The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History #12

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.

Chapters:
Introduction: The Market Revolution 00:00
The Era of Good Feelings 1:00
New technology in transportation 1:43
Steamboats and canals 2:45
Railroads & telegraphs 3:35
Factories & interchangeable parts 4:02
The rise of modern banking 4:51
Encouraging Competition 5:37
Work & life during the Market Revolution 6:29
Westward expansion & "Manifest Destiny" 8:32
Mystery Document 10:09
Transcendentalists 11:28
Wealth disparities after the Market Revolution 11:53
Credits 13:33

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[drewg.]

Shout out to all the APUSH students frantically watching all the US history crashcourses in preparation for the AP exam.

[lilliehoward]

shout out to all the AP students in 2020 trying to cram all this in before be write our singular essay

[StanMan]

Am I the only person who tries to predict which words will be highlighted while reading the mystery document?

[iammrbeat]

So many 19th century writers had way too much to say.

[saxquiz]

"People even took up the motto 'Malaria isn't going to catch itself' and moved to Florida!"

I don't think a lot of people realize how crappy of a place Florida would be without modern medicine and A/C. Thanks for pointing it out a few times in your videos. Florida was definitely not seen as a paradise in the past.

[DelilahZoe]

This episode is so incredibly relevant to what's happening now --- and as someone born to the working class, this speaks volumes.

[a-warthog]

2020 APUSH kids, let's go! Even through the coronavirus, let's get those 5's! WOOOO

[nannette]

"I am in the business of teaching you history not in the business of faking pain." Pain demands to be felt...

[Trent]

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.

[Iamfree]

As someone getting ready for the SAT subject test in U.S. history, this is the most enjoyable and profoundly in-depth analysis of American history on YouTube. I can't help but envy every other U.S. History Student next year who will have a completed set.

[fatimaalibhai]

I used to disdainfullly sniff that I would never be like the people in the comments who watch crash course a night before the exam - never say never kids.

[matthewmitchell]

I like how Mr. Greene mentioned how work changed and that jobs provided different kind of work but also limited freedom in making more choices in life

[OutlawSlayer]

Has anybody ever wondered if Stan is actually a real person?

[bojczukm]

Just had to throw this out there.... My 11 year old loves to watch these for homeschool history. After we read a section of the history book we watch a video and he understands it a lot better.

[kaylinguyen]

Okay, but nobody is talking about how smoothly he reads the mystery documents. like how does he read them so well I would stutter and tumble over my words

[Ayo]

The Bartleby really resonated with me. I don't have depression but i have anxiety and introverted so coworkers in the the workplace is tough to deal with. Unless your doing important work you just feel like a squirrel trying to get a nut.

[didiwin]

Does anyone else get a feeling that thought cafe and a game developer could get together and make a sweet old-timey economy game? It would definitely be an above view strategy like age of empires or sim city. Preferably with a campign mode narrated by John Green, plz! B)

[thawthepast]

Born out of wedlock and raised in the West Indies, Hamilton was effectively orphaned at about the age of 11. Recognized for his abilities and talent, he was sponsored by people from his community to go to the North American mainland for his education. He attended King's College (now Columbia University), in New York City. After the American Revolutionary War, Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress from New York. He resigned to practice law and founded the Bank of New York-source: wiki

[andreagwlo]

13:51 Why did he say "Thanks for watching Crash Course World History"?!?!

[laurazaetz]

I'm assigned to watch your videos, but I actually enjoy them, which is why I subscribed!