Ah yes, Late-night cramming the day before the APUSH exam is a most joyous pass time in which sleep eludes you and the feeling of unpreparedness slips away in a bought a euphoria as you listen to the melodious voice of John Green.
... I DEADASS FORGOT HE WROTE BOOKS!! I read all of them a few years ago and then high school hit i I replaced John green fiction with John green crash course
Watching this series has helped me appreciate how recent all of these events and changes have taken place. The causes and effects feel obviously connected to my life in a way I couldn't appreciate before. All of this makes me incredibly excited and terribly nervous for the not yet written history of our nation and the world.
+孙明亮 It is a test for Advanced Placement classes. They are sponsered by "The College Board" and are considered the highest level of classes in American high schools. At the end of the class you take a test to determine how well you did in the class.
To learn about US history because the only thing I learned in my country about the US is that it gained independence in 1776... which doesn't tell me ANYTHING about what happened after that.
The US tends to go through rises and falls of equality. It's well established we're in a second gilded age by most economists like Krugman. The reason why we're in a second gilded age is due to capital accumulation from automation and labor saving technologies, the same thing that happened in the industrial age. Only this time, we're experiencing rising inequality from the computer and AI revolutions. It will likely end in another great depression. Bubbles can't last forever and eventually pop.
Arthur Sewall, who was William Jennings Bryan's first running mate, is actually my great uncle. He was a business man from Maine who was put on the ticket in order to sway the Northern business vote and he was also a member of a religious movement based off of the writings of a man named Emmanuel Swedenborg.
A note on the idea of interdisciplinarity: it's valuable to approach history with the idea of being interdisciplinary and taking into account many different approaches and perspectives. But let's be honest, how many history students are afraid of science and mathematics and never take those perspectives into account when they approach topics in history? Instead, what I hear around the tables in my history department at my university are culture, gender, and post-colonial narratives being repeatedly uttered in history classes where the students believe that economic and political history are too old fashioned and a global approach (much like John's) is considered too superficial. I totally disagree with a lot of the culture, gender, and post-colonial history students and I take a global approach to history, with a particular interest in economic and ecological history, but I'm considered naive among many of my peers. All this to say, interdisciplinary approaches are good but history students tend to use interdisciplinaritary as a shield to hide behind some other disciplines (anthropology, sociology, culture studies, gender/women's studies) while shooting down others (economics, science, political studies). In essence, the pro-interdisciplinary team tends to paint the rest of us as the naive idiots who don't care about other approaches when we do just in different ways.
So I recently (and by recent I mean, like two days ago) taught my students about Populism and the Gilded Age by analyzing the Wizard of Oz and the ways in which it represents various aspects of this era. In all of my research of this connection, I've never found any evidence that L. Frank Baum actually wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor for this period. In fact, I've read that he was asked straight out about it and responded by saying no, it's just a children's story. However, the story is a very close representation. Like, too much to be coincidence. I was wondering what your opinion was, as an author. I know that once everything is said and done, books belong to their readers, but do you 1)subscribe to the interpretation of TWWoO as a metaphor for populism and the Gilded Age, 2)do you believe LFB really did just write it as a children's story or was he simply saying that so as not to attract criticism from his contemporaries, and 3)is it possible to project our own interpretations onto a story to the extent that we could potentially bastardize an author's intention? -Kellen
Kellen Holowicki -- I'm in the same camp, Kellen. Here's an article for folks who are interested: www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Wizard_of_Oz_Littlefield.pdf
Kellen Holowicki I'm writing an Extended Essay on this very topic; in a nutshell, how The Wizard of Oz has allusions to US socioeconomic issues. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
We read Plunkitt of Tammany Hall in my freshman year of college. There are a lot of parallels between their type of politics and our... Citizens United era of political history.
I too would love it if an economics CC could be made. Love these videos! I use them in class to give students an overview before we dig deeper. Thanks!
This test is on Friday. It is Wednesday. I want an A-/A on this Gilded Age/Progressive Era test which would be about 20 points higher than my highest score so I can get a B-/B in this class. Wish me luck. I need it.
That moment when you realize this exist before the midterm exams.... and you just want to cry, and cry, and cry for living under a rock for far too long. FML
13:06 "Would you rather have your name survive, or see your ideas enacted?" Now that's an interesting ultimatum. On the other hand, if your ideas are enacted but you don't live to see it, I guess it doesn't really make it out of the philosophical gates, what with you being hypothetically dead and all.
I really hope that whenever you're done with U.S. History that you go back to doing a few more literary courses. I found it very intersting when you went over Catcher In The Rye
This was a wonderful and informational segment, very enlightening. Sounds very familiar to todays issues... If only more people could see this to gain a bit of the insight I just gained.
John decries the inflationary policy of bimetallism of the populists, but Bryan (among others) were pairing those policies with increased participation in unions. The unions would bargain for higher wages to offset the rise in prices. Everybody wins except the lenders who would see their loans decline relative to inflation. Moreover, the populists goal was a move away from the deflationary policy of the gold standard. In this they succeeded when FDR devalued the dollar relative to gold.
i love these! Was wondering - how do they figure out comparative historical monetary values? How do they know $500K in 1890 = $9m today? Is it purchasing power, and if so, how do they factor in technology? You couldn't buy a car in 1890, and there's far less metal in a horse than a car. How many MP3's could I buy with a US1890 Nickel?
Oh man, I thought the last jump at the end was going to be a backwards cartwheel and I was both excited and terrified and then relieved when it didn't happen.
While the United States did grow immensely during the Gilded Age, most of the money were concentrated through Tariffs and the government picking favorites. SO you can technically say statism caused inequality, but gave us great economic growth. However, growth seemed to be greatest from 1870-1920, which some presidents were free marketers. Rockerfeller and Morgan actually improved lives and made oil and travel cheaper. While Leland Stanford and the railroad giants got rich through connections.
only 1890's kids will get this video.
If there are people still alive from 1890 I applaud them.
Nah I think the last one died in April of last year.
@@2afault :(
Only they can relate
Maybe my 102 year old uncle would get it...maybe?...
Ah yes, Late-night cramming the day before the APUSH exam is a most joyous pass time in which sleep eludes you and the feeling of unpreparedness slips away in a bought a euphoria as you listen to the melodious voice of John Green.
"Suppose you have a US history test, and you only have a day left to study for it. But I repeat myself."
One hour?
I hate that that's literally me rn
2 hours before 😌
brianna danae 1 hour remains
brianna danae 1 hour before
Oh, so hating Congress is traditional.
Yeah, if you don't hate Congress, you're not a true American.
John Green is now officially my favorite person. His books have all the feels and because of his videos I got my first A on my APUSH test yesterday🎉
Jasmine Washington Lucky you 💀💀
Jasmine Washington god bless you
... I DEADASS FORGOT HE WROTE BOOKS!! I read all of them a few years ago and then high school hit i I replaced John green fiction with John green crash course
Maci Dismuke 🤣🤣🤣
Less than 12 hours until the APUSH test and here I am
cheers lads lol
me too man... me too
Same here
For me it's less than two hours :)
i have the aice test in 27 minutes. and here i am. listening to this at 1.5x speed
If only I could grow a beard, I could triple my electoral power. -stan
Watching this series has helped me appreciate how recent all of these events and changes have taken place. The causes and effects feel obviously connected to my life in a way I couldn't appreciate before. All of this makes me incredibly excited and terribly nervous for the not yet written history of our nation and the world.
I don't live in US, but I LOVE history. And I have one question: what the hell is an AP test?
+孙明亮 It is a test for Advanced Placement classes. They are sponsered by "The College Board" and are considered the highest level of classes in American high schools. At the end of the class you take a test to determine how well you did in the class.
You also earn college credit if you score high enough. Essentially you're taking a college class in high school.
AP test stands for Armor-Piercing, and if you pay attention to American News you know how well Armor-Piercing ammunition does in the classrooms
+孙明亮 Advanced placement. Im in AP everything. Im also homeschooled.
+Yoko Bongo you have to pay for yours?😤
He should've shaved off their hair so he could get in a 4th vote!
+stevensays1 then his pubes for vote #5
Wanquan Loot oh boy
+Wanquan Loot then put o glasses for vote 6.
The sad thing is that I could actually do this in the next election, and it would still work.
@@enteal r/woooosh
1st semester review crammed into 26 videos. thanks john & crash course team, you guys are the best you have no idea how fun & helpful these are!
We all know why we're here.
Not for apush. I’m here for the knowledge
To learn about US history because the only thing I learned in my country about the US is that it gained independence in 1776... which doesn't tell me ANYTHING about what happened after that.
Quarantine
iLikeMovies so I can be ungrounded
I vote that the word sombrerro should be replaced by "interdisciplinary party hat"
non
I second the motion
Good idea because sombrero literally just means “hat”
thanks for producing these crashcourse videos guys!
I think we currently live in the second gilded age.
Tbh thank god for this series... I'm cramming for my APUSH final so much
What is APUSH? I don't live in America...
+minimooster it stands for Advanced Placement U.S. History
2020 APUSH students are crying rn
Good luck on this test 😭
@@taisstea7306 Let's pray it's a topic we don't all loathe
You know it
Corruption and 2016. Wow, history repeats itself again!
again, history repeats
Cheezeyman0 Soros,Rockefeller
The US tends to go through rises and falls of equality. It's well established we're in a second gilded age by most economists like Krugman. The reason why we're in a second gilded age is due to capital accumulation from automation and labor saving technologies, the same thing that happened in the industrial age. Only this time, we're experiencing rising inequality from the computer and AI revolutions. It will likely end in another great depression. Bubbles can't last forever and eventually pop.
Yep good ole democratic corruption
And now my love for twain has increased. Seriously, the man was awesome.
Finally, some quotes from people who actually talk like people!
A BIG THANK YOU FROM FRANCE ! Very instructive videos !
Your videos really help me study for my history college course thank you :)
im watching this and the rest of the playlist at 2x speed
I think this is a terrible idea. -stan
CrashCourse hi
Arthur Sewall, who was William Jennings Bryan's first running mate, is actually my great uncle. He was a business man from Maine who was put on the ticket in order to sway the Northern business vote and he was also a member of a religious movement based off of the writings of a man named Emmanuel Swedenborg.
Who else had to watch this for a history class
👇
A note on the idea of interdisciplinarity: it's valuable to approach history with the idea of being interdisciplinary and taking into account many different approaches and perspectives. But let's be honest, how many history students are afraid of science and mathematics and never take those perspectives into account when they approach topics in history? Instead, what I hear around the tables in my history department at my university are culture, gender, and post-colonial narratives being repeatedly uttered in history classes where the students believe that economic and political history are too old fashioned and a global approach (much like John's) is considered too superficial. I totally disagree with a lot of the culture, gender, and post-colonial history students and I take a global approach to history, with a particular interest in economic and ecological history, but I'm considered naive among many of my peers.
All this to say, interdisciplinary approaches are good but history students tend to use interdisciplinaritary as a shield to hide behind some other disciplines (anthropology, sociology, culture studies, gender/women's studies) while shooting down others (economics, science, political studies). In essence, the pro-interdisciplinary team tends to paint the rest of us as the naive idiots who don't care about other approaches when we do just in different ways.
so to study for finals I've found that watching every episode of crash course us history might be my best chance for a decent grade
These videos are really helpful in my history class. Thanks.
So I recently (and by recent I mean, like two days ago) taught my students about Populism and the Gilded Age by analyzing the Wizard of Oz and the ways in which it represents various aspects of this era. In all of my research of this connection, I've never found any evidence that L. Frank Baum actually wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor for this period. In fact, I've read that he was asked straight out about it and responded by saying no, it's just a children's story. However, the story is a very close representation. Like, too much to be coincidence. I was wondering what your opinion was, as an author. I know that once everything is said and done, books belong to their readers, but do you 1)subscribe to the interpretation of TWWoO as a metaphor for populism and the Gilded Age, 2)do you believe LFB really did just write it as a children's story or was he simply saying that so as not to attract criticism from his contemporaries, and 3)is it possible to project our own interpretations onto a story to the extent that we could potentially bastardize an author's intention? -Kellen
thats cool. please tell us more.
Kellen Holowicki -- I'm in the same camp, Kellen. Here's an article for folks who are interested: www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Wizard_of_Oz_Littlefield.pdf
Kellen Holowicki I'm writing an Extended Essay on this very topic; in a nutshell, how The Wizard of Oz has allusions to US socioeconomic issues. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
We read Plunkitt of Tammany Hall in my freshman year of college. There are a lot of parallels between their type of politics and our... Citizens United era of political history.
I too would love it if an economics CC could be made. Love these videos! I use them in class to give students an overview before we dig deeper. Thanks!
This test is on Friday. It is Wednesday. I want an A-/A on this Gilded Age/Progressive Era test which would be about 20 points higher than my highest score so I can get a B-/B in this class. Wish me luck. I need it.
AP test 2k16
same
same
That feeling when you read the comments and realize your AP US History test was over a decade ago...
:(
AP test 2k17
Allison Meadors good luck tomorrow! APUSH 2k17
And the apush cram continues through the ages
Hank's videos: Exxon Mobil ads.
John's videos: Maker's Mark ads.
Hmm...
Ok, I love history. But because of you... I LOVE IT EVEN MORE! I like the way you actually make it real and not fin a text bookie way. :) thanks!!!
I have this mighty urge to reach through the screen & fix John's collar.
You know you're an adult when you're here studying for self purposes rather than for AP Exams... Cries
APUSH exam tomorrow. Will I survive? Let's see.
That moment when you realize this exist before the midterm exams.... and you just want to cry, and cry, and cry for living under a rock for far too long. FML
Who else is watching in 2035?
13:06 "Would you rather have your name survive, or see your ideas enacted?"
Now that's an interesting ultimatum. On the other hand, if your ideas are enacted but you don't live to see it, I guess it doesn't really make it out of the philosophical gates, what with you being hypothetically dead and all.
10:07 The Federal Reserve is not part of the government.
oh yes it is, it claims not to be but it is.
Its a privately run organization
Thank you for revolutionizing the way I look at the world.
Why am I stressing about the Mock APs?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?
In the end, would you rather see your name survive or see your ideas enacted - a fabulous statement
I really hope that whenever you're done with U.S. History that you go back to doing a few more literary courses. I found it very intersting when you went over Catcher In The Rye
6:05 Look to the left and toward the front. Does anyone else think that the guy two to the left of the dwarf looks like Phoenix Wright?
Cramming for American History II final tomorrow :-D
He is in socks.... This man is great!
This was a wonderful and informational segment, very enlightening. Sounds very familiar to todays issues... If only more people could see this to gain a bit of the insight I just gained.
Wow, John's joyous jumping actually got me to watch the credits.
Godspeed everyone
This left me with more questions than answers. All i needed was a paragraph telling me what the Guilded Age was
My history class played a Crash Course today and I was just in the corner fangirling the whole time.
Apush studying? Nope
Rush studying? Yes.
woo rush! love that logo
Thanking you guys for helping me review my ap us history info quicker.
APUSH test in 11 hours... why did I wait to cram last minute?
+Nicole G Did you pass?
+Anthony Serocco I passed with flying colors
Loser
Love the Stimpy cameo!
CEO of Activision on the blackboard
John decries the inflationary policy of bimetallism of the populists, but Bryan (among others) were pairing those policies with increased participation in unions. The unions would bargain for higher wages to offset the rise in prices. Everybody wins except the lenders who would see their loans decline relative to inflation.
Moreover, the populists goal was a move away from the deflationary policy of the gold standard. In this they succeeded when FDR devalued the dollar relative to gold.
The more things change the more it stays the same
i have an apush midterm tomorrow and im relying crash course and prayers
nope, you're not the only one. John Green makes awesome videos :)
i love these!
Was wondering - how do they figure out comparative historical monetary values? How do they know $500K in 1890 = $9m today?
Is it purchasing power, and if so, how do they factor in technology? You couldn't buy a car in 1890, and there's far less metal in a horse than a car. How many MP3's could I buy with a US1890 Nickel?
+Murrangurk2 There just factoring in inflation.
At some point can/will you do a series about Economics?
Thank God for Crash Course
Im just trying to find answers to my social studies homework. 👋🏽
So many things still occurring today such as contractors overpricing the government and both parties supporting some form of big business.
Oh man, I thought the last jump at the end was going to be a backwards cartwheel and I was both excited and terrified and then relieved when it didn't happen.
Who else is watching this in preparation for the AP test on Friday?
no
Emily Netherton ME ME ME ME ME
Emily Netherton not me
My apush exam is tomorrow... only 21 more videos to go!
Apush anyone?
I knew the Mystery Document!
Frodo
Here, cramming for an AICE History test that's all off the top of the dome. wish me luckkk
Cram time #APUSH2016
#APUSH2017 rip me
0:48 BURN! God I love Twain's when he gets snarky.
12 hours.. gang gang.
Love the bling ring reference
13:19 Mr.Green, you never seize to amaze.
Yeah, i just wanted to timestamp it so i could watch that "skip" over and over again.
Sorry, did you caption that quote with “just the tip?” Saucy!
You should get a reward for getting things right...and not just "not getting shocked".
who else noticed the 2112 rush symbol
While the United States did grow immensely during the Gilded Age, most of the money were concentrated through Tariffs and the government picking favorites. SO you can technically say statism caused inequality, but gave us great economic growth. However, growth seemed to be greatest from 1870-1920, which some presidents were free marketers. Rockerfeller and Morgan actually improved lives and made oil and travel cheaper. While Leland Stanford and the railroad giants got rich through connections.
Loved the Rush reference.
Anyone else watching this out of actual curiosity?
Apush C R A M
Awesome! The American Gothic couple are members of the Alliance of Magicians!! 9:10
Glad he put the Rush 2112 icon in the mystery document
STAY GOLD PONYBOY. God I love crash course.
It's time for the AP
I love the Metal Slug reference!
My favourite era!
I just watched all of the videos in a row I am knowledgeable now
but banking and railroad tycoons WERE the Evil back then...
My midterm totally isn't in 15 minutes and I'm totally not cramming right before it...
I think Mark Twain's quotes still apply today
Screw shoes, setting your feet free is awesome.