In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes. Things were also in a state of flux for women. The reform movements, which were in large part driven by women, gave these self-same women the idea that they could work on their own behalf, and radically improve the state of their own lives. So, while these women were working on prison reform, education reform, and abolition, they also started talking about equal rights, universal suffrage, temperance, and fair pay. Women like Susan B. Anthony, Carry Nation, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Grimkés, and Lucretia Mott strove tirelessly to improve the lot of American women, and it worked, eventually. John will teach you about the Christian Temperance Union, the Seneca Falls Convention, the Declaration of Sentiments, and a whole bunch of other stuff that made life better for women. Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. Few women were as vocal for women's rights during the 19th century than Susan B. Anthony: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-life-s-work-of-susan-b-anthony Anthony worked for women's right to vote alongside great women like Sojourner Truth, who stressed the importance of intersectional feminism in her influential “Ain't I a Woman?” Speech: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/ain-t-i-a-woman Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @crashcoursestan @raoulmeyer @saysdanica Support CrashCourse on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse

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1. John Green: sexism is bad
   reads mystery document
   assumes it was from a man because he doesn't like what it says
2. whats the painting at 11:03 called???
3. 1:40 but to be fair, wasn't and still isn't to a certain degree, everyone stil expected to marry and have kids? Not something that is exclusive to women of the 19th century.
4. if you put this at .75 speed its the speed of a normal speed talking person
5. women are gods.
6. hihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
7. and when I meet thomas jefferson
8. What's your problem with the blue oyster cult? I defy you to listen to side one of agents of fortune. But don't worry about the rest of it.
9. Angel[in]a
10. Comments,comments, comments.
    Most or all people want respect. Do they want to have to earn it?( no) Should they have to earn it? No. Should they receive respect regardless of gender or age or any of other millions of reasons? Probably. If you say no, then you are deciding what's right and what's wrong?
    Some people are too prideful to respect others that they don't agree with, but they still want it from the other person anyway. Does that make sense?. Is it possible to respect everyone ? If people will mature enough and learn to be compassionate, it is possible.
    O yeah, people will have to get a grip on their anger for it all to work, being respectful of others that is. Most people aren't rational when they are angry.
11. Feminism is about equality. A true feminist would never hate men or belittle them. And yes, regardless of what you've been told, sexism against women is still very real, as the comment section on this video shows, and very dangerous.
    
    This is because the racist, patriarchal elite will do anything to keep the so called 'minorities' (who are really the majorities but this is where psyops and/or psywar come in) psychologically down in an attempt to stop them from becoming a threat: the poor; the women; the foreigners; the ethnic minorities; etc...
    
    And so, what they do, is play a 'chess' game involving controlled opposition where they allow, or pretend to allow, these 'minorities' to have rights and then create a scenario where great movements appear to become distorted organically through time but, in fact, are destroyed by a carefully planned agenda; such as feminism 'evolving' into feminazism, if you will, which unfortunately even certain groups of women have bought into or sexism towards men seemingly increasing and their rights being curbed, all scenarios which were engineered by the elite but which have been blamed on feminism and therefore, by connection, women, which is ultimately the point.
    
    Like John states in this video, resistance against women being seen as equal is very strong and women have only been seen as ''equal' for even less than a 100 years! The elite is not going to take this lying down.
    
    They will keep feeding us the illusion that we are all equal (just like they keep feeding us the illusion that we live in a democracy and actually have a choice in the selection of our government) while, behind the curtain like the eponymous wizard, they keep pulling the strings and engineering scenarios that contribute towards the fulfilment of their racist, sexist, biased agendas.
12. It's amazing the comments that mock the comment section by assuming they're filled with hateful morons, but that most of the highest comments are perfectly fine with the video
13. Women were very briefly able to vote in one of the newly-independent states of the early USA (if they owned property, which basically meant they had to be widows), but after a lot more women voted than had property, the patriarchy stepped in and took that right away.
14. I love this channel! I'm such a freakin' nerd XD also, you should do one on New Zealand please!! I mean, you did Captain Cook but only mentioned NZ once!
15. They trained Luke because obi wan didn't know lea existed
16. is there hate crimes when the woman want to vote?
17. Green hates BOC? Ironically that is the only thing that gets to me about this video.
18. Just asking what happened to the feminists and what are they fighting for because all I see today are just stereotypes of them being upheld by them
19. Does this only apply to the US? Like did this happen in Britain also?
20. Where do got your information from?