History: The American Journey videos

Use online videos to discover the history of America from the 1400's to the present day. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these 33 online U.S. History videos titled The American Journey to study the growth of the United States from its creation as a new country to its search for stability in a changing modern world. Follow the discovery of the New World by Columbus and the establishment of new colonies in it by the French and British.

Witness the growing conflicts between the colonists and the British that led to the War for Independence. Learn about the politics of sectionalism and the mobilization of Northern and Southern forces in the War Between the States. Examine the federal government's treatment of Native Americans and the transformation of the West. Watch the shaping of America and its people in the twentieth century through a great depression and two world wars.

Learning Objectives:

1. Follow the discovery of the New World by Columbus and the establishment of new colonies in it by the French and the British.
2. Witness the growing conflicts between the colonists and the British that led to the War for Independence.
3. Learn about the politics of sectionalism and the mobilization of Northern and Southern forces in the War Between the States.
4. Examine the federal government's treatment of Native Americans and the transformation of the West Watch the shaping of America and its people in the twentieth century through a great depression and two world wars.

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• Worlds Apart (Runtime: 06:27)
• Transplantation 1600-1685 (Runtime: 06:25)
• The Creation of New Worlds (Runtime: 06:09)
• Convergence and Conflict 1660s-1763 (Runtime: 06:19)
• Imperial Breakdown 1763-1774 (Runtime: 05:09)
• The War for Independence 1774-1783 (Runtime: 05:33)
• The First Republic 1776-1789 (Runtime: 04:32)
• A New Republic and Rise of Parties 1789-1800 (Runtime: 05:02)
• The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism 1800-1824 (Runtime: 04:33)
• The Jacksonian Era 1824-1845 (Runtime: 04:57)
• Industrial Change and Urbanization 1820-1850 (Runtime: 04:48)
• The Way West (Runtime: 05:05)
• Slavery and the Old South 1800-1860 (Runtime: 05:03)
• Reforming Antebellum Society 1815-1850 (Runtime: 05:17)
• The Politics of Sectionalism 1846-1861 (Runtime: 05:09)
• Battle Cries and Freedom Songs and The Civil War (Runtime: 05:51)
• The Union Preserved and The Civil War (Runtime: 04:15)
• Reconstruction 1865-1877 (Runtime: 06:22)
• A New South 1877-1900 (Runtime: 05:31)
• Industry Immigrants and Cities 1870-1900 (Runtime: 06:58)
• Transforming the West 1865-1890 (Runtime: 04:57)
• Politics and Government 1870-1900 (Runtime: 05:23)
• The Progressive Era 1900-1917 (Runtime: 05:29)
• Creating an Empire 1865-1917 (Runtime: 05:32)
• America and the Great War 1914-1920 (Runtime: 05:32)
• Toward a Modern America 1920s (Runtime: 05:02)
• The Great Depression and the New Deal (Runtime: 05:44)
• World War 2 1939-1945 (Runtime: 04:47)
• The Cold War at Home and Abroad 1946-1952 (Runtime: 04:23)
• The Confident Years 1953-1964 (Runtime: 05:32)
• Shaken to the Roots 1965-1980 (Runtime: 05:02)
• Shaping a New America 1965-1995 (Runtime: 03:47)
• Search for Stability in a Changing World Since 1980 (Runtime: 03:41)