How was America settled? Follow twenty thousand years in order: the footprints at White Sands and the land bridge from Asia, the farmers of Chaco Canyon and the mound city of Cahokia, the Norse in Newfoundland, St. Augustine and Santa Fe, Jamestown and Plymouth, the thirteen colonies, the Great Wagon Road, the Erie Canal, the Trail of Tears, the Oregon Trail, the Homestead Act and the sod-house frontier, the transcontinental railroad, the closing of the frontier in 1890, and Ellis Island.

Clear narration over paintings, manuscripts, museum pieces, ruins and film from open archives. The whole story, told in order from start to finish.

Chapters
00:00 Footprints by a Lake
01:26 The Land Bridge
03:29 Clovis and Before
05:04 Corn in the Desert
07:13 The City of Mounds
08:41 A Full Continent
10:44 Ships from the East
12:12 The Spanish Towns
13:50 Jamestown and Tobacco
15:52 Plymouth and Patuxet
17:53 The Thirteen Colonies
20:05 The Great Wagon Road
22:07 Squares on the Land
23:42 The Erie Canal
25:06 The Trail of Tears
26:48 The Oregon Trail
28:58 Free Land
31:05 The Iron Road
32:46 The Frontier Line
34:20 Ellis Island

Film from Wikimedia Commons: Robotfog (CC BY-SA 3.0, 1 item).

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