U.S. History: The Story of Our Nation

The Ultimate Home Learning Experience

Product Information

U.S. History is a timeless 4 CD-ROM collection that lets you learn the story of our nation with historic tales from the Civil War to the Great Depression.  Relive U.S. milestones and learn how these significant events have shaped how America stands today.  Includes Merriam-Webster's Dictionary on CD-ROM.  Get to know all the facts behind all the historic events of our great nations!


Product Title Included

  • The Great Depression
  • U.S. Government 1783-1865
  • U.S. Government 1866-1977
  • The Civil War


Product Overview

The Great Depression

Explore the economic and social conditions that contributed to the Great Depression, and survey the upheavals triggered by the stock market's collapse in 1929.   This software will examine the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, reveal the effects of the depression on American society, and show  how President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs attempted to pull the country out of economic crisis.    

Multimedia Presentation: 

  • 70 Minutes
  • Images included:  750
  • Interactive Q&A:  100




U.S. Government 1783-1865

Trace the changes in U.S. government through the early years of the nation's history.  Study the drafting and passage of the Constitution and explore how elected leaders interpreted the document in the critical early years of the nation's history.   Examine the events that helped to define the powers of the federal government, including the War of 1812 and the Civil War.   

Multimedia Presentation: 

  • 45 Minutes
  • Images included:  550
  • Interactive Q&A:  100




U.S. Government 1866-1977

Chart the path of the U.S. government in the decades following the Civil War.  Explore the changes that occurred in government as the nation's leaders dealt with the problems of massive immigration, poverty, and a devastating depression during the emergence of the industrial nation.   Discover how new foreign policy challenges helped to shape the role of the government.    

Multimedia Presentation: 

  • 45 Minutes
  • Images included:  550
  • Interactive Q&A:  100




The Civil War

Understand the bloody conflict that was fought for the preservation of the Union.   Examine the philosophical and economic clashes between North and South in the decades before the war.   Follow the war from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.  Learn about the Emancipation Proclamation and the bitter postwar period, when freed slaves fought for a place in American society.  

Multimedia Presentation: 
  • 75 Minutes
  • Images included:  800
  • Interactive Q&A: 115

 

Windows Requirements

  • Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
  • Pentium processor
  • 64MB of RAM
  • Sound Card
  • CD-ROM Drive
  • Mouse




  • Manufactured by: FogWare Publishing