Regions of U.S. Sample Clips -- Themes

  Northeast, Part 1

  How is capitalism combined with religion a dominant

  factor in the Northeast colonies from the very

  beginning period of this country?

  Northeast, Part 2

  What is the economic basis for the increasing antagonism

  between the North and the South in the pre-Civil War

  period?

  South, Part 1

  Why, other than moral differences, does slavery

  develop mainly in the South rather than the North, and

  what mythology does the master class of the South

  develop about itself:

  South, Part 2

  What are the differences  among the abolitionists in

  their views of what is to become of the ex-slaves

  after the Civil War?

  South, Part 3

  How does romanticizing the pre-Civil War South, the

  image of "Lost Cause," and perpetuation of racial

  values after Reconstruction, impact on future political

  forces in the U.S. through the 20th century?

  Midwest

  How doe the Erie Canal change U.S. history in

  terms of the economic link of the Midwest to the South,

  and the impact of this change on the Civil War?

  West, Part 1

  Contrary to popular myths, what is the surprising

  diversity of Native Americans in the West?

  West, Part 2

  What is the reason the Great Plains farmers in the

  West are in a form of economic depression

  starting in about 1921, and so are hit especially hard

  by the Great Depression of the 1930s?

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