The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11

In which John Green teaches you about the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and its former colonial overlord England. It started in, you guessed it 1812. The war lasted until 1815, and it resolved very little. John will take you through the causes of the war, tell you a little bit about the fighting itself, and get into just why the US Army couldn't manage to make any progress invading Canada. And yes, Canadians, we're going to talk about the White House getting burned down. The upshot: no territory changed hands, and most of the other bones of contention were solved prior to the actual war. Although nothing much changed for the US and England, the Native Americans were the big losers. Tecumseh was killed, and the Indian tribes lost a lot of their territory. Watch as John lays it all out for you.

Chapters:
Introduction: The War of 1812 00:00
Causes for The War of 1812 - British Impressment of American Sailors 0:44
Henry Clay and the Warhawks 2:13
Americans Wanted Canada 3:02
Mystery Document 3:42
Expansion into Native American Territory 4:19
Tecumseh and the Battle of Tippecanoe 4:57
The U.S.'s First Declaration of War 6:32
Battles of The War of 1812 7:19
The Treaty of Ghent 9:45
Outcomes of The War of 1812 10:23
The Hartford Convention 11:03
American Nationalism After The War of 1812 11:31
Credits 12:09

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[zoey-oey-oeyd]

In sixth grade, I binge-watched these videos for fun and scoffed at the high schoolers in the comments who had AP history tests in, like, two days. Anyways, guess what I have in two days.

[redplanet]

The war of 1812 is like the straight to dvd sequel that most people didn’t watch and those who did forgot about it

[Beastinvader]

Someone once said that the Americans are okay with the War of 1812 because they think they won, they Canadians are okay with it because they KNOW they won and the British are okay with it because they've forgotten all about it.

[jabbathehutt]

Sometimes I just miss John Green and just binge his old stuff.

"It's hard out there for a cockburn"

[harperfrye]

I’m pretty sure that the moral of the story is that nobody won, but the natives lost.

[Lilac_honeyxoxo]

This channel has been a life saver for the audio/visual learners while schools are closed, thank you

[xxz]

*America: I wAnt lAnd!*
*Canada: I AIn't gIvIng yOU mY lAnd!*
*Britain:

[vergo]

Americans “the Vietnam war was the first war America lost”
Canadians “gonna stop you right there kiddo”

[austa]

Your videos are a godsend for college students. This has really helped me study for a test. Thank you to everyone who help make your videos!

[tombkings]

The U.S lose one fight against Canada


they don't talk about it

[ElessarofGondor]

One thing often left out is that DC was burned in retaliation for Americans burning York (modern Toronto) earlier in the war. Additionally the battle of Plattsburgh was also hugely important as it forced Prevost with his battle hardened troops to return to Canada

[truckmafk]

The moral of this story: No one wants Detroit lol

[pascaleandr]

In 2012, the actual canadian government made a huge deal of the War of 1812 (which is NOT thaught in Québec's history class) and we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the war with museums expositions and our usual Royal Canadian Mint (we have special coins pretty much every year, sometimes more than once per year). It is also the last war that took place on Canadian land.

[dragn]

Who else had online school bring em here

[stevenwaccybaccy]

I think you can count the War of 1812 as a win for The British Empire.

If the america tried to invade a british dominion and the british stopped them I would count that as a victory.

[nyahthacker]

You have been my teacher for middle school and high school. I'm in college now. Thank you.

[incompetence]

America: #1812 first win. Canada:Umm no I remember a White House being burned.

[BasilIsBeast]

I have watched and loved crash course for a while, but now that I'm taking AP US History I appreciate these videos even more! Really, they help me understand and go deeper into the events way more than my textbook.

[totesme]

Side note: in the US history course I took, the teacher referred to Henry Clay (mentioned at 2:18), John C Calhoun, and Daniel Webster as the politicians that never died. That is to say, they pop up countless times in 19th century US history

[LindsayRoo]

You would think after watching this nearly 13 min video that I would know more about the War of 1812.