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Reconstruction (2:02)
A CHAPTER FROM: Out of the Ashes (1945-1949)
The U.S. spends hundreds of millions on relief for war-torn Europe.
- 6-8Grades 6-8
Classics- Curriculum Explorer
Reconstruction: Challenges and Progress (1:25)
A CHAPTER FROM: United States History: 1860-1900: The Civil War and Reconstr...
The South, which had been left decimated by the Civil War, must rebuild. The North must convert its factories to peacetime manufacturing. A Constitutional Amendment officially ends slavery.
- 6-8Grades 6-8
- Curriculum Explorer
United States History: 1860-1900: The Civil War... (19:37)
This program uses period paintings, graphics, and dramatic motion picture footage, as well as some primary sources and archival footage, to document the issues and events leading to the American Civil War, the assassination of President Abraham...
- 6-8Grades 6-8
- Curriculum Explorer
America During Reconstruction: The Beginning... (2:25)
A CHAPTER FROM: Playing Field, The
Baseball was invented in 1839 and began to achieve success in the East after the Civil War; teams included African-American players, such as Moses Fleetwood Walker, but racial problems were brewing.
- 6-12Grades 6-12
Closed Captioning- Classics
- Curriculum Explorer
Industrialization: Growth of Cities and Industries (1:17)
A CHAPTER FROM: United States History: 1860-1900: The Civil War and Reconstr...
During Reconstruction, industrial production increases as new industries and jobs are created. The economy advances as business, commerce, and industry grow rapidly.
- 6-8Grades 6-8
- Curriculum Explorer
Discovering Ancient Greece (1500-100 B.C.) (35:30)
Beautiful live-action photography, combined with architectural reconstruction's and ancient works of art, take students on a voyage into a long-lost world. Students visit Mycenae, site of the palace of Agamemnon; the ruins of the once great...
- 6-8Grades 6-8
- Closed Captioning
- Classics
- Curriculum Explorer
Reconstructing the South (4:09)
A CHAPTER FROM: American History: Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled ...
Congress passed the 14th amendment, which sought to give equal rights to African Americans. However, by the 1870s, white-dominated Southern governments passed new laws that took away African American rights; many African Americans were forced...
- 6-12Grades 6-12
Life on Southern Plantations (3:17)
A CHAPTER FROM: American History: Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled ...
Born into bondage, most African American slaves knew nothing other than a life governed by the complete control of a plantation master. A slave's daily life depended on the plantation's location, the type of work, and the slave's relationship...
- 6-12Grades 6-12
Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court... (5:13)
A SECTION FROM: American History: Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled ...
By 1952, the citizens who had initiated the Clarendon and Farmville cases entrusted their fate to the NAACP lawyers along with citizens involved with three other cases. The Supreme Court combined them all into one case, Brown v. Board of Education,...
- 6-12Grades 6-12
America's Civil War (3:52)
A CHAPTER FROM: American History: Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled ...
Beginning on April 12, 1861, the Civil War was the world's first industrial war. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, solidifying the authority of the federal...
- 6-12Grades 6-12