The Industrial Economy: Crash Course US History #23
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In which John Green teaches you about the Industrial Economy that arose in the United States after the Civil War. You know how when you're studying history, and you're reading along and everything seems safely in the past, and then BOOM you think, "Man, this suddenly seems very modern." For me, that moment in US History is the post-Reconstruction expansion of industrialism in America. After the Civil War, many of the changes in technology and ideas gave rise to this new industrialism. You'll learn about the rise of Captains of Industry (or Robber Barons) like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and JP Morgan. You'll learn about trusts, combinations, and how the government responded to these new business practices. All this, plus John will cover how workers reacted to the changes in society and the early days of the labor movement. You'll learn about the Knights of Labor and Terence Powderly, and Samuel Gompers and the AFL. As a special bonus, someone gets beaten with a cane. AGAIN. What is it with American History and people getting beaten with canes? Support CrashCourse on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
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Awh, you didn't dig into the Wobblies too much. The IWW is still around with about 9k members.
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The publicly subsidised railroad and steamboat companies were wildly inefficient compared to the fully privatized ones, Vanderbilt basically stole money from the American government for the better part of a decade. Corporatism always leads to bad government and bad corporations
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The accompanying narrative makes a good mnemonic device, I imagine.
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THAT'S WHY THERE IS A BULL ON THE LABEL OF ELMERS... :O
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Those pesky patent trolls...
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Welp, at least we've "escaped the Clintons" HA HA although i wish we hadn't...
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Hey John! Your videos helped me get an A on my first college history final and I couldn't be happier :) thank you!!!!!
-an avid watcher and fan of your books -
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>Speaking against Ayn Rand in front of children
Yeah! You're totally not trying to sway the youth of America! -
i forgot to be awesome.
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"That makes me worry we'll never escape the Clintons" damn
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I like trains. I use to watch Thomas the Train.
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i found this in pornhub.
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Vertical Integration = Zaibatsu.
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When he says "I'm wondering if we'll ever escape the Clintons" and you're watching after Hillary ran for president XD
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So we went from the feudal system with a king and his court in a pyramid shaped foundation to a democracy where half the country was run by a wealthy landowner supported by a pyramid shaped slave foundation to a corporate structure that is still pyramid shaped with a wealthy CEO supported by workers who are paid at average of 300 times less? Progress? I guess I haven't met anyone starving to death but I know that eating food in its most natural state is frightfully more expensive then processed and the more of the latter the fatter and less healthy people are. So not death by starvation but the slow withering on the vine perhaps......
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Pretty sure Caesar was the richest person ever. He privately owned all of Egypt, as in "This is a thing that I own" instead of "I am the ruler of this nation."
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tfw you burst out laughing in class because you're an anime dork an see vegeta in a history video...
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Foretelling at it's finest; dropped references to both Clinton and Trump.
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Industrialization has been a disaster for most people on this planet; indeed agriculture has been a disaster too. Industrialization has given us lives that are almost entirely artificial, and an environment that's toxic. Of course it was made possible by agricultural civilization, which brought massive unforeseen problems even before the advent industry. See Spencer Wells' Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization. There's also a valuable Jared Diamond essay you can find free online called The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (which he later expanded to chapter length in one of his books, I believe it's The Third Chimpanzee). Also see Derrick Jensen's Endgame Volume One: The Problem of Civilization.
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what are the 6 effects of the railroad?i only got 3
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