This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the superior resources and infrastructure of the North, which helped it overpower the South in the Civil War, even though the South had the home turf advantage.

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An intricate political cartoon about the depressed state of the American economy during the financial panic of 1837 is illuminated by Professor Matthew Warshauer.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the brief period following the 1816 election of James Monroe in which only one political party dominated American politics. But growing partisanship and financial panic soon brought the Era of Good Feelings to an end.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the social situation in the South prior to the Civil War, in which white society was divided between the wealthy class known as the Planter Aristocracy, and the poor yeoman farmers of the backcountry.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces immigration to America, which began in the Colonial Period but took off following the War of 1812, and the arrival of a giant stream of refugees on American shores.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Samuel Slater, a mill worker from England, who borrowed technology that spurred the textile industry in America.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the War of 1812, which started when England tried to restrict American shipping.

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In this iCue Mini-Documentary describes George Washington's decision to make Alexander Hamilton the Secretary of the Treasury.

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In this iCue Mini-Documentary describes Alexander Hamilton's desire, as Secretary of the Treasury, to establish America as a world power capable of paying off its debt.

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