Land of liberty : Part 3 (1860-1890)

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 3 - Continuing with the election of Lincoln as President, the film presents critical issues and events of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era. It then develops the theme of post-Civil War agricultural, industrial and commercial growth of the Nation's economy aided by waves of immigrants to the "Land of Liberty".