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2003 1 Staffel 84 Ep. Beendet

History of the United States, 2nd Edition

2003 1 Staffel 84 Ep.

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Living Bravely Folge 1

Columbus's discovery of a New World allowed Europeans to, first, exploit natural and human resources, and later, to write new social, economic, and political scripts for their lives in a place where European ideas of society no longer applied.

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Spain, France, and the Netherlands Folge 2

The Spanish tapped sources of wealth in the Americas, displaying the most wanton cruelty in obtaining it. By 1600 they had evolved from an extraction society to a settler society. The French attempted extraction incursions and to settle in North America but did not succeed as the Spanish had in the South.

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Gentlemen in the Wilderness Folge 3

The English joined the great game of extraction and settlement last of all the major European nations. By 1680 settlements around the Chesapeake Bay achieved success with tobacco and the forced recruitment of a workforce of African slaves. Virginia worked its way through what became a typical English pattern: from company colony, to unstable free-for-all, to stable aristocracy.

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Radicals in the Wilderness Folge 4

If the southern English colonies were motivated by economic self-interest—be it piracy, tobacco, or slaves—the northern settlements were motivated by ideas. In New England's case, the ideas were religious. The "godly commonwealth" of the first Puritans was succeeded by the same slow tendency toward aristocracy, based on transatlantic commerce rather than commodities, that characterized Virginia.

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Traders in the Wilderness Folge 5

The broad stretch of coastal territory between the Chesapeake and Long Island had been settled by the Swedes along the Delaware Bay and the Dutch along the Hudson River. Dutch settlements (renamed New York) developed into a major commercial center. Quaker William Penn's Pennsylvania emerged, by the 1750s, with a commercial aristocracy similar to that of New England, centered around its principal city.

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An Economy of Slaves Folge 6

The transition of these settlements to stable commercial success would not have been possible without a source of cheap labor. America's immensity of land and lack of labor to develop it required forced migration of laborers: convicts, indentured servants, beggars. But a less expensive and more permanent source of labor was the 11 million Africans who were torn from their homes to be slaves.

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Printers, Painters, and Preachers Folge 7

Americans developed cultural forms in both music and art that were uniquely American. The most important cultural transition, part of the European Enlightenment, was from a religious to a scientific and secular understanding of the world. Three illustrative figures of this transition are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Edwards.

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The Great Awakening Folge 8

The stresses of Colonial life—natural, social, economic, religious, and political— produced unusual social eruptions that were aimed at regaining some sense of control. The Great Awakening, a revival of radical Protestant religion across New England, helped people recover a sense of spiritual significance and moral direction; it also touched off violent religious controversy.

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The Great War for Empire Folge 9

By the mid-1700s, Britain and France were the two rivals for dominance of America. The war for empire, the French and Indian War, broke out in 1754, and at first went badly for England—but the British Empire had greater resources to draw on. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 forced the French to withdraw entirely from North America.

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The Rejection of Empire Folge 10

The Great War for Empire beggared the British economy. In 1765 Parliament moved to levy direct taxes on the colonies and to regulate colonial trade so that it profited Britain. The legislatures of the North American colonies protested. Americans insisted on "no taxation without representation." More protests led to outright conflict, the suspension of colonial governments by Parliament, the creation of a Continental Congress to speak for North America, and finally, an organized military confrontation at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.

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The American Revolution - Politics and People Folge 11

Parliament's responses to American protests increasingly alienated Americans. By the spring of 1776, the determination of the British and the agitation of pro-independence thinkers wore down resistance to independence in the colonies. In the second Continental Congress of July 1776, a resolution declaring independence was adopted by the Congress and framed by a Declaration of Independence composed by Thomas Jefferson. In the Articles of Confederation of 1781 a joint government for the United States was created.

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The American Revolution - Howe's War Folge 12

From a military viewpoint, the Revolution started well and spiraled downward. The Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, faced humiliating defeats, abandoning all of New York and New Jersey to the British. Lost more by British incompetence than won by American planning, victory at Saratoga in the summer of 1777 salvaged American hopes.

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The American Revolution - Washington's War Folge 13

The Saratoga victory and the diplomacy of Benjamin Franklin in Paris persuaded France ally itself with the United States. The money, credit, weapons, and French naval and military resources forced the British to shift the focus of their war. Field forces fell under a combined land-and-sea campaign conducted by Washington and the French at Yorktown, where the British surrendered. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 reluctantly conceded American independence.

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S1 · E14 · 14. Jan 2003

Creating the Constitution Folge 14

The Revolution was not even over before the ramshackle nature of the Articles of Confederation began to show at the seams. A convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 to construct a constitution, which proposed a single executive president, a bicameral Congress, and a judiciary. The Constitution was ratified by the states, and George Washington was inaugurated as the first president in New York City in March 1789.

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Hamilton's Republic Folge 15

For Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury, the republic depended on keeping the jealous interests of the individual states at bay, and on developing the republic's systems of finance, manufacturing, and commerce. Opposing him were Thomas Jefferson in the cabinet and the southern agricultural interests in Congress, both of whom believed that the future of America lay in independent domestic agriculture.

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Republicans and Federalists Folge 16

The surprise development in the new republic's political life was the formation of political parties. The threat this posed to the Founders was that parties might thrive on sanctioning and perpetuating disagreements and disunion. James Madison became the organizer of the Democratic-Republicans, and Hamilton recruited his Congressional supporters into the Federalist Party. The Federalists only barely managed to elect their candidate, John Adams, as Washington's successor in 1796.

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S1 · E17 · 17. Jan 2003

Adams and Liberty Folge 17

Few people liked John Adams, so it was fortunate that the first major challenge of his administration involved a foreign policy problem, where few had more expertise than he. But Adams squandered all the political capital he accumulated. By persuading the Federalists to dump Adams before the election of 1800, Hamilton succeeded in dividing his party and guaranteeing that Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans would win.

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S1 · E18 · 18. Jan 2003

The Jeffersonian Reaction Folge 18

Thomas Jefferson proved incapable of creating a practical set of alternatives to Hamilton's hard-headed fiscal policies, particularly in defense and in foreign trade. He was also surprised by the activism of the federal judiciary, which under Chief Justice John Marshall, began to operate as a serious restraint on the scope of Jefferson's actions.

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Territory and Treason Folge 19

With renewed war in Europe on the horizon, Napoleon needed cash more than he needed Louisiana. In 1803, he offered to sell the entire Louisiana province—830,000 square miles—for $15 million. Jefferson asked Congress to finance a secret scouting party under Lewis and Clark. Vice President Aaron Burr, who attempted to set up his own independent republic, was thwarted and saved from a treason indictment only by Chief Justice John Marshall.

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The Agrarian Republic Folge 20

Jefferson was committed to keeping the American Republic an agrarian society, a culture of independence, nonmarket agriculture, and community. No regard was paid to the claims of the North American Indians. As Americans poured West in search of cheap land, disheartened Indians either accommodated, as with the Seneca and Cherokees, or resisted, as in the revolt of Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh.

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S1 · E21 · 21. Jan 2003

The Disastrous War of 1812 Folge 21

In 1812, Madison sent a request to Congress for a declaration of war. The War of 1812 was a debacle. In October 1814, the Massachusetts legislature passed a peace resolution and threatened secession from the Union. Only the signing of the Treaty of Ghent at the end of 1814 ended talk of a New England separatist movement.

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S1 · E22 · 22. Jan 2003

The "American System" Folge 22

The War of 1812 collapsed the U.S. Treasury, bankrupted hundreds of businesses, and soaked up the tiny hoard of American financial capital by government borrowing. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun became the principal spokesmen for rebuilding the infrastructure of the American economy after 15 years of Jeffersonianism.

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S1 · E23 · 23. Jan 2003

A Nation Announcing Itself Folge 23

By the 1820s, immigrants flowed through America's seaports from Europe; and with the clearance of Indian resistance, the Northwest Territory was opened by massive government land sales. Many emigrants chose to stay in the cities they first entered, and their numbers soon swelled the size of the American urban population.

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National Republican Follies Folge 24

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The Second Great Awakening Folge 25

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Dark Satanic Mills Folge 26

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The Military Chieftain Folge 27

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The Politics of Distrust Folge 28

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The Monster Bank Folge 29

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Whigs and Democrats Folge 30

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American Romanticism Folge 31

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The Age of Reform Folge 32

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Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery Folge 33

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Whose Manifest Destiny? Folge 34

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The Mexican War Folge 35

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The Great Compromise Folge 36

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Sectional Tensions Escalate Folge 37

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Drifting toward Disaster Folge 38

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The Coming of War Folge 39

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The First Year of Fighting Folge 40

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Shifting Tides of Battle Folge 41

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Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War Folge 42

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Behind the Lines: Politics and Economies Folge 43

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African Americans in Wartime Folge 44

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The Union Drive to Victory Folge 45

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Presidential Reconstruction Folge 46

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Congress Takes Command Folge 47

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Reconstruction Ends Folge 48

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Industrialization Folge 49

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Transcontinental Railroads Folge 50

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The Last Indian Wars Folge 51

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Farming the Great Plains Folge 52

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African Americans after Reconstruction Folge 53

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Men and Women Folge 54

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Religion in Victorian America Folge 55

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The Populists Folge 56

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The New Immigration Folge 57

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City Life Folge 58

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Labor and Capital Folge 59

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Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism Folge 60

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Mass Production Folge 61

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World War I—The Road to Intervention Folge 62

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World War I—Versailles and Wilson’s Gambit Folge 63

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The 1920s Folge 64

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The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression Folge 65

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The New Deal Folge 66

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World War II—The Road to Pearl Harbor Folge 67

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World War II—The European Theater Folge 68

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World War II—The Pacific Theater Folge 69

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The Cold War Folge 70

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The Korean War and McCarthyism Folge 71

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The Affluent Society Folge 72

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The Civil Rights Movement Folge 73

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The New Frontier and the Great Society Folge 74

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The Rise of Mass Media Folge 75

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The Vietnam War Folge 76

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The Women’s Movement Folge 77

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Nixon and Watergate Folge 78

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Environmentalism Folge 79

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Religion in 20th-Century America Folge 80

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Carter and the Reagan Revolution Folge 81

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The New World Order Folge 82

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Clinton’s America and the Millennium Folge 83

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Reflections Folge 84

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This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country that, little more than a half-century later, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith described as "The Affluent Society." This is the chronicle of a nation that enslaved a race of people. And of a nation that fought a Civil War that freed its slaves, and outlawed segregation and discrimination. This is history shaped by Revolutionary War and Vietnam, Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton, Puritanism and Feminism, Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jamestown and Disneyland, Harpers Ferry and Henry Ford, oil wells and Orson Welles. This is a review of the extraordinary blend of people, ideas, inventions, and events that comprise The History of the United States.

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23. Januar 2003

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