John, how could you omit Teddy's amazing speech opener? "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
+JonnyEA Same here... I would kill for a DBQ on the progressives, there's so much good stuff. It'll probably be something stupid like the gilded age that no one cares about.
The 4 Presidents in silhouette at 0:27 from left to right are James Buchanan (1857- 1861), Andrew Johnson (1865 - 1869), Warren G. Harding (1921 - 1923), and Franklin Pierce (1853 - 1857). While these 4 were terrible Presidents, I would also put John Tyler in that group. Tyler was a back-stabbing bastard who abandoned his party's agenda once he became President, and even sided with the Confederates when the Civil War broke out. He is both the only President whose death was never acknowledged by Washington D.C. (because of his affiliation to the Confederacy at the time he died in January 1862) and the only President who's coffin is not wrapped with an American flag (Tyler's coffin is wrapped in a Confederate flag).
I am very saddened by all the hate towards Warren G. Harding. He was definitely not on the same level of bad that these others were on. In fact, I've always liked him as a president once I learned about him. Replace that silhouette with Millard Fillmore or as you said John Tyler.
+KmanLEGOStudios Unfortunately, historians do not seem to agree with you and me, as Warren G. Harding has the second worst average ranking of any President, with the worst average ranking belonging to James Buchanan. While mediocre, Harding is not even in my bottom 5. #1 is Andrew Johnson, #2 is James Buchanan, #3 is Franklin Pierce, #4 is Millard Fillmore, #5 is John Tyler. I agree, Tyler or Fillmore would replace Harding just fine in that group.
GAWD! Teddy Roosevelt is one of my favorite presidents! he started the conservations and he was one of the first pro labor presidents! its really great being in a union when you know the president won't send troops to make you work again when you're on strike!
I think I speak for all CrashCourse fans when I say I would rather hear about this senior prank than anything in history. Though the history stuff is pretty great too.
@PineapplesaareRad The video was taken down by the guy who filmed it a few years ago. But the prank was pretty close to the one John ended up writing in the last few chapters of Looking for Alaska.
The so-called "World Series" is called that, not because it takes place on a global level (it doesn't), but actually because its first major sponsor was a newspaper called "The New York World." It's a series, brought to you buy The World(c), in a similar fashion to the Sprint Cup and similar. Before this sponsorship, it was referred to and promoted as "The Championship of the United States." Similarly, the "World Almanac" got its name for the same reason.
Ah, Roosevelt, my favorite president. I mean, apart from the American imperialism thing, I agreed with almost everything he did. Of course, 'the imperialism thing' is kind of a big deal, but that just goes to show that no leader is perfect.
Incidentally, a lot of cities actually adopted preferential voting, primarily (single transferable vote) STV but some IRV (instant runoff voting) too, which was repealed over the next few decades as the segregationists hated how black people got to vote more effectively. Racism FTW, well, if by winning you mean getting more white votes rather than equal votes.
I also find it deeply upsetting that the presence of the word inconceivable in the mystery document was not taken advantage of for a Princess Bride joke.
Teddy Roosevelt is one of my favorite presidents. No, he wasn't perfect, and I don't agree with everything he did- such as his taking control of Panama Canal- but I do love a lot of his policies, from conservation to the safe food and drug laws to at least attempting to regulate big business without taking it down completely.
Judging on the silhouettes It looks like the 4 not great men are, James Buchanan (Best nickname though) Andrew Johnson, Calvin Coolidge, and Franklin Pierce
Hmm, I don’t know much about either Coolidge or Carter, could you explain your reasoning? You are right, their silhouettes are difficult to differentiate.
Dude thank you so much, I procrastinated till last minute to make a 12 slide Teddy Roosevelt presentation due tomorrow! Thank you so much man, props to you!!
Mr. Green this is a very entertaining and informative video. As a middle school history teacher I am curious as to how you choose what you include and emphasis and what you leave out. As a teacher I find those decisions one of the hardest to make. I see that you made these videos in collaboration with your high school teacher. Is high school and older your audience? Thanks.
"And he had once been governor of New Jersey, so he understood moral indecency!" I'm sorry, New Jersey residents, but I laughed louder at that than I should have. I really am sorry.
The reason why it was called the world series was because the tournament was sponsored by a newspaper called "The World." The name for some reason stuck even though I don't even think the newspaper still exists.
I love how everyone here is either a student cramming for exams, or a teacher. I'm a student, but I watch the show because it's fun to see the animations, the jokes and all the great references! Keep it up!
+thirteenguage Wilson was pretty racist for the time though, he had a showing of Birth of a Nation at the White House and then claimed he didn't know what it was about.
In the video he definitely does, but on his website he says that he had a crush on the female whose voice is in the video, and was trying to seem cool.
I think i got it. In order the 4 presidents are James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren G. Harding, and then Franklin Pierce. I did it by matching their silloettes and looking at the worst presidents. I still iffy on Pierce as he doesn't go in order like the rest, but he's the only president who's hair fits.
Pierce fits because he is simply the worst president in history. You can't blame the civil war on one person, but his drunken pro-slavery rants did more to inflame tension than almost anyone else. He is still the only president to not receive his own party's nomination for re-election, and after he left office he ran over and killed a young woman while riding drunk. Really a terrible human being.
twentyninerooks don't forget cronyism and massive corruption in his cabinet though for being so disliked his descendants did well in business and politics or at least married into successful families who did well. Wonder how well they will do if they run jeb bush for president though
+b3 I'm happy to point out to you that this was after I had been studying for around 4 straight hours. I'd also be happy to mention that I ended up getting a 5 on the exam. Therefore, a simple mistake I made on a RU-vid comment does not matter to me. Thanks for your reply, though!☺️😊😄😂
I've been watching this for a long time, so here's what I think on the shock pen thing. 1. The blue electricity is fake. 2. The shock pen in not fake. I've seen it and used it (yes, on purpose). 3. John does seem to be exaggerating with his scream.
You seriously just admitted that you would be able to walk up to any random ten year old on the street and cuss at them. Never mind, I have no idea how you'd get any self esteem anyways.
Okay I read the comment last time you decided to troll someone you decided was ten years old, and while I admit that apparently the initial comment was obvious to everyone else, I thought it might be helpful. And if you're claiming that you wouldn't cuss at a ten year old on the street, I don't know why doing it on the internet makes it any worse.
Actually, most of what he did prolonged The Great Depression and forced millions to live in poverty. In fact, most of his banking "regulations" were backhanded ways to provide insurance or inexpensive loans to banks he approved of.
SLagonia Nice try... revisionist history... why was FDR the ONLY president to be elected 4 times? Hmm.... I guess you're calling the American people stupid. That's typical of right wing ideology.
NewWorldAhead Pahahaha, Sorry but that last bit did make me giggle a bit. Why did George Bush get 2 terms? Why did Nixon get 2 terms? Why did any bad president get more than 1 term? Could social feelings and pressures at the time be something to do with it. Also its normally Left Wing ideology to say that people are stupid and right wing ideology to say that 'Merica is Number 1!
***** Well, that's true. However, I did a paper in college on FDR... the man was an inspiration... read some factual material on FDR... you will not feel the same way afterwards.
From left to right, confirmed by google images: Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren Harding, Franklin Pierce Edit: People who are saying Andrew Jackson, comon be serious, he may not have been the most likeable for some things he did but he definitely was 'great' in how much he influenced the country and politics
Czolgosz. CHOL-GOSH. Working man, born in the middle of Michigan, woke with a thought and away he ran to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, in Buffalo.
Saw of a sudden How things were run, Said, "Time's a-wasting It's nineteen-one. Some men have everything And some have none, So rise and shine- In the U.S.A. You can work your way To the head of the line!"
Night Creature Single line, ladies and gentlemen. Line forms here to meet the President of the United States. Single line to shake hands with President William McKinley.
Saw an anti democratic socialism ad before this. Quite hilarious way to tell me to stop watching the video and close my mind to sharing with my fellow man.
bigballsgame i don't thing either of those guys weren't great men. I don't really get all of the personal hate against Obama! He is such a moderate person. He just seems so un-hatable!
christian lincoln People just love the hate the current president if shit doesn't get done. The reason people hate him is the same as Hoover. Both were presidents during some economic depression and both couldn't do enough to help a lot. Honestly Obama is an Okay president he just sold himself so much people expected more from him. It's our Congress we should be hatin' on... our current Congress is the worst we have ever had.
bigballsgame Obama is still president, we don't have the same historical view on his presidency. christian lincoln I think the Obama hate is quite extreme too, although generally stirred up by increasingly divisive news sources. However his frequent use of drone attacks have generated some very understandable distaste and he also holds some pretty extreme pro-choice stances, although he hasn't done much about them since coming into office.
Cian I was going to disagree with you until I saw Jj Jones' post. So, I guess you're right, some people still don't have the objective view. Hey, Jj, Obamacare isn't the only thing going on in the world. It's bad, sure, but not the only thing.
LegoGuy87 They both want to protect the environment, want a living wage, worker protections, and probably have a few other progressive similarities. It’s a fair comparison
"These days we may talk about small government and large government, but really, we're always talking about large government." You said a mouthful right there. It seems you could also say about the two major parties today, "We may talk about peace and war, but really, we're always talking about war."
Your rebuke of Young John is untrue! John Green is the clerk in the parish where Edward Rochester and Jane Eyre are about to be married, which means that John Green has had an influence on modern history, ironically enough, via the lens of great literature.
I would have liked to have heard him talk about the 17th Amendment and how that took power away from states to influence the national agenda. I think it's one of the biggest reasons why the Senate is just as ineffective as the House today and glossed over by many.
I've always blamed Wilson and Roosevelt for ruining the country. They're the ones (at least from what I learned in US History in high school, and mind you that this was about 3-4 years ago so my memory is a bit off, so feel free to correct/argue this with me) that started the US expansion into other countries and started our encampment into said countries. I've always thought that if we would've stuck with Washington's points in his Farewell Address, this country would've been a lot more stable now.
Well, Wilson did want to keep America isolated, even his reelection campaign's slogan was "He kept us out of war" (holy crap, I can't believe I remember that.) and then FDR, well, he died. Plus, we were kind of dragged into WWII, if you really want to blame someone for American interference, you'd have to blame the nazis for pulling us out of isolation, because the Europeans desperately needed help rebuilding itself. Another person you could blame would be Truman, FDR's VP who created the Truman Doctrine which led us into Korea and Vietnam (El Salvador was a playground for Bush I).
Edward Huynh You'd blame the Japanese not the Nazis for the most part. Truman was also kind of an awful president. I didn't think you were referring to FDR who, in my opinion was one of the greatest presidents we have had. He greatly reformed the govt. effectively ending the great depression.
If you look at the past the U.S. had already been involved in world affairs long before Wilson and Roosevelt. There was the Mexican-American War in the 1840's, the acquisition of Pacific islands during the 19th Century, and the Spanish-American War in the 1890's. Yes Roosevelt began to intervene more in international issues, but it was hardly the first time.
