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 introduces the phrase "conspicuous consumption," a phrase coined by a Norwegian American sociologist to describe the lifestyles of the newly wealthy in early 20th-century America.
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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 how, after the Civil War, a group of influential southerners promoted a vision and some said a myth about a "New South" that would be competitive with the north.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how Abraham Lincoln's successor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, was an immediate disappointment to Lincoln supporters who wanted to protect the rights of newly freed blacks.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Andrew Jackson's open hatred for the Bank of the United States.
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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a political cartoon from 1836 that satirizes Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States.
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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a pro-Andrew Jackson cartoon applauding the president's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the the Northwest Ordinance, adopted by Congress in 1787, which called for new states to be developed in the Ohio region.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Woodrow Wilson's efforts to promote the idea of World War I to a skeptical American public. In order to do so, he turned to one of the leading figures in the advertising industry.
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