10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

Season 1
Historic events that triggered seismic shifts in America's culture and politics.
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  1. S1 E6 - Gold Rush

    April 10, 2006
    44min
    TV-PG
    Examine the Gold Rush through the eyes of two people who made their way to California and explore the far-reaching impact the Rush had on the nation's economic, geographic, and psychic landscape.
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  2. S1 E7 - Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

    April 11, 2006
    44min
    TV-PG
    The Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution in a Tennessee town underscored a deep schism within the American psyche: religion versus science, church versus state, elitism versus populism.
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  3. S1 E9 - Freedom Summer

    April 12, 2006
    44min
    TV-PG
    In 1964, national attention turned to Mississippi when 3 Civil Rights activists were abducted and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. This watershed moment led to the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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  4. S1 E10 - Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War

    April 12, 2006
    44min
    TV-PG
    A violent protest against debt collection and taxation practices motivated George Washington to come out of retirement. This was the spark that led to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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