Early american games before the civle war

First rivers and roads and then canals and railroads moved travelers and agricultural and manufactured goods between farms, towns, and cities. Transportation links helped create a set of distinct local and regional economies. They also contributed to the sectional jealousies and rivalries that set the stage for the Civil War. Not until the end of the century would transportation networks form a national economy. In the early 19th century, most roads were dreadful. They served local needs, allowing farmers to get produce to market.

Americans who did travel long distances overland to settle the West rode on wagon trails, like the Oregon Trail, rather than well-defined roads. Still, a few major roads served as important transportation links. The National Road, initially funded by the federal government, stretched from Cumberland, Maryland, to Columbus, Ohio by The Erie Canal, built with state funding, was completed in Its economic success sparked a wave of canal building.

By , the United States had 3, miles of canals. In , the United States celebrated its centennial. As a result of purchase, diplomacy, and war, the nation spread from coast to coast. Some people were enthusiastic, seeing it as an expression of the young country's 'manifest destiny,' its inevitable growth. Others, including many Native Americans and many people living in U. A dramatization of author Alex Haley 's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

Votes: 17, The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. TV 71 min Biography, Drama, History. Votes: 31, Approved 72 min Drama, History, War. During the s, in the Great Lakes region the British troops have driven the French out and with help from the mercenary Hessian troops the British plan to annihilate the native tribes of the Ottawas.

Director: Felix E. R min Western. After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort. PG 91 min Adventure, Drama. An "inspirational" saga of a pioneer woman who is abducted by Shawnee Native Americans.

R min Action, Drama, History. Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son. A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton. PG min Biography, History, Western.

The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women. Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.

Votes: 10, PG min Adventure, Drama, History. A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.

R min Drama, Romance, War. During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy. America just before and during the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of an artist correspondent. Approved min Drama, Romance, War. G min Biography, Drama, History. George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.

TV-PG min History. In , the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. This movie tells the adventurous journey of the Passed min Adventure, Drama, History. In , a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Not Rated min Action, Adventure, Biography. Not Rated min Biography, Drama, History. The story of Mr. Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.

Biography, Drama, Western. Among these were movements to reduce consumption of alcohol, eliminate prostitution, improve prisons and insane asylums, improve education, and ban slavery. Religious revivalism, resulting from the Second Great Awakening, also had a large impact on American life in all parts of the country.

Inspired by the old Democratic-Republicans, John C. Others, such as President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice John Marshall, believed that the federal government had authority over the states. The debate came to a head in the Nullification Crisis of —, which nearly touched off a civil war. Between and , more and more northerners came to realize the horrors and injustices of slavery, while southerners grew increasingly reliant upon it to support their cotton-based economy.

Northerners did not necessarily want social and political equality for blacks; they sought merely their emancipation. The debate in politics centered primarily on the westward expansion of slavery, which southern elites saw as vital to the survival of their aristocratic social and economic order.

Others vehemently opposed the expansion of slavery outside the South. The debate was critical in the Missouri crisis, the annexation of Texas, and after the Mexican War. Finally, the issue of westward expansion itself had a profound effect on American politics and society during the antebellum years.