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Crash Course US History season 1 episode 1

The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

In which John Green kicks off Crash Course US History! Why, you may ask, are we covering US History, and not more World History, or the history of some other country, or the very specific history of your home region? Well, the reasons are many. But, like it or not, the United States has probably meddled in your country to some degree in the last 236 years or so, and that means US History is relevant all over the world. In episode 1, 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.

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Crash Course US History / S01E01 : The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

Season 1, Episode 1 | Aired on January 31, 2013 | 15 min. | YouTube

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Season 1

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Episode 1

The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
Episode 2

When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
Episode 3

The Natives and the English
Episode 4

The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
Episode 5

The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
Episode 6

Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
Episode 7

Who Won the American Revolution?
Episode 8

The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
Episode 9

Where US Politics Came From
Episode 10

Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
Episode 11

The War of 1812
Episode 12

The Market Revolution
Episode 13

Slavery
Episode 14

Age of Jackson
Episode 15

19th Century Reforms
Episode 16

Women in the 19th Century
Episode 17

War & Expansion
Episode 18

The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
Episode 19

Battles of the Civil War
Episode 20

The Civil War, Part I
Episode 21

The Civil War, Part 2
Episode 22

Reconstruction and 1876
Episode 23

Industrial Economy
Episode 24

Westward Expansion
Episode 25

Growth, Cities, and Immigration
Episode 26

Gilded Age Politics
Episode 27

The Progressive Era
Episode 28

American Imperialism
Episode 29

Progressive Presidents
Episode 30

America in World War I
Episode 31

Women's Suffrage
Episode 32

The Roaring 20's
Episode 33

The Great Depression
Episode 34

The New Deal
Episode 35

World War II Part 1
Episode 36

World War II Part 2 - The Homefront
Episode 37

The Cold War
Episode 38

The Cold War in Asia
Episode 39

Civil Rights and the 1950s
Episode 40

The 1960s in America
Episode 41

The Rise of Conservatism
Episode 42

Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
Episode 43

The Reagan Revolution
Episode 44

George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
Episode 45

The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
Episode 46

Terrorism, War, and Bush 43
Episode 47

Obamanation

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