Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6
In which John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. The Revolution did not start on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War didn't start on July 4 either. (as you remember, I'm sure, the Revolution and the Revolutionary War are not the same thing) The shooting started on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and/or Concord, MA. Or the shooting started with the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. At least we can pin down the Declaration of Independence to July 4, 1776. Except that most of the signers didn't sign until August 2. The point is that the beginning of the Revolution is very complex and hard to pin down. John will lead you through the bramble of taxes, royal decrees, acts of parliament, colonial responses, and various congresses. We'll start with the end of the Seven Years War, and the bill that the British ran up fighting the war. This led to taxes on colonial trade, which led to colonists demanding representation, which led to revolution. It all seems very complicated, but Crash Course will get you through it in about 12 minutes. Turn on the captions. You'll like them! Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @crashcoursestan @raoulmeyer @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Look at this! thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
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Hey there! I am a fellow 5th grade student. I have 4 tests this week. I have written 5 essays of notes to help me. But, this helped me a lot! Thank you!
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John green is so precious gargh XD
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oh smuggling, han solo favourite activity along with getting Stab by his son.
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He should replace his imaginary shock pen with a taser.
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quebec was an american colony, one of the 18, that is (incl. west florida, east florida, nova scotia, quebec, and newfoundland
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boston massacre???? more like stopping the boston riot
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Ive been reading common sense by Thomas Paine, some men say I'm intense or I'm insane. You wanna revolution I wanna revelation, so listen to my declaration. "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal..." and when i meet Thomas Jefferson, imma compel him to include women in the sequel. WORK!
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Anyone else catch the Halo energy sword easter egg?
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to be honest i'm only here because i love both hamilton and john green
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i have my apush final tomorrow and i am so worried!! i hope this helps!!!
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+CrashCourse 6:42 Wasn't the House of Burgesses in Virginia the first government in America? It had representation, albeit only wealthy landowners, but the Continental Congress was no better with the wealthy elites replacing the landowners.
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I'VE BEEN READING COMMON SENSE BY THOMAS PAINE
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+CrashCourse please make a series about indian history please you have to make it because of 2 reasons
1. India is the largest democracy in the world , second most populous country in the world which means there are a massive amount of crash course fans who are Indians including me and India was one of the major colonies of British just like USA.
2.You did'nt mention India as much as china or other countries in crash course world history in the past you did'nt cover much of indian history (at least not satisfactory amounts)
so please please make a series on Indian history -
Honestly, the Boston Massacre wasn't the fault of the British soldiers. It was nobody's fault.
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Making the kessel run in less than twelve parsecs since 1776!
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NOICE
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man even with captions I can't follow you dude u speak too fast
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6:36 - You are missing Star Trek!
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More than half of this is just Hamilton lyrics. I am proud.
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Note to self use 6:09
12m 19sLenght
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