US History - Crash Course

Learn about the history of the United States of America. Created by CrashCourse.

Average Course Length

12 hours

Skill Level

Beginner

Pick a lesson

1: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

2: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America

3: The Natives and the English

4: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

5: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

6: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution

7: Who Won the American Revolution?

8: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism

9: Where US Politics Came From

10: Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy

11: The War of 1812

12: The Market Revolution

13: Slavery

14: Age of Jackson

15: 19th Century Reforms

16: Women in the 19th Century

17: War & Expansion

18: The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion

19: Battles of the Civil War

20: The Civil War, Part I

21: History of the 4th of July

22: The Civil War Part 2

23: Reconstruction and 1876

24: The Industrial Economy

25: Westward Expansion

26: Growth, Cities, and Immigration

27: Gilded Age Politics

28: The Progressive Era

29: American Imperialism

30: Progressive Presidents

31: America in World War I

32: Women's Suffrage

33: The Roaring 20's

34: The Great Depression

35: The New Deal

36: World War II Part 1

37: World War II Part 2

38: The Cold War

39: The Cold War in Asia

40: Civil Rights and the 1950s

41: The 1960s in America

42: The Rise of Conservatism

43: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise

44: The Reagan Revolution

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

46: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s

47: Terrorism, War, and Bush 43

48: Obamanation