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First Americans: The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Native Americans/American Indians; DURATION: 03:37 |
First Americans: The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Cahokia was the largest urban community in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Native Americans/American Indians; Mississippi River Valley/St. Louis; mound builders; Cahokia; agriculture; Monk's Mound; trade network; descendants/Choctaw/ Chickasaw/Natchez. DURATION: 02:57 |
First Americans: The Northeast |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes the Native American tribes in the Northeast. These groups were well known for both their long houses and the formation of the Iroquois League, an early form of democracy that would make a deep impression on European settlers. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Native Americans/American Indians; Northeast; Iroquois/Lenape/Hodenosaunee; "people of the long house"; Mohawks/Oneidas/Onondagas/Cayugas/Senecas; New York; farming/hunting/fishing/seasonal movement; roles of women and men; Iroquois League. DURATION: 03:35 |
First Americans: The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video describes the Native American societies that developed in
the CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Native Americans/American Indians; DURATION: 03:21 |
First Americans: The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Native Americans living in the Southwest before European contact, known as "Anasazi," were farming people. Their complex society and mastery of village life, epitomized by Pueblo Bonito, are examined in this video. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Native Americans/ American Indians; Southwest/Santa Fe; Navaho/Pueblo/ Apache; Anasazi; moieties; Pueblo Bonito/Chaco Canyon; village life/community; descendants. DURATION: 03:27 |
First Americans: The Southeast |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The varying landscapes in the Southeast meant that the Native American tribes who lived there were very diverse. The unique lifestyles and the overall political complexity of the region are examined in this video. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Native Americans/American Indians; Southeast/Appalachian Mountains; Charleston, S. C.; creation story; Cherokee/Catawba; farming/politics; environmental adaptations/fluidity of groups. DURATION: 03:03 |
We have a great deal to learn |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the more than 500 unique Native American societies that inhabited the North American landscape prior to European contact. It is clear that there is still a great deal to learn about and from these complex civilizations. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Native Americans/American Indians; complex and unique societies; diversity/environmental adaptations/spirituality; new research. DURATION: 01:56 |
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A Blending of Cultures |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary
analysis of the blending traditions of the European and Indian cultures in
the frontier regions of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Frontiers, New Mexican culture; Spanish culture/Indian culture; wheat tortilla; adaptive cultures; hybrid cultures. DURATION: 03:37 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video uses the contemporary debate about commemorating Columbus Day to provoke thought about how Columbus' "discovery" of the New World set in motion changes that affected the world forever. CONTENT ELEMENTS: DURATION: 01:42 |
Cortes Conquers the Aztecs |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: What happens when two civilizations
that never knew the other existed meet ? This video examines the clash
between the Spanish and the Aztecs in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Herman Cortes; Mexico/Aztecs; Central
Mexico; Aztec Empire; Montezuma; conquistadors; DURATION: 04:32 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines Spanish
colonization in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: New Spain; slave labor; Material wealth; Catholicism; Franciscans/ Spanish missionaries; St. Augustine; Juan de Onate; Spanish settlement in New Mexico; Pueblo Indians; Acoma; Santa Fe; Indian and European traditions/adaptive culture/hybrid culture. DURATION: 06:59 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the effect of
Spanish missionaries in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Catholicism; Spanish missionaries; Franciscans; Adaptive Culture. DURATION: 01:48 |
The Columbian Exchange |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes how the European settlement in the New World began a process of biological, human, cultural, and material exchange (known as the Columbian Exchange), which has been an important marker in the history of the world. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Portuguese navigation; Christopher Columbus; Enterprise of the Indies/San Salvador; Columbian Exchange; New World; European diseases; food crops; 1492. DURATION: 04:22 |
The Conquest of the |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the Spanish
conquest of vast regions of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Columbus' voyage; European exploration; Treaty of Tordesillas; Spanish motivation of Glory, God and Gold; Spanish conquistadors Hernan Cortes; Aztec Empire; Tenochtitlan; European technology and disease; Pizarro's conquest/Incan Empire; Hernando de Soto; Coronado; Cabeza de Vaca; Pima Indians; Spanish plunder. DURATION: 10:49 |
World Maps |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video illustrates how CONTENT ELEMENTS: DURATION: 01:14 |
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A Dividing Line |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the development of the southern colonies in the 17th century. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Diversity; African Slaves;
political and military dominance; cultural dominance; American Indians; DURATION: 03:57 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the establishment
of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: King James I; Chesapeake Bay; James River; Virginia Company; Jamestown colonists; "starving time"; land ownership; John Smith; Powhatan; John Rolfe/Pocahontas; tobacco; Opechancanough. DURATION: 06:21 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes the first
British settlement of CONTENT ELEMENTS: Walter Raleigh; DURATION: 04:01 |
Sugar, Sugar |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video describes the
development of sugar plantations in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: DURATION: 01:28 |
The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes an English
sailor named John Cuming, whose family history illustrates the emerging
planter class in CONTENT ELEMENTS: John Cuming; Carolina; Affra Harleston; Charles Town, South Carolina; Barbados/Caribbean; slavery; land grants; Cuming's T plantation; Elias Ball. DURATION: 03:02 |
The Changing |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines how labor system of the Chesapeake Region changed from one based on white indentured servitude to one based on black slavery. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Indentured servitude; Africans; Virginia; sources of labor; Anthony Johnson; tobacco farming; Maryland; frontier farmers; Nathanial Bacon/ Bacon's Rebellion; class/race system; slavery. DURATION: 06:33 |
The Stinking Weed |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a brief perspective on the tremendous growth of tobacco as an industry, the popularity of the product, and the controversy over its use. CONTENT ELEMENTS: American Indian story of tobacco's origins; tobacco; Europeans; World War I/ World War II; Cancer/lawsuits; Marlboro. DURATION: 02:18 |
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A New Beginning |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The mythological status of the Pilgrim story s the focus of this brief video. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Pilgrims Puritans; DURATION: 01:05 |
Ann Hutchinson |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video focuses on Ann Hutchinson and the challenge she presented to Puritan leaders. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Puritans; Puritan women; Ann Hutchinson; John Winthrop; "American Jezebel." DURATION: 03:24 |
Encountering the Wilderness |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The complex relationship that
developed between CONTENT ELEMENTS: Wilderness; American Indians; captivity stories; Metacomet / King Philip; King Philip's War. DURATION: 06:18 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides an introduction
to the area that became CONTENT ELEMENTS: 17th century; north Atlantic coastal
region; Algonquian/Pequots/Wampanoags/ Narragansetts/Patuxet; agriculture; DURATION: 01:57 |
Pilgrims |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the Pilgrims'
reasons for leaving the old world, the formation of CONTENT ELEMENTS:Puritans, DURATION: 04:10 |
The |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video briefly examines the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Southwest; DURATION: 01:05 |
The Puritan Dilemma |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the inherent
struggle between the Puritans' utopian ideals and the realities they encountered
in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Puritans; John Winthrop; Massachusetts Bay Company/New England/Boston; Christianity/utopia/"city on a hill"; Roger Williams; Puritan women; Ann Hutchinson; "American Jezebel." DURATION: 06:57 |
The Puritan Influence |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the Puritan influence on American society and culture. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Puritans/ Puritan legacy; John Winthrop; idealism/vision/values; religion/community. DURATION: 02:05 |
Witch Hunt |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the witch-hunt
that occurred in CONTENT ELEMENTS: 1692; Salem, Massachusetts; witches/witchcraft; Rebecca Nurse; Puritan community/conformity; Salem witch hunt; Arthur Miller/ "The Crucible"/ Red Scare, McCarthyism. DURATION: 05:18 |
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A Poor Man’s Country |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a brief introduction to the geography and people migrating to the Middle Colonies of America. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Middle American Colonies; New York/New
Jersey/Pennsylvania/Delaware; Fertile valleys/flourishing towns;
Social/ethnic diversity; "Bread basket of DURATION: 01:12 |
I am not as you are… |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the formation of an "American" identity in the middle colonies during the 18th century. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Relations between diverse colonists and Indians; growing identities/differences; ethnic, religious and economic diversity; "American " identity. DURATION: 03:03 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes the development
of New Amsterdam and its transition from a Dutch settlement in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Dutch; DURATION: 03:53 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines the religious,
ethnic, and cultural diversity that arose in 17th and 18th century CONTENT ELEMENTS: Ethnic and religious diversity; European immigrants; African slaves; Dissenting Protestantism; Dutch/German/Scots-Irish; William Covenhoven; William Tennent; Princeton University; John Woolman; Quakers; Liberation of slaves; Religious tolerance; identity. DURATION: 04:46 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the religious,
ethnic, and cultural diversity that existed in 17th and 18th century CONTENT ELEMENTS: Diversity of nationalities/languages; Africans; American Indians; Peter Stuyvesant; Manhattan Island/ The Bouwerie; Commerce/immigration; Jewish immigrants; Jacob Franks; William Bradford/Printing Press/John Peter Zenger/freedom of press; Mando's escape; Slaves/domestic servants; Cadwallader Colden; Steven Delancey/Abigail Franks and Oliver Delancey's marriage; Diverse immigrant communities/religion; assimilation/blending/"American." DURATION: 08:17 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the economic and
cultural diversity that developed in 17th and 18th century CONTENT ELEMENTS: William Penn's vision; material culture; Benjamin Franklin; Philadelphia; working women/Mary Smith; Conrad Weiser; Relations with Indians/"Go-betweens"; Shikellamy; Intercultural affairs; "American" identity. DURATION: 06:37 |
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A Distinctive Society |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the influence of the institution of Slavery on race and class in The South. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Race and Class; Institution of Slavery; Class systems; planter aristocracy; Racial society/Racial assumptions; Southern distinctions. DURATION: 03:59 |
African American Culture |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the development of African American culture and the reciprocal effects of that development. A brief examination of the Stono Rebellion is included. CONTENT ELEMENTS: African American culture; African traditions; Cultural influence on British colonists; Stono Rebellion. DURATION: 05:51 |
Gullah |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video briefly describes the
development of the language that became the primary means of communication
among slaves in CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Gullah, DURATION: 01:15 |
Middle Passage |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video describes slavery in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Olandah Equiano; slavery/slave trade; African slavery; Market demand for slaves; Slave "factories"; Middle Passage; tight packing/mortality rates; "scramble"/auction blocks. DURATION: 06:42 |
Slave Trade |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides an overview of the early Atlantic Slave Trade and the economics of slavery in the early years of colonial settlement. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery; Slave trade; Forced migration; Slave society; Slavery systems. DURATION: 02:20 |
Slavery Among Africans |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video provides a description of slavery as practiced among West Africans before the slave trade with Europeans. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
African slavery; DURATION: 01:06 |
The Stono Rebellion |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video examines he causes and consequences of the Stono Rebellion in 1739. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Spanish sanctuary for slaves; Stono Rebellion; DURATION: |
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A Revolutionary Society |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video provides an introduction to the American Revolution by
placing it in the context of revolutions in general, and by explaining why CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Meanings of revolution; Motives for revolution; political, economic,
social transformation of colonial DURATION: 03:26: |
Endgame |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the developing colonial unity in opposition to British policies between 1754 and 1774, and examines the question of inevitability of the American revolution. CONTENT ELEMENTS: The Albany Congress; the First Continental Congress, Liberty/British Control; National consciousness; Political unity. DURATION03:02: |
Opening Moves |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
The French and Indian War, fought and won by the British, changed the
political dynamics in CONTENT ELEMENTS: French and Indian; American Indians; Virginia Militia; Albany Congress/Albany Plan of Union; Benjamin Franklin; Treaty of Paris, 1763; Proclamation Line, Taxes/Right of taxation; Presence of British DURATION: 03:48 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines how protests, boycotts, and the Boston Tea Party brought out both a significant shift in British policy and a significant movement toward colonial unity. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Boycotts of English products; Role of women; Tax on Tea/ The Tea Act; Boston Tea Party; Sons of Liberty; Samuel Adams; Boston Harbor; The Coercive Acts; First Continental Congress; Committees of correspondence; Continental Association; John Adams/George Washington/ Patrick Henry/Joseph Galloway. DURATION: 06:09: |
The Blunder |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: In the context of the American revolutionary movement, this video analyzes the causes and consequences of the Boston Massacre. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
British troops; Standing armies; Tensions in DURATION: 03:45 |
The First Continental Congress |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video briefly examines the
convening and importance of the First Continental Congress in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Coercive Acts, First Continental Congress; Joseph Galloway; Sam Adams; Committees of Correspondence; Continental Association; John Adams/George Washington/Patrick Henry; British control/Independence. DURATION: 01:55: |
The Gambit |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the short- and long-term significance of James Otis' arguments against the British Writs of Assistance. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Writs of Assistance; James Otis; John Adams; Natural Rights; "Higher law"; Limited government; Declaration of Independence; The 4th Amendment. DURATION: 03:37 |
The Middle Game |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
To help pay for the expense of its empire in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Stamp Act; Protests; Sons of Liberty; liberty/slavery; Stamp Act Congress; Taxation without representation; the Declaratory Act. DURATION: 03:58 |
The Proclamation Line |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: After the French and Indian War, the British proclaimed an arbitrarily drawn line designed to prevent or slow down any westward expansion and to reduce Indian conflict against the Colonists. This video examines the consequences of this decision by the British. CONTENT ELEMENTS: French and Indian War; Treaty of Paris, 1763; American Indians; Taxes/Right of taxation; Presence of British troops. DURATION: 01:46 |
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Declaring Equality |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video focuses on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and on the philosophical and political foundations of equality in that document. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Thomas Jefferson; Declaration of Independence; "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"; Continental Congress; John Adams; Benjamin Franklin; Enlightenment; political philosophy; "all men are created equal"; consent of the people; meanings of equality and liberty; slavery/slave trade; living up to principles. DURATION 08:10: |
From this time forward… |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of how the Declaration of Independence has inspired social and political reform movements and shaped the course of American history. CONTENT ELEMENTS: July 4, 1976; John Adams; Declaration of Independence; Women's Rights Movement/Seneca Falls; African Americans/slavery/abolition/Civil Rights Movement/Martin Luther King, Jr.; Abraham Lincoln; Civil War; "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"; equality/inalienable rights; gay rights. DURATION: 03:56 |
Justifying Revolution |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to justify a revolution against King George III. The grievances against the King, cited in the Declaration, are examined in this video. In addition, the video analyzes the importance of Common Sense in the revolutionary movement to break ties with the King. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Declaration of Independence; Second Continental Congress; Philadelphia; Thomas Jefferson; King George III; grievances against the King; Lexington/ Concord, Massachusetts; American militiamen; Paul Revere; American Revolution; British Parliament; Common Sense; Thomas Paine. DURATION 05:36: |
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DESCRIPTION: The battles at CONTENT
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The American Creed |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video briefly examines the origins of the Declaration of Independence, its "magic words", and the profound effects that the document would have on the history of the modern world. CONTENT
ELEMENTS: Declaration of DURATION 02:46: |
The Men Who Signed |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a brief profile of some of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams; Benjamin Franklin; Francis Lewis; Thomas Nelson, Jr.; Richard Stockton; James Wilson; Samuel Chase; Elbridge Gerry; George Ross; George Wythe; Benjamin Rush. DURATION: 02:55 |
The Unanimous Declaration |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: After Thomas Jefferson's original draft was scrutinized, debated, and revised, the Declaration of Independence was approved by Congress. This video analyzes this process and the end result. CONTENT
ELEMENTS: Declaration of DURATION 03:41: |
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A World Turned Upside Down |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the effects of the American Revolution on loyalists, patriots, women, African Americans, American Indians, and the world at large. CONTENT ELEMENTS: American Revolution; loyalists; patriots; women; equality/liberty/slavery/abolition; American Indians; world transformed. DURATION: 02:42 |
Black Patriots |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines the opportunities and choices the Revolutionary War presented to slave and free African Americans. CONTENT
ELEMENTS: George Washington; DURATION: 02:19 |
Molly Pitchers |
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes
the roles of women both at the battle at CONTENT ELEMENTS: "Molly Pitcher"; Molly Ludwig Hayes; roles of women in the American Revolution. DURATION 02:05: |
Monmouth and the Molly Pitchers |
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION: This video
examines the battle at CONTENT
ELEMENTS: DURATION 04:16: |
The Long Winter |
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION: This video
analyzes the effects of the winter the American troops spent at CONTENT ELEMENTS: Revolutionary War; Valley Forge; hardships; Pennsylvania; George Washington; comradeship; Baron von Steuben; manual of arms/drills; Monmouth, NJ. DURATION 05:07: |
The War for |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The American war for independence stood at a turning point in the summer of 1776. This video examines comparative strengths and weaknesses and the American strategy for victory. CONTENT
ELEMENTS: 1776; George
Washington; DURATION 03:49: |
The War Takes a Turn |
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION: This video
examines the importance of the American victory at CONTENT ELEMENTS: George Washington; New York; Revolutionary War; Continental Army; Manhattan; New Jersey; Delaware River; General Howe; British forces; German forces/Trenton; Prince Whipple; African Americans; freedom; slaves/free blacks; Lord Dunmore's Proclamation; black soldiers. DURATION: 04:16 |
Tories |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: After their defeat at Monmouth, the British shifted the war to the South. This video analyzes the new British strategy, its dependence on American loyalist support, and the reasons why the British ultimately lost the war and the Americans won. CONTENT ELEMENTS: "Beat Americans with Americans"; Charleston, SC; Revolutionary War; loyalists; the "disaffected"; militia/guerilla war; General Nathan Greene/"The Crab"; General Cornwallis; Yorktown, Virginia; French navy; Yorktown surrender; destiny; geography; British military leadership; hubris; world war; George Washington; French aid; American ideology. DURATION: 04:32 |
Wartime Allies |
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION: Focusing on the
battle at CONTENT ELEMENTS: Revolutionary War; August 6, 1777; Battle of Oriskany; Fort Stanwix; Rebel militia; American Indians; Loyalists/Tory allies/Senecas; Oneida Indians; New York; Major General John Burgoyne; Lake George/Lake Champlain; Oswego/ Mohawk Valley; Saratoga, NY; French Alliance. DURATION: 03:14 |
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A More Perfect |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Using the Preamble of the Constitution as a guide, this video analyzes the state of the nation being governed under the Articles of Confederation. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Preamble of the Constitution; Articles of Confederation; Congress/state sovereignty; Domestic tranquility; Daniel Shays/Shays' Rebellion; James Madison; Indians/Britain/Spain; Economic depression/trade/commerce/currency; Northwest Territory/Northwest Ordinance; slavery; George Washington; Alexander Hamilton. DURATION: 07:19: |
Behind Closed Doors |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video examines the political issues addressed by the
Constitutional Convention held in CONTENT ELEMENTS: 1787; Constitutional Convention; Philadelphia; James Madison; representation; Large/small states; Benjamin Franklin; "The Great Compromise"; Senate/House of Representatives; Sectional issues; Three-Fifths Compromise"; Slavery; National government/executive branch/independent judiciary; Madison's notes. DURATION: 0 6:45: |
More Than a Blueprint |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video analyzes the importance of the Constitution in shaping CONTENT ELEMENTS: Constitution; framework/blueprint; divided government political positions/ interpretation; "original meanings"/historical experience; unifying symbol. DURATION: 0 3:43: |
Newburg Conspiracy |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines a threatened mutiny by a group of disgruntled army officers near the end of the Revolutionary War. The conspiracy illustrated the anxiety present in the new nation. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Revolutionary War; Military officers pay; DURATION: 0 3:36: |
The Bill of Rights |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Once the Constitution was implemented, Congress took up the issue of adding a bill of rights. This video examines this debate and the eventual decision to incorporate the Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Bill of Rights; James Madison; Constitution;, amendments; Limiting government's authority. DURATION: 0 2:18 |
The Race to Ratify |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the passionate debate that surrounded the ratification of the Constitution in 1787 and 1788. The importance of the Federalist Papers is also examined. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Ratification of the Constitution; Anti-federalists; Bill of Rights; DURATION: 04:00 |
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A New Era in a New Country |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video provides a brief examination of the challenges facing the
nation in 1789 and the competing visions of the future of CONTENT ELEMENTS:
George Washington; George Washington's inauguration; |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Focusing on Alexander Hamilton's plan to address the financial
problems facing the nation in 1789, this video analyzes CONTENT ELEMENTS: National Debt; Alexander Hamilton; Assumption of state debts; funding the debts; taxes; Bank of the United States; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; George Washington; "Strict construction"/loose construction"/implied powers; Poliltical opposition. |
The State of the Nation |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a
historical tour and perspective of key areas of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: New York City; the first Capital; Urban issues and opportunities; Slavery/slave trade; Charleston; Black and white artisans; Plantations/small farmers; Indian territories/Indian relations; Spain; St. Louis; Santa Fe; San Francisco; the Pacific Northwest. DURATION: 09:44 |
The Vision that Prevailed |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the political and economic stability brought to the new nation by George Washington's leadership and Alexander Hamilton's financial plan. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
George Washington; Alexander Hamilton; Establishment of economic
credibility; 02:15 |
The Whiskey Rebellion |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines the issues surrounding the resistance to the collection of a federal excise tax in 1794. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Tariffs; Excise taxes/Whiskey Tax; Grain Farmers/ Whiskey Rebellion; Powers of the national government; Law and order; Alexander Hamilton; George Washington; Understanding the American revolution. DURATION: 02:11 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the leadership of George Washington and his place in American history. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Legacy; George Washington-man and myth; Qualities of leadership; Hamilton/Jefferson/Madison; Uses of power/Giving up power. DURATION: 05:31 |
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Conflicts in the 1790s |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video briefly introduces problems - both internal and external -
facing the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Mid-1790s; American Indians/encroaching settlers; European wars; political parties. DURATION: |
The Election of 1800 |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
By the end of the 18th century, two distinct political parties had
emerged within the CONTENT ELEMENTS:
George Washington; Political parties; Federalists/Republicans; Thomas
Jefferson/Alexander Hamilton/James Madison/John Adams/Charles C. DURATION: 06:03 |
The Election of 2000 |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Like the election of 1800, the 2000 presidential election challenged
the stability of democracy in CONTENT ELEMENTS:
2000 presidential election; DURATION: 0:56 |
The Quasi-War |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
In the 1790s, the CONTENT ELEMENTS: George Washington; Washington's Farewell Address; war between Great Britain and France; U.S. treaty with France; U.S. neutrality policy; John Jay/ Jay's Treaty; John Adams; France's seizure of U.S. ships; XYZ Affair; "Quasi War"; Alien & Sedition Acts; High Federalists; Freedom of the press/Republican press; Republican Party; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions; Nullification; Secession/state rights; Treaty of Mortefontaine (Convention of 1800); Election of 1800; Precedent/isolationism. DURATION: 06:36 |
The Supreme Law of the Land |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This brief video uses the recent land claims dispute between the
Oneida Indians and CONTENT ELEMENTS:
American Indians; Right to the land; DURATION: 0 2:03: |
The Treaty of |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
In the 1790s, the CONTENT ELEMENTS: George Washington; encroaching settlers/Indian Territory; American Indians; Ohio/Ohio River; Shawnees/Miamis/Delawares/Wyandots; General Arthur St. Clair; Little Turtle; General Anthony Wayne; Maumee; Battle of Fallen Timbers; Treaty of Greenville (1795); boundaries; American Indians and alcohol; treaty breakdowns; Precedents; Indian rights/treaty rights. DURATION: 05:28 |
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… like a fire bell in the Night |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video examines how the issue of slavery disturbed the era of good
feelings and threatened the future of the expanding CONTENT ELEMENTS:
The Era of Good Feelings; nationalism/sectionalism; DURATION: 02:05 |
Lewis and |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Having secured the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Thomas Jefferson; Romance & Mystery of the West; The Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark; Northwest Passage; Corps of Discovery; Missouri River; Mandan Indians; artifacts/animals of the West; Sacagawea; Shoshone Indians; Rocky Mountains; Snake & Columbia Rivers; the Pacific Ocean; Indian relations; geography; Journals of Lewis & Clark Expedition. DURATION: 13:25 |
Nation of Land Owners |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
CONTENT ELEMENTS: Monticello; Thomas Jefferson; the West; Independence/Virtue/Land Owners/freedom; Romance of the West; American Indians; Empire of Liberty; The Louisiana Purchase; geography. 02:21 |
Tecumseh |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the Indian leader Tecumseh, who posed a threat to the white man's advance into Indian lands. Tecumseh's alliance with the British in the War of 1812 and the consequences of that war for American Indians are also examined. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Tecumseh and his vision; Indian resentments/Indian resistance; Indian Confederacy/pan-Indian Movement; "War Hawks"; War of 1812; Canada/the British; Indian losses. 05:25 |
The First Generation |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The generation that inherited the American Revolution came of age during the first half of the 19th century. This video describes the possibilities, opportunities, and challenges during this period of American history. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Inheriting the Revolution; Sense of Possibility; Rapid Expansion of a
Nation; "Manifest Destiny"; Westward migration; Freedom and DURATION: 03:49 |
We Proceeded on… |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video describes Thomas Jefferson's pursuit of an "Empire of
Liberty" in the West, from the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Monticello; Thomas Jefferson; the West; Independence/Virtue/Land Owners/freedom; Romance of the West; American Indians; Empire of Liberty; The Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark; Northwest Passage; Corps of Discovery; Missouri River; Mandan Indians; artifacts/animals of the West; Sacagawea; Shoshone Indians; Rocky Mountains; Snake & Columbia Rivers; the Pacific Ocean; Indian relations; geography; Journals of Lewis & Clark Expedition. DURATION: 15:42 |
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A Free Labor Economy |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the free labor ideology that developed in the North by the mid-19th century and how the free labor economy distinguished the North from the South. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Northwestern frontier; mid-19th century; linking economic & political freedom; free labor ideology; the North (small farmers/small enterprises/independence); the South (large plantation owners/slavery). DURATION: 02:28 |
Moving Westward |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
The search for independence led many white Americans to move further
and further west in the mid-19th century. This video examines the
agricultural boom on the old northwestern frontier and the towns, such as CONTENT ELEMENTS: Search for propertied independence; seaboard states/western expansion; northwestern prairies/agriculture/independent family farmers; U.S. Army/ American Indians; road system/federal land policies; old Northwest; Jacksonville, Illinois; "Athens of the West"; social problems in Jacksonville/religious factionalism/slavery; Bob & Emily Logan; abolitionists/Underground Railroad; railroads; continual migration. DURATION: 06:17 |
Nothing runs like a Deere… |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video briefly describes the effect John Deere had on the
expansion of farming in the CONTENT ELEMENTS:
John Deere; Grand Detour, DURATION: 01:15 |
Progress in Print |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video briefly examines the personal, social, and political effects of newspapers and printed works in the early 19th century. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
DURATION: 02:04 |
The Big Ditch |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
The Erie Canal was built to connect the Hudson River to Lake Erie -
thus connecting CONTENT ELEMENTS: Rome, New York; Erie Canal; July 4, 1817; Judge John Richardson; Hudson River; Albany/Buffalo; Governor Dewitt Clinton; Great Lakes/Trans-Appalachian trade; New York City; "Clinton's Big Ditch"; engineers/canal laborers; public works project; passenger traffic/movement of goods; east-west trade. DURATION: 07:16 |
The Market Revolution |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video provides an overview of the social and technological
changes associated with the market revolution occurring in the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Early 19th century; technological innovation/cotton gin/steamboats/power looms/ telegraph/transportation; relocation of people; "market revolution"; growth of commerce/markets/new occupations. DURATION: 02:03 |
The Working Women of |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Towns built around large textile mills began to appear in the
northeastern CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cotton boom; large-scale manufacturing/textile mills; northeast/social landscape transformation; carding machine/spinning frame/power loom; female labor force; Francis Cabot Lowell; Merrimack River/Lowell, Massachusetts; wages; boarding houses; Harriet Hanson Robinson; bobbin girl/"drawing-in girl"; women's labor movement; Irish immigrant workers; women's rights movement; women's sphere/public sphere. DURATION: 06:33 |
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A Forced Migration |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video describes the horrific forced march of Cherokee Indians
from their home in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cherokee Indians; Forced migration; The Removal Act of 1830; Andrew Jackson; Ethnic Cleansing/Injustice/Racial Discrimination; Legacy. DURATION: 0 2:43: |
Democracy Flourishes |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides the context for a broader discussion of the changing political climate of the 1820s and 1830s. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Economic, social, & political change; Building of Canals & Railroads; Westward expansion/economic opportunity; Grassroots politics. DURATION: 01:58 |
Federal Bank Showdown |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
President Jackson's decision to kill the Bank of the CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Bank of the DURATION: 02:03 |
In the name of majority rule… |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of President Jackson, Jacksonian democracy, and Indian Removal. CONTENT ELEMENTS: President Jackson's Style; Popular Appeal to the Average Man; Jackson as an Historical Figure; Indian Removal; Ethnic Cleansing/Racial Justice; Majority Rule; Learning from the Past. DURATION: 02:57 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines President Jackson's core beliefs and analyzes his actions during the Nullification Crisis and the Bank War. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Andrew Jackson's Core Beliefs; Racism/Slavery; Loyalty; Eaton Affair; John C. Calhoun; Nullification Crisis; States Rights/Limitation of Powers; South Carolina; tariffs/anarchy/treason; Henry Clay; Bank of the U.S.; Nicholas Biddle; Liberty vs. Power; Election of 1832. DURATION: 07:24 |
The Panic of 1837 |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video briefly describes the events that led to the first great
depression in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Andrew Jackson; Financial Panic; Land speculation; Specie Circular; Bank failures; Depression. DURATION: 01:45 |
The People’s Politician |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video analyzes Andrew Jackson's rise from a frontiersman to the
President of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: "Old Hickory"; Andrew Jackson; appeal to a masculine electorate; Jackson's contradictions; the Hermitage; Election of 1824; Jeffersonian Democracy/Jacksonian Democracy; The Corrupt Bargain; Henry Clay/John Quincy Adams; Election of 1828; political campaigning; political dualism; political culture; Jackson's Inauguration. DURATION: 06:22 |
Trail of Tears |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Focusing on the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cherokee Nation; Assimilation/Civilization program; Cherokee alphabet/ constitution/newspaper; Removal Act of 1830; Relocation; Choctaw/Creek/Chickasaw/Seminole; Chief John Ross; Worcester vs. Georgia;; Sovereign Rights; Trail of Tears; Legacy. DURATION: 07:37 |
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
In 1831, a CONTENT ELEMENTS:
Slave rebellion; Nat Turner; DURATION: 04:32 |
North and South— |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: During the first half of the 19th century, the economies of both the North and the South were moving in very different directions. This video briefly contrasts the North's diversifying economy with the South's increasing dependence on cotton and slavery. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cotton/cotton gin; slavery; westward expansion; northern diversity/southern reliance on cotton and slaves. DURATION: 0 1:40: |
Quilts and the Underground Railroad |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes the hidden visual codes found in slave quilts and the possibility that these messages helped slaves escape to freedom in the North. CONTENT ELEMENTS:
DURATION: 01:45 |
Runaways and Rebellion |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video examines both runaway slaves and those who chose to
rebel. In particular, the slave rebellion led by CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery/runaway slaves; slave patrols/slave catchers/white vigilantes; punishment/whippings; slave rebellion; Nat Turner; Southhampton County, Virginia; harsher slave laws (worship, literacy); the South; corruption/denial; self-worth of slaves. DURATION: 08:42 |
Shaped by Slavery |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Slavery defined the Southern way of life in the first half of the 19th century. This video examines the expansion of slavery and the political, economic, social, and philosophical arguments used to defend the institution. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery; the South; planters' power/plantations; the North; economic impact of slavery/exportation of cotton; slaveholders; racism; poor white southerners; Southern social structure; the "positive good" argument; Christianity; Southern reaction to abolitionists. DURATION: 04:18 |
The Long Road |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video provides a summary analysis of the long-term effects of
slavery and the struggle in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery/"stain of slavery"; Declaration of Independence; equality/inequality; Civil War; American culture; Somerset Place/Homecoming. DURATION: 02:58 |
The Slave World |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The lives of slaves varied greatly depending on upon the kind of work they did and the circumstances in which they lived. This video analyzes the diverse lives of slaves and the unique culture they created within the confines of their world. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery; various slave occupations (small farm laborers, urban household servants, factory workers, riverboat men, carpenters, blacksmiths, prostitutes); plantations; roles of men, women, and children slaves on plantations; slave/owner negotiation; slaves and the land; slave culture (religion, folktales, music, dance); slave resistance/defiance; violence/whippings; slave families; slaves as property/slaves as humans. DURATION: 08:29 |
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… a restorer of Truth and Goodness |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video provides a summary analysis of how the social reform
movements of the early and mid-19th century shaped CONTENT ELEMENTS: Social Change/Social Reform; Social Gospel; The Abolition, Feminist, and Temperance Movements; Utopian Vision; Process of Social Reform. DURATION: 02:27 |
An Affront in the eyes of God |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The call for immediate emancipation of slaves was a radical idea that spread rapidly in the North from the 1830s through the 1850s. This video analyzes how and why this happened and why it was important. CONTENT ELEMENTS: William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberator; American Anti-Slavery Society; Immediate Emancipation; African American Equality; Slavery as sin; advocacy journalism; The doctrine of Abolition; Frederick Douglass; The North Star; Women Abolitionists; Grimke sisters; Sojourner Truth; Abby Kelly Foster; Public Discussion of Slavery. DURATION: 06:43 |
Ar’n’t I a Woman? |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The abolition movement gave new spirit, energy, and resolve to those who believed women should be equal to men. This video analyzes the beginning of an independent women's rights movement and the reforms advocated by these activists. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Women's Rights; Religion/Higher Authority; Lucretia Mott; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Sentiments; Woman as Man's equal; Bloomers; Female Abolitionists; Sojourner Truth. DURATION: 05:36 |
I am the Revelation |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video discusses how and why women became important in reform movements during the early and mid-19th century. CONTENT ELEMENTS: The Millennium/Perfectionism; Social Reform; Women's Esteem; Women's Education; Catherine Beecher/Hartford Seminary; Dorothea Dix/Hospitals for the Insane; the temperance movement. DURATION: 03:33 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: In the early 19th century, the search for religious perfectionism swept the country. This video examines the lives of the Shakers and the Mormons to illustrate the religious ferment of the era. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Religion; Second Great Awakening; Religious revivalism/renewal; the Millennium; perfectionism; religious communes; Shakers; Ann Lee; Celibacy; gender equity; Mormons; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon; Nauvoo, Illinois; Polygamy; Brigham Young; Utah/Salt Lake City. DURATION: 07:22 |
The Mormons |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Amidst the religious ferment of the early 1800s, many new religions were formed. This video examines the Mormons and their attempts to practice their beliefs. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Religion; Religious renewal/the Millennium; Mormons; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Joseph Smith; Book of Mormon; Nauvoo, Illinois; Polygamy; Brigham Young; Utah/Salt Lake City. DURATION: 03:14 |
The Shakers |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video describes the origins, the practices, and eventual demise of the Shaker religious commune. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Religious Communes; Religious renewal/the Millennium; Shakers; Ann Lee; Celibacy; gender equity. DURATION: 02:40 |
Two Sisters-Women’s Rights |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video introduces the topics of religion and reform in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Sarah and Angelina Grimke; Religion; Abolitionists; Women's Rights; Second Great Awakening; Quakers; William Lloyd Garrison; Reform/Freedom of Speech/public sphere for women. DURATION: 02:04 |
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Manifest Destiny |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The concept that CONTENT ELEMENTS: "Manifest Destiny";
providence/mission; racism/ethnocentrism/imperialism; DURATION: 01:42 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As the western movement of
American settlers increased in the 1840s, the northwest territory of CONTENT ELEMENTS: James K. Polk; Election of 1844;
"54° 40' or Fight"; moving west/Oregon Trail; DURATION: 03:43 |
Provoking War |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The CONTENT ELEMENTS:
DURATION: 02:53 |
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, ended the CONTENT ELEMENTS:
DURATION: 04:56 |
The U.S. - Mexican War |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
This video analyzes the beginning of the U.S.-Mexican War, the reasons
for CONTENT ELEMENTS: U.S.-Mexican War; Disputed territory; Texas; Rio Grande/Nueces Rivers; President James K. Polk; General Arista; support and opposition to the war in the U.S.; military strategy and operations; reasons for U.S. victory; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Mexican Cession; Article 9/Mexican-American citizenship; land rights; effect on American Indians; long-term consequences. DURATION: 11:15 |
We Must Have |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines the
tensions between the Mexican government and Anglo settlers in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Texas; Mexico; Mexican policies in Texas; land grants; debates over slavery; Stephen F. Austin; Sam Houston; Texas Revolt/Texas' Independence; debates over annexation; President John Tyler; President James K. Polk. DURATION: 04:51 |
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A Divided Nation |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As CONTENT ELEMENTS: Regional Differences; The North/The South; Agriculture/Intensification of Commerce; Free labor/Slave labor; Civil War in American Memory. DURATION: 03:46 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The addition of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: U.S. Geography; Santa Fe Trail; Santa Fe; social scene/La Tules Barcelo; Land rights; border issues; Pueblo Indians/Navaho; Apache; Statehood; Slavery. DURATION: 03:08 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: By examining life in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Upstate New York; Abolitionists; New York City; slavery issue; commercial/urban center; Charleston, SC; "Queen City of the South"; Seaman's Act; defense of slavery; intellectual blockade; free black elite. DURATION: 04:32 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: By 1850, The Oregon Territory had abundant
resources and drew many settlers, but it did not have easy routes to move
goods back east. CONTENT ELEMENTS: National Geography; Oregon/The Oregon Trail; Settlers/Indians/Treaties broken/ Indian Reservations; missionaries; slaves/free blacks; resources; San Francisco/ California; Pacific Ocean/Gateway to the Far East; the Gold Rush/population growth; violence; mining camps/diversity; statehood issue; free state; slavery. DURATION: 05:21 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: By 1850, CONTENT ELEMENTS: National Geography; Free States/Slave States; Departure Point/Freedom seekers; Gateway to the West. DURATION: 01:40 |
The Compromise of 1850 |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: When CONTENT ELEMENTS: 1850; California/Statehood; Balance of Power; The Wilmot Proviso; slave states/free states; Henry Clay; Daniel Webster; John C. Calhoun; The Great Debate; Stephen Douglas; The Compromise of 1850. DURATION: 05:42 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video uses six regional locations to examine the state of the nation in 1850. CONTENT ELEMENTS: U.S. Geography in 1850; regional/sectional issues; slavery in the territories; Upstate New York/New York City; Charleston, SC; St Louis; Santa Fe; Oregon Territory; San Francisco/California. DURATION: 15:18 |
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A Higher Law |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law created a mechanism for recapturing fugitive slaves across the country. This video describes the open resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law from individuals, organizations, and state governments in the North. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Law; slavery; federal commissioners/abolitionists/slave catchers; Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; states' rights; Theodore Parker; William Lloyd Garrison; Constitution; "higher law"; Boston/Anthony Burns; President Pierce/federal troops. DURATION: 06:26 |
A New Party |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines the shifting political realignment of the1850s, highlighted by the emergence of a new sectional party, the Republicans. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Political realignment; Whigs/Democrats; sectionalism; Kansas-Nebraska Act; third party movement; Republican Party; slavery/anti-slavery; Stephen Douglas. DURATION: 01:59 |
Bleeding |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As western expansion continued, so too did the issue of slavery in new territories. This video analyzes the causes and consequences of Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Westward expansion; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Stephen Douglas ("The Little Giant"); homesteaders; Indian land/Reservations; popular sovereignty; Lawrence, KS; John Brown; "Bleeding Kansas"; Charles Sumner/Preston Brooks; Free Soilers/border ruffians; LeCompton Constitution. DURATION: 08:10 |
Dred Scott |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the background, the Supreme Court's decision, and the immediate effects of the Dred Scott case. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Supreme Court; Dred Scott; John Emerson; Ft. Armstrong; Ft. Snelling; Missouri Compromise; St. Louis; John Sandford; Dred Scott v. Sandford; Chief Justice Roger Taney; 5th Amendment; slaves as property; pro-slavery verdict; Constitution as pro slavery; Republican Party. DURATION: 05:52 |
Revolutions Never Go Backward |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides as summary analysis of the consequences of Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision. With the nation divided over the issue of slavery, the stage was set for the election of Abraham Lincoln and, ultimately, the Civil War. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Pro/anti slavery forces; northerners/southerners; Dred Scott decision; Republican Party; Abraham Lincoln. DURATION: 01:57 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel dealing
with slavery in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Fugitive Slave Law; slavery; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom's Cabin; abolition; public perception. DURATION: 01:46 |
Webster’s Compromise |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video uses Daniel Webster's personal decision to support the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to introduce the national struggle in the 1850s to confront the issue of slavery. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Daniel Webster; slavery; Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Law; abolitionists. DURATION: 01:14 |
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A Perpetual |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As calls for secession increased in
the late 1850s, the man who would be president never wavered in his belief
that the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Abraham Lincoln;
Secessionists/disunionists; states' rights/perpetual DURATION: 01:00 |
Election and Secession |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the presidential election of 1860 and its results, including the secession of seven southern states. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Election of 1860; Democratic Party split; Stephen Douglas; John C Breckenridge; Republican Party Convention; Abraham Lincoln; William Seward; John Bell/Constitutional Union Party; Election results; Secession; Sam Houston; Confederate States of America; Alexander Stevens; Jefferson Davis; Lincoln's Inauguration; Lincoln's views on secession; Lincoln's Inaugural Address. DURATION: 8:00 |
John Brown |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines John Brown's raid
on CONTENT ELEMENTS: John Brown; Abolition movement;
slave rebellion; DURATION: 05:14 |
Mathew Brady |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The ability of media to sway voters
is given perspective in this video about the photographer who made a famous
portrait of CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cooper Union/ DURATION: 01:18 |
Mr. Lincoln |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video traces Abraham Lincoln's early interest in politics, his commitment to freedom for all, and his path to national attention. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Lincoln's background; Lincoln's critics; Springfield, Illinois; free-labor society; Slavery; Kansas Nebraska Act/Republican Party; Stephen Douglas; popular sovereignty; "House divided" speech; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Dred Scott decision/Freeport Doctrine; Cooper Union speech; William Seward; national press. DURATION: 09:11 |
The Stage For War |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides perspectives on the inevitability of the Civil War. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War as inevitable?; Irrepressible Conflict; free-labor/slave-labor societies; "House Divided"; Union/Secession. DURATION: 02:36 |
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A Momentous Issue |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: In 1861, CONTENT ELEMENTS: Abraham Lincoln; Inaugural Address; 1861; Civil War. DURATION: 1:04 |
Bull Run to |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video examines some of the first
major battles which took place during the first two years of the Civil
War. The battles at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam and CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; General Irwin McDowell; Army of the Potomac; Washington, D.C.; Manassas/Bull Run; General P.G.T. Beauregard; "Stonewall" Jackson; civilian onlookers; General George McClellan; Western Theater of War; General Ulysses S. Grant; Fort Henry/Fort Donelson; Tennessee; Pittsburg Landing; General Albert Sidney Johnston; Shiloh; Hornet's Nest; Don Carlos Buell; Corinth, Mississippi; General Robert E. Lee; Antietam; General Ambrose Burnside; Fredericksburg; Marye's Heights; casualties of war. DURATION: 9:04 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: CONTENT ELEMENTS: Abraham Lincoln; secession; Fort Sumter; Charleston, South Carolina; Major Robert Anderson; Lincoln's options; Confederacy; Jefferson Davis; Union surrender of Fort Sumter. DURATION: 5:51 |
On The Verge |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the status of the Civil War at the end of 1862 and why it appeared the Confederates were on the verge of winning. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Matthew Brady; photos of war dead; Confederacy/Union; western/eastern theaters; General Robert E. Lee; General George McClellan; Virginia/Maryland/Kentucky/Ohio River; demoralized Union/confident Confederates. DURATION: |
Two Generals |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The two legendary military commanders
of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant of the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; General Robert E. Lee;
General Ulysses S. Grant; DURATION: 2:49 |
Why They Fought |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As the Civil War began, spirits were high on both sides, and many were optimistic that it would be a short war. This video analyzes the reasons people signed up to fight and the advantages each side held. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; Fort Sumter; Abraham Lincoln; volunteers; Confederacy; secession of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas; border states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri; legacy of the American Revolution; reasons for fighting; northern material advantage/southern strategic advantage; civilian population DURATION: 6:21 |
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Digital History |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This segment presents an overview of how the Internet is being used in the study of the Civil War. One resource featured is the interactive website, "The Valley of the Shadow." CONTENT ELEMENTS: History on the Internet; "The Valley of the Shadow." DURATION: 1:53 |
Emancipation |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes two of the most important decisions made by President Lincoln during the Civil War: issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and using black troops. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Using runaway slaves; Abraham Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation - its limits and importance; Military Service of Blacks; 54th Massachusetts/free blacks; Fort Wagner; Robert Gould Shaw; Southern Reactions; discrimination toward black troops in Union Army. DURATION: 8:12 |
The Center of the Struggle |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of key developments on both the southern and northern home fronts during the Civil War. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Economic & physical destruction in South; Slavery at the center of the struggle in South; African American participation in North. DURATION: 3:44 |
The War at Home – The North |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Sustaining the war on the home front was critical for victory. This video analyzes how people and institutions in the North were affected by the war and focuses on Franklin County, Pennsylvania, as a case study. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Federal Income Tax; The Draft;
Agricultural and industrial production; power of the Federal Government; DURATION: 5:57 |
The War at Home – The South |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The South had a very different
experience during the Civil War compared to the North. This video examines
the southern home front, featuring the experience of CONTENT ELEMENTS: Union Naval Blockade; Agricultural Economy; Hardships/Shortages/Starvation/Refugees; political/economic challenges for the Confederacy; Wartime economy/taxes; draft; Women on the southern home front; Shenandoah Valley; Augusta County, Virginia; slavery breaking down; plunder. DURATION: 6:46 |
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Civil War: The Tide Turns |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a brief synopsis of the state of the Civil War in the spring of 1863 and suggests that the tide would soon turn in favor of the North. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; DURATION: 1:11 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The battlefield at CONTENT ELEMENTS: DURATION: 3:18 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The battle of CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; Union/Confederacy; General Robert E. Lee; Gettysburg; George Gordon Meade; Army of the Potomac; Culp's Hill/east Cemetery Hill/Cemetery Ridge/Little Round Top; James Longstreet; Major General George Pickett/"Pickett's Charge"; "Chancellorsville Syndrome." DURATION: 4:28 |
The Beginning of the End |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The battles at CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; Vicksburg; Mississippi River; geography/strategic importance; Union/Confederacy; Jackson, MS; lines of communication/supply routes/railroads; siege of Vicksburg; General Robert E. Lee; Pennsylvania/Virginia/Gettysburg; George Gordon Meade; Army of the Potomac; Culp's Hill/east Cemetery Hill/Cemetery Ridge/Little Round Top; James Longstreet; Major General George Pickett/ "Pickett's charge"; "Chancellorsville Syndrome"; Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton/surrender at Vicksburg; media coverage/northern morale/strategic gains. DURATION: 9:38 |
The End |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: On April 9, 1865, General Lee
surrendered his army at CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; General Robert E. Lee; General Ulysses S. Grant; Union/Confederacy; Lee's surrender at Appomattox; Grant's generous terms of surrender; Abraham Lincoln; Ford's Theater; Washington, D.C.; John Wilkes Booth; assassination of Lincoln; Lincoln's tomb; words from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. DURATION: 2:47 |
The Legacy |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The Civil War was nothing less than the "Second American Revolution." This video analyzes the toll the war took on the country, the factors that led to a Northern victory, and the consequences of that victory. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; cost of war; Northern victory; factors in outcome; Abraham Lincoln; preservation of union/abolition of slavery; "new birth of freedom"; free-labor dynamic capitalism; "Second American Revolution." DURATION: 3:12 |
Total War |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: When Ulysses S. Grant became the
General-in-Chief of the Union forces in 1864, he quickly put into place his
plan for a coordinated offensive on all fronts. This video analyzes
Grant's strategy of "relentless" war, including CONTENT ELEMENTS: Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; Ulysses S. Grant; Union; coordinated offensives; Confederacy; General Robert E. Lee; Wilderness; 1864 presidential election; Peace Democrats; Petersburg; General Sherman; General Joe Johnston; Georgia/Atlanta; Philip Sheridan/Shenandoah Valley; Lincoln's re-election; Sherman's March, "strategy of exhaustion"; Savannah; South Carolina; Richmond-Petersburg line; Battle of Five Forks; Lee's Retreat; Lincoln enters Richmond. DURATION: 7:32 |
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Early Reconstruction |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: As ex-slaves tried to exercise freedom as Reconstruction began, they encountered obstacles on almost every front. This video analyzes these issues and the adjustments being made. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Frederick Douglass; the meanings of Freedom; Family/Responsibility/ Expectations; Freedmen's Bureau; Southern white resistance; Land issues; Loss of capital in the South; Wounded soldiers/Medical relief; Labor Relations; Sharecropping System; Black Codes. DURATION: 7:13 |
Ku Klux Klan |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization whose purpose was to maintain southern white control over blacks through violence and intimidation. This video segment examines the origins and actions of the Klan. CONTENT ELEMENTS: KKK; Violence/Fear/Intimidation/Harassment; Voting rights; Polling places/Voter Control; Black Republicans. DURATION: 1:59 |
Radical Reconstruction |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes Radical Republican attempts to reshape the South and southern resistance to those efforts. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Reconstruction Act of 1867; New State Constitutions; Republican Party/Radical Republicans; Anti-Southern sentiments; States' Rights; Universal Suffrage/Voter Registration; Union Leagues; Education; Political Participation; Prince Rivers; Violence; Ku Klux Klan; Intimidation/Fear; Voter Control; Black Republicans. DURATION: 6:18 |
Reconstruction – A Period of Hope |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video introduces some of the
major issues facing the CONTENT ELEMENTS: Freedom; Equality; Status of African Americans; American Principles; Political System; Political participation; Hope. DURATION: 1:26 |
The 13th Amendment |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This brief video examines the meaning of the 13th Amendment and its significance in the context of Reconstruction. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Slavery abolished; 13th Amendment; Ratification requirement in South; Southern resistance; "Constitutional Revolution." DURATION: 1:01 |
The 14th Amendment |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The 14th Amendment is one of the most important additions ever added to the original Constitution. This brief video examines its key provisions and their significance. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Freedom; 14th Amendment; Citizenship; Equal Protection of the laws; "Constitutional Revolution"; Radical Republicans. DURATION: 1:13 |
The 15th Amendment |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: A crucial part of what freedom means is to have the right to vote. This brief video examines the provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution and its limits. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Voting rights; 15th Amendment; Women's Rights; "Constitutional Revolution." DURATION: 1:13 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the successes and failures of Reconstruction, how the era was presented historically, and the legacy of that period. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Political and Social resistance to black equality; Reconstruction; Racial Freedom/ Racial Injustice; Reconstruction history; a Revolution "half-accomplished." DURATION: 3:14 |
The End of Reconstruction |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Reconstruction in the South ended when conservative white southern Democrats regained political power in the region. This video analyzes how and why that happened and what it meant for southern blacks. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Reconstruction; White resistance;
Northern withdrawal; Racism; Election Violations; Republican Party/Democratic
Party; "the Redeemers"; Menial Jobs/Poverty/Loss of Freedom; DURATION: 6:10 |
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Centennial Celebration |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: The Centennial Exhibition held in CONTENT ELEMENTS: 1876 centennial celebration; Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; Exhibits on display; telephone/Alexander Graham Bell; Susan B. Anthony/women's rights activists/protest; agrarian to industrial transformation; immigration; railroads. DURATION: 3:20 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Using railroads, steamboats and
stagecoaches, this video takes the viewer on a tour across CONTENT ELEMENTS: U.S. territory/geography; population growth/ immigrants; New York City; industrial & capitalist economy; rich & poor; transcontinental railroad; Chicago/St. Louis; Major League Baseball; Pacific Express; General George Custer; American Indians; Battle of Little Big Horn; Brigham Young/Mormons; Donner Party; San Francisco; Portland; Santa Fe; Mexican Americans; Mark Twain/The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; African Americans; Charleston; phosphate mining; discrimination/women's rights/labor strikes. DURATION: 11:42 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the development of American identity in the colonial period and the degree of freedom being exercised during that era. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Cultural experiences in forming an American identity;Colonial America; Freedom; Limits of freedom; Slavery; American Indians; Women's freedom/Power of Men; Freedom in world perspective. DURATION: 7:08 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary
analysis of how the revolutionary era shaped CONTENT ELEMENTS: Annapolis, Maryland/Liberty Tree/symbol of patriotism/ Revolutionary War/Sons of Liberty; freedom; Declaration of Independence; Liberty an "inalienable right"; Freedom universalized; Democratization of freedom; Political freedom; Women; slaves/African Americans; American Indians/"civilization program"; land/geography; America's future. DURATION: 5:22 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video provides a summary analysis of the status of American identity and freedom in 1848. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Freedom; "Manifest Destiny"; American Identity; Mexican Americans; American Indians; free labor; African Americans; abolition/slavery; women's rights; Declaration of Sentiments; universal freedom; boundaries of freedom. DURATION: 5:50 |
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video analyzes the status of
freedom in CONTENT ELEMENTS: Freedom; boundaries of freedom; American Indians; Reservations; identity; women's rights; 14th amendment; "privilege"; African Americans; gains/concerns; meanings of freedom; "contested idea." DUR ATION: 4:50 |
Creating History |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video features a diverse array of prominent historians addressing one thing they want students to learn about American history. Their comments provoke thought as students complete a survey course. CONTENT ELEMENTS: Creating history; process of history; battle over basic ideals; movement toward reconciliation; studying history; American Identity; History matters. DURATION: 2:38 |
Defining |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Looking at American history as a
whole, this video examines both CONTENT ELEMENTS: DURATION: 3:56 |
History Matters |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: This video features a diverse array of speakers giving their thoughts on why history matters. Their voices help to open the mind of the viewer. CONTENT ELEMENTS: History; American history. DURATION: 2:16 |
Who We Really Are |
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Over time, our understanding of
American identity has changed. This video uses the story of Thomas
Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, to illustrate this point. Their
story, along with the changing demographics of CONTENT ELEMENTS: American Identity; Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings relationship; James Callender; Monticello; Madison Hemings; Winthrop Jordan; White Over Black; Fawn Brodie; Thomas Jefferson; An Intimate History; DNA testing; black and white descendants of Jefferson; demographic change in America; blending of people/people of color. DURATION: 4:54 |
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2012 |
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