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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
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S1 E6

Gold Rush

Aired on Apr 11, 200644m

Examine the Gold Rush through the eyes of two people who made their way to California a few weeks apart and explore the far-reaching impact the Rush had on the nation's economic, geographic, and psychic landscape.

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Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

Aired on Apr 12, 200644m

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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Freedom Summer

Aired on Apr 13, 200643m

In 1964, national attention turned to Mississippi when three Civil Rights workers, two white and one black, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. This watershed moment eventually led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War

Aired on Apr 13, 200644m

A violent protest against debt collection and taxation practices motivated George Washington to come out of retirement to help strengthen the fragile new nation. This was the spark that led to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.