Free Silver

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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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The Mining Boom

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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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The Market Revolution

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This iCue Mini-Documentary covers the period between 1812 and 1850, which marked the transition from an economy based on local farms and communities to a market economy, largely like what exists today.

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Slavery and Indentured Servitude

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Michael Ray narrates a basic introduction to indentured servitude and slavery in the North American colonies. The presentation looks at the transition from indentured servitude as the most common form of forced labor to the use of African slaves and the development of the slave trade. It includes excerpts from the oral history of a former slave.

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