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The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party
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About This Video
Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party.
Correction at 3:42: Woodrow Wilson served as president from 1913 to 1921, not from 1912 to 1921.
Standards Met in Ohio
- AMH.9-12.12.lp.dGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify two previous time periods in American history as the Civil War (1860-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877), which left the country with continuing racial tensions.
- AMH.9-12.29.cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify the two major political parties.
- SS.7.9cGrades 7thIdentify examples of slavery.