The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27
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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps keep the channel producing great content. In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon. A sense that reforms should be enacted. A sense that progress should be made. As a result, we got the Progressive Era, which has very little to do with automobile insurance, but a little to do with automobiles. All this overlapped with the Gilded Age, and is a little confusing, but here we have it. Basically, people were trying to solve some of the social problems that came with the benefits of industrial capitalism. To oversimplify, there was a competition between the corporations' desire to keep wages low and workers' desire to have a decent life. Improving food safety, reducing child labor, and unions were all on the agenda in the Progressive Era. While progress was being made, and people were becoming more free, these gains were not equally distributed. Jim Crow laws were put in place in the south, and immigrant rights were restricted as well. So once again on Crash Course, things aren't so simple.
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Ew it caused tumblr
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It took Stan working LONG and HARD to slip in a beef boner in their.
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cheese
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THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS
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your trash ralph
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"- worried that economic progress could produce a dangerous unequal distribution of wealth that could only be cured by taxes"
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I love seeing his reaction when he get the mystery document correct
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That rush picture in the beginning 👌🏽
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Did the mustached character on the left at 12:42 just use "Murder of Crows" vigor from Bioshock Infinite?!! How apt of a reference concerning Bioshock Infinite's immense narrative of systemic discrimination and wealth inequality based on social class/race/religion/gender!! Bravo, Thought Bubble!!! Well played...
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YES I WAS RIGHT ON THE MYSTERY DOCUMENT. BOUT TO ACE THIS FINAL!
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The greatest nation on earth...ever.
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What's up with all these Exxon commercials?
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The tumblr and DW references killed me.. and this "small" project my teacher is making us do over the weekend that she told us about within last 5 mins of class
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All yall who studied for the AP test..that exam was a joke lol. Im going through these to jog my memory in preparation for my content exam!
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funny i read the jungle by upton sinclair in class today
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hi
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Great job disregarding the anarchist aspect of the IWW which is one if it's defining features even today.
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I don't understand didn't the money trickle down. This is where our society is regressing back too.
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Great Video especially relevant now in Nov 2016.
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