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Jan 31: The Black Legend, Native Americans, ... Crash Course US History #1
Feb 07: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America: ... Course US History #2
Feb 14: The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History #3
Feb 21: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the ... Crash Course US History #4
Feb 28: The Seven Years War and ... Awakening: Crash Course US History #5
Mar 07: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to ... Crash Course US History #6
Mar 14: Who Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
Mar 21: The Constitution, the Articles, and ... Crash Course US History #8
Apr 04: Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course US History #9
Apr 11: Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
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Apr 18: The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11
Apr 26: The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12
May 02: Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
May 09: Age of Jackson: Crash Course US History #14
May 14: 19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15
May 23: Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16
Jun 06: War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17
Jun 13: The Election of 1860 & the ... Crash Course US History #18
Jun 20: Battles of the Civil War: Crash Course US History #19
Jun 28: The Civil War, Part I: Crash Course US History #20
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Jul 11: The Civil War Part 2: Crash Course US History #21
Jul 18: Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22
Jul 25: The Industrial Economy: Crash Course US History #23
Aug 08: Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24
Aug 15: Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
Aug 23: Gilded Age Politics:Crash Course US History #26
Aug 29: The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27
Sep 05: American Imperialism: Crash Course US History #28
Sep 12: Progressive Presidents: Crash Course US History #29
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Sep 19: America in World War I: Crash Course US History #30
Sep 26: Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31
Oct 04: The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32
Oct 10: The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33
Oct 18: The New Deal: Crash Course US History #34
Oct 25: World War II Part 1: Crash Course US History #35
Nov 01: World War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History #36
Nov 08: The Cold War: Crash Course US History #37
Nov 15: The Cold War in Asia: Crash Course US History #38
Nov 21: Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39
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Dec 06: The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40
Dec 13: The Rise of Conservatism: Crash Course US History #41
Dec 21: Ford, Carter, and the Economic ... Crash Course US History #42
Jan 11: The Reagan Revolution: Crash Course US History #43
Jan 16: George HW Bush and the End ... War: Crash Course US History #44
Jan 23: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45
Jan 30: Terrorism, War, and Bush 43: Crash Course US History #46
Feb 06: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards: Crash Course US History #1
1. So to begin US History, we're not going to talk about the United States or this guy, we're going
to talk about the people who lived her before any ___________________________ showed up.
2. Native North Americans had no metalwork, no gunpowder, no wheels, no written languages and
no domesticated animals. However, they did have _______________________, complex social
and political structures and widespread ________________________networks.
3. So, no one knows exactly how many people lived in North America before the Europeans got
here. Some estimates are as high as _______ million, but in the present US borders, the guesses
are between 2 and 10 million. And like other Native Americans, their populations were
decimated by ____________________________ such as smallpox and influenza.
That said, let's go to the Thought Bubble.
4. Most Native groups in most places organized as ____________________, and their lives were
dominated by the natural resources available where they lived. So, West Coast Indians primarily
lived by fishing, gathering and hunting sea mammals. Great Plains Indians were often
_____________________hunters. These
5. And while most tribal leaders were men, many tribes were matrilineal, meaning that children
became members of their mother's family. Also, women were often important religious
______________________.
6. The ______________________were the first Europeans to explore this part of the world. Juan
Ponce de Leon arrived in what is now Florida in 1513, looking for gold and the fabled Fountain of
Youth.
7. So the Spanish wanted to colonize Florida to set up ___________________________ bases to
thwart the pirates who preyed on silver-laden Spanish galleons coming out of Mexico. But
Spanish missionaries also came over, hoping to convert local Native populations.
8. Mystery document: History of the _________________
9. So at the beginning of our series, I want to point out something that we need to remember
throughout. One of the great things about American history is that we have a lot of
___________________________ sources - this is the advantage of the US coming on to the
scene so late in the game, historically speaking.
When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America: Crash Course US History #2
1. So most Americans grew up hearing that the United States was founded by pasty English
people who came here to escape religious persecution, and that's true of the small
proportion of people who settled in the Massachusetts Bay and created what we now know
is _________________________.
2. The first successful English colony in America was founded in ____________________________,
Virginia in 1607. I say "successful" because there were two previous attempts to colonize the
region.
3. Indentured servants weren't quite slaves, but they were kind of temporary slaves, like they
could be bought and sold and they had to do what their masters commanded. But after
seven to ten years of that, if they weren't dead, they were paid their
_______________________ dues which they hoped would allow them to buy
______________ of their own. Sometimes that worked out, but often either the money
wasn't enough to buy a farm or else they were too dead to collect it.
4. Even more ominously in 1619, just twelve years after the founding of Jamestown the first
shipment of African slaves arrived in Virginia. So the colony probably would have
continued to struggle along if they hadn't found something that people really loved:
_________________________________.
5. Ok. So a quick word about Maryland. Maryland was the second Chesapeake Colony,
founded in ____________, and by now there was no messing around with joint stock
companies.
Let's go to the Thought Bubble.
6. Most of the English men and women who settled in New England were uber-Protestant
Puritans who believed the ___________________________ Church of England was still
too Catholic-y with its kneeling and incense and extravagantly-hatted archbishops.
7. While still on board their ship the Mayflower, forty-one of the 150 or so colonists wrote
and signed an agreement called the ____________________________ Compact in which
they all bound themselves to follow "just and equal laws" that their chosen representatives
would write-up. Since this was the first written framework for government in the US, it's
kind of a big deal.
8. Mystery Document: A Model of _____________________________ Charity by John
Winthrop.
9. There was also slavery in Massachusetts. The first slaves were recorded in the colony in
__________. However, Puritans really did foster equality in one sense. They wanted
everyone to be able to read the ______________.
10. For one thing, Puritan ideas of equality and representation weren't particularly equitable
or representational. In truth, America was also founded by indigenous people and by
Spanish settlers, and the earliest English colonies weren't about religion; they were about
_______________________.
The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History #3
1. So as previously noted, relationships, whether between individuals or collectives, tend to go well
when they are mutually beneficial, and for a while, both the English and the Indians were better
off for these interactions. I mean, you know, post-___________________________.
2. We tend to think of trade between Europeans and Natives as being a one-way exchange, like
savvy, exploitative Europeans tricking primitive, pure, indigenous people into unfair deals. But
that isn't quite accurate. Both sides traded goods that they had in
______________________________ for those they did not.
3. Yes, at one point John Smith was captured by the Indians and had to be "saved" by Powhatan's
daughter, __________________________________________, but this was probably all a ritual
planned by Powhatan to demonstrate his dominance over the English.
4. But the 1622 uprising was the final nail in the coffin of the _____________________________
Company, which was a failure in every way. It never turned a profit, and despite sponsoring
6,000 colonists, by 1644 when Virginia became a royal colony, only 1,200 of those people were
still alive, proving once again that governments are better at governing than corporations.
5. This was such a concern that in 1642, the Massachusetts General Court prescribed a sentence of
_________years' hard labor for anyone who left the colony and went to live with the indigenous
people
The Pequot War
6. It was called the Pequot War. After some Pequots killed an English fur trader, soldiers from
Massachusetts, the newly-formed colony of Connecticut, and some Narragansett Indians, who
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saw an opportunity to gain an upper hand over the Pequots, attached a Pequot village at Mystic,
burning it and massacring over _____________________ people.
The war continued for a few months after this, but to call it a war is, in a way, to give it too
much credit. The Indians were overmatched from the beginning, and by the end, almost all of
them had been massacred or sold into ____________________ in the Caribbean.
Despite the odds, New England natives continued to resist the English. In 1675, Native
Americans launched their biggest attack on New England colonists in what would come to be
known as __________________________War. It was led by a Wampanoag chief named
Metacom, which was why it is also sometimes called Metacom's War
Indians attacked half of the 90 towns the English had founded, and 12 of those towns were
destroyed. About 1,000 of the 52,000 Europeans and 3,000 of the 20,000 Indians involved died
in the War. As I mentioned before, the War was particularly _________________.
Mystery Document:
The Laws of War were passed by the General Court of ___________________________ in 1675
But it's important to know the ways that they resisted colonization, because it reminds us that
Native Americans were people who acted in history, not just people who were acted upon by
it. And it also reminds us that the history of Indigenous people on this land mass isn't separate
from ____________________________________; it's an essential part of it.
The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies: Crash Course US History #4
1. New Amsterdam became _________________________ which was a mixed blessing.
The population doubled in the decade after the English takeover but English rule meant
less economic freedom for women who, under the Dutch were able to inherit property
and conduct business for themselves. And under the English, free black people lost a lot
of the jobs they had been able to hold under the Dutch.
2. Quakers were a pretty tolerant bunch, except when it came to ________________ which
they opposed vehemently.
3. Quakers had to resort to such tricks because they were ___________________. I should
also mention that they weren't particularly fond of loose living. The government
prevented swearing and drunkenness for instance but, you know, it was still pretty great
compared to the other colonies.
4. Oh it's time for the mystery document?
Nathaniel ___________________ was the author of the Mystery document
5. Before the rebellion was quelled by the arrival of English warships, Bacon burned
_______________________________ and made himself ruler of Virginia and looted the
Berkley's supporters' land.
6. ________________________ rebellion is sometimes portrayed as an early example of
lower-class artisans and would-be farmers rising up against the corrupt British elite,
which I guess kind of...
But the biggest effects of the rebellion were:
1. A shift away from indentured servants to __________________, and
2. A general desire by the English crown to control the ______________________ more.
7. And these new guys imposed the English ____________________________ Act of
1690, which decreed that all Protestants could worship freely. As Toleration Acts go, this
one wasn't that tolerant-- I mean, it still discriminated against Jews-- but it did mark the
end of the Puritan Experiment.
8. Most colonists were _______________________, or worked on farms, and they were
mostly small, unlike the giant plantations that predominated in the Caribbean.
9. So that variety of jobs leads us nicely into our last topic today: colonial
___________________.
10. Married women in 18th-century colonial America generally couldn't own property, and
husbands usually willed their land to their sons and their personal items to their
daughters, meaning that almost all landowners were ______________________.
11. The colonial era often gets skipped for its lack of large-scale drama, but those small scale
_______________can be found in abundance.
The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening: Crash Course US History #5
1. And as and far as causes go, the Seven Years War was, really like most wars, about
_________________________.
2. You can’t separate what happened from what people wanted and believed and
_____________.
3. Mercantilism was basically the idea that the government should regulate the economy in
order to increase ______________________ power. This meant encouraging local
production through tariffs and _________________________and also trying to ensure a
favorable balance of trade.
4. So, wars usually have really complicated _______________________, and it’s very rare
that we can refer to one thing as make them really inevitable. Fortunately, the Seven
Years War is the exception to that rule.
5. Let’s go to the Thought Bubble.
The actual fighting began when the British, or more precisely a British colonists led by a
21-year-old colonel named _____________________Washington
-- tried to eject the French from the forts they were constructing in Western
Pennsylvania. The first attempt in 1754 was a disaster. Washington built and then
abandoned the ironically named Fort Necessity with the loss of __________________ of
his men.
6. But suffice it to say, the British were victorious in ___________________, the
Caribbean, Europe, and as far away as ____________________. The war continued
officially for three more years and ended with the Treaty of __________________in
1763.
7. And as the British moved west, Native American Indians felt compelled to
_________________.
8. Oh, it’s time for the Mystery Document?
Authors of the Mystery Document: Mathew _______________ and James Gibson
9. So, after the end of the Seven Years War, American Indians organized an armed
revolt. In 1763, Indian, particularly from the Ottawa and the Delaware tribes, launched
what came to be known as ______________________ Rebellion.
10. Another outcome of the Seven Years War was that it set up the _____________________
Revolution. I mean, you’ve just seen colonists ignoring the British Parliament.
11. And a second type of political philosophy grew out of ideas that in the 18th Century were
called "liberalism." For classical liberals, the main task of government was to protect
citizens’ natural rights, which were defined as John Locke as life, liberty, and
___________________________.
12. For liberals like Locke, governments were the result of a social contract, whereby
individuals would give up some of their liberty in exchange for a government protecting
their __________________________rights.
13. So, one of the keys of the American Revolution was the breakdown in
____________________ for authority. And this was fueled partly by
___________________, partly by political philosophies that undermined effects in
governance from afar, and partly by religious revivals that criticized not only church
hierarchies, but also other aspects of colonial society.
Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6
1. So two things to keep in mind here: one, the American Revolution and the American war
for independence are not the same thing and two, while I know this will upset some of
you, the American Revolution was not really about ___________________.
2. So as you'll recall, the Seven Years war ended with the Treaty of ___________ in 1763
which made the colonists cranky because it limited their ability to take land from the
________________ and it also left them holding the bag for a lot of war debt.
3. But mostly the colonists were angry because they didn’t have any say about the new
____________that Britain was imposing.
4. The first purportedly oppressive tax, the ________________ Act of 1764, extended the
Molasses Act by changing the tax on imports from the Caribbean from 6 cents per gallon
all the way up to 3 cents per gallon.
5. The ____________________ Act declared that all printed material had to carry a stamp.
Unsurprisingly, that stamp was not free. This was purely to gain revenue for Britain and
it mostly affected people who used a lot of paper.
6. So in October, protesters organized the Stamp Act Congress, which after a meeting,
decided to __________________British goods. And this was the first major coordinated
action by the colonies together and it might be the first time that we can speak of the
colonies acting in a united way.
7. The British Parliament _______________________ the Stamp Act, but they did pass the
Declaratory Act which was all like, “Listen, you’re not the boss of us. We can tax you.
We don’t want to tax you right now as it happens, but we could if we wanted to. But we
won’t, but we could!” So the repeal of the Stamp Act was seen by many in the colonies
as a huge ______________________.
8. On occasion, protests did get out of hand as in the _______________ Massacre of March
5, 1760, which, while it was not much of a massacre, was definitely the worst outcome of
a snowball fight in American history.
Thought Bubble
9. Why were the colonists so mad that on December 16, 1773 they dressed up as Indians
and dumped enough tea into Boston Harbor to cause the modern equivalent of a four
million dollar loss? Some colonists were upset that cheap tea would cut into the
________________of smugglers and established tea merchants, but most were just angry
on principle.
10. And this brings me back to an important point: although we tend to equate the two, the
American Revolution and the American war for independence were not the same thing. I
mean for one thing, the fighting started __________________months before the
Declaration of Independence.
11. Who was the author of the Mystery document? Charles ___________________
12. But anyway America eventually declared independence for many reasons, but Paine’s
persuasive arguments were one important reason, and it marks a moment when the pen
truly was, if not more powerful, then at least more important, than the _______________.
I mean, within six months of the publication of _____________________ Sense, the
Second Continental Congress had declared independence and signed one of the most
important documents in the history of the world.
Who Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
1. The main strategy of the British in the Revolutionary war was to __________________
all the cities and force the colonists to surrender. And the first part of that strategy pretty
much worked. They captured Boston and New York and Charleston, but all the colonists
had to do was ___________________________________.
2. But the most important battle, at least in the North, was not Trenton, but
_______________________. This was a major defeat for the _____________________,
and while it’s often put forth as an example of the superiority of the Continental fighting
man, the British mostly lost because of terrible generalling.
3. Let’s go to the Thought Bubble.
Others were pacifists, like the Quakers, who often had their property confiscated when
they refused to fight, and in colonial America, of course, losing property also meant
losing __________________________.
4. Now, many slaves were returned to their masters, but more than 15,000 left the U.S.
when the British did. And it’s worth remembering that the British Empire abolished
slavery in all of its territory by 1843 and without a ____________________
5. And it should be mentioned that, unsurprisingly, American troops were particularly brutal
to American Indians who fought for the ________________________, burning their
villages and enslaving prisoners, contrary to the accepted rules of war.
6. However, the idea of Republican Motherhood became really important. It held that for
the republic to survive, it was necessary to have a well-___________________ citizenry.
7. So what was revolutionary? Well, the ideas. A lot of which are summed up in a single
sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self evident,
that all men are created ______________________, that they are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, _________________,
and the pursuit of happiness.”
8. Another aspect of the American revolution that was pretty revolutionary was the
beginning of true __________________ freedom. Like, with independence, the Church
of England ceased to be the Church of America.
9. Mystery Document author? Noah _____________________
10. And while the U.S. no longer leads in equality of opportunity, that early American idea
that we are all _________________ in our capacity to reason and to work became the
foundation not just for the American Revolution, but for many others that would come
afterward.
The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course US History #8
1. The first government set up by the Continental Congress was called the
______________________of Confederation and it was, in a word: _________. In two words, it
was not good. Which is why it only lasted 10
2. The government was deliberately _______________, which followed logically from Americans’
fear of tyrannical governments taxing them and quartering soldiers in their houses and so on.
3. Getting control of the land meant taking it from the Indians who were living there, and the
Articles government was empowered to make ________________________, which it did.
4. Still, the Articles government was a complete disaster for exactly one reason: It could not collect
____________________. Both the national government and the individual states had racked up
massive debt to pay for the war, and their main source of revenue became tariffs, but because
Congress couldn’t impose them, states had to do it individually.
5. In 1786 and 1787, the problem got so bad in Massachusetts that farmers rose up and closed the
courts to prevent them from foreclosing upon their debt-encumbered farms. This was called
______________ Rebellion, after Revolutionary War veteran and indebted farmer Daniel Shays.
6. But, one thing they all shared was a desire for a _______________________national
government. The delegates agreed on many things – the government should have executive,
legislative and ___________________ branches and should be republican, with representatives,
rather than direct democracy.
7. Alexander __________________________, probably the biggest proponent of very strong
government, wanted the President and Senate to serve life terms, for example.
8. Instead we got the Great Compromise, brokered by Connecticut’s Roger Sherman, which gave
us two houses, a House of Representatives with representation proportional to each state’s
population, and a Senate with _____________ members from each state.
9. House members, also called Congressmen, served two year terms while Senators served
_______ year terms, with 1/3 of them being up for election in every 2 year cycle. The House was
designed to be responsive to the _______________, while the Senate was created to never pass
anything and it was so masterfully designed that it still works to this day.
10. But except for the tyranny of slavery, the framers really hated tyranny. To avoid tyranny of the
government, the Constitution embraced two principles:_______________________ of powers
and federalism. The government was divided into three branches— legislative, executive, and
judiciary, and the Constitution incorporated___________________ and balances: each branch
can check the power of the others.
11. But, the Constitution of the United States is a really impressive document, especially when you
consider its __________________________.
12. Who was the Mystery Document author?
________________________________________________
13. The whole idea of the ___________ Amendment was that the people could protect themselves
from a standing army by being equally well-armed.
14. And, the Anti-Federalists were very afraid of a ____________________government, especially
one dominated by the wealthy. Writers like James Winthrop held that a large group of United
States would be like an empire and “that no extensive empire can be governed upon Republican
principles.”
15. And while ultimately the Federalists won out and the Constitution was ratified, the issue of how
large government should be did not go away. So, the Constitution was really only a
______________________ point. It’s a vague document, and the details would be worked out in
the political process. And then on the _______________________________.
Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course US History #9
1. First, Hamilton wanted the country to be mercantile, which means that he believed that we
should be deeply involved in_______________________________.
2. Second, he wanted the U.S. to be a _________________________ powerhouse. We wouldn’t
just buy and sell stuff; we would make it too
3. This small scale local economy could best be served by a small scale, __________ government.
4. The Federalists on the other hand saw too much ___________ speech and democracy as a
_____________________.
5. And to that end, Hamilton began the great American tradition of having a 5 point plan:
Point 1: Establish the nation’s credit-worthiness Hamilton realized that if the new nation wanted
to be taken seriously it had to pay off its ____________________, most of which had come
during the war. And to do this Hamilton proposed that the U.S. government assume the debt
that the states had amassed.
6. Point 2: Create a national debt – that’s something you don’t hear politicians say these days –
Hamilton wanted to create new interest bearing ___________________, hoping to give the rich
people a stake in our nation’s success.
7. Point 3: Create a _________________ of the United States – This bank would be private and it
would turn a profit for its shareholders but it would hold public funds and issue notes that
would circulate as currency. And the bank would definitely be needed to house all the money
that was expected to be raised from…
8. Point 4: A Whiskey tax. Then, as now, Americans liked to drink. And one sure way to raise
money was to set an excise tax on __________________, which might reduce drinking on the
margins or cause people to switch to beer. But what it would definitely do is hurt small farmers,
who found the most profitable use of their grain was to distill it into sweet, sweet whiskey. So
the Whiskey Tax really upset small farmers, as we will see in a moment.
9. Point 5: Encourage domestic _____________________________manufacturing by imposing a
tariff. For those of you who think that the U.S. was founded on free trade principles, think again.
10. Washington actually led (at least for part of the way) a force of ____________________ men to
put down this Whiskey Rebellion, becoming the only sitting president to lead troops in the field,
and America continued to tax booze, as it does to this day.
11. By the end of his presidency, George Washington was somewhat disillusioned by
__________________.
12. Still, by the time the diminutive John _________________ took over as the second president,
Americans had already divided themselves into two groups, elitist ____________________ and
Republicans who stood for freedom and equality and… Oh, It’s time for the Mystery Document?
13. Author of the Mystery Document? ___________________________________________
14. So they changed the constitution, but not until after the next election which featured another
screw up. We’re awesome at this. Side note: The __________________college system would
continue to misrepresent the will of the American voters, most notably in 1876, 1888, and 2000,
but also in every election.
15. They disrupted our shipping, we felt nervous about their increasingly violent revolution, and
then, after three French emissaries tried to extort a bribe from the U.S. government as part of
negotiations – the so called “_____________________ affair” because we didn’t want to give
the names of these bribe-seeking French scoundrels.
16.The American public turned against France, somewhat hysterically, as it will. Taking advantage
of the hysteria, Adams pushed through the Alien and _______________________ Acts. The
Alien Act lengthened the period of time it took to become a citizen, and the Sedition Act made it
a crime to _______________________ the government.
Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
1. Incidentally, Burr and Hamilton really disliked each other and not unlike the passive aggressive
way that politicians dislike each other these days but in the four years later they would have a
duel and __________ killed Hamilton kind of way
2. So, Jefferson became president and his election showed that Americans wanted a more
democratic politics where common people were more free to express their
__________________. The Federalists were never really a threat again in presidential politics
and arguably the best thing that John Adams ever did was transfer power in an orderly and
honorable way to his rival Jefferson.
3. Jefferson's campaign slogan was "Jefferson and _____________________," but the liberty in
question was severely limited.
4. Mystery Document author? ____________________________________________
5. But back to Jefferson. His idea was to make the government smaller, lower taxes, shrink the
__________________________, and make it possible for America to become a bucolic, agrarian
empire of liberty, rather than an English-style industrial-mercantile nightmare landscape.
6. This is yet another example of how foreign affairs keeps getting in the way of
______________________ priorities, in this case the domestic priority of not wanting to spend
money on a navy.
7. Marshall was Chief Justice basically forever, and is without question the most important figure
in the history of the Supreme Court. He wrote a number of key opinions, but none was more
important than the 1803 decision in Marbury v _________________________________.
8. Marbury v. Madison is so important because in that decision the Supreme Court gave itself the
power of _____________________________ review, which allows it to uphold or invalidate
federal laws
9. So yeah, Jefferson basically ______________________the size of the US in what came to be
known as the __________________________________ Purchase. Napoleon was eager to sell it
because the rebellion in Haiti had soured him on the whole idea of colonies, and also because
he needed ______________
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By doubling the size of the country, Jefferson could ensure that there would be enough land for
every white man to have his own small farm, and this, in turn, would ensure that Americans
would remain ______________________________________ and virtuous
11. The embargo limited the power of the __________________________ government
The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11
1. The reason most often given for The War of ____________was the British impressment
of American sailors where by American sailors would be kidnapped and basically forced
into British servitude.
2. So those pushing for war were known as war _____________, and the most famous
among them was Kentucky's Henry Clay.
3. Now some historians disagree with this but the relentless pursuit of new land certainly
fits in with the Jeffersonian model of an agrarian republic. And there's another factor that
figured into America's decision to go to war: ____________________ into territory
controlled by Native Americans.
4. Mystery document author? __________________________
5. So he was also known as The Prophet, because of his _____________________
teachings, and also because of the pronunciation issues
6. The Americans responded to this reasonable criticism in the traditional manner -- with
guns. William Henry _________________destroyed the native settlement at
Prophetstown in what would become known as the Battle of Tippecanoe. He would later
ride that fame all the way to the presidency in 1840 and then - SPOILER ALERT! - he
would give the longest inauguration address ever, catch a cold, and die ______ days later.
7. So the War of 1812 was the first time that the United States declared__________ on
anybody. It was also the smallest margin of a declaration of war vote: 79 to 49 in the
House and 19 to 13 in the Senate.
8. The War launched Andrew ___________________ career and solidified the settlement
and conquest of land east of the Mississippi River.
9. It's hard to argue that the Americans really won The War of __________, but we felt like
we won, and nothing unleashes national pride like war winning. The nationalistic fever
that emerged in the early 19th century, was like most things; good news for some and bad
news for others. But what’s important to remember is regardless of whether you're an
American is that after 1812, the United States saw itself not just as an independent nation
but as a big player on the ____________ stage.
The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12
1. So today we're going to turn to one of the least-studied but most interesting periods in
American history: the ______________________Revolution.
2. The Market Revolution, like the Industrial Revolution, was more of a
_________________ than an event. It happened in the first half of the 19th century,
basically, the period before the Civil War. This was the so-called "Era of
____________________Feelings," because between 1812 and 1836, there was really
only one political party, making American politics, you know, much less contentious.
3. More important than roads were _______________, which made transport much cheaper
and more efficient, and which wouldn't have been possible without the steam boat. And
on the communication side, we got the telegraph, so no longer would Andrew Jackson
fight battles two weeks after the end of a war.
4. Telegraphs allowed merchants to know when to expect their
________________________and how much they could expect to sell them for. And then,
as now, more information meant more robust markets.
5. So, all these new economic features--roads, canals, railroads, telegraphs, factories--they
all required massive up-front capital investment. Like, you just can't build a canal in
stages as it pays for itself. So, without more modern _______________________ systems
and people willing to take risks, none of this would have happened. People don't always
like that, by the way, but it's been very good for economic growth in the last 180 years or
so.
6. In the 1830s, states began passing general incorporation laws, which made it easier to
create corporations, and the Supreme Court upheld them and protected them from further
interference in cases like ________________________ vs. Ogden, which struck down a
monopoly that New York had granted to one steamboat company
7. Moving out ___________ was a key aspect of American freedom, and the first half of the
19th century became the age of "___________________________________": the idea
that it was a God-given right of Americans to spread out over the North American
continent.
8. Author of the Mystery Document? _____________________________________
9. Now, most people read "Bartleby" as an existentialist narrative, and it definitely is that,
but, for me, the story's subtitle proves that it's also about the market economy. The full
title of the story is, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of _________________________."
Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
1. So the slave-based economy in the ________________is sometimes characterized as
having been separate from the Market Revolution, but that's not really the case. Without
southern _______________, the North wouldn't have been able to industrialize, at least
not as quickly, because cotton textiles were one of the first industrially products.
2. Like, there was very little industry in the South. It produced only _____% of the nation's
manufactured goods.
3. And, as most of the capital was being plowed into the purchase of slaves, there was very
little room for technological innovation, like, for instance, railroads. This lack of industry
and railroads would eventually make the South suck at the _______________________,
thankfully.
4. One of the best-known proponents of this view was John C. ______________, who, in
1837, said this in a speech on the Senate floor: "I hold that, in the present state of
civilization, where two races of different origin and distinguished by color and other
physical differences as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing
in the slave-holding states between the two is, instead of an evil, a
___________________ . A positive good."
5. Like, slaves on the rice plantations of South Carolina had________________________
working conditions, but they labored under the task system, which meant that once they
had completed their allotted daily work, they would have time to do other things.
6. On cotton plantations, most slaves worked in gangs, usually under the control of an
overseer, or another slave who was called a "______________________." This was
back-breaking work done in the southern sun and humidity, and so it's not surprising that
whippings - or the threat of them - were often necessary to get slaves to work.
7. Slaves' resistance to their dehumanization took many forms, but the primary way was by
forming ____________________________. Family was a refuge for slaves and a source
of dignity that masters recognized and sought to stifle.
8. Religion was also an important part of life in ___________________________. While
masters wanted their slaves to learn the parts of the Bible that talked about being happy in
bondage, slave worship tended to focus on the stories of Exodus, where
_____________________ brought the slaves out of bondage, or Biblical heroes, who
overcame great odds, like Daniel and David.
9. Mystery Document Author? _____________________________________
10. Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia at the age of 29, and over the course of her life,
she made about 20 trips back to Maryland to help friends and relatives make the journey
north on the Underground __________________________.
11. And, most importantly, in the face of systematic legal and cultural degradation, they reaffirmed their humanity through family and through ____________________
12. Why is this so important? Because too often in America, we still talk about slaves as if
they failed to rise up, when, in fact, rising up would not have made life better for them or
for their _____________________________________.
13. The truth is, sometimes carving out an identity as a human being in a social order that is
constantly seeking to dehumanize you, is the most powerful form of resistance. Refusing
to become the chattel that their masters believed them to be is what made slavery
untenable and the Civil War inevitable, so make no mistake, slaves fought back. And in
the end, they ____________
Age of Jackson: Crash Course US History #14
1. But anyway, the whole idea of owning ______________________ as a prerequisite for voting is
sort of Jeffersonian.
2. Right, so you recall that America's mostly fake victory in the War of 1812 and the subsequent
collapse of the Federalist party ushered in the "Era of _______________________," which was
another way of saying that there was basic agreement on most domestic policies.
3. The American System was a program of economic nationalism, built on 1) federally financed
internal improvements - like ____________ and canals, what we would now call infrastructure.
2) ________________________, to protect new factories and industries, and 3) A national bank
that would replace the First ______________________ of the United States, whose charter had
expired in 1811.
4. Right, so the last Era of Good Feelings president was John Quincy ___________________, who
was quite the diplomat and expansionist. He actually wrote the Monroe Doctrine, for instance.
5. But, in the short run, Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a __________________ state
while Maine was carved out of Massachusetts to keep the balance of things.
6. But the ____________________________ Compromise also said that no state admitted above
the 36º30' line of latitude would be allowed to have slaves, except of course for Missouri itself,
which, as you can see, is well above the line.
7. You see, Van Buren was only the second American president with a well-used nickname, and the
first was his immediate predecessor, Andrew Jackson, or "Old ______________________."
8. The election of _____________ was very close and it went to the House, where John Quincy
Adams was eventually declared the winner, and Jackson denounced this as a corrupt bargain.
9. The American Whigs took their name from the English Whigs, who were opposed to absolute
_______________________________.
10. Jackson supported this, in spite of the fact that it benefited manufacturers.
The tariff ___________________prices on imported manufactured goods made of wool and
iron, which enraged South Carolina, because they'd put all their money into slavery, and none
into industry.
11. Mystery Document Author?___________________________________________________
12. These so-called "________________________" were another version of rewarding political
supporters that Jackson liked to call "rotation in office." Opponents called this tactic of awarding
government offices to political favorites "the______________________________ system."
13. So, all of this out-of-control inflation, coupled with rampant land speculation, eventually led to
an economic collapse, the ______________________ of 1837.
14. In the end, Andrew Jackson probably was the ______________________American president to
end up on currency, particularly given his disastrous fiscal policies, but the age of Jackson is still
important.
19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15
1. So one response to the massive changes brought about by the shift to an industrialized
market economy was to create Utopian communities where people could separate
themselves from the worst aspects of this "Brave New _______________”
2. So while some of these communities were based in religion, others were more worldly
attempts to create new models of society, like __________________Farm.
3. And behind most of those reform movements was religion, particularly a religious revival
called the Second Great Awakening. This series of revival meetings reached their height
in the 1820s and 1830s with Charles Grandison Finney's giant camp meetings in New
York. And, in a way, the _______________________Great Awakening made America a
religious nation.
4. The Awakening stressed individual ________________ in salvation and a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, and it was deeply influenced by the Market Revolution.
5. Secondly, many of these reformers believed in ____________________________: the
idea that individuals in society were capable of unlimited improvement.
6. They also needed to perfect their communities, and that leads us to America's great
national nightmare: ____________________________________
7. [Thought Bubble]
___________________________ was the biggest reform movement in the first half of
the 19th century, probably because--sorry, alcohol and fast dancing--slavery was the
worst.
8. So, needless to say, not all Americans were quite so thrilled about abolitionism, which is
why ____________________________remained unabolished.
9. But while based on a black man's story, Uncle Tom's ___________________was written
by a white woman, which shows us that black abolitionists were battling not only slavery,
but near ubiquitous racism.
10. Author of the Mystery document?
__________________________________________________
11. And, in the end, the sophistication and elegance in the black abolitionists' arguments
became one of the strongest arguments for _______________________.
12. But I just want to note here at the end that it's no coincidence that so many abolitionists'
voices like Harriet Beecher ________________________, for instance, were female.
Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16
1. Women in the U.S. were shut out of the political process because they could not own
_________________
2. What could working women not control if they were married?
3. As an alcohol reformer, what did Carrie Nation do to get attention?
4. The Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls produced what document?
5. What did those who criticized women’s movements (which called for the ability to work,
have control over reproduction, and voting rights) claim that these women wanted?
War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17
1. So you might remember that journalist John O'Sullivan coined the phrase
"____________________________________________" to describe America's God
given right to take over all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans regardless of
who might be living there.
2. On March 13th, 1836, Santa Anna defeated the American defenders of the Alamo, killing
187 or 188, sources differ, Americans including David ___________________. The
Texas rebels would "remember the ___________________," and come back to defeat
Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, and Mexico was forced to recognize Texas'
independence.
3. Henry David Thoreau was in fact thrown in jail for refusing to pay taxes in
_______________________of the war, and wrote On Civil Disobedience in his defense.
4. Right, so Santa Anna's army was defeated in February 1847, but Mexico refused to give
up, so Winfield Scott, who had the unfortunate nickname "Old Fuss and
__________________" captured Mexico City itself in September.
5. Now, not all of those migrants - mainly young men seeking their fortunes - were white.
Nearly 25,000 Chinese people migrated to California, most as contract workers working
for mining and _______________________companies.
6. Mystery Document Author? ________________________________________
7. The California constitution of 1850 limited civil participation to whites. No Asians, no
black people or Native Americans could ________________ or testify in court.
8. So, a new Free ________________ Party formed in 1848 calling for the limiting of
slavery's expansion in the West so that it could be open for white people to live and work.
9. The four points were:
1) California would be admitted as a ________________ state,
2) the _______________ trade - but not slavery - would be outlawed in Washington D.C.,
3) a new super harsh fugitive slave law would be enacted, and
4) _________________________ sovereignty. The idea was that in the remaining territories
taken from Mexico, the local white inhabitants could decide for themselves whether the state
would be slave or free when it applied to be part of the United States.
10. But we see in the story of manifest destiny the underlying ______________________: the United
States didn't govern according to its own ideals. It didn't extend liberties to Native Americans or
Mexican Americans, or immigrant populations, or slaves.
The Election of 1860 & the ... Crash Course US History #18
1. The road to the Civil War leads to discussions of ________________________________ (to
slavery), and differing economic systems (specifically whether those economic systems should
involve slavery), and the election of Abraham Lincoln (specifically how his election impacted
slavery), but none of those things would have been issues without ______________________!
2. Railroads made shipping _______________________ and more efficient, and allowed people to
move around the country quickly,
3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act formalized the idea of ________________________ sovereignty,
which basically meant that white residents of states could decide for themselves whether the
state should allow slavery.
4. And now, we return at last to Slave Power. For many Northerners, the
________________________________________Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise
5. Right, so part of the Kansas problem was that hundreds of so-called "_____________ Ruffians"
flocked to Kansas from pro-slavery Missouri, to cast ballots in Kansas elections.
6. The case took years to find its way to the Supreme Court, and eventually, in 1857, Chief Justice
Roger B. ___________________ from Maryland handed down his decision. The Court held that
Scott was still a __________________, but it went even further, attempting to settle the slavery
issue once and for all.
7. Author of the Mystery document?_________________________________________________
8. In 1859, John ______________________led a disastrous raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's
Ferry hoping capture guns and then give them to slaves who would rise up and use those guns
against their masters.
9. Abraham Lincoln received _____ votes in nine American states but he won 40% of the overall
popular vote, including majorities in many of the most populous states, thereby winning the
Electoral College. So anytime a guy becomes president who literally did not appear on your
ballot, there is likely to be a problem.
10. By the time he took office on March 1, 1861, ______ states had seceded and formed the
Confederate States of America and the stage was set for the fighting to begin, which it did when
Southern troops fired upon the Union garrison at Fort ________________ in Charleston Harbor
on April 12, 1861.
11. 11. And the failure of the United States to understand that the rights of black Americans were as
inalienable as those of white Americans is ultimately what made the
__________________________________inevitable.
Battles of the Civil War: Crash Course US History #19
1. The shooting started in __________________.
2. In April, the first shots of the war were fired at the Battle of Fort Sumter, South Carolina,
which the _____________________ won.
3. The North then won a bunch of battles in Mississippi at Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill
and finally, ______________________________. That victory, along with the victory at Port
Hudson, effectively ended the Confederates' ability to use the _____________________ River.
4. Fighting in June 1863 in Virginia was inconclusive with draws in Brandy Station, Aldie and
Upperville. And then July brought the Battle of Gettysburg, a major ________________victory.
5. Finally, the decisive battle, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 8th, 1865, which
resulted in Lee's surrender to ______________________ - there were a few more minor skirmishes
- but the war was over!
6. Ugh, so there you have it, an episode of Crash Course entirely about ___________________. What did
we learn? Very little in the end. And I know I missed many battles of the war, but I also didn't miss many.
Civil War Part 1 #20
1.
About how many people died in the Civil War? ______________________
2.
The war lasted from ____________ to ______________
3.
Lincolns goal during the war was to preserve the __________________
4.
What advantages did the Union have over the South? (list 3)
1
2
3
5.
General Lees furthest battle into the north was the Battle of ____________________ (10:02)
6.
The capture of what Southern city help Lincoln win the 1964 election________________ (11:08)
Civil War Part 2 #21
1.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves in the ___________________,
however the Proclamation did not free the slaves in the north.
2.
What Amendment freed the slaves? __________________________________
3.
The Souths best chance to win the war was to get help from _______________________
4.
Britain did not want to because of issue of _______________ – and got their cotton elsewhere
5.
Americas Civil War was one of the most destructive wars because of ______________________
6.
The ____________________ Act gave away 160 acres of free land to spur westward expansion
7.
Who did the government give 150 million acres of land called land grants to ________________
8.
The Civil War was not just a war that was North over the South, or Freedom over slavery, it created a
Nation that the United States of America has ______________
Reconstruction #22
1.
A major hurdle during reconstruction was to unite rebellious southern states back into the Union.
Lincoln had a plan but before we could go with that plan, Lincoln is assassinated and is replaced by
_______________________________
2.
The system of __________________________ replaced slavery in the South.
3.
During Reconstruction the ___________________ Republicans controlled congress
4.
Civil ______________ Bill 1866 - , is a law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights
of_______________________, in the wake of the American Civil War.
5.
This legislation was passed by Congress in 1865 but vetoed by President ___________________.
6.
In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill. Although Johnson again vetoed it, a __________
majority in each house overcame the veto and the bill seemingly became law.
7.
14th Amendment gave them ____________________, Equal ___________________ and Bill of Rights
in ________ states
8.
The ________________________ Act – Divided the South into 5 military districts
9.
1868 election was won by Ulysses S. ______________________
10. Compromise (bargain) of 1877 - ___________________ wins the presidency, and _______
Reconstruction. Ended the military districts and Northern power. Allowed Southern states to pass Jim
Crow laws
Industrial Economy #23
1.
The _____________________ improved communication
2.
______________________________(1:50) was the result of our population boom
3.
________________________________ were the key to the late 18oo’s industrial success
4.
What type of zones were created by railroads to help with communication and transportation?
____________________________________
5.
____________________________ were also the first modern corporations.
6.
Rockefeller made a fortune by controlling which industry? ________________________
7.
Pools and trust controlled _______________________ (not good for consumers)
8.
Social Darwinism means survival of the _________________________ - including big business
Westward Expansion #24
1.
What does Green state that the United States is literally in the business of?
_____________________________________
2.
The “WEST” was not unoccupied territory, who already lived in much of this area?
________________________________________
3.
How did the railroad enable migration west (2 reasons)?
a.
b.
4.
What was the basis of the Plains Tribes’ existence? ______________________________
5.
Where was the most famous boarding school for the ‘civilizing’ of Native people?
6.
The farming in the west quickly went from small family farms to those owned by what?
7.
The exploration of the Oregon Trail and the Wild West are actually split in time by what major event?
Cities Growth and Immigration #25
1.
But one of the central reasons that so many people moved out______________________ was that the
demand for agricultural products was increasing due to the growth of _________________
2.
So in the 40 years around the turn of the 20th century, American became the world's largest
_________________________________, and went from being predominately rural to largely urban.
3.
Immigration was not a new phenomenon in the United States. After the first wave of colonization by
English people and Spanish people and other Europeans, there was a new wave of Scandinavians, French
people, and especially the ___________________
4.
And the second-largest wave of immigrants was made up of ___________________________ speakers
5.
Congress and the president were able to agree on one group of immigrants to discriminate against: the
_______________________________________
6.
Chinese immigrants, overwhelmingly male, had been coming to the United States, mostly to the West,
since the 1850s to work in ______________________and on the _______________________________
7.
By the time the ________________________________________ Act went into effect in 1882, there were
105,000 people of Chinese descent living in the United States, mainly in cities on the west coast.
8.
In the entire period touched off by the industrialization from 1840 until 1914, a total of_________ million
people came to the U.S.
9.
One of the most notable features of gilded-age cities like _________________ was that the rich and the
poor lived in such close proximity to each other. And this meant that with America's growing
urbanization, the growing distance between ________________ and _________________was visible to
both rich and poor.
Gilded Age #26
1.
The Gilded Age gets the name from a book written by Charlie Dudley Warner and what other famous
author?
2.
What political body did Twain hate? ___________________________
3.
The most famous political machine was Tammany Hall, located in what city?
4.
In exchange for the help these political machines gave to the poor and the immigrant classes, the machine
wanted what?
5.
When voter fraud was not enough, many of the political machines chose to use what two methods?
6.
Which one-term president was assassinated during this time of corrupt politics?
7.
Which party was against the tariffs? __________________________________
8.
The Sherman Anti-trust Act was designed to break up monopolies but instead was usually used against
what types of organizations?
Progressive Era #27
1.
If the Gilded Age was a period where people noted that there were societal problems, what did people do in
the Progressive Age?
2.
Large, monopolistic, industrial combinations were called what?
3.
What is a form of journalism, where the dirt of society was shown to the people?
4.
What 2 Acts did the Jungle lead to?
1.
2.
5.
Since workers did not have twitter, what did they have to organize in order to be heard?
6.
The ‘Wobblies’ or the Industrial Workers of the World, were what kind of political
group?___________________________________________________________
7.
The dangerous accumulation of wealth was thought to be cured by what?
8.
What were some of the ‘new-fangled devices’ of the mass-consumer society?
9.
What is the process of allowing voters to put issues directly on the ballot and voting on them at the time of
elections?
10. How were immigrants shut out of the political process?
11. Other than literacy requirements, some southern states also charged what?
12. What is the Supreme Court decision of 1896 which made segregation legal?
13. What organization did W. E. B. DuBois help found?
14. What tactics of the progressives do we use today to try to change social issues?
American Imperialism #28
1.
So the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a period of _________________________ and
___________________________ in Asia and Africa, mostly by _______________ powers
2.
From very early on, the European settlers who became Americans were intent on pushing westward and
conquering ____________________________. The obvious victims of this expansion-slashimperialism were the _______________________ Americans, but we can also include the Mexicans
who lost their sovereignty after 1848
3.
The primary causes of the phenomenon of American Imperialism was ___________________; we
needed places to sell our amazing new ________________________
4.
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan published The Influence of ___________________ Upon
History and argued that to be a great power, like Great Britain, the U.S. needed to control the
___________________and dominate international commerce.
5.
By far America's best piece of imperial business before 1898 was _____________________.
6.
The Spanish American war started out because native ___________________ were revolting against
Spain, which was holding on to Cuba for dear life as a remnant of a once great empire.
7.
The Cuban's fight for__________________________________ was brutal. 95,000 Cubans died from
disease and malnutrition after Spanish General Valeriano Weyler herded Cubans into concentration
camps.
8.
For this, Wyler was called "______________________" in the American "yellow press," (yellow
journalism) which sold a lot of newspapers on the backs of stories about his atrocities.
9.
_______________________________ Amendment, which foreswore any U.S. annexation of Cuba.
10. As a result of the war, the U.S. got a bunch of new territories; notably
the____________________________, Puerto Rico, and ____________________
11. Now, the reasons for imperialism, above all the quest for markets for
_____________________________________________________, would persist long after imperialism
became recognized as antithetical to freedom and democracy.
Progressive Presidents #29
1.
____________ year old Theodore __________________became the youngest American president ever after
William McKinley was assassinated
2.
______________________ Deal, aimed to distinguish good corporations--that provided useful products and
services at _________ ________--from evil corporations--that existed just to make _____________.
3.
in ______________ (year), Teddy Roosevelt decided to go elephant hunting instead of running for re-election
and he picked William Howard ___________________ to be his successor.
4.
_____________ amendment allowing congress to pass an income tax
5.
Roosevelt then founded his own progressive party, called the "Bull ___________________Party" so that he
could run again. So the election of 1912 featured______ candidates: Taft, Teddy Roosevelt for the Bull Moose
Party, Eugene V. Debbs for the ______________________Party, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
6.
Bull Moose Party platform was in some ways a vision of a modern welfare state, it called for women's
_________________, federal regulation, national labor and health legislation for women and children, _____
hour days and living wage for all workers, national systems of social insurance for _________________,
unemployment and old age, what are we Canada?
7.
Who won the 1912 election? ________________________________________
8.
____________________ Act of 1914, which exempted unions from anti-trust laws and made it easier for them
to strike,
9.
Keating-Owen Act, which outlawed ________________________ in manufacturing
10. _____________________Act, which mandated an eight hour work day for railroad workers.
11. "Speak softly and carry a big _______________," which essentially meant the U.S. will intervene in
____________________________________ whenever we want. And probably the most famous such
intervention was the building of the ______________________________
12. So this period of American history is important because Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson oversaw the expansion of
the power of the _________________________________________________ both at home and abroad; and in
doing so, they became the first __________________American presidents.
World War One #30
1.
Americans were only involved in The Great War for _________months and compared with the other
belligerents we didn't do much _____________________
2.
So The Great War, which lasted from _____________until _________ and featured a lot of men with hats
and rifles, cost the lives of an estimated _______________________ soldiers
3.
So when the war broke out, America remained ____________________, because we were a little bit
isolationist, owing to the fact that we were led, of course, by President _____________________.
4.
Wilson courted these groups in the 1916 presidential campaign, running on the slogan "_________________
______________." and will continue to keep us out of war until we re-elect him and then he gets us into war.
5.
United States declared war on ___________________ and the _________________ Powers on April 2nd
1917, almost two years after the sinking of the _________________________________.
6.
So why did the United States declare war for only the fourth time in its history?
a.
Was it the German's decision to resume unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917?
b.
Was it the interception and publication of the Zimmerman telegram, in which the German Foreign Secretary
promised to help Mexico get back California if they joined Germany in a war against the U.S.?
c.
Or was it the fall of the Tsarist regime in Russia, which made Wilson's claims that he wanted to fight to make
the world safe for democracy a bit more plausible?
d.
ALL OF THE ABOVE
7.
What was this episodes mystery document? ___________________________________
8.
Congress passed the _________________________________ Act, which required _____million men to
register for the draft and eventually increased the size of the army from 120 000 to ______ million.
9.
War ____________________Board, for instance, pushed for a minimum wage, 8 hour work days and the
rights of workers to form ______________________
10. What did the Committee on Public Information do?
11. Wilson's dream of a League of ____________________ realized but the U.S. never joined it, largely because
_____________________________was nervous about giving up its sovereign power to declare war.
12. And disappointment over the outcome of World War I led the U.S. to, for the most part, retreat into
_________________________________________, until World War II.
Suffrage #31
1. Some historians refer to the thirty years between 1890 and 1920 as the
"______________________" because it was in that time that women started to have greater
economic and political _____________________________.
2. The role of women in politics did greatly expand during the _________________________ Era.
3. What amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in all elections? _____________
4. So in many ways, the period between 1890 and 1920, which roughly corresponds to the
Progressive Era, was the high tide of _____________________ rights and political activism
5. List important names: (3 minimum)
1.
2.
3.
6. List important terms: (5 minimum)
1.
2.
3.
5.
Roaring 20’s #32
1.
_____________________________, a decade of exciting change and new cultural touchstones, as well as
increased personal freedom and ____________________. And it really was a time of increased wealth.
2.
Interior Secretary Albert ______, who took half a million dollars from private business in exchange for
leases to government oil reserves at ___________________ Dome. (teapot dome scandal)
3.
Productivity rose dramatically, largely because older industries adopted Henry Ford's
______________________________________ techniques and newer industries like aviation, chemicals
and electronics grew up to provide Americans with new products and new jobs
4.
The widespread use of ________________ and _______________________ buying plans meant that it
was acceptable to go into debt to maintain what came to be seen as the American "standard of living" and
this was a huge change in attitude.
5.
Part of the spirit of the ________________ Renaissance, which rejected stereotypes and prejudice and
sought to celebrate _____________________________________ experience.
6.
________________________________ incomes dropped steadily and many saw banks ___________
upon their property. For the 1st time in American history, the number of farms declined during the 1920s.
7.
The decade saw the resurgence of the _____________________ in a new and improved form, and by
improved I mean much more terrible.
8.
The first _______________________________ restriction bill was passed in 1921, limiting the number of
immigrants from Europe to 357,000. In 1924, a new immigration law dropped that number to 150,000
and established ______________________________ based on_____________________________ origin.
9.
The best-known example is, of course, the trial of John ________________in Tennessee in 1925. Scopes
was tried for breaking the law against teaching ______________________, which he had been
encouraged to do by the ACLU as a test case for freedom of speech.
10. The Scopes trial is often seen as a victory for free thinking, ___________________ and modernism
Great Depression #33
1. The 1920s featured large-scale domestic consumption of relatively new consumer products,
which was good for American industry, but much of this consumption was fuelled by
______________________ and instalment buying.
2. Mechanization was expensive and so many farmers went into _______________ to finance their
expansion, and then a combination of overproduction and low prices meant that often their
farms were ______________________________ upon.
3. Big banks and corporations were buying a lot of stock, much of it was with borrowed money
known as _______________________buying.
4. Define Deflation:
5. Under the Versailles Treaty, Germany had to pay ______ billion dollars in reparations, mostly to
France and Britain, which it couldn't pay without borrowing money from American banks.
6. By the end of 1931, _____________________ American banks had failed - double the number
that had gone under in 1930.
7. In January 1932, he and Congress created the Reconstruction _________________________
Corporation, which was basically a federal bailout program that borrowed money to provide
emergency loans to banks, building and loan societies, railroads and agricultural corporations.
8. By early 1932, well over __________ million people were out of work - _______% of the labour
force. And in big cities the numbers were even worse, especially for people of colour.
9. Shanty towns for the homeless called "__________________________________" and there
were protests like the Bonus March on Washington by veterans seeking an early payment of a
bonus due to them in 1945.
10. A lot of the debate around the Great Depression revolves around the causes, while still more
concerns the degree to which the federal government's eventual response, the
_______________________________, actually helped to end the Depression.
New Deal #34
1. The New Deal redefined the role of the ______________ government for most Americans and it led
to a re-alignment of the constituents in the Democratic Party, the so-called "______Deal Coalition".
2. FDR suggested that it was the government's responsibility to guarantee every man a right to make a
comfortable _____________________________.
3.
Emergency ___________________ Act closed the ________________
4.
______________ - Federally insured individual bank accounts (federal deposit insurance corporation)
5. Civilian ______________________________________Corps, which paid young people to build
national parks;
6. _______________________________Adjustment Act. The AAA basically gave the government the
power to try to raise farm prices by setting production quotas and paying ____________________to
plant less food.
7. So with the _________________________Court invalidating acts left and right, it looked like the
New Deal was about to unravel. FDR responded by proposing a law that would allow him to appoint
new Supreme Court ___________________________ if sitting justices reached the age of 70 and
failed to retire. (court packing)
8. What brought the depression to an end was a massive government spending program called
_______________.
9.
The New Deal quote "made the government an institution directly experienced in Americans' daily
lives and directly concerned with their _______________________."
WWII Part 1 #35
1.
Now America actually came out of World War I ___________________ than ever but man did a lot of people
die for not much change. I mean, I guess the Treaty of ____________________sort of remade Europe but it
didn't make it better. And __________________________________ was a flop.
2.
Even Congress recognized that the________________ were a threat and in 1940 it agreed to allow cash and
_____________________arms sales to __________________________________________.
3.
September 1940, Congress created the nation's first peace time _____________________taking the next step
toward US involvement
4.
By 1941, in spite of all our neutrality FDR had pretty clearly sided with the _____________________
5.
Perhaps worse than _________________________________________ was the surrender of 78,000 American and
Filipino troops at ____________________
6.
The US strategy in the Pacific has been called _________________________________________ and it involved
taking Japanese controlled islands one at a time to be used as bases for bombers that could then be used
against Japan itself.
7.
Allies invaded Sicily and Italy where we fought for most of 1943 and much of 1944 until finally on June 6, we
joined some Brits and Canadians in invading _____________________________on D-Day. And that was the
beginning of the end for the _______________________.
8.
Atomic bombs were developed through the __________________________________________
9.
In World War 2, perhaps ________% of the estimated ________ million people killed were civilians.
10. Thinking about Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs is important because it forces us to consider our
understanding of ________________________
11. Part of why we say that using atomic bombs was worse than conventional bombing, is because we know what
came after; the _____________________________, the threat of nuclear annihilation
WWII Part 2 #36
1.
World War II brought about tremendous changes in the United States, in many ways shaping how Americans
would come to see themselves and how they would want to be seen by the rest of the __________________.
2.
Office of ______________________ Administration took unprecedented control of the economy.
3.
US gross national product went from 91 billion to ___________________ billion during the war. Why did this
happen? Well that's controversial, but primarily because of ______________________________
4.
Before WWII only 4 million Americans even paid federal_________________________ taxes, but after the
war, ________ million did. Also big business got even bigger during the war because of government contracts.
5.
Congress did pass the _____ of Rights, officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, to attempt to prevent
widespread unemployment for _____________________________________________
6.
The struggle against Nazism also helped re-shape the way that Americans thought of themselves. Like, because
the Nazis were racists, Americanism would mean diversity, and tolerance, and _______________for all people.
7.
Executive Order ___________ in February 1942, expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast.
70% of Japanese Americans lived in California and as a result of this order more than 110 thousand people,
almost 2/3 of whom were American citizens, were sent to________________________________ camps where
they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards.
8.
WWII also saw the beginning of the _________________________________________ movement
9.
The goal of the UN was to ensure _______________, and the US's position as one of the 5 permanent members
of the Security Council signaled that it intended to take an active and leading role in international affairs.
10. Even before the US entered the war it issued the _____________________Charter along with Britain affirming
the freedom of all people to choose their _________government and declaring that the defeat of Nazi Germany
would help to bring about a world of 'improved labor standards, economic advancement, and social security.'
COLD WAR #37
1. Why is The Cold War referred to as “cold”?
2. Is The Cold War more of a war or an era?
3. In what ways was the US at an advantage at the end of World War II?
4. Why did Russian create pro-communist states around them?
5. What was the policy of containment?
6. What pledge was made in the Truman Doctrine?
7. What was the Marshall Plan?
8. What happened in 1949?
9. Why was the relationship between The Cold War and consensus in congress?
10. How was the USSR able to build their own nuclear bombs so quickly?
11. What was The Red Scare?
12. How did The Cold War encourage loyalty to the state?
COLD WAR # 38
1.
What war is known as the Forgotten War?
2.
Since the Korean War is not technically a war, what was it?
3.
Vietnam was a colony to what country?
4.
5.
How did the Gulf of Tonkin incident expand the US involvement in Vietnam?
First part of Nixon’s secret plan was “___________________________________” - gradually withdrawing
American troops and leaving the fighting to the Vietnamese.
6. The Khmer Rouge represented the absolute worst that Communism had to offer, forcing almost all Cambodians
into communes and massacring ______________ of the country’s population.
7. War Powers Act in 1973, which was supposed to limit the president’s ability to send troops overseas without
their approval of __________________________________
8. The war between North and South Vietnam, however, continued until ________, when the North finally
conquered the South and created a single, __________________________Vietnam.
List important names from this episode: (3 minimum)
1.
2.
3.
Civil Rights and 1950’s #39
1. Between 1946 and 1960 Americans experienced a period of economic expansion that saw
standards of living ___________________ and gross national product more than
______________________
2. The 1950s was the era of ____________________________. The number of homes in the
United States doubled during the decade, which had the pleasant side effect of creating lots of
_________.
3. Classic example of suburbanization was ____________________in New York, where 10,000
almost identical homes were built and became home to ___________________ people almost
overnight.
4. Most people agreed on the American values: ______________________, respect
for________________ property, and belief in equal opportunity.
5. You might think the Civil Rights Movement began with ____________________________ and
the Montgomery Bus Boycott or else Brown v. Board of Education, but it really started during
__________________________.But even before that, black Americans had been fighting for civil
rights
6. ____________________________v. Ferguson that required all public facilities to be separate
but equal.
7. On December 1, __________, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery,
Alabama and got arrested, kicking off the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted almost a
______________
8. The Bus Boycott also thrust into prominence a young pastor from Atlanta, the 26 year old
____________________________________________________
9. But there was also widespread systemic inequality and poverty in the decade that shows just
how far away we were from living the ideal of __________________________opportunity.
1960’s #40
1.
So the 1960s saw people organizing and actively working for ____________, both in the social order and in government.
This included the student movement, the woman’s movement, movements for gay rights, major anti-war movement, and
a push by the courts to expand rights in general.
2.
Then, in 1961, leaders from the Congress of____________ Equality (CORE) launched "Freedom Rides" to integrate
interstate buses. Volunteers rode the buses into the deep South, where they faced _________________, including
beatings and a bombing in Aniston, Alabama.
3.
Television brought the reality of the Jim Crow South into people's ________________, as images of Bull Connor's police
dogs and water cannons being turned on peaceful marchers, many of them children, horrified viewers, and eventually led
________________ to endorse the movement's goals.
4.
John F. Kennedy was initially cool to civil rights, but to be fair, the Cold War occupied a lot of his time, what with the
_______________missile crisis, and the Bay of ______________, and whatnot. But the demonstrations of 1963 pushed
John F. Kennedy to support ______________ more actively.
5.
Civil _____________ Act of 1964. The law prohibited discrimination in employment, ____________, hospitals, and
privately owned public places, like restaurants and hotels and theaters, and it also banned discrimination on the basis of
sex.
6.
Voting Rights Act, which gave the federal government the power to oversee ______________ in places where
discrimination was practiced.
7.
1964 saw the beginnings of riots in city __________________, for instance, mostly in northern cities. The worst riots were
in 1965 in _______________, in southern California. These left 35 people dead, 900 injured, and $30 million in damage.
8.
_________________________________, who many white people regarded as an advocate for violence, but who also
called for self-reliance.
9.
Perhaps the most significant freedom movement, in terms of number of people involved and long-lasting effects, was the
American ________________________________________ movement.
10. 1968 began with the _______Offensive in Vietnam, which stirred up the ________________ protest.
11. There's one last thing I want to emphasize: All of this wasn't really the result of like a radical revolution. It was the result of
a process that had been going on for decades. I mean, arguably, a process that had been going on
for________________________________ of years.
Rise of Conservatism #41
1.
Now you'll remember from our last episode that we learned that not everyone in the 1960s was a psychedelic, rocklistening, war-protesting hippie. In fact there was a strong undercurrent of
________________________________________ thinking
2.
But both of these strands of conservatism were very hostile toward ___________________and also to the idea of
______________government.
3.
So in the end Goldwater received a paltry 27 million votes to Johnson's ______million and democrats racked up huge
majorities in both houses of ________________________.
4.
Nixon won the election, campaigning as the candidate of the _______________________ of Americans, who weren't
anti-war protesters, and who didn't admire free love or the communal ideas of hippies.
5.
Conservatives who voted for Nixon, hoping that he would roll back the New Deal, were disappointed. I mean, in some
ways the Nixon domestic agenda was just a continuation of LBJ's ___________________.
6.
University of California v. Bakke. This upheld ___________________________ as a valid governmental interest,
although it did strike down the use of strict quotas in university admissions.
7.
________________v ___________________ established a woman's right to have an abortion in the first trimester of
her pregnancy as well as a more limited right as the pregnancy progressed.
8.
Watergate was followed by a Senate investigation by the Church Committee, which revealed that Nixon was hardly
the first president to have abused his ______________________.
9.
Church Commission, Watergate, the Pentagon papers, Vietnam, all of these things revealed a government that truly
was __________________________, and this undermined a fundamental liberal belief that government is a good
institution that is supposed to solve problems and promote freedom.
Ford, Carter, Economic Malaise #42
1.
The big story of the 1970s is ____________________, 25 years of broad economic expansion and prosperity came to
a grinding halt in the 1970s, meaning that our party was over.
2.
In 1971, for the first time in the 20th century, America experienced an ____________________ deficit, importing
more goods than it exported.
3.
So by 1970, competition led employers to either eliminate high-paying manufacturing jobs or else to increase
automation or to shift workers to lower-wage regions of the U.S., or even _________________.
4.
In 1973, in response to western support of ___________________, middle-eastern Arab states suspended oil exports
to the ______________, which led to the price of oil quadrupling.
5.
This resulted in long lines for _______, dramatically higher oil prices and Americans deciding to purchase smaller,
more fuel-efficient cars, which is to say Japanese cars. Also, prices of everything else went ____ because oil is either
used for the production of or transportation of just about ____________________.
6.
One of Ford's first acts was to pardon _________, making him immune from prosecution for obstruction of justice.
That very unpopular decision probably made it impossible for Ford to win in ______ election.
7.
Coincidentally, _________was the only memorable domestic program that Ford proposed. It stood for "Whip
_________________ Now" and it was basically a plea for Americans to be better shoppers, spend less and wear
"WIN" buttons.
8.
Aiming to make human rights a cornerstone of America's foreign policy, Jimmy ________________tried to turn away
from the Cold War framework and focus instead on combating third world poverty and reducing the spread of nuclear
weapons.
9.
When that relationship broke down and we had both high______________________ and high
____________________________ , it undermined the entire idea of government intervention.
Regan Revolution #43
1. The Reagan Era began, unsurprisingly, with his election to the presidency in
_________________.
2. Reagan emphasized his belief in ____________ rights, condemned welfare cheats, condemned
bussing and_____________________ action, and won the support of religious conservatives,
including the newly formed Moral Majority, by standing for family values, even though in fact he
was the first U.S. president to have been divorced.
3. And a big part of Ronald Reagan's version of freedom was economic freedom, which he laid out
in his ___________________________ Bill of Rights. It would curtail union power, reduce
federal regulation of industry and the environment, and most of all, lower taxes.
4. In 1981, Reagan persuaded Congress to lower the top tax rate from 70% to ________%. In 1986,
Congress went much further with the _____Reform Act, which lowered the top income tax rate
to 28%.
5. So the idea that lower taxes is the best way to spur economic growth is called
_______________________________________ Economics, or _____________ Down
Economics
6. The Reagan Era did see cuts to some programs, but the really expensive items- Social Security,
Medicare, Medicade- remained largely intact. And instead of cutting the overall amount of
spending, it actually went up considerably because of the _____________ Spending Binge,
which saw the national debt balloon to 2.7 trillion dollars.
7. And then we have Ronald Reagan's reputation as the man who ended the Cold War. The
thinking here goes that Regan spent so much money on Defense that the Soviets
__________________themselves trying to compete.
8. The highlight was his proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, aka ______________________,
which included space based missiles and lasers for shooting Soviet missiles out of the sky. This
was a fantastic idea, although it would have violated the 1972 AntiBallistic______________________ Treaty.
9. Reagan was able to negotiate the first reduction in _________________ weapons with the new
Soviet Premier Mikhail Gordachev in 1986. In fact, the two leaders might have tried to get rid of
nuclear weapons all together, but Reagan's unwillingness to give up his Star Wars Initiative
made that impossible.
10. Middle Eastern policy played a key role in the biggest controversy of Reagan's presidency: The
______________________________ Scandal.
11. They hatched a plan to sell arms to the __________________government, still technically our
enemies, and then funnel some of the profits from those illegal arm sales to the
_______________________.
George HW Bush and END of Cold War #44
1. Bush flew ______ missions in the Pacific during World War II and received the Distinguished
Flying Cross for completing a mission in a burning plane before ditching into the sea
2. The end of the Cold War was really a failure on the part of the ___________________ rather
than the result of successful American policies.
3. One positive result of the end of the Cold War was reduction in __________________ weapons:
under Bush the US and USSR negotiated and implemented the START ___ and START ___
treaties which limited the number of warheads each country could possess to between 3000
and 3500.
4. And then there was the foreign-policy crisis that Bush handled decisively: Saddam Hussein's
invasion of ________________________ in August 1990. Bush brought the issue to the UN and
ushered through a Security Council resolution that set a deadline for Saddam to leave Kuwait.
5. When ground troops led by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf finally moved in they were able to defeat
the Iraqi army in less than __________ hours
6. So the Gulf War lifted President Bush's approval rating to an unheard-of of ________%.
7. For better and for worse America didn't really change that much as a result of the end of the
Cold War. We're creeping up now on the growth of the __________________ which will change
the way that Americans and everyone else imagines history and everything else forever.
The Clinton Years #45
1.
Oslo Accords, when Israel recognized the legitimacy of the __________________ Liberation Organization.
However, that eventually resulted in the PLO becoming progressively less powerful and as you may have
noticed, it didn’t ultimately achieve peace in the Middle East.
2.
Rwandan genocide, which the Clinton administration did absolutely nothing to prevent, and where
__________________________ people died in less than a month. The Rwandan genocide is probably the
international community's greatest ___________________________n the 2nd half of the 20th century
3.
Terrorism also became a bigger issue during Clinton’s presidency. The World________________ Center
was bombed for the 1st time, the U.S.S. _________was attacked, but the most destructive terrorist act
during Clinton’s presidency was of course committed by Americans - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
who blew up the Murray Federal building in ______________________________ City.
4.
Clinton did actually shrink parts of the government with policies like the Telecommunications Act of 1996,
which deregulated _____________________________________
5.
In fact, by the time Clinton left office unemployment was below ____% which hadn’t happened since the
1960s. That meant there should have been inflation, but somehow there wasn’t, possibly because of
increased global competition that kept wages down, and also energy prices that were remarkably low as
worldwide _______production increased.
6.
Who wrote this episodes Mystery Document? _________________________________
7.
As had always been the case, most immigrants were attracted by labor opportunities, but now more were
highly educated. In fact, _______% had college educations.
8.
So the 90s were a really pivotal decade to the world we live in right now, a globalized, multicultural,
instagram-filtered world. But as we became more globally connected political divisions grew within the
United States. And this became especially problematic because with the growth of the _______________
it was easier than ever to only hear voices that you already know you agree with.
Terrorism, War, and Bush #46
1.
The controversy starts with the ___________ election. Democratic presidential candidate Al 'I invented
the internet' Gore was sitting vice president and he asked Bill Clinton not to campaign much because a lot
of voters kind of hated Bill Clinton.
2.
Bush also attempted education reform with the No Child ______________________________ Act, which
mandated that states implement rigorous standards and ___________________ regimes to prove that
those standards were being met.
3.
In the 9/11 attacks Almost _________________ people died including almost 400 policemen and
firefighters. As Americans rushed to help in the search for survivors and to rebuild a devastated city, a
shared sense of trauma and a desire to show resolve really did bring the___________________ together.
4.
So on October 7th the United States launched its first strikes against Afghanistan, which at the time was
ruled by a group of Islamic fundamentalists called the Taliban who were protecting Osama Bin
_______________________ , al Qaeda's leader.
5.
The ultimate goal of _________________Doctrine was to make the world safe for freedom and also to
spread it and freedom was defined as consisting of political democracy, free expression, religious
toleration, free trade and free __________________________.
6.
The ______________________ Act gave the government unprecedented law enforcement powers to
combat domestic terrorism, including the ability to wiretap and spy on ____________________________.
7.
Then in August 2005 Hurricane ______________________slammed into the Gulf Coast near New Orleans,
submerging much of the city, killing nearly _______________ people, and leaving thousands stranded
without basic services.
8.
And then in 2007 the country fell back into recession as a massive housing bubble began to deflate,
followed by the near collapse of the American ________________________ system in 2008.
9.
Under the leadership of George W. Bush, the United States began a global fight against
____________________ and for freedom. But as always what we mean by those words is evolving and
there is no question that in trying to ensure a certain kind of freedom we have undermined other kinds of
freedom.
Obamanation #47
1.
So when we last left George W. Bush, his approval rating was dropping to the_____________ number
in President of the United States approval rating history.
2.
When banks stop lending, business can't _________________. So the stock market collapsed, with
the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping from about 14,000 to around 8,000, which wiped out
$____ trillion of shareholder wealth, and the majority of Americans had money invested in the stock
market, much of it into former retirement funds.
3.
In the last three months of 2008 and the first three months of 2009, our GDP dropped ___%. And
world trade cratered, and that led to unemployment and misery
_______________________________.
4.
In ___________, Obama's election seemed like a political watershed, and not just because he was the
first _______________________________ president. He appeared to break Republicans' solid hold
on the South.
5.
On the other hand, Obama has been criticized internationally for backing of his promise to close the
__________________________________ Bay Detention Camp, and he has largely followed the Bush
Administration's policies with the War on _______________________.
6.
The Affordable ________________ Act is arguably the most significant piece of social legislation since
_______________________, and it seeks to move the United States into the ranks of countries with
universal health care. A list that includes every industrialized nation on Earth. We're number one!...
among countries that don't have universal health care.
7.
Obama was reelected president in _________________, the Republicans continued to control the
House, the Democrats continued to have the slim majority in the ___________________, and now
America is facing something of a political crisis.
8.
So if you've learned anything this year, I hope it's been that the American story that we find ourselves
in now isn't entirely novel. And I think we have much to learn from those who came before us, both
from their ________________________ and from their many, many _________________________.
Answer Key
The Black Legend, Native Americans, ... Crash Course US History #1
1. Europeans
2. Farming/trade
3. 75/diseases
4. Tribes/buffalo
5. Leaders
6. Spanish
7. Military
8. Indies
When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America: ... Course US History #2
1. New England
2. Jamestown
3. Freedom/farmers
4. Tobacco
5. 1632
6. Protestant
7. Mayflowers
8. Christian
9. 1640
10. Money
The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History #3
1. Small pox
2. Surplus
3. Pocahontas
4. Virginia
5. 3
6. 500
7. Slavery
8. King Phillips
9. Brutal
10. Massachusetts
11. American History
The Quakers, the Dutch, and the ... Crash Course US History #4
1. New York
2. Slavery
3. Pacifists
4. Bacon
5. Jamestown
6. Bacons/slavery/colonies
7. Toleration
8. Farmers
9. Society
10. Male
11. Dramas
The Seven Years War and ... Awakening: Crash Course US History #5
1. Economics
2. Valued
3. National/monopolies
4. Causes
5. George/one-third
6. North America/India/Paris
7. Fight back
8. ?
9. Pontiacs
10. American
11. Property
12. Natural
13. Respect/economics
Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to ... Crash Course US History #6
1. Taxes
2. Paris/Indians
3. Taxes
4. Molasses
5. Stamp
6. Boycott
7. Repealed
8. Boston
9. Profits
10. 15
11. Ingles
12. Sword/common
Who Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
1. Capture/NOT QUIT
2. Saratoga/British
3. Rights
4. Civil war
5. British
6. Educated
7. Equal
8. Religious
9. Webster
10. Equal
The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course US History #8
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Articles
Weak
Treaties
Taxes
Shays
Judicial
Hamilton
6
People
Separation
Checks
Longevity
Hamilton
2nd
Strong
Starting/battlefield
Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course US History #9
1. World trade
2. Manufacturing
3. Local
4. Free speech/democracy
5. Debts
6. Bonds
7. Banks
8. Whiskey
9. Industrial
10. 13000
11. Politics
12. Adams/federalist
13. Murray
14. Electoral
15. XYZ
16. Sedition/criticize
Thomas
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
Burr
Opinions
Liberty
George Tucker
Military
Domestic
Madison
Judicial
Doubled/Louisiana/money
Independent
Federal
The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11
1. 1812
2. Hawks
3. Expansion
4. Tecumseh
5. Religious
6. Harrison
7. War
8. Jackson
9. 1812
The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12
1. Markey
2. Process/good
3. Canals
4. Shipments
5. Banking
6. Gibbons
7. West/manifest destiny
8. Emerson
9. Wall street
Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
1. South/cotton
2. 10%
3. Civil war
4. Calhoun
5. Terrible
6. Driver
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Families
Slavery
Joshua Taper
Railroad
Faith
Familes
Won
Age of Jackson: Crash Course US History #14
1. Land
2. Good Feelings
3. Roads/tariffs/banks
4. Adams
5. Slave
6. Missouri
7. Hickory
8. 1828 monarch
9. Raised
19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15
1. World
2. Brook
3. 2nd
4. Choice
5. Perfectionism
6. Temperance
7. Abolitionism
8. Slavery
9. Cabin
10. David walker
11. Abolition
12. Stowe
Women
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16
Property
Their own wages
Attacked bars with hatchet
Declaration of Sentiments
Free love
War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17
1. Manifest destiny
2. Crockett/Alamo
3. Takes
4. Feathers
5. Railroad
6. Norman Asing
7. Vote
8. Soil
9. Free, slave, popular
10. Problem
The Election of 1860 & the ... Crash Course US History #18
1. States rights
2. Cheaper
3. Popular
4. Kansas-Nebraska act
5. Border
6. Taney, slave
7. Giddings
8.
9.
10.
11.
Battles
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Brown
Zero
Sumter
Civil War
of the Civil War: Crash Course US History #19
1861
South
Vicksburg. Mississippi
Union
Grant
War
The Civil War, Part I: Crash Course US History #20
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
700,000
1861-1865
Union
Population, manufacturing, railroads
Gettysburg
Atlanta
The Civil War Part 2: Crash Course US History #21
1. South
2. 13
3. Britain
4. Slavery
5. New technology
6. Homestead
7. Railroad
8. Become
Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22
1. Johnson
2. Sharecropping
3. Radical
4. Rights/African Americans
5. Johnson
6. 2/3
7. Citizenship, protection, all
8. Reconstruction
9. Grant
10. Hayes, Ends
The Industrial Economy: Crash Course US History #23
1. Telegraph
2. Immigration
3. Railroads
4. Times zones
5. Railroads
6. Oil prices
7. Fittest
Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24
1. Myth-making
2. Native Americans
3. Safer, cheaper
4. Buffalo
5. Carlisile
6. Big Corp.
7.
Civil war
Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
1. West. Cities
2. Industrial
3. Irish
4. German
5. Chinese
6. Mines, railroads
7. Chinese exclusion
8. 40 mil
9. Rich, poor
10.
Gilded Age Politics: Crash Course US History #26
1. Mark Twain
2. Congress
3. NY
4. Votes
5. Violence, intimidation
6. Garfield
7. Democrats
8. Labor unions
The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27
1. Seek change, reform or criticize
2. Trust
3. Muckraker
4. Meat inspection act, Pure Food and Drug Act
5. Unions
6. Radical socialist
7. Takes
8. List any
9. Initiative
10. Literacy test
11. Poll taxes
12. Plessey v Ferguson
13. NAACP
14. organization, journalistic exposure, and political activism.
American Imperialism: Crash Course US History #28
1. expansion, colonization, Europe
2. territory, Native Americans
3. economics, products
4. sea power, seas
5. Hawaii
6. Cubans
7. Independence
8. Butcher
9. Platt
10. Philippines, Guam
11. American goods
Progressive Presidents: Crash Course US History #29
1.
2.
3.
4.
42, Roosevelt
Square
Fair prices, money
16th
5. Moose, 4, socialist
6. Suffrage, 8, health
7. Wilson
8. Clayton
9. Child labor
10. Adamson
11. Stick, Latin America, Panama Canal
12. Federal Government, Modern
America in World War I: Crash Course US History #30
1. 19, fighting
2. 1914 – 1918
3. 10 mil
4. He Kept Us out of War
5. Germany, Central Powers
6. D
7. Wilsons 14 points
8. Selective Service Act
9. Industries
10. Propaganda to get support for war
11. Nations
12. Isolationism
Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31
1. Women, era, opportunities
2. Progressive
3. 19
4. Women’s
The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32
1. Roaring twenties
2. Fall
3. Assembly line
4. Credit, layaway
5. Harlem, African American
6. Farmers, foreclosure
7. KKK
8. Immigration, quotas, national
9. Scopes, evolution
10. Science
The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33
1. Credit
2. Debt, foreclosure
3. Margin
4. Definition of deflation
5. 33 billion
6. 2294
7. Finance
8. 10, 20%
9. Hoovervilles
10. New Deal
The New Deal: Crash Course US History #34
1. Federal, New
2. Banking, Banks
3. Living
4. FDIC
5. Conservation
6.
7.
8.
9.
Agriculture
Supreme Court
WWII
Welfare
World War II Part 1: Crash Course US History #35
1. Stronger, Versailles, league of nations
2. Nazis, carry, Britain
3. Draft
4. Allies
5. Pearl Harbor, Bataan
6. Island Hopping
7. Normandy
8. Manhattan Project
9. 40%, 50mil
10. History
11. Cold war
World War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History #36
1. World
2. Price
3. 214
4. Income, 40
5. GI Bill
6. Equality
7. 9066
8. Civil Rights
9. Peace
10. Atlantic, own
The Cold War: Crash Course US History #37
1. never heated up into actual armed conflict
2. Era
3. The United States was a lot stronger. We had atomic weapons for starters, and also the Soviets had lost
twenty million people in the war, and they were lead by a sociopathic, mustachioed Joseph Stalin, but
the US still had worries.
4. create a communist buffer between them and Germany
5. Stop communism from spreading
6. pledged to support quote "Freedom loving peoples against Communist threats.
7. To use US aid to combat the economic instability that provided fertile fields for communism: as Marshall
said, "Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation,
and chaos."
8. Soviets test first Abomb
9. both democrats and republicans supported most aspects of Cold War policy, especially the military
buildup part.
10. Spies
11. Fear of communism in US
12. encouraged loyalty because only the government could prevent the spread of communism and keep us
from being blown up.
The Cold War in Asia: Crash Course US History #38
1. Korean
2. Police action
3. France
4. Congress to authorize the president to take “all necessary measures to repel armed attack” in Vietnam,
which Congress dutifully did with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
5. Vietnimization
6. 1/3
7. Congress
8. 1975, communist
Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Rise, double
Suburbanization, jobs
Levittown, 40,000
Individualism, private
Rosa Parks, WWII
Plessy
1955, year
MLK
Equal
The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40
1. Change
2. Racial
3. Homes, Kennedy
4. Cuban, Pigs, Civil Rights
5. Rights
6. Voting
7. Ghettos, Watts
8. Malcom X
9. Civil Rights
10. Tet, Anti-War
11. Hundreds
The Rise of Conservatism: Crash Course US History #41
1. Conservative
2. Communism, big
3. 43, congress
4. Silent majority
5. Great society
6. Affirmative
7. Roe v wade
8. Power
9. Out of control
Ford, Carter, and the Economic ... Crash Course US History #42
1. Economics
2. Export trade
3. Overseas
4. Israel, US
5. Gas, up, everything
6. Nixon
7. WIN, Inflation
8. Carter
9. Inflation, unemployment
The Reagan Revolution: Crash Course US History #43
1. 1980
2. States’ rights
3. Affirmative
4. Economic
5. Supply side, trickle
6. Defense
7. Bankrupt
8. Star wars, missile
9. Reduction
10. Iran Contra
11. Contras
George
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
HW Bush and the End ... War: Crash Course US History #44
58
USSR
Nuclear, 1, 2
Kuwait
100
89%
Internet
The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45
1. Palestinian
2. 800,000, failure
3. Trade, Cole, Oklahoma
4. Broadcasting
5. 4%, oil
6. Bill Gates
7. 40%
8. Internet
Terrorism, War, and Bush 43: Crash Course US History #46
1. 2000
2. Left behind, testing
3. 3000, country
4. Laden
5. Bush, markets
6. Patriot, Americans
7. Katrina, 1500
8. Banking
9. Terrorism
Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Lowest
Function, 7
6%, worldwide
2008
Guantanamo
Healthcare, Medicare
2012, senate
Success, failures