Land of liberty : Part 2 (1805-1860)

Duration: 0:19:06

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians : Distributor | The Motion Picture Industry of the United States: Presenter

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a pictorial history of the United States originally prepared for exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair and 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. The film is composed of sequences taken from many historical motion pictures and edited into a complete story of the colonization of America, the establishment of the Republic, and its subsequent history.Part 2 - This film begins with the causes, events, and outcomes of the War of 1812; recognition and protection by the United States of new South American republics under the Monroe Doctrine; increasing westward migration; Texas independence and annexation; expansion to the Pacific with the settlement of the Oregon boundary issue; the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the development of cross-continental transportation and communication; emergence of the "irrepressible conflict" over slavery, highlighted by the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

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