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Crash Course Ep 4 - Quakers and Dutch

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hi I'm John Green this is Crash Course u.s. history and today we're going to cram a hundred fifty years of American History into one video American history classes single. At all because most major American History test have like one question about if this isn't going to be on the test that's awesome because I have to exchange Sammy from the pastor more productive Life as a result of having a better understanding of the complicated the creation of the greatest nation in history stand can I get a libertad  so listen up me from the past it's time bask in our own greatness and by greatness I mean morally dubious dominance over people who would have been just fine without us so contrary to popular mythology colonial America was more than just Jamestown Massachusetts there was for instance New Amsterdam from the Indians for $24 and 1624 contains a the Dutch traders who founded their colony were businessman and New Amsterdam was above everything else a commercial venture all about Wall Street in fact crash course writer in history teacher rohlmeier is believed to be the last person living on the island of Manhattan who does not work for an investment Bank when do New Amsterdam who could help them turn a profit including Jews and even Quakers but they didn't like Indians very much infected drove them out of the colony start for New England was $24 more than the Dutch got when the English took over the colony In 1664 by sailing four frigates into the harbor and asking for the colony of threatening voice turn down became New York which was a mixed blessed in the decade after the English takeover but English rule meant less economic freedom for women who under the Dutch were able to inherit property conduct business for themselves and under the English free black people lost a lot of the jobs they've been able to hold under the Dutch in Pennsylvania tell me in the seventeenth century was a low bar to jump over plan included Contempra Pennsylvania and Delaware and New Jersey but we made an editorial decision not to talk about New Jersey here on crash course due to my long-standing anti New Jersey a Haven for Quakers because he was a Quaker as you know if you've ever seen a container of Quaker Oats were pretty tolerant bunch of came to slavery The Colony showed remarkable religious toleration and also an amazing respect for Indian communities but then after pain was gone yet the usual in 1737 Pennsylvania colonists perpetrated one of them famous frogs of colonial America the walking purchase bounded by the distance a man could walk in 36 hours but the clever Governor James Logan play bunch of fast Runners who marked out territory much larger than the Indians anticipated live in government swearing and drunkenness religious freedom and cheap land attracted a lot of German immigrants why should say german-speaking immigrants history have pointed out to me Proprietors the right to set up a colony just north of the Spanish controlled Florida to serve as a buffer in South Carolina and its original settlers came from the sugar colony of Barbados which helps to explain play we're so awesome and ship them to the Caribbean but when that didn't work out they begin to import African slaves Ranger episodes but for now just bear in mind it sucked okay so when the last quarter of the seventeenth Century the British colonies in the Americas experience the series of crises oh it's time for the mystery document the rules here are simple I guess the author of the document I get it right no shock I get it wrong shock okay we accuse Sir William Berkeley as guilty of each every one of the same and as one who has traitorously attempted violated an injured his Majesty's interests here by a loss of a great part of his colony and many of his faith loyal subjects by him betrayed and in a barbarous and shameful manner exposed to the incursions and further of the Heathen and we do further declare these ensuing persons in this list to have been his Wicked and pernicious counselors so wicked and pernicious those are some terrible counselors okay so this guy clearly in Berkeley who I happen to know we've governor of Virginia by the Native Americans I mean playing with confidence the one person I know who hated William Berkeley was Nathaniel Bacon shot for me and no pleasure for you you schadenfreude crash-course viewers Daniel bacon arrived in Virginia in 1673 and let an armed Uprising against Governor Berkeley just three years play to be clear he was mad not because Berkley did a poor job protecting colonists from Indians but because Berkeley wouldn't allow them to kill more Indians and take more land what already given all the really good win to his cronies those after mentioned Wicked in pernicious counselors leaving men like bacon with serious beef tell by the arrival of English warships bacon burn Jamestown and made himself ruler of Virginia and wounded Berkeley supporters land 23 of the rebels were hang but not bacon died shortly after taking control from you guessed it dysentery dysentery it's called history not dysentery stream sometimes portrayed as an early example of lower class Artisans and would-be Farmers rising up against the corrupt British Elite which I guess kind of the biggest effects of the Rebellion on a shift away from indentured servants to slaves and to a general Desire by the English crown to control the colonies more okay tried to put the Hammer Down by consolidating Connecticut Plymouth Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island New York and East and West Jersey into one big megacolony called Dominion of New England it's near dictatorial ruler was former New York Governor Edmund Andros who proceeded to appoint his own officials and lay his own taxes without even Consulting any of the elect assembly or unluckily depending on your perspective in British history reverse this policy the Glorious Revolution turn into crash course John is Bored history is reasserted their independence I'd still discriminated against Jews but it did Mark the end of the Puritan experiment no longer would membership in a congregation was church be a requirement for voting in general court elections proper the ownership would now be the determining Factor mule history the Salem witch trial on this incident in the interpretations of it are numerous and controversial so I'm just going to point out that when the witch trials which claimed the law the 14 of the nearly 150 women and men accused of Witchcraft happened in 1691 New England as a colony had basically just failed in its really Mission Sacramento people in Massachusetts would have to accept the even Quakers as virtual equals quicker so it's not surprising the colonists would look for scapegoats or that there leaders would seek to reassert their gender dominance plantations that predominated in the Caribbean and was increasingly of Native Americans the colonial population families begin to run out of land so second and third Sons increasingly had to go make their way in growing coastal cities will talk about this more in future episode let's just note the ID of a person owning a small farm and the idea of freedom are pretty closely intertwined in the early part of American History it's more of an amber waves of grain place than a how old is Metropolis place to dominate the Constitutional Convention we're growing numbers of artisans in the colony willing to be a market for locally produced Goods specially clothing and metalwork remember one of the heroes of the American Revolution Paul Revere was a silversmith thanks BUN levels today colonial society put it code to perpetuate itself George Washington's father and grandfather were both justice of the peace and important role in colonial times meaning that George Washington had deeply beetroot rest of Europe which is why people kept indenturing themselves to get here America had lots of food and there was the possibility of maybe someday getting some land provided you didn't die dysentery and also provide you weren't a woman married women in 18th century colonial America generally couldn't own property and husbands usually will their land to their sons and their personal items to their daughters meeting that most all landowners were made to ensure the survival of the colony fathers Above All Else male-dominant one woman Mary Cooper wrote in her diary in 1769 I am dirty and distressed almost wearied to death This Day Is 40 years since I left my father's house and come here and here have I seen a little else but hard labor and sorrow when did Rebels like Nathaniel Bacon and well history classes and exams tend to focus on those kinds of men and they were mostly men the real story of history is about regular people trying to take care of their families and not die, but those small scale dramas can be found in abundance tell that great man and dramatic events crap when we start talking about the American Revolution I'll see you then thanks for watching are Danica Johnson the show is written by my high school history teacher Raoul Mayer and myself at our Graphics team is talk talk anymore how much will be answered by our team of crack 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