Farms: The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12
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In which John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic (if anything in a 30 year old nation can be called classic) American struggle between the Jeffersonian ideal of individuals sustaining themselves on small farms vs. the Hamiltonian vision of an economy based on manufacturing and trade. I'll give you one guess who won. Too late! It was Hamilton, which is why if you live in the United States, you probably live in a city, and are unlikely to be a farmer. Please resist the urge to comment about this if you live in the country and/or are a farmer. Your anecdotal experience doesn't change the fact that most people live in cities. In the early 19th century, new technologies in transportation and communication helped remake the economic system of the country. Railroads and telegraphs changed the way people moved goods and information around. The long and short of it is, the Market Revolution meant that people now went somewhere to work rather than working at home. Often, that somewhere was a factory where they worked for an hourly wage rather than getting paid for the volume of goods they manufactured. This shift in the way people work has repercussions in our daily lives right down to today. Watch as John teaches you how the Market Revolution sowed the seeds of change in the way Americans thought about the roles of women, slavery, and labor rights. Also, check out high school John wearing his Academic Decathalon medals. Support CrashCourse on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
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Thank you for making these....they save me in my APUSH class. Can you guys put a table of contents at the end of the video or in the description (similar to the ones in Crash Course Chemistry)? It would make it so much easier to navigate to find the topics I need to study!
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Government helped by building roads? Or would it have been better if you just let the market have the road building? I think the latter. Plus, a lot of railroads were private at first, which made it boom because of the competition.
And to add, government didn't just build the roads. It first had to extort real wealth from a source of productivity and allocate it somewhere else. -
"I can't remember what excuse we have now, but I'm sure it's a great one!" John Green is a feminist and anyone who disagrees is incorrect.
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There is no modern wage gap in america
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this video is indeed helpful but am I the only one considering it hostile toward China in an unfair way?
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These videos even help in college courses well lower leveled ones
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finals hehe
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John Green coming in so clutch right before my midterms, I've learned more in the past 12 videos than the whole 1st semester of APUSH.
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10:34 Illuminati Confirmed
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I'm an apush student
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Thanks, John Green! You've helped me once again!
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"chinese political prisoners making smart phones" are you serious
literally every time when i start to appreciate crash course, john green just inserts his own political opinions into a video that is meant to inform people with correct information -
what is DFTBA
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Thank you, I have to study Emerson and I hate it.
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Cumberland Maryland is one of the best cities in America.
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Wage gap is a conspiracy
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I see you Bender
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John Green- the wage gap is a MYTH! Great video, but annoying seeing biases like that
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My history homework was to watch this... Did anybody else see Bender? Haha