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Turning Points In U.S. History
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20th Century - Program 4Friday, March 22
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11929:"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. -
20th Century - Program 3Friday, March 22
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11919: 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. -
20th Century - Program 2Friday, March 22
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11908: 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. -
20th Century - Program 1Friday, March 22
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11900: 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. -
19th Century - Program 8 1881 - 1898Friday, March 15
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11881: 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. -
19th Century - Program 7 1871 - 1881Friday, March 15
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11871: 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. -
19th Century - Program 6 1867 - 1870Friday, March 15
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11867: 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. -
19th Century - Program 5 1860 - 1865Friday, March 15
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11861: 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. -
19th Century - Program 4 1846 - 1860Friday, March 8
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11846: 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. -
19th Century - Program 3 - 1827 to 1846Friday, March 8
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11831: 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. -
19th Century - Program 2 1814 - 1826Friday, March 8
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11814: 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". -
19th Century - Program 1 - 1800 to 1813Friday, March 8
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11800: 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. -
18th Century - Program 8Friday, March 1
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11792: 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. -
18th Century - Program 7 1783 - 1790Friday, March 1
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11783: 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. -
18th Century - Program 6Friday, March 1
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11776: 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. -
18th Century - Program 5Friday, March 1
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11766: 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. -
18th Century - Program 4Friday, February 23
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11750: 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. -
18th Century - Program 3Friday, February 23
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11739: 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. -
18th Century - Program 2Friday, February 23
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11718: 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. -
18th Century - Program 1Friday, February 23
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11701: 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. -
16th & 17th Century : 1651 - 1699Friday, February 16
10:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11673: 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. -
16th & 17th Century : 1619 - 1650Friday, February 16
10:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11619: 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. -
16th & 17th Century : 1586 - 1619Friday, February 16
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.11607: Jamestown, England's First Successful American Colony. 1608: Spanish Found Santa Fe in America's Southwest. 1614: Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe. 1614: The Dutch Claim New York and Name It New Netherlands. 1619: The Virginia House of Burgesses Holds Its First Democratic Meeting. -
16th & 17th Century : 1500 - 1585Friday, February 16
9:00 am on UEN-TV 9.11502 - Christopher Columbus 1513 - Ponce de Leon Discovers Florida 1539 - Hernando De Soto Explores Southern U.S. 1540 - Francisco Vasques de Coronado Maps America's Southwest 1565 - Spanish Found First American City: St. Augustine 1585 - Sir Walter Raleigh and the Roanoke Colony