Farmers' Issues in Black and White
This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the different goals of the Colored Farmers' Alliance and the white Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the different goals of the Colored Farmers' Alliance and the white Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Pullman Strike. Many railroad workers nationwide joined the Pullman railroad workers in protest, but the strike soon turned violent.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how backlash against Chinese Workers in the 1850s led to the Chinese Exclusion Act, perhaps the harshest anti-immigration legislation in American history.
This iCue Mini-Documentary presents the textile industry in Lowell, MA, as representative of the transition of American girls from the farms to the factories.
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Columbia University professor Alan Brinkley describes the extraordinary efforts by Franklin Roosevelt to ramp up industrial production to meet the needs of World War II.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes American sugar planters' control of the plantations of Hawaii. They eventually exercised their power by forcing the queen to abdicate.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Philippine soldiers' beginning to fight against the U.S. soldiers who occupied the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War, tipping off a debate in the United States about whether America should be imperialist.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Notes which stated his belief that China should be open to all countries equally for trade.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Bostonian Samuel Adams's encouragement of Committees of Correspondence, which were letter-writing campaigns to monitor British activities in the colonies.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the growing enslavement of Africans in America and the writing of slave codes to govern the practice.
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