The World: A Television History

The Making of the United States of Ameria: 1776 - 1890 (1x22)

Air date: Sep 04, 1985

The rise of the United States - the War of Independence, its expansion to the Pacific and the problems of slavery and the Civil War. The origins of the United States from the very beginning are linked to 1776, a "perfect" Constitution, an American ideal, unfettered immigration, and the development, by 1900, of the most powerful industrial nation on Earth.