From the university describes the conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and native americans. Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and kind of framing that discussion around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Wide should we think of the revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in our revolution, and on the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery, we saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institutional slavery on the path to destruction in the nor
The cspan cities tour is withg the american support from our spectrum cable partners. Coming up, we will visit noted locations and speak to experts about the citys history. Among the programs, Robert F Kennedys visit on the night of Martin Luther kings assassination. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness. We learn about the contributions of millionaire businesswoman madam cj walker. Visit to the indianapolis motor speedway, home of the indy 500. We begin our special feature at the home of our 23rd president , Benjamin Harrison. There was a little stupid at the front door which is still there and he stood at that area and crowds of people would come to hear him speak. He is one of the most unknown president s. 23rd president. He falls in the middle of Grover Cleveland. Oftentimes people find him confused with his grandfather, William Henry harrison. Benjamin harrison was only seven years old when his grandfather died. He served a full four years. As president
The book festival will continue in a half an hour the final program of the day joined by other contributors to her book to discuss their relationships with their mothers while we wait we will show you their recent visit to toledo ohio. Known as the glass capital of the world. Up next we learn about edward libby and his role to turn toledo into the glass city. The city of toledo has been called the glass capital of the world referring to the glass city because of the influence of the Major International corporations producing some aspect of glass and that has been the case since 1888 when the first Glass Factory was brought to toledo in 1868 scott who owned much of what is downtown toledo who was a Real Estate Broker so the article was titled the future great city of the world. So at that time it was founded in 1837 dayton ohio with 18 oh three so there was a 30 year period summit was arrested development so Justice Scott bought real estate when it was pretty cheap and decided he would
Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful history here. Over the years people of toledo have built things, known as the glass city because the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston to toledo in 1800s drawn by natural gas and also sand, edwin drummer baby brought his new England Glass Company to toledo and opened a plants on at street north toledo and its on the exact same site today p or that was 1988 and Owens Corning here downtown toledo a fortune 500 company invented
Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo