This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a reaction against the spoils system, which rewarded political support with jobs.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces newspaper printer John Peter Zenger, who tested the freedom of the press long before the first amendment was written. He commited sedition against the governor, but he was acquitted by a jury which favored free speech.
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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 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, as a young nation, the U.S. desperately needed a national system of trade and transportation. But the "American System," proposed by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, became a source of heated debate in the Senate.
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NBC's Katie Couric talks with the original Little Rock Nine. In 1957, nine African-American students entered Central High School in Little Rock, AR, hoping to end segregation.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Espionage Act, which regulated anti-war speech during World War I and made it a federal offense to say, do, or publish things that interfered with the war effort.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Franklin D. Roosevelt's recognition of the growing power of black voters and the group of African-American advisors he listened closely to, known as the "black cabinet."
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Malcolm X and his rejection of Martin Luther King's commitment to nonviolence. He believed African Americans had to separate themselves from white society to gain civil rights.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the two groups which African Americans were divided into at the beginning of the 20th century: those willing to work within the system for advancement and those willing to fight the system for better treatment.
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