This clip discusses the extreme income inequality that emerged out of The Gilded Age and how the population in the US doubled following new advances and technologies of the era.

This clip discusses what the Emancipation Proclamation was and how it changed the meaning of the Civil War.

John talks about the Atlantic Slave Trade and descibes its process and conditions slaves underwent on boats and their life on farms and plantations in the Americas.

Colonel Shaw commends Private Trip on his fighting yesterday. He offers to honor the Private by allowing him to bear the regimental colors. Private Trip indicates that he is not fighting for the Colonel and expresses concern that, even after the war, he and his people will not benefit if they win.

In this scene, the native Powhatan fight the Jamestown settlers. In reality, the Anglo-Powhatan Wars were fought between these parties for a number of years. The clip also illustrates how the European settlers denigrated the Native Americans' beliefs.