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- Season 1 The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
- Season 1 When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
- Season 1 The Natives and the English
- Season 1 The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
- Season 1 The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
- Season 1 Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
- Season 1 Who Won the American Revolution?
- Season 1 The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
- Season 1 Where US Politics Came From
- Season 1 Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
- Season 1 The War of 1812
- Season 1 The Market Revolution
- Season 1 Slavery
- Season 1 Age of Jackson
- Season 1 19th Century Reforms
- Season 1 Women in the 19th Century
- Season 1 War & Expansion
- Season 1 The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
- Season 1 Battles of the Civil War
- Season 1 The Civil War, Part I
- Season 1 The Civil War Part 2
- Season 1 Reconstruction and 1876
- Season 1 The Industrial Economy
- Season 1 Westward Expansion
- Season 1 Growth, Cities, and Immigration
- Season 1 Gilded Age Politics
- Season 1 The Progressive Era
- Season 1 American Imperialism
- Season 1 Progressive Presidents
- Season 1 America in World War I
- Season 1 Women's Suffrage
- Season 1 The Roaring 20's
- Season 1 The Great Depression
- Season 1 The New Deal
- Season 1 World War II Part 1
- Season 1 World War II Part 2
- Season 1 The Cold War
- Season 1 The Cold War in Asia
- Season 1 Civil Rights and the 1950s
- Season 1 The 1960s in America
- Season 1 The Rise of Conservatism
- Season 1 Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
- Season 1 The Reagan Revolution
- Season 1 George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
- Season 1 The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
- Season 1 Terrorism, War, and Bush 43
- Season 1 Obamanation
Crash Course US History - Season 1 Episode 24 Westward Expansion
6.00 14 minutes In which John Green teaches you about the Wild, Wild, West, which as it turns out, wasn't as wild as it seemed in the movies. When we think of the western expansion of the United States in the 19th century, we're conditioned to imagine the loner. The self-reliant, unattached cowpoke roaming the prairie in search of wandering calves, or the half-addled prospector who has broken from reality thanks to the solitude of his single-minded quest for gold dust. While there may be a grain of truth to these classic Hollywood stereotypes, it isn't a very big grain of truth. Many of the pioneers who settled the west were family groups. Many were immigrants. Many were major corporations. The big losers in the westward migration were Native Americans, who were killed or moved onto reservations. Not cool, American pioneers.
