This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Civil War, some southern blacks left farms for new jobs in factories, but quickly realized that working conditions were poor and the pay was worse.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the post-Civil-War boom for Southern cities like Atlanta, GA, and Chattanooga, TN, as railway and factory jobs replace jobs on the farm.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, even though slavery is abolished after the Civil War, the system of share-cropping quickly emerged that kept blacks in a condition much like slavery.

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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 describes the invention of the harvesting machine by Cyrus McCormick, which revolutionized wheat production and freed up the American workforce.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Erie Canal as the technological wonder of its age. Shipping on the canal was three times faster than moving goods on land.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike, one of the earliest examples of an American turnpike and the way in which it helped the city of Philadelphia capture business from Baltimore.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the wave of thousands of German immigrants that arrived in America between 1820 and 1860. These immigrants contributed to many early reform movements, and made cultural contributions as well.

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