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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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