19th Century Turning Points in U.S. History

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America entered the 19th Century an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people. This series is made up of 55 stand-alone segments that highlight significant historical events, scientific milestones and cultural achievements

America entered the 19th century as an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people. By the end of the century, the nation was an industrial power of 45 states and 76 million people. This series of eight programs is chaptered into 55 stand-alone segments that highlight significant historical events, scientific milestones and cultural achievements. Historical content is delivered 'on demand' with unprecedented ease, allowing teachers and students instantaneous access to specific information.

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1800-181325 minutes$6.00
1800 - Washington DC Becomes the Nation's Capitol4 minutes$2.00
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase4 minutes$2.00
1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition4 minutes$2.00
1807 - Robert Fulton Awakens the World to the Steamboat3 minutes$2.00
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe6 minutes$2.00
1811 - New Madrid Earthquake2 minutes$2.00
1814-182624 minutes$6.00
1814 - Washington DC is Captured and Burned by the British6 minutes$2.00
1814 - Star Spangled Banner is Written3 minutes$2.00
1815 - Battle of New Orleans2 minutes$2.00
1819 - Washington Irving Publishes "Rip Van Winkle" - 18193 minutes$2.00
1821 - Inauguration of the Santa Fe Trail3 minutes$2.00
1825 - Erie Canal is Completed3 minutes$2.00
1826 - James Fenimore Cooper Publishes "Last of the Mohicans"2 minutes$2.00
1827 - 184625 minutes$6.00
1831 - Cyrus McCormick Demonstrates His Mechanical Reaper3 minutes$2.00
1831 - Nat Turner Begins His Rebellion3 minutes$2.00
1832 - Black Hawk War Ends with Massacre at Bad Axe River4 minutes$2.00
1836 - Alamo Falls4 minutes$2.00
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe Publishes "The Raven"3 minutes$2.00
1846 - The Donner Party Starts West3 minutes$2.00
1846 - United States Declares War on Mexico4 minutes$2.00
1846 - 186025 minutes$6.00
1846 - Dr. John Morton Demonstrates Painless Surgery Using Ether3 minutes$2.00
1848 - Gold is Discovered at Sutter's Mill4 minutes$2.00
1849 - Treaty Between U.S. and Hawaiian Islands3 minutes$2.00
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe Publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"2 minutes$2.00
1854 - Commodore Perry Lands in Japan4 minutes$2.00
1858 - Lincoln Douglas Debates Begin2 minutes$2.00
1860 - Pony Express Mail Service Begins4 minutes$2.00
1861 - 186524 minutes$6.00
1861 - Eleven States Comprise the Confederacy3 minutes$2.00
1862 - Congress Sets Forth the Homestead Act3 minutes$2.00
1863 - Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation3 minutes$2.00
1863 - Lincoln Delivers His Gettysburg Address3 minutes$2.00
1865 - Lee Surrenders at Appomattox3 minutes$2.00
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated3 minutes$2.00
1865 - Formation of the Ku Klux Klan4 minutes$2.00
1866 - 187023 minutes$6.00
1867 - Carpetbaggers Descend on the South3 minutes$2.00
1867 U.S. Acquires Alaska . . . Seward's Folly3 minutes$2.00
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is Impeached4 minutes$2.00
1869 - Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad6 minutes$2.00
1870 - Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil Co. of Ohio5 minutes$2.00
1871 - 188124 minutes$6.00
1871 - Chicago Fire3 minutes$2.00
1872 - Susan B. Anthony is Arrested for Voting2 minutes$2.00
1875 - Robert Smalls, Former Slave, Elected to the House3 minutes$2.00
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Demonstrates the Telephone2 minutes$2.00
1876 - Battle of Little Bighorn3 minutes$2.00
1879 - Thomas Edison Demonstrates the Incandescent Lamp2 minutes$2.00
1880 - George Eastman Patents Kodak Roll Film3 minutes$2.00
1881 - Booker T. Washington Opens Tuskegee Institute3 minutes$2.00
1881 - 189824 minutes$6.00
1881 - Clara Barton Organizes the American Red Cross3 minutes$2.00
1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act Passed by Congress3 minutes$2.00
1885 - Mark Twain Publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"3 minutes$2.00
1889 - Oklahoma Land Rush begins2 minutes$2.00
1890 - Battle at Wounded Knee3 minutes$2.00
1893 - First Gas Powered Automobile is Demonstrated2 minutes$2.00
1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson Case Upholds Segregation3 minutes$2.00
1898 - Sinking of the Maine4 minutes$2.00
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