Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
- Season 1 When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
- Season 1 The Natives and the English
- Season 1 The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
- Season 1 The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
- Season 1 Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
- Season 1 Who Won the American Revolution?
- Season 1 The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
- Season 1 Where US Politics Came From
- Season 1 Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
- Season 1 The War of 1812
- Season 1 The Market Revolution
- Season 1 Slavery
- Season 1 Age of Jackson
- Season 1 19th Century Reforms
- Season 1 Women in the 19th Century
- Season 1 War & Expansion
- Season 1 The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
- Season 1 Battles of the Civil War
- Season 1 The Civil War, Part I
- Season 1 The Civil War Part 2
- Season 1 Reconstruction and 1876
- Season 1 The Industrial Economy
- Season 1 Westward Expansion
- Season 1 Growth, Cities, and Immigration
- Season 1 Gilded Age Politics
- Season 1 The Progressive Era
- Season 1 American Imperialism
- Season 1 Progressive Presidents
- Season 1 America in World War I
- Season 1 Women's Suffrage
- Season 1 The Roaring 20's
- Season 1 The Great Depression
- Season 1 The New Deal
- Season 1 World War II Part 1
- Season 1 World War II Part 2
- Season 1 The Cold War
- Season 1 The Cold War in Asia
- Season 1 Civil Rights and the 1950s
- Season 1 The 1960s in America
- Season 1 The Rise of Conservatism
- Season 1 Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
- Season 1 The Reagan Revolution
- Season 1 George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
- Season 1 The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
- Season 1 Terrorism, War, and Bush 43
- Season 1 Obamanation
Crash Course US History - Season 1 Episode 1 The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
6.00 14 minutes John talks about the Native Americans who lived in what is now the US prior to European contact. This is a history class, not archaeology, so we're mainly going to cover written history. That means we start with the first sustained European settlement in North America, and that means the Spanish. The Spanish have a long history with the natives of the Americas, and not all of it was positive. The Spanish were definitely not peaceful colonizers, but what colonizers are peaceful? Colonization pretty much always results in an antagonistic relationship with the locals. John teaches you about early Spanish explorers, settlements, and what happened when they didn't get along with the indigenous people. The story of their rocky relations has been called the Black Legend. Which is not a positive legend.
