Running Time:
198 minutes
Grade Level:
7 - Adult
Captions:
English Subtitles
Spanish Subtitles
AVP Release Date:
July 2003
Producer:
Centre/Ambrose Video Publishing
History on demand.
For the first time, experience a NEW Educational DVD production, filmed and edited to utilize the advantages of DVD in all those ways that educators have always dreamed of.
As the 18th century dawned on the North American continent, four powers, the French, the Spanish, the British and the Native Americans were competing to see who would control this remarkable land. However after half a century of almost continuous wars, a new entity emerged: The Americans. It would be the Americans not the other four powers who would control what would become the United States. In the process, the Americans created, by the end of the 18th century, the greatest experiment in self-government the world has ever seen.
For your hearing impaired and students who are using English as a second language, each DVD is both English and Spanish subtitled, options you may use or not use at your discretion.
When the DVD's are played through a computer, documents, maps and tests may be viewed on your monitor or printed (see documents below).
A must have to US History classes!
- 18th Century DVD No. 1
Program 1
1701 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
Total Time: 23:50
Program 2
1718 New Orleans is Founded
1723 The Maryland Assembly Requires Free Public Schools in Every County
1729 The 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
Total Time: 24:50
- 18th Century DVD No. 2
Running Time: 50 minutes
Program 3
1739 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
Total Time: 23:35
Program 4
1750 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
Total Time: 26:30
- 18th Century DVD No. 3
Program 5
1766 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
Total Time: 26:20
Program 6
1776 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
Total Time: 25:50
- 18th Century DVD No. 4
Program 7
1783 Noah Webster Issues "Blue-backed Speller”
1785, 1787 The 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 Becomes Secretary of the Treasury and Shapes America's modern Industrial Economy
1790 Benjamin Franklin Dies
Total Time: 25:00
Program 8
1792 Benjamin Banneker Saves the White House
1793 Congress Enacts a Fugitive Slave Law
1794 The Whiskey Rebellion is Put Down
1794 & 1795 The Jay and Pinckney Treaties Protect America's Westward Expansion
1796 John Adams Becomes the Second President of United States Inaugurating 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
Total Time: 22:40
Clip Length: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Downloadable Documents:
- 18th Century Teacher's Guide
- 18th Century Test - Blackline Master
- Document: Alien Act
- Document: Declaration of Independence
- Document: Excerpts from Common Sense
- Document: Excerpts from Federalist Papers
- Document: Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
- Document: Iron Act Arguments
- Document: Molasses Act
- Document: Pinckney Treaty
- Document: The Bill of Rights
- Document: The Jay Treaty
- Document: The Land Ordinance of 1785
- Document: The Sedition Act
- Document: The Stamp Act
- Document: Treaty of Paris
- Document: Treaty of Utrect
- Document: U.S. Constitution
- Document: Washington's Farewell Address
- Map: British Territory Won (War of Jenkins Ear 1739)
- Map: French and Spanish Forts and Settlements in North America
- Map: Land Ceded to Britain (French & Indian War)
- Map: Louisiana Territory and Purchase
- Map: Major Revolutionary War Battle Sites
- Map: North America British Territory Circa 1800
- Map: North American Spanish, French and British Territories Circa 1700
- Map: Old Northwest Territory
- Map: Original 13 British Colonies
- Map: Territory Gained in the Revolutionary War
- Map: The Ohio River Basin
- Map: Triangular Trade Routes between Europe, the Caribbean, Africa & North America
- Map: United States and It's Territories Circa 1799
- Map: Wilderness Road
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