Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg

In which John Green ACTUALLY teaches about the Civil War. In part one of our two part look at the US Civil War, John looks into the causes of the war, and the motivations of the individuals who went to war. The overarching causes and the individual motivations were not always the same, you see. John also looks into why the North won, and whether that outcome was inevitable. The North’s industrial and population advantages are examined, as are the problems of the Confederacy, including its need to build a nation at the same time it was fighting a war. As usual, John doesn’t get much into the actual battle by battle breakdown. He does talk a little about the overarching strategy that won the war, and Grant’s plan to just overwhelm the South with numbers. Grant took a lot of losses in the latter days of the war, but in the end, it did lead to the surrender of the South.

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Englisch, Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green lists a whole lot of the battles of the US Civil War in seven and a half minutes. We get a lot of requests for military history, so we offer a list of battle names, with some commentary about outcomes, and lots of really interesting pictures. This is a but of a departure for Crash Course as we leave behind the world of thoughtful analysis and just list some facts.

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Englisch, Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

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 on 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.

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Englisch, Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

Geschichten aus der Geschichte Podcast Episode über den Andrews Raid und die Rolle der Eisenbahn im amerikanischen Sezessionskrieg.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe II, Hochschule

Amerikaner gegen Amerikaner: Der Bürgerkrieg steckt den USA bis heute in den Knochen. Über 620.000 Soldaten verlieren ihr Leben, es ist einer der ersten modernen Kriege. Am Ende steht die Befreiung der schwarzen Sklaven. Doch besiegt sind Rassismus und Diskriminierung damit noch lange nicht. (BR 2015)

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe II, Hochschule

Deutschlandfunk Nova Podcast über den amerikanischen Sezessionskrieg. Es geht um Sklaverei und um politische Interessen. Wir erklären, warum aus dem Konflikt zwischen den Nord- und Südstaaten ein blutiger Krieg wurde.

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Sekundarstufe II, Hochschule

Podcast des Bayerischen Rundfunks über Abraham Lincoln. Mit der Wahl von Abraham Lincoln zum Präsidenten brechen die Fronten endgültig auf und der Bürgerkrieg beginnt. An dessen Ende steht die Sklavenbefreiung in den USA – ein Schritt, der die Welt verändert. (BR 2011)

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Geschichte

Hochschule, Sekundarstufe II