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1900 "Birth of a Nation" A very influencial film that was very popular when it was made in 1915. The general public thought that is was very realistic. People were amazed because the scenes were well produced. The director of this film is D.W Griffith. The film was set during and after the Civil War and was released on February 8, 1915. This film introduces two juxtaposed families the Northern Stonemans, consisting of abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman. The Stonemans boy meets this girl and he falls in love with her. Then when the war starts all the members that are involved get geared up and go. This film is also about the blacks and whites how they were very disrespectful to each other. For example, the white males would would scare all the blacks away by pretending to be scarecrows. This film gave a false image of blacks living in the south, also made people in the north scared.


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**Panama Canal** The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal.