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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:

• 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.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Nov 29th, 2024 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:18
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 6th, 2024 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:24:26
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 13th, 2024 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:25:02
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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".

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 20th, 2024 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:24:01
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 16th & 17th Century : 1619 - 1650

  1619: Blacks Arrive at Jamestown. 1621: The Role of Women in the English Colonies. 1621: Squanto and Massasoit Help Pilgrims Survive. 1629: John Winthrop is Elected Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1650: Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet Use Newfound American Independence to Express Themselves.

  Length:	00:28:18
  Usage rights:	6/30/2009 to 6/30/2034

• 16th & 17th Century : 1651 - 1699

  1673: Marquette and Joliet Explore Great Lakes and Mississippi River. 1675: Metacom Leads "King Philip's War". 1680: Popé Drives Spanish from Santa Fe. 1681: William Penn Founds Pennsylvania Colony. 1682: LaSalle Claims Louisiana Territory for France. 1699: England's 12 Colonies Become Self Sufficient.

  Length:	00:26:55
  Usage rights:	6/30/2009 to 6/30/2034

• 18th Century - Program 1

  1701: The English Board of Trade creates Royal Colonies. 1701: The French return soldiers to the North American interior. 1701: Yale College is founded. 1702: Colonists sack St Augustine. 1702: Cotton Mather publishes "The Ecclesiastical History of New England." 1709: Quakers erect a meeting house in Boston. 1713: Treaty of Utrecht. 1713: Capt. Robinson designs and constructs a schooner.

  Length:	00:26:05
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 18th Century - Program 2

  1718: New Orleans is founded. 1723: the Maryland Assembly requires free public schools in every county. 1729: City of Baltimore is established. 1732: the first stagecoach line. 1732: Georgia becomes the 13th colony. 1732: influenza sweeps through the colonies. 1733: the British Parliament passes the Molasses Act. 1735: Peter Zenger acquitted of libel in New York.

  Length:	00:26:31
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 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
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

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