school

@bobskripoljr.6470 6 жыл бұрын

No I saw it too

@jahmar23Dontrell 5 жыл бұрын

i saw it my brother thought it was a Pokemon

@GeAsita 4 жыл бұрын

What's with all the final fantasy references haha. Great video! Thanks!!!

@vandini8185 4 жыл бұрын

This was insanely helpful! Thank youu!

@prodxeviant 6 жыл бұрын

"I'm not gonna talk about strategy or tactics" talks about strategy and tactics

@secondstring 5 жыл бұрын

Your quote is incorrect. He said "We will not be describing BATTLES and tactics" , referring to the military aspect. He did not say "STRATEGY and tactics". It would be very hard to summarize the war with no mention of strategy.

@UhhhhHi2 7 жыл бұрын

Cactus man @2:20 is my hero

@fluffy5649 7 жыл бұрын

lol

@PS4ENDERSQUIRREL 6 жыл бұрын

This guy talks so fast but give so much information Its amazing

@michellethomas1406 7 жыл бұрын

Reading 'Rolling Thunder Hear My Cry' .......It leaves a sour taste in my mouth and a deep hurt boiling in my stomach .

@jayanthuppaluri9764 8 жыл бұрын

Yay!!! My home state (missouri) was actually important to a war!!!

@CollinBuckman 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@laughinsohard7888 7 жыл бұрын

Well, you are the "Gateway to the West". All that my home state of North Carolina is known for in the Civil War was shooting Stonewall Jackson because North Carolinians are bad at seeing in the dark...

@wunderbarmutti5221 5 жыл бұрын

It was still a slave state

@shanialogan5127 5 жыл бұрын

I’m so thrilled to see that we (African Americans) had someone fighting in our corner to Equal Rights.

@adrijan6510 7 жыл бұрын

he killed with the "how u like them apples" lmfaooo 😂😂😂😂

@elvisdavis5128 Жыл бұрын

Great break down of the civil war

@nicknoway3015 5 жыл бұрын

July 2019 anybody?

@benjaminphelps561 4 жыл бұрын

Comments like these make me want to run into gun fire

@yochanan770 4 жыл бұрын

July

@Roenazarrek 10 жыл бұрын

omg i got the mystery document!

@BanPriestHS 10 жыл бұрын

no you didn't

@misterrogersclassroom 10 жыл бұрын

Me, too... but it was pretty easy. You had to know it was a military guy, had to know it was from the Union Army...

@Roenazarrek 10 жыл бұрын

Yea but when you're so godamn stupid as me you have to appreciate the little things.

@michaelchen1217 Жыл бұрын

WHY IS THERE A WEIRD CACTUS AT 2:20

@My_Hope_Will_Never_Die 5 жыл бұрын

This improved my report in school from DISAPPOINTMENT to BRILLIANT

@M0053yfate 7 жыл бұрын

"I only listen to The Mountain Goats" best shirt I've seen on your angsty teen self lol.

@shreyak2204 4 жыл бұрын

" HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES" me : *chokes on coffee *

@nagisashiota6604 4 жыл бұрын

THE FINAL FANTASY JOKE-- HELP IM DYING

@redsox258 4 жыл бұрын

there will never in history be a more badass name for a general than STONEWALL JACKSON