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Causes of the Civil War (2003)

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This compelling program reveals how the interests of the industrial North and the agricultural South (the Cotton Belt) came to clash over critical issues such as plantation slavery, and how these issues eventually led to the secession of the southern states.

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Primary
Elementary
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00:14
Causes of the Civil War

A History of Black Achievement in America, Vol. 2 (2005)

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Program 3: The Fight For Freedom, includes: 1851 - Sojourner Truth Delivers "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech; 1854 - First Black university founded - Lincoln University; 1855 - Frederick Douglas publishes "My Bondage and My Freedom"; 1857 - Dred Scott decision helps trigger the Civil War; 1863 - Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation; 1863 - Black Regiment Storms Fort Wagner in the Civil War; 18

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Middle
High
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00:54
A History of Black Achievement in America, Vol. 2

Slavery on the Making of America, Vol 4: The Challenge of Freedom (2005)

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The final volume of the series takes viewers through the Civil War, the Reconstruction and beyond as it follows the life of Robert Smalls. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves under the control of the Confederate government. Once the South was defeated in 1865, the nation adopted the 13th Amendment, effectively ending slavery.

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Middle
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01:00
Slavery on the Making of America, Vol 4: The Challenge of Freedom