My great great grandfather is Henry Steagall. He's the one that actually wrote out the Glass-Steagall Act. My family still owns the pens that it was signed with. I just thought it was cool. Have a great day!
Your grandfathers name rolls off my lips at least 2 times a week. Thank you Henry Steagall for 70 years of stability! I apologize for the ignorance of my generation.
If your teacher wanted you to write 10 facts like mine does, here you go. 1. Roosevelt suggested it was the government's responsibility to guarantee every man a right to make a comfortable living. 2. FDR called for an end to prohibition. 3. FDR didn't create the new deal or put it into effect. It was passed by Congress. 4. The new deal was a set of government programs intended to fix the depression and prevent future depressions. 5. Relief programs gave help and money to people in need. 6. Recovery programs gave people jobs 7. Reform programs were designed to regulate the economy in the future to prevent more depressions. 8. The NRA was designed to be government planners and business leaders working together to coordinate industry standards for production, prices, and working conditions. 9. The Wagner act guaranteed workers the right to unionize and it created a national labor relations board to hear disputes over unfair labor practices. 10. The social security act of 1935 included unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, aid to poor families with children, and retirement benefits. Its funded by payroll taxes instead of general tax revenue.
The little jingle in the intro always makes me really excited to watch the video for some reason. I guess that's how you know you've created a good intro.
"Nothing motivates Congress to pass legislation like crisis and fear! Stan, can I get the foreshadowing filter? We may see this again" *me watching this as Congress passes the Coronavirus 2 trillion dollar relieve bill*
With the AP US History exam tomorrow, I've just gotta say these crash course vids are like, saving my life right now. Thank you guys so much for making these you have saved so many teenage lives
@@GamingWithNikolas Do you not know about the controversy with the Channel Awesome site with the mass exodus of its content providers? Many of whom cited abusive working conditions? Evidently not...
Professor Liberal Avenger ur dumb look it up. FDR’s new deal helped the U.S. get better but when WWII began other countries needed war supplies and the U.S. provided it to them which helped the economy
It was interesting how FDR's New Deal didn't end up ending the Depression on its own. By 1940 over 15% of the work force remained unemployed, he did decrease the unemployment rate by 10%, but when FDR reduced government spending to farms, unemployment jumped back up to 20%. In the end, the New Deal did play a huge factor in helping end the Great Depression, but not as much as we thought it would..
With respect to the Mystery Document: "electrocute" is a portmanteau of "electricity" and "execute", so technically you're not electrocuted if you survive.
Basically, Subbable allows us to make Crash Course year 3. We have to pay all the production costs for next year, and both the advertising and the Subbable streams of revenue are necessary for the moment. -stan
As my knowledgeable and great U.S. history teacher has been out due to health issues : ( I and others are instructed to take notes on our own as the exams approach; while taking down notes and studying I find your series to help in the short and long run as an instrument of understanding and memory in regards to the aspects of U.S. history, especially when exams loom around the corner. Thank You!!
THANK YOU, I a college student and taking an American History 107 class and we have a test tomorrow that i did not study for. Everything you go over is in the textbook and i literally mean everything. Honestly thanks
I have no time to actually sit and read about this in class for my history essay, because my history teacher makes us do 1000 things else in a class period then reminds us about it at the last second, so this is hopefully gonna save me. Thank you for this.
I was taking notes on this and i wrote out the three R's and wrote down the Run DMC thing until i realized that you were joking.. now i have no white out and a huge scribble in the middle of my notes. thanks crash course.
Dear Mr John Green, Could you please do a Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1996? I am doing it in class, but I love the way you explain history!
It's funny that so many Americans yearn for a time when eight year olds had to work in coal mines to help support the family, and when bosses could work you ten hours straight in 100 degree factories without a bathroom break. Curious thing, when it comes time to collect social security checks I never hear them protest.
I'm in a first year US history course and we have Foner textbooks! They're great, except a shit ton of reading is involved…. Thanks for these videos John! Studying for my midterm on friday, and you help a lot! You would be great as a university Prof…..
Here in Corona Era we are again realizing that the basic rights and health of all people outweigh the decadent comfort of CEOs and the rich. Let us not forget the lessons of this time once the crisis is over. People, health, and well-being over profit for the few.
They succeed because there are MORE working class folks than there are rich people. Thus more votes. However, that doesn't mean that this hypothetical platform has any lasting benefits for society as a whole. Like it or not, it is the money of the rich that funds everything in this country, and we'd all be a lot worse off if the rich didn't exist. (we also need the working class, don't get me wrong)
No, not rich. I have a decent paying job and am not hurting though. But many can agree that having too many people rely on government assistance is probably not a sustainable practice. People should get an honest wage for an honest job. Both greed (seen as a rich problem) and entitlement (seen as a poor problem) are bad for everyone. And while FDR's programs may have helped at the time, they also created unsustainable entitlement programs like Soc.Sec. And the vast majority of non-military technology advances are made by for-profit companies run by the investments made possible by the rich, so we do have to consider that when cursing their names.
Government can't limit the corruption in government, much less the private sector. But I am interested in your statement. I don't recognize any aspect of the new deal which was specifically targeted at limiting the private sector, but it is a topic that is very applicable to the problems of today. In what way do you suggest that the government do this (I'm 100% serious, not trying to be rhetorical)? Are you looking at mainly taxation in general to redistribute assets, or actually prosecuting people like Bernie Madoff who are clearly corrupt?
For the people The New Deal applied to, it was absolutely amazing and revolutionary. It was fantastic. The problem was it didn't apply to many of the people who needed it most.
What FDR understood and his new deal addressed is that capitalism eventually eats it's self and you need a bit of social programs and socialism from keeping it from cannibalizing itself. America of or centuries had a balance of socialism to keep its enterprise from wreaking havoc on what the Bible would say, the least among us, but we are quickly becoming a hundred percent capitalism, which for the one percent might be a boom but for the rest of us will be noting but a bust.
Yes and that was actually what Joseph Stalin did at USSR during his five year plans. Stalin adopted socialist emulation to emulate free market competition while FDR adopted socialism to give social benefit to people. FDR and Stalin are very similar at their policies and the both are successful.
I thought this video did a great job explaining things in a simplistic and up to date way. FDR had some great plans with the New Deal to try and help the United States escape hardship during the Great Depression. He wanted the US to start thriving again, and he believed the New Deal would allow him to do this.
im not even required to watch your video, I just decided at 48 to learn more about history and I really want to thank you for doing such a good job. Im looking forward to watching more.
Try like second worst right behind Willson, never before or since has one man been able to destroy so much freedom in so little time, He pretty much turned the US in to The People's Republic of America.
jelani hashim lol according to you, guess what lot's of people share you're idea (it's never worked but that really hasn't stop you guy's before) China, the USSR most of Europe, but the US was meant to be that one place were you wore not forced by some jake-ass with a bit to much power to be "Our brother's keeper" the US was for people who wanted to be independent and free not dependent and controlled, even if thing's work better when we are (They don't but one's again that's never stop anyone from trying) There are lot's of place's for you to go, this is pretty much it for us so can you just leave us the hell alone.
jelani hashim Like tell me this, What give's you the right to take from me to give to another, where does this power to do what would be theft in any other case come from, if i don't consent to give you that power over my life where do you get it.
james frazier military has not expand for a long time, it only shrinked~today we have only 280 war ships, smallest since WWI, it is predicted that the Chinese PLA navy will surpase the U.S navy by 2020, how does that sound for military expansion? If the navy keeps to shrink like this, oneday Putin will light up one of our carriers like lighting up a firscracker, and by then it will be Americans that bleed.
We are more technologically advanced in military than ever before, therefore we dont NEED more ships because there is no piont in making them. Also, yeah we don't have as many ships.. but get this, it was a time of war.. AND YOU NEEDED MORE BECAUSE THAT WAS IN THE EARLY 1900'S.
james frazier Yeah~but Russia and China has almost equal tech, it is not like they are technologically behind by 100 years... and they are teaming up now, which means we are terribly out numbered....when I say it is the smallest since WWI, I also mean it is smaller than the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s, we manage to own a 500 ship navy in the 60s without going to debt, military is not what caused us to go to debt.
SF7Gamer sarcastic, duh. He literally put quotation marks over it, and he laughed at his statement. It’s pretty dang obvious. But ww2 was arguably the greatest reason of how America got out of the Great Depression.
Say what you will about the New Deal, but I wish FDR was in charge of the UK right now. Our government's doing pretty much the opposite and now we're the 7th largest economy but with living standards and conditions comparable to developing nations.
Any socialist leaning person would. The problem is in actually deciding if this is the right solution. There are always enormous numbers of factors in any economic event. Some PHds in economics will say A is an outcome, some B. You'll have to at least read both to get any informed opinion (though - no guarantees - they may all be wrong).
Watching all these procrastinators cramming in these videos to watch is funny. Should've been studying beforehand. Anyways, GoodLuck to everyone with the exam tomorrow! Lets get that 3 or higher!
I'm just going over some of the areas I'm not so good in for the exam. I think I'll be fine on the multiple choice & short answer questions but I'm just trying to hit every area possible in preparation for the leq & dbq
