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Inventors of the Age
Inventors of the Age

Season 3

Inventors in the late nineteenth century flooded the market with new technological advances. Encouraged by Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution, and…

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The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens

Season 3

In the nineteenth century, the Hispanic, Chinese, and White populations of the country collided. White people moved further west in search of land an…

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The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture

Season 3

Settlers encroaching on Native American land created an "Indian problem" in the American West, which increasingly required government intervention. V…

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Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
Making a Living in Gold and Cattle

Season 3

While homesteading was the backbone of western expansion, mining and cattle also played significant roles in shaping the West. Much rougher in charac…

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Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Homesteading: Dreams and Realities

Season 3

The concept of Manifest Destiny and the strong incentives to relocate sent hundreds of thousands of people west across the Mississippi. The rigors of…

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The Westward Spirit
The Westward Spirit

Season 3

While a few bold settlers had moved westward before the middle of the nineteenth century, they were the exception, not the rule. The “great American …

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Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872

Season 3

Though President Johnson declared Reconstruction complete less than a year after the Confederate surrender, members of Congress disagreed. Republican…

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Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866

Season 3

The conflict between President Johnson and the Republican-controlled Congress over the proper steps to be taken with the defeated Confederacy grew in…

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Restoring the Union
Restoring the Union

Season 3

President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After …

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The Union Triumphant
The Union Triumphant

Season 3

Having failed to win the support it expected from either Great Britain or France, the Confederacy faced a long war with limited resources and no alli…

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