In which John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is a somewhat controversial figure in American history, largely because he, like pretty much all humans, was a big bundle of contradictions. Jefferson was a slave-owner who couldn’t decide if he liked slavery. He advocated for small government but expanded federal power more than either of his presidential predecessor. He also idealized the independent farmer and demonized manufacturing, but put policies in place that would expand industrial production in the US. Controversy may ensue as we try to deviate a bit from the standard hagiography/slander story that is usually told about old TJ. John explores Jefferson’s election, his policies, and some of the new nation’s (literally and figuratively) formative events that took place during Jefferson’s presidency. In addition to all this, Napoleon drops in to sell Louisiana, John Marshall sets the course of the Supreme Court, and John Adams gets called a tiny tyrant.
Hey teachers and students – Check out CommonLit’s free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. Thomas Jefferson is remembered as the Founding Father responsible for saying all men are created equal in The Declaration of Independence: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-declaration-of-independence
Jefferson didn’t always practice what he preached though, as seen in his mixed views on American Indians: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/excerpts-from-thomas-jefferson-s-writings-on-american-indians
Chapters:
Introduction: Thomas Jefferson 00:00
The Election of 1800 0:42
Jefferson’s Attitudes Towards Slavery 2:34
Gabriel’s Rebellion and Other Slave Uprisings 3:47
Mystery Document 4:28
Jefferson’s America 6:02
John Marshall, Judicial Review, and Marbury v. Madison 7:07
The Louisiana Purchase 8:32
Jefferson’s Embargo 10:16
Jefferson’s Complicated Legacy 12:03
Credits 12:46
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Last time a Republican president didn't want to spend money on the military? What about Warren G. Harding? Ike?
Wait for it wait for it waaaait…
Epic Rap Battles of History: Thomas Jefferson vs. Frederick Douglass brought me here.
How ironic
Dude Jefferson tried to free the slaves in Virginia in 1769, so……
Jefferson was the best president you ever had. Hammering this idiotic slavery narrative only serves to highlight your disgusting leftist bias
I am so glad Crash Course exists. I am learning (or refreshing what I learned in the past) a lot of knowledge about SO many things.
Thomas Jefferson was not pro-slavery he owned slaves because it was in his interests which makes him a hypocrite and arguably selfish but NOT intellectually or ideologically pro-slavery.
Which means his ideas were mostly intellectually consistent.
The future Noam Chomsky over here. Who’d a thought.
@3:52 at least you are skewing Jefferson’s history with slavery and I don’t appreciate it, seeing in how many of these Gen. Zer’s are learning from people like you because they are lazy you gotta come correct. And just
Saying Jefferson was a piece of trash slave owner and therefore the phrase “all men are created equal” just simply confuses you is not good enough, there is long complicated story behind it, and sweeping it all under the rug is not a good practice
Is the electoral vote process doesn’t make sense to you , you’re a dunce
He did not say any positive thing about president. This is highly biased.
i live in new jersey
I really like the way you explain things, i suck at US History and its so hard for me to understand it sometimes, but the way you explain it really helps! God bless!
POV: you’re frantically trying to study on the morning of the APUSH online AP test
APUSH Exam in a couple of hours 😬
When you've casually binge-watched every crash course series for ever AP exam you've ever taken…
Mystery document: includes a picture of the God from Princess Mononoke for "god of nature"
APUSH tmrw?!?!?!
John Green: Who the John C. Calhoun is George Tucker!?
Me: Who the George Tucker is John C. Calhoun!?
Ooooohhhhhhh, former Vice President. No wonder I don't know him.
11:49 walter white reference 😎😎😎
who is here the day before the APUSH 2020 exam
Y’all I’m in online school watching this.. 2020 CHECKKK
coronapush time
at 1:42 John Green predicted that lin manuel would use the Phrase "wait for it" as burr's motif
talks about whiskey hangover whaaa
5:36 read the card, has a bad word and implies one
2020 exam gang 🥳🥳
Who made up the slave owners and who made up the slaves. Well that depends, because indentured servants were classified under slave labor. In 1840, for example, nearly 500,000 poor white European immigrants were indentured and sent to the Caribbean. Indentured servitude often required harsh or unsafe conditions. Indentured servants worked alongside slaves on plantations. According to the Georgia slave laws from 1755-1860, slave status applied to Blacks, Indians, Mulatoes and Mestizos (Spanish/Native American lineage). The slave owners were White, Black, Mulatoe, Brazilian and from the five Native American tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole).
everything is legal in New Jersey…
Anyone here for the online APUSH exam?
I agree with you. Jefferson is ambivalent yet contradictory. The ideal of autonomy can be misunderstood. In philosophical terms full autonomy is not possible. Still the rights of declaration of independence are god's-given. I believe that the main concept of América is not locke's life, liberty and property (no mention of property in the declaration but pursuit of happiness). I think that the main concept of american is the please "all men are create equal", and the contradiction of this with slavery LED to the civil war
The one thing we cannot do is judge him by the ethical standards of today or use the 20-20 vision of being able to see into the past and decide if something was a mistake by seeing it's outcome. They did not have that ability. They could only look forward and use the facts of the time and not the facts of the future. Nobody of today could have done any better if transported back in time with no knowledge of modern times. We are in many ways much worse off politically today then we were back then. I would trade the political climate of today for the political climate of that time in an instant. Democrats of today have destroyed so much of the liberty we were intended to have that we scarcely resemble a free country anymore.
I knew it was George Tucker
someone pls just give a summary of the video so i don’t have to watch it 😔
anyone here because your history teacher assigned this during quarantine?
Is it hanged or hung????????????????????
I'm so glad this was made before hamilton
Kinda bothered me that he said Republican, the party wasn’t established until long after Jefferson died.
This idiot says Thomas Jefferson is a racist! Nothing could be further from the truth! Thomas Jefferson said about slavery "We have the wolf by the ears and we can neither capture it nor let it go." What Jefferson meant was that they couldnt end slavery and unite the colonies against the British at the same time. I learned this is my high school literature class, so why doesn't this idiot know this? He clearly has no knowledge about the politics of the time and what the founding fathers had to overcome to create a new country. I really hope people read some books and dont get deceived by this ignorant buffoon.
who's watching this in 2020 because of online school
So, basically, Jefferson's life is a masterclass in cognitive dissonance and how to rationalize your way into anything
Stop-calling-him-Republican. Anti federalists or democratic republican.
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