War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17
In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North ...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course U.S. history and today we’re going to discuss how the United States came to acquire two of its largest states, Texas and…there is another one. Mr. Green! Mr. Green! I believe the answer you’re looking for is Alaska. Oh me from the past, as you can clearly tell from the globe, Alaskan statehood never happened. No I am referring of course to California. Stan, are we using your computer today? Oh. Stan! We’ve talked about westward expansion a few times here on Crash Course, but it’s usually about, like, Kentucky or Ohio. This time we’re going really west, I mean, not like Hawaii west, but sea to shining sea west. [Theme Music] So you might remember that journalist John O’Sullivan coined the phrase Manifest Destiny to describe America’s go...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course U.S. history and today we’re going to discuss how the United States came to acquire two of its largest states, Texas and…there is another one. Mr. Green! Mr. Green! I believe the answer you’re looking for is Alaska. Oh me from the past, as you can clearly tell from the globe, Alaskan statehood never happened. No I am referring of course to California. Stan, are we using your computer today? Oh. Stan! We’ve talked about westward expansion a few times here on Crash Course, but it’s usually about, like, Kentucky or Ohio. This time we’re going really west, I mean, not like Hawaii west, but sea to shining sea west. [Theme Music] So you might remember that journalist John O’Sullivan coined the phrase Manifest Destiny to describe America’s go...
