The Civil War: The Cause (1861) - Episode 1

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Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this program dramatically evokes the causes of the war. Here are the burning questions of union and states' rights, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides. Along the way the war's major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and a host of lesser-known but equally vivid characters. The episode comes to a climax with the disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, where both sides learned it would be a very long war
Wilmer McLean: First and Last Witness of the American Civil War (0:48)
America Transformed: A Photo-montage (3:01)
Major Figures of Civil War (2:01)
America Between 1861-1865: A New Birth (0:44)
Civil War Veterans (1:01)
Writer Shelby Foote (0:51)
Ideals of the Civil War (0:28)
Abraham Lincoln: 1837 (0:47)
1861: America the Beautiful? (2:06)
Life As A Slave (3:44)
Slave Rebellion (0:45)
Legacy of the American Revolution (1:21)
The Cotton Gin (0:54)
William Lloyd Garrison (0:49)
Abolition Movement (0:54)
Resistance to Abolition: John C. Calhoun (0:40)
Alexis de Tocqueville: North and South Divided (0:35)
Abolitionists Victimized by Mob Violence (1:25)
Abraham Lincoln: An Introduction (1:52)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (0:25)
Dred Scott Case (0:55)
Violence on The Senate Floor: The Brooks Sumner Affair (0:57)
John Brown: Harpers Ferry (5:02)
Republicans: A New Party (1:29)
The Election of 1860 (52:02)
George Templeton Strong: A Personal Account of the Civil War (58:45)
Southern Secession (1:50)
Fort Sumter (50:47)
Jefferson Davis and The Confederate Cabinet (3:08)
Mary Chestnut: An American Diarist (1:09)
Lincoln: From Springfield to D.C. (2:00)
Lincoln's Inauguration (37:22)
Fort Sumter: The First Battle of the Civil War (34:50)
Civil War:Union Patriots (6:12)
Southern Soldiers (3:38)
Robert E. Lee (1:52)
Union Army Prepares for War (4:47)
Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus (2:22)
Fugitive Slave Act (1:15)
Manassas:First Civil War (4:12)
Stonewall Jackson (1:59)
Battle Wounds (5:05)
General George McClellan (5:01)
Civil War: Northern Defeats (2:53)
Civil War Letter Home (3:54)

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