This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the colony of Jamestown's struggles to survive, as tense relations with local Indians erupt into the First and Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars of the early and mid-1600s.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the triangular trade route, in which 17th-century merchants sailed the Atlantic Ocean in a path between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Eventually, African slaves became part of this system.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the search for a Northwest Passage, which began in earnest following Christopher Columbus's first journey to the Americas in 1492. Many Europeans hoped that a waterway existed in the Americas that would link Europe with Asia.
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Author John Steele Gordon describes the revolution in travel that occurs when the first passenger ships begin to cross the Atlantic on regular schedules.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary covers the period between 1812 and 1850, which marked the transition from an economy based on local farms and communities to a market economy, largely like what exists today.
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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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In the early days of the American West, white settlers were dependent on Native Americans for knowledge of the rough frontier. Professor Maria Montoya of New York University explains that Indians were becoming equally dependent on whites.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes an arrangement at Jamestown settlement in Virginia, in which both the English and Indians exchanged young children, including Pocahontas, in order to learn more about each other's culture and language. This arrangement fathered a cultural exchange between the two groups.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the early encounters between Europeans and Native Americans that brought about a cultural exchange that benefited one group while bringing misery to the other. While Europeans were introduced to new crops, the Indians were plagued with Old World diseases.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Pequot War, in which fighting breaks out between the English Puritans of New England and the Pequot Indians over the control of land. It escalated to a full-scale conflict, in which the English burned entire Indian villages, completely annihilating the Pequot people.
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