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
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- 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
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- Season 1 Reconstruction and 1876
- Season 1 The Industrial Economy
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- Season 1 Growth, Cities, and Immigration
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- Season 1 Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
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Crash Course US History - Season 1 Episode 18 The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
6.00 14 minutes In which John Green teaches you about the election of 1860. As you may remember from last week, things were not great at this time in US history. The tensions between the North and South were rising, ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery, and the South wanted to continue with it. It seemed like a war was inevitable, and it turns out that it was. But first, the nation had to get through this election. You'll learn how the bloodshed in Kansas and the truly awful Kansas-Nebraska Act led directly to the decrease in popularity of Stephen Douglas, the splitting of the Democratic party, and the unlikely victory of a relatively inexperienced politician from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's election would lead directly to the secession of several southern states, and thus to the Civil War. John will teach you about all this, plus Dred Scott, Roger Taney, and John Brown.
