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- Season 1 New World Encounters
- Season 1 English Settlement
- Season 1 Growth and Empire
- Season 1 The Coming of Independence
- Season 1 A New System of Government
- Season 1 Westward Expansion
- Season 1 The Rise of Capitalism
- Season 1 The Reform Impulse
- Season 1 Slavery
- Season 1 The Coming of the Civil War
- Season 1 The Civil War
- Season 1 Reconstruction
- Season 1 America at its Centennial
- Season 1 Industrial Supremacy
- Season 1 The New City
- Season 1 The West
- Season 1 Capital and Labor
- Season 1 TR and Wilson
- Season 1 A Vital Progressivism
- Season 1 The Twenties
- Season 1 FDR and the Depression
- Season 1 World War II
- Season 1 The Fifties
- Season 1 The Sixties
- Season 1 Contemporary History
- Season 1 The Redemptive Imagination
A History of America - Season 1 Episode 7 The Rise of Capitalism
0.00 26 minutes Individual enterprise merges with technological innovation to launch the Commercial Revolution – the seedbed of American industry. The program features the ideas of Adam Smith, the efforts of entrepreneurs in New England and Chicago, the Lowell Mills Experiment, and the engineering feats involved in Chicago's early transformation from marsh to metropolis.
