This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1880s, black farmers suffered the most in the economic downturn and organized themselves into the Colored Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how temporary workers from Mexico filled huge labor shortages created by World War II and became part of the continuing debate about immigration.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Farmers' Alliance, which formed a base of the early Populist Party.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the invention of the harvesting machine by Cyrus McCormick, which revolutionized wheat production and freed up the American workforce.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how farmers, miners, and other working-class members banded together to push silver as the new currency of the United States.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Homestead Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 as a way to encourage settlement of the American West.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the discovery of gold in California in 1848 led to an unprecedented migration, as thousands of people traveled west in the hopes of making it big.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike, one of the earliest examples of an American turnpike and the way in which it helped the city of Philadelphia capture business from Baltimore.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the virtual chaos of the banking system of early 19th-century America, with thousands of different banknotes in circulation across the country.
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