Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22
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- In which John Green teaches you about Reconstruction. After the divisive, destructive Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had a plan to reconcile the country and make it whole again. Then he was shot, Andrew Johnson took over, and the disagreements between Johnson and Congress ensured that Reconstruction would fail. The election of 1876 made the whole thing even more of a mess, and the country called it off, leaving the nation still very divided. John will talk about the gains made by African-Americans in the years after the Civil War, and how they lost those gains almost immediately when Reconstruction stopped. You'll learn about the Freedman's Bureau, the 14th and 15th amendments, and the disastrous election of 1876. John will explore the goals of Reconstruction, the successes and ultimate failures, and why his alma mater Kenyon College is better than Raoul's alma mater NYU.
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.
The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was imperfect and failed to create lasting change after 1876: www.commonlit.org/texts/recon...
Following the end of the Civil War, many African Americans found themselves turning from slavery to sharecropping, an unfair system that would last until World War II and the Civil Rights Movement: www.commonlit.org/texts/from-...
Learn more about Reconstruction in episode #19 of Crash Course Black American History: • Reconstruction: Crash ...
Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Johnson & the Reconstruction Era 0:33
The Freedman's Bureau 1:32
Sharecropping 2:14
The Civil Rights Act 3:04
The 14th Amendment 3:55
Mystery Document 4:20
The Reconstruction Act 5:18
The Election of 1868 & the 15th Amendment 5:38
African Americans in Office 6:32
Republican Governments in the South 7:52
Why did Reconstruction End? 8:23
White Violence Against Former Slaves 8:46
Northern Support Retreats 9:33
The Election of 1876 9:52
President Hayes and the Bargain of 1877 10:55
The Legacy of Reconstruction 12:03
Credits 12:29
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"Americans hate taxes" *glares at cup of tea*
xD
lol
Johnny B, If you believe the US Revolution was simply over the tea tax then you should probably crack a book and start reading some history before you comment on history.
hamfam ;)
Hilarious
They got rid of the institution of slavery but didn't get rid of the mindset that made it possible and sustained it. It's like extinguishing a fire but leaving the source still smoldering.
There's no really good way to get rid of a mindset through the government without oppressing the freedoms of the people.Propaganda would probably seen as "Evil Northern Propaganda".
What you are talking about is "De facto" segregation. Where segregation takes place in the form of habit. (The opposite of "De jure" segregation, which relates with segregation by law)
Ironically, it's the same mentality that exists with extremists in the Middle East. No amount of bombing and gerrymandering of politics there will change the hearts and minds of the people who believe what they do. There will always be whites in America that believe they are better than black. Always. That's why even after enslavement, you had the Black Codes, you had Jim Crow, you had de facto segregation, you had discrimination, you had a radical rise in black incarceration after the civil rights movement, you have disproportionate sentencing for drug usage/sale...there will ALWAYS be something in this country because the root of it was poisoned. Black people weren't even truly considered citizens until the late 1860's. C'mon! There will never be true equality because the mentality so many have is that whites are first and that everyone comes after. That's where the conflict is with immigration...it's the fact that so many non-whites are here more than anything else.
Nietzsche's Ghost
Actuall6, that isn't the complete story.
Ike Okereke 4 months later and still the story is not filled in; I declare +Nietzsche's Ghost the winner and Arbiter of Facts
Forgot my notes, test tomorrow... So glad this series exists
My teacher goes so fast that i dont even have time to take notes. my notes are less than 1 page e.e
+MCBlenderGeek this actually saved my grade
+ana zalles hope it saves mine too xd. cause i dont understand the teacher at all. tomorrow got my first test after the break and dont want to mess it up D:
when ur in highschool and still play minecraft
I have a test on Friday and I'm kind of glad we have a test about reconstruction and I'm glad this is all true 😁😁😁
Damn it takes me 4 hours to take notes while reading my APUSH textbook and I can barely understand what's going on but you can go through this and help me make sense of a whole chapter in less than 20 minutes. Thanks John you're my hero
"i would celebrate not getting shocked, but now i am *depressed*."
john green
John Green just quoted his own best selling book-turned-movie on his very popular TH-cam channel that millions of people watch. Life goals
I just looked what you said and found out they're the same John Green.
Oh. That's all I have to say. Oh.
Where at?
What's the movie/book called?
Right at the beginning he quoted The Fault In Our Stars when he said "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up"
@@katherinebreeggemann6973 He quoted that in a video once, too. I don't recall which, but l distinctly remember that sentence, despite having never read any of his books. (I realise l'm 3 years late to answer this, but l'm currently on day 1 of re-watching this series.)
~ TDG
Anyone here trying to cram this knowledge into there heads before a test. Edit: Just in case you wanted to know I passed the test 😎. Did any of y’all
Yup hahaha
Exactly it feels like I'm trying to trap air
yes sooooo much info
No cuz I am not so foolish to think cramming ever works well enough to be a good idea and even less so a legitimate study method.
@@thomasinaandgrantmadden9987 Well, I got a 91 on my test soooooooo
Seriously... Crash Course team, THANK YOU!!!!!! Your series of videos help a college student out better than any textbook we could ever buy. The videos are short and concise but still informative enough without just stating basic, useless facts. I love how you guys provide causes and effects of the decisions made throughout history. That's what makes history so important.
Who else’s history teacher assigned this on google classroom
imagine if the person who liked this was someone im my class LmAo
MINEEE!!!!
Y’all must be ahead of us because we just got it , or maybe I need to keep up with my online schooling 😅
Same the pain is real
Mine did
My ancestors from Bohemia were non-slave holding farmers in the Texas hill country when the war broke out. Like Sam Houston, they did not agree with the war. They risked their lives to avoid fighting for a cause they did not believe in, and I am proud of them for doing so. They were not cowards, and their descendents went on to fight in both world wars in the ensuing century. One of them, part of Patton's army during the Sicily campaign, was bayoneted in the stomach in hand-to-hand fighting in a fox hole and left for dead. He survived for 25 years after the war's end.
I am proud of my family's heritage of not fighting for the Confederacy, and I am proud that my grandmother and her sisters stood up for a group of young African American children walking to their separate and unequal school during the 1910s when they were being harassed by a group of older white boys. They reported what happened to their parents, and their parents talked to the other parents. Very quickly, they put a stop to that racist behavior.
Awesome
I love stories like this because it shows that people did know racism was wrong and judging those from the past with contemporary morals is not unfair.
Thank you for sharing your family's story.
@@GigsofRam That was a small minority though, like a very very very small minority.
My great grandparents in my dads friends came from Europe after the war
@@christiansouthwick4712 A War was fought to free our ancestors. So why do you think it was a "very small minority?"
It's sad, seeing how long it took for change to come about. Literally a century from the end of the civil war until MLK's successes in the 1960s.
And we're all worse off.
And you think these discriminatory practices went away in the 60s and today?
Kenith McIntosh
Lol. Construct that narrative.
StateoftheNihil That's just stuff white people say to deflect from the atrocities they commit. It's ok devil! discriminatory practices don't exist and everything is good now that MLK got his brain blown out by a white man.
Kenith McIntosh
"That's just stuff white people say to deflect from the atrocities they commit."
All white people have in common is complexion, and ancestry in some cases. What point could you possibly be making here?
Are you assuming I'm white, or are you accusing me of acting white?
"It's ok devil! discriminatory practices don't exist and everything is good now that MLK got his brain blown out by a white man."
Lol. And what makes you think I deny any of this? Construct that narrative.
CrashCourse should expand on Jim Crow.
Corrado Junior Jim Crow laws would be a good thing for people to learn about. They can see that gun control was initially put into place to make it difficult for blacks to own a firearm and effectively defend themselves.
Corrado Junior hi
this kind of stereotyping is what causes so much conflict in this country. and also there is a lot about Jim Crow in this series, and multiple videos entirely or partially on slavery.
Corrado Junior I think they try to focus on the non covered areas of historical events, most people know about the Jin Crow laws so they probably don't want to use an entire video explaining which most people who watch these videos would know already.
I wish they did one on Jim Crow laws as well, they dont cover that in my country (or virtually any u.s. History)
when you discreetly quote your own book.... "the roller coaster only goes up from here my friends."
shmik lol I didn't catch that
Ikoikjji yep. its from the fault in our stars 😂
@@secretsanta3501 wait this is John green John green? or is this just a joke
@@yuviamendoza4317 it's him John Green
Is it normal that I'm French and I find the American history more interesting than the French history?
Your country is so, so fascinating.
Thomas Jefferson, one of our most wonderful Fathers of the nation was a diplomat for France, lived there for almost 2 decades off an ond on and had the French help us in our quest for independence. French and American history in that era both fought for freedoms in different way s and are and hopefully will forever be tied as friends due to Americas need and thankfulness in helping us become an independent nation.
French revolution was much cooler though
@@siddu4960 You mean Les Miserables? Haha
Nashi _
Yup. We a weak rebel force took on the most power nation in the world at the time but we had help from the ocean and the French.
But the French civilians took on an ENTIRE military on. 🤭
c a n i g e t a d a m n h u g ? U You’re forgetting one thing though... even though the French rebels did a great job and fought really well. They still failed to win the French Revolution. It wasn’t until years later that anything changed. The rebels in France were either all killed or they surrendered...
trying to cram 3 hours before the ap exam >>>> studying during the three months of quarantine I've had
Apush test tomorrow rip
+Miguel Vazquez feelsbadman
Same
Rip the ap exam
Aaron Mourousas did you pass?
How'd ya do ?
A semester of APUSH conveniently crammed into 22 videos. Thank you, John. I don't know what I would do without Crash Course!
When Lincoln's bruised head sticks back into the screen after John chucks him out :)
Man. can you imagine where we'd be now had Reconstruction not been interrupted or Lincoln not murdered?
Somebody needs to make a movie!
Cheers to everyone studying for finals and trying to watch every crash course video to cram everything back into their brain
Sharecropping= "HMMMMMMMMM That is Worth...... 1/4 portion"
+TheataGamer haha lol Star Wars TFA for the win!
Great joke!
+dragon artist 2620 thx posted after I saw the movie.
I love you
TheataGamer
I've always hated Andrew Johnson because of how he handled reconstruction. I think the only other chance for making things better after a war that was squandered that badly was the mishandling of the middle east after WWI. I truly view WWI as a huge opportunity to have prevented many of the conflicts that followed, and not just WWII.
Wow! That's a lot of history students out there! I'm an engineer to whom history is (regrettably) a big blank spot. This John Green series lets me fantasize that I have a well rounded education!
me too i didn't get an education i was expelled from public school in the 3rd grade never allowed back in middle/jr high school or high school
Hi! I'm 11 and learning about the Civil War at our school. Our teacher's notes are long, but CrashCourse is easy to understand. Thanks, CrashCourse!
He’s very good at explaining history quickly so it doesn’t get boring.
"Man, we would sure win more elections if black people could vote." OMg laughed s hard!
yes
My history teacher has taken a week to teach the first 2 Minutes of this video. It is no surprise that I HATE HIM WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS. It would be the force of million suns but he really likes lord of the rings and I really can't not like that.
Taking time isn't always a bad thing. Assuming that it's pretty much impossible to take a week to teach what could be taught in two minutes (if he had to go over only what's in the video), then he was more in-depth. Which isn't a bad thing at all, actually.
It wouldn't be bad if it was more in depth. It isn't more in depth. I learned more from 2 minutes of this than listening to him for a week because he just kept saying stuff over and over that really had nothing to do with this part of history. This video goes deeper into history that my AP US History class and I find that extremely sad
Leah B As much as I doubt it, I'm forced to believe it. So, all I can do is give you my sympathy.
Noah Balamut one of my friends claims in his US AP history class that the teacher made him stop reading a book on history so the teacher could teach the class on how to take a test.
The worst part is that my friend says he does that EVERY WEEK.
Leah B My history teacher uses these videos lol. thats why I have been watching them.. also 10 things I hate about you reference huh?
Had all of quarantine to prepare for my AP exam tomorrow but we’re just starting now lol
I got a whole essay 😭😭😭😶
Did you pass? XD
Julio Alcazar uhhh well she said it was good 😏
My history teacher showed this in class today, she said it was one of the best videos explaining the reconstruction she's ever seen, and that it was very entertaining at the same time. I was so happy to see my favorite author and youtuber on the projection screen in my own classroom. Thanks John Green for making my history class ten times more interesting today !!
Thanks for helping an overwhelmed college student study for the CLEP exam 💚 John Greene, you're the best history professor I could ask for!
The cartoon drawing at the intro depicting the Battle of Gettysburg shows a Union soldier holding a rifled musket with the flintlock mechanism. A Union soldier would have most likely used a rifled musket with the caplock mechanism. Nitpicking FTW.
How do you know it's rifled?
btw. if it were rifled, it wouldn't be a musket, as muskets are defined as being smoothbore muzzle loaders.
hey, you startet the nitpicking ;)
Bird_Dog en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifled_musket
I assume it's rifled, because at the time of the Civil War, Union soldiers would have mostly all had rifled weaponry. Of course there were still lingering smoothbores, but those were mostly used by the CSA, especially in the latter stages of the war. Let the nitpicking continue... ;)
Hmm.. they were indeed called "rifled muskets". Crash between old and modern naming conventions?
Bird_Dog I think nowadays musket refers to the overall design and mechanism i.e long
flintlock/caplock/matchlock firearms. They can be rifled or smoothbore, doesn't really matter.
Potaters12 That's such an important observation. It may take years of contemplation to conclude it was a cartoon.
John Green and Company, you are my guiding light as I go forth to tackle the CSETs in a week! Godspeed you amazing people!
it is currently 3 am and i spent all day working on my apush notes that i don't have the energy to finish. now i'm here. i hear colors. i see sounds. there is no silence, only apush
Wheres my AP procrastinators at
Keshav Menon I’m on a crash course marathon rn 🗿
Ayyy
wassupppp
I really hate reconstruction, it’s essentially a couple needlessly bickering over how to fix the house(U.S.) after a huge family feud (civil war). Then as the mother is about to kick it into high gear(Lincoln) the abusive husband comes in and hits her( Johnson). So the family just either argues, hopelessly try to fix the house, or sabotage the fix’s of the person, until everyone loses interest and doesn’t dwell on it. Then the next generation sees how stupid the past generation was for bickering and actually try’s to make amends.(Civil rights movement).
(And yes this is not to be taken seriously it’s just the ranting of someone who’s cramming reconstruction in there skull.😢)
These videos are excellent. Congratulations on them and thanks for educating us in digestible, informative and interesting ways.
Love you, John Green!! Thanks for all you do on behalf of myself and my students.
Hello!! I'm a high school apush student and I'd just like to say that I've been watching your videos for a while including your ones for ap world. I really like these videos because they are so much fun and really educational. I was lucky enough to come across this particular video this morning and it really saved me on one of the FRQs. Thank you so much :))
Am I the only nerd watching these just out of interest in foreign history instead of cramming for exams?
Nah bro. I'm out of school and I'm watching these for fun.
Seems like it but don't worry, we are out here
Nope, same here.
no
hahaha no
I love your videos, I am a college student going for a bachelor's in history, your videos help give me that extra bit of knowledge from an audio/visual point of view, thank you.
This is absolutely brilliant! I have watched it several times and there are so many elements of the truth in this country that are often overlooked. I will definitely share this!
I got the Mystery Document right!
That's 2/22 now!
...go me...
Same
same here XD
"This roller coaster only goes up from here!"
RIP Augustus Waters :'(
Thank you!! My professor has included this video for our chapter discussion on Reconstruction. GREAT stuff, thanks again.
Thank you so much for making this video! I helped 4 people study for a final today that was from Manifest Destiny to Reconstruction and this is the only section I didn't have covered in my powerpoints. All of the information on this was in the test.
This is a wonderful youtube page? I am a nurse who needs US History to finish my bachelors degree. These videos are an overview of historical events. I am a visual and auditory learner!!! Thanks so much for the great content!!
While I was scrolling through a "fresh" TH-cam (that is, in private browsing, logged out) I found this recommended. It's interesting because I learned this in my history class 2 months ago.
literally havent paid any attention at all in my us history since 1877 class, but binging your videos is helping me pass my final.
As a recent Kenyon alum (class of 2017!), I love all the references and love in this video.
I love these videos!
One comment about land reform: the original name of the Freedman's Bureau was the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (or something very close to that). I think that the plan to re-distribute plantation land to freedmen might have worked if the Radicals had adopted a broad conception of "abandoned" lands. For instance, if they had said that, in declaring themselves a separate entity from the United States, former Confederate planters had basically forfeited any claim they had to property rights granted by the US government. So once their land had officially been re-incorporated into the US, it could have been considered "abandoned," and eligible for re-distribution among the former slaves.
dear crash course history, it is incredible that we can listen to history like this in such an unbiased manner and with the freedom to tell history how it is! i love crash course history. school always missed out so much history and really did tell things from a eurocentric point of view. on the other hand i worry that people will make the same mistakes again. i.e slavery and facsism in first world countries because we dont use these sorts of freedoms now
Great video, just started listening to a podcast called 1865 that got me curious about this period. Definitely recommend it for anyone interested in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and early stages of Reconstruction.
Dear crash course, thank you soooo much I'm on this chapter in a.p us history and this video helped me with my studies and a quick summary of the chapter
He just explained fully what my teacher who skims over the top of subjects. If John was a teacher, I would pay to listen to him talk.
I just love all these easter eggs hidden in your videos such as mario flowers in this and a cactuar which is later pointed out by Cloud Strife in another
"Congress, shockingly, proved unable to accomplish something" My favorite bit if the video!
surprised "slavery by another name" wasn't mentioned here, but I guess that's fair since it technically came after reconstruction. The south basically passed a bunch of laws that made it super easy for black people to get arrested in addition to peonage which went hand in hand with share cropping, putting black people in a giant cycle of debt that they couldn't repay or even just falsely accusing them of a debt they couldn't repay to get them arrested. They then created a system of prisoner renting, where big industries could rent people who were arrested, which ended up being worse than slavery in many ways. They rented them pretty cheaply and weren't required to give them back, unlike slave owners who invested a lot of money into the slaves and had incentive to keep them alive, renters had felt no guilt in working them to death in the worst conditions possible.
IM IN LOVE. These videos are so well made and are so helpful!
I really enjoyed your crash course and it helped me along with my reading for this weeks class I am taking. The visuals really make a difference. Thank you for all the hard work you guys must do!!
I'm watching this sped up and internally screaming
Kate O'Neill yessss, I do this all the time. Watching it at 2X is surprisingly fun
I just wanted to say that my teacher played this in class when I was having a really bad day, and it made my whole terrible day a million times better, so thank you.
Hello John Green, you're unlikely to ever see this, but on behalf of everyone in my AP US History class: thank you so much for these videos, they've helped us with so many tests and essays, and are you using our textbook because it's scary how much of it you cover.
Anyone here before the test on may 10th 2019?
Phoenix007539 we gettin 5s bois
peach pit ayyyyy that’s the spirit
Who still hasn’t gone over how to write a dbq?
@@danielmcgregor1042 ayyyyy
me
my teacher sent us this link for online school and he was like watch this and its your favorite person JOHN GREEN and I wanted to cry. He also said that he could hear our sighs through the computer screens
You have helped me understand history and for that I am grateful & appreciative!
Thank you!
An overlooked aspect of the 13th Ammendment, it didn't end Slavery completely, one loophole that states utilised was the provision that Slavery as a form of punishment was allowed
Are you feeling ready for tomorrow my apush people?
NOPE
YEP
:(
Nope, that’s why I’m here half an hour before taking exams :)
Used these videos in High School, and I am continuing to use them in College. Thanks Crash Course!
I remember watching this forever ago and now my history professor is using it as a teaching aide. Nice.
this is literally my lifesaver during finals week
I find it weird that Republicans and Democrats have almost completely swapped political positions
Don't fool yourself. Dems don't really care about blacks and pubs don't hate blacks.
they haven't actually.
Both party's have always had a racist element, however as a general rule republicans have always fought for equality. The Democrats changed from an 'anti black' position to a 'win votes with welfare/equity' position.
Both slavery and welfare are immoral so republicans are against both on principle.
The black demographic just moved to the party that gives them the most stuff.
SmithTrends Int'l
nah, blacks are poorer today than whites on average because of poor financial decisions they make in the here and now.
If we gave them that reparation money and waited a few years it would disappear.
I used to work in a car dealership, and sold to lots of different people. The current wealth of each demographic group is directly tied to the average financial responsibility of the group.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election#Realigning_elections_in_United_States_history
Spartan057J no Republicans just thought that they had secured all the liberties African-Americans so they kept it to the South
I have just discovered this. You guys are doing a SUPER job! Keep it up!
Incase yall got a True or False Assignment
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Thank you guys this will help me prepare for my history test thanks to you guys I have been understanding this section in history better and surprised my teacher with random facts from your show I even predicted the whole lecture and all the facts when my teacher said did Lincoln really free the slaves ? Thank you guys and please stay awesome
Me sitting here 9 minutes before my AP test starts cramming
literally these videos are so calming for some reason
This was a great video explaining why reconstruction in the south was stalled or delay for 100 Years.
"...and of course, Florida"
Was that a reference to the incident with Al Gore? :O
Grant Way As well as subsequent elections.
Down with the Electoral College! I would prefer Gore over Bush. Bush was a terrorist who did not really care much other than 'God' (who obviously isn't there) and his own image.
yes
Weltschmerz yeah no
10:24 pm and i have to write an leq about this tomorrow, and i haven't retained a single piece of information from class in the last month. wish me luck !!!
i love how tired this guy sounds. it's brilliant, and so relevant now.
i’m glad you’re alive and my civics grade &mental health thanks you
Funny story, I'm watching the extended version of The Fault in Our Stars, and it's the part where Hazel is talking to the little girl at the airport. Suddenly I gasp and say, "It's the guy from Crash Course!" My cousin tells me that it's John Green. I look it up, and sure enough it is! I can't believe I never made the connection! XD
Thank you Crash Course. You helped me get a B+ in my college Anatomy and Physiology course last semester, and this semester you're going to help me get an A in American History Since 1877. *fingers crossed*
I'm learning more hear from these concise, clear lessons than I did from all my years in high school and college.
here*. College at least forced me to learn to spell by the end of 4 years.
Super helpful for my test tomorrow! Also really interesting!
AP National Exam in 2 days. These videos are my rock
honestly same
+dakoduh same for me...
Your videos are sooo helpful, thank you!!!!
these videos, saving lives GOD BLESS YOU JOHN GREEN
Thank you! Your videos are very helpful even for college courses
"I would celebrate not getting shocked, but now I am depressed." :C
its that time of the year again /: #finals
hahahaha
so how did you do
Can Aydin I got an A!! bless this channel haha
Well it's that time of the year again haha
and it is for me now, did any of you pass by just watching theese videos and writting essays on the mid terms?
thanks man. your videos really help i have a midterm today for my college us history.
my teacher makes us watch your videos and IVE BEEN READING YOUR BOOK AND DIDNT EVEN REALIZE IT WAS YOU OMG
idk if ill get through all of these videos by Friday for the APUSH test
I love you John Green. This will save my ass on my Intro to CW final.
3-2 in no shock to shock. 3 NO SHOCKS IN A ROW! GREAT JOB!
the final blow was the signing of the Civil Rights act. Lyndon Johnson (I think it was his administration) even said "We have officially lost the South" upon signing.
General Sherman's Special Field Order #15 be like "What you want? You a house or a car? Forty acres and a mule, a piano, a guitar?"
I've so far watched all other 23 of U.S. history crash course preceding this and this is the first time I've guessed the mystery document right!
Thanks for the video, it helps a lot. I have to write a 10 page paper on reconstruction, and this helped me find a couple things to research and discuss.
0:15 fault in our stars reference :D