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 8 The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
6.00 14 minutes John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through its war with England, they weren't of much use when it came to running a country. So, the founding fathers decided try their hand at nation-building, and they created the Constitution of the United States, which you may remember as the one that says We The People at the top. John will tell you how the convention came together, some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and why it's very lucky that the framers installed a somewhat reasonable process for making changes to the thing. You'll learn about Shays' Rebellion, the Federalist Papers, the elite vs rabble dynamic of the houses of congress, and start to find out just what an anti-federalist is.
