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McGraw-Hill Films The US becomes a world power
This documentary explores the events which turned the United States into a world power, and discusses how the bombing of the American battleship "The Maine" led to a change in U.S. foreign policy
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McGraw-Hill Films Colonial America
Starting with Columbus this video relates the poor conditions in the Old World with the promises of the New. Overpopulation pushed for emigration.
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McGraw-Hill Films The colonial economy
Portrays how colonists devised realistic solutions to their problems of labor, transportation, capital and currency. - In order to build a viable and prosperous colony, the Americans needed to find capital, labor, and modes of transportation. Each region developed differently, with plantations in the South, whaling, shipbuilding and industry in the North, and wheat and cattle growing in the middle colonies. The mother country needed the raw materials, but guarded its industrial secrets, causing tension...
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McGraw-Hill Films The colonial way of life
Various races and national groups settled the colonies in America. Ways of life in the several regions served to emphasize differences in cultural and religious beliefs. However, as trade, communication, education and idea exchange increased, differences that existed among the colonists gradually became less important than the things they had in common
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McGraw-Hill Films The years of reconstruction, 1865-1877
Shows the economic, social, and political problems which faced the freed Negro, and discusses how resentment and bitterness from both Negroes and whites frustrated attempts to reach a reasonable peace. - Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, how the economy in the South changed and how the position of African-Americans improved but very slowly
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McGraw-Hill Films Immigration
After the Civil War , there was a great demand for new settlers to cultivate the vast plains of America. This film discusses the main immigration periods and the characteristics of each phase. It addresses the many and various aspects related to American immigrant history
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McGraw-Hill Films The rise of the industrial giant
As the United States is entering it's second century, industry is growing. However, with new wealth come new problems: growing resentment gainst monopolies and protests against the accumulation of wealth in the hands of few. This documentary discusses these developments.
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McGraw-Hill Films America becomes an industrial nation
Covers America's industrial development from 1776-1876, a century in which the United States was transformed from a nation of farms and villages to one of the leading industrial nations of the world
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McGraw-Hill Films Trusts and trust busters
This video is a compilation of photographs, pictures, cartoons, and narration. It describes the industrial giants such as Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie, as well as the "Trust Busters" who tried to put an end to these giants' reign. The video discusses anti-trust acts, exposé literature such as Upton Sinclairs The Jungle and Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives". The battle between the unions and the free trade advocates, as well as Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in this matter are portrayed...
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McGraw-Hill Films Negro slavery
Discusses the beginning and development of slavery in the United States and shows the life of the slave. Describes the gradual division of American society over the slavery issue, and explains how the division culminated in the Civil War. - It describes initial initiatives to outlaw the institution as the demand for cotton, which strengthened it. The documentary describes the rise of the abolitionist movement, the founding of the Republican Party, and the rising tension between the North and the...
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