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Turning Points In U.S. History

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Turning Points in U.S. History is a series designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that became significant pivotal points in history. Rare archival footage and photographs, authentic recordings, and other primary source documents bring history to life, while stunning graphics and engaging narration lend context and clarity to the subject.

Episodes:

• 19th Century - Program 3 - 1827 to 1846

  1831: Cyrus McCormick demonstrates his mechanical reaper. 1831: Nat Turner begins his rebellion. 1832: Black Hawk War ends with a massacre at Bad Axe River. 1836: Alamo falls. 1845: Edgar Allen Poe publishes "The Raven". 1846: The Donner Party starts west. 1846: US declares war on Mexico.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 27th, 2024 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:25:01
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• 19th Century - Program 4 1846 - 1860

  1846: Dr. Morton demonstrates painless surgery using ether. 1848: gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill. 1849: treaty between US and Hawaiian islands. 1852: Harriet Beecher Stoew publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin". 1854: Commodore Perry lands in Japan. 1858: Lincoln/Douglas debates begin. 1860: Pony Express mail service begins.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 3rd, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:24:31
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• 19th Century - Program 5 1860 - 1865

  1861: 11 states comprise the Confederacy. 1862: Congress sets forth the Homestead Act. 1863: Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation. 1863: Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address. 1865: Lee surrenders at Appomattox. 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. 1865: formation of the Ku Klux Klan.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 10th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:24:01
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• 19th Century - Program 6 1867 - 1870

  1867: carpetbaggers descend on the South. 1867: US acquires Alaska- "Seward's Folly" 1868: President Johnson is impeached. 1869: completion of the Transcontinential railroad. 1870: Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 17th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:23:01
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• 19th Century - Program 7 1871 - 1881

  1871: Chicago fire. 1872: Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting. 1875: Robert Smalls, former slave, elected to the House. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone. 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn. 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent lamp. 1880: George Eastman patents Kodak roll film. 1881: Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 24th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:23:01
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• 19th Century - Program 8 1881 - 1898

  1881: Clara Barton organizes the American Red Cross. 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act passed by Congress. 1885: Mark Twain publishes "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". 1889: Oklahoma land rush begins. 1890: Battle At Wounded Knee. 1893: first gas powered automobile is demonstrated. 1896: Plessy Vs Ferguson case upholds segregation. 1898: sinking of the Maine.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 31st, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:24:01
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• 20th Century - Program 1

  1900: Gold Standard Act is ratified by Congress; 1901: Dr. Walter Reed discovers Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes; 1901: McKinley is shot and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. 1902:140, 000 mine workers go out on strike. 1902: government passes the Newlands Reclamation Act. 1903: Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk. 1906: Upton Sinclair's Novel "The Jungle" is published. 1906: U.S. takes over construction of the Panama Canal. 1907: Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House in Chicago.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 7th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:07
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• 20th Century - Program 2

  1908: Ford introduces the Model T. 1909: W.E.B. Du Bois founds the NAACP. 1911: Hollywood founded. 1913: 16th Amendment allows progressive income tax. 1913: 17th Amendment caps a period of election reforms. 1914: Clayton Anti - Trust Act passed 1914-17 America prepares for World War I. 1917: America enters World War I.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 14th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:03
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• 20th Century - Program 3

  1919: Prohibition begins. 1920: women gain the vote. 1923: Teapot Dome Scandal typifies the Roaring 20's. 1924: J. Edgar Hoover heads FBI. 1925: Scopes Monkey Trial. 1926: Goddard initiates Space Age. 1926: David Sarnoff founds NBC. 1927: Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 21st, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:53
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• 20th Century - Program 4

  1929:"Black Tuesday" foretells the Great Depression. 1932: Amelia Earhart: record-breaking woman aviator. 1933: President Roosevelt's "One Hundred Days" begins his New Deal. 1935: President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. 1936: Jesse Owens and Joe Louis debunk Hitler's claim of Aryan superiority. 1940: Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is published. 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 28th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:03
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• 2oth Century - Program 5

  1944: D-Day "Operation Overlord". 1945: US Air Force drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 1947: Marshall Plan for Europe. 1950: Pres. Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea. 1950-53: The Korean War. 1951: Alan Freed introduces Rock and Roll.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 7th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:35
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• 20th Century - Program 6

  1953: John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War Warrior 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy is condemned by the Senate 1954: Brown v. Board of Education 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested, 1960: Nixon-Kennedy televised debates, 1962: Astronaut John Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 14th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:46
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• 20th Century - Program 7

  1964: Pres. Johnson announces the Great Society. 1964: Vietnam War, Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1965: black urban riots begin. 1968: Vietnam War-Tet Offensive. 1970: first Earth Day. 1972: Watergate. 1973: Vietnam War ends.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 21st, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:48
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• 20th Century - Program 8

  1973: Second Battle of Wounded Knee. 1973: Roe v. Wade. 1976: personal computers herald the Post Industrial Age. 1983: Grenada Conflict. 1987: Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the Federal Reserve. 1990: Gulf War demonstrates American military supremacy. 1991: End of the Cold War. 1994: Whitewater leads to the impeachment of President Clinton. 1999: Y2K ends the American Century.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 28th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:11
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• 18th Century - Program 3

  1739: the Great Awakening begins. 1739: black uprising in South Carolina. 1739: the War of Jenkins Ear begins. 1739-41: new explorations. 1747: the Ohio Land Company is established. 1750: Native American Horse Cultures dominate the great plains. 1750: Parliament passes Iron Act.

  Length:	00:25:42
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• 18th Century - Program 4

  1750: the Flatboat and Conestoga wagon make their appearance in Pennsylvania. 1754: the Albany Plan of union. 1754-1763: the French and Indian War. 1760: James Otis fights for the security of people in their homes. 1763: Ottawa Chief Pontiac's War for Independence. 1765: The Stamp Act is passed. 1765: Samuel Adams forms the Sons of Liberty.

  Length:	00:26:55
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• 18th Century - Program 5

  1766: John Singleton Copley paints "Boy with the Squirrel". 1767: Daniel Boone views Kentucky. 1768: Indiana Co. buys 1,800,000 acres from the Iroquois. 1770: the Liberty Pole Riot and the Boston Massacre. 1773: the Boston Tea Party. 1774: the First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia. 1775: battle of Lexington and Concord. 1775: George Washington assumes command of Continental Army. 1776: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense. 1776: The Declaration of Independence.

  Length:	00:27:15
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• 18th Century - Program 6

  1776: Washington crosses the Delaware. 1777: Congress mandates the American flag. 1777: Second Battle of Saratoga. 1777: John Paul Jones sets sail. 1777-78: the winter at Valley Forge. 1778: George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia. 1781: the Siege of Yorktown. 1783: the Treaty of Paris and the end of Revolutionary War.

  Length:	00:27:20
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• 18th Century - Program 7 1783 - 1790

  1783: Noah Webster issues "Blue-backed Speller". 1785-7: Continental Congress passes Land Ordinance Acts. 1786: Shay's Rebellion. 1787: the United States Constitution is created. 1789: George Washington elected First President. 1789: James Madison proposes the Bill of Rights. 1789: Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, shapes modern industrial economy. 1790: Benjamin Franklin dies.

  Length:	00:26:18
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• 18th Century - Program 8

  1792: Benjamin Banneker saves the White House. 1793: Congress enacts a fugitive slave law. 1794: the Whiskey Rebellion is put down. 1794-5: Jay and Pinckney Treaties protect America's westward expansion. 1796: John Adams becomes second president, inaugurates the Two-party System. 1797: U.S.S. Constitution is launched. 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts usher in a bleak period of American political freedom. 1799: eulogy for George Washington ends the century.

  Length:	00:24:26
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• 19th Century - Program 1 - 1800 to 1813

  1800: Washington DC becomes nation's capital. 1803: Louisiana Purchase. 1804: Lewis & Clark expedition. 1807: Robert Fulton awakens the world to the steamboat. 1811: battle of Tippicanoe. 1811: New Madrid earthquake.

  Length:	00:25:02
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• 19th Century - Program 2 1814 - 1826

  1814: Washington DC captured and burned by the British. 1814: Star Spangled Banner is written. 1815: battle of New Orleans. 1819: Washington Irving publishes "Rip Van Winkle". 1821: inauguration of Santa Fe Trail. 1825: Erie Canal is completed. 1826: James Fenimore Cooper publishes "Last of the Mohicans".

  Length:	00:24:01
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

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