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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED
- Block Feed: Programs 101-112 Program Details
- 3 hours
- Thursday, September 13 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Thursday, December 6 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Thursday, February 14 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Thursday, May 8 at 6:00 am on KETED
Episodes Included in These Block Feeds
- 101. New Spain
- How the Spanish affected ways of life and culture in the New World.
- 102. New France
- How the French influenced ways of life and culture in North America.
- 103. Southern Colonies
- The influence of the plantation system on other aspects of Southern life.
- 104. New England Colonies
- The role of religion; the hardships faced by early settlers at Plymouth; how geography affected ways of life.
- 105. Canals and Steamboats
- How the Mississippi and Ohio rivers affected east-west trade; life on the early canals and steamboats.
- 106. Roads and Railroads
- How changes in land transportation affected regional and national development.
- 107. The Abolitionists
- Goals of the abolitionists; William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass; Northern and Southern reactions to the movement to abolish slavery.
- 108. The Role of Women
- The beginnings and the development of the women's rights movement.
- 109. Social Life
- 19th-century family life, population changes, reform movements, and medicine.
- 110. Moving West
- Factors that motivated Americans to move westward; Manifest Destiny.
- 111. The Industrial North
- The Industrial Revolution and its effects; industry in the North.
- 112. The Antebellum South
- Social classes in the pre-Civil War era.
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