An Engineering Feat Transforms Los Angeles | Flood in the Desert

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Los Angeles California Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades Sierra Nevada Mountains Owens River American West Manifest Destiny William Mulholland migrants racial segregation Flood in the Desert American Experience AMEX GBH WGBH Owens Valley Owens Valley aqueduct St Francis Dam dam collapse Industrial Age Progressive Era urbanization urban development infrastructure water supply engineering projects construction projects engineering disaster human disaster United States U.S. History Collection U.S. history us history history social studies American history ushist22
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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An Engineering Feat Transforms Los Angeles | Flood in the Desert

Learn how the 233-mile-long Los Angeles Aqueduct, a wonder of the modern world, heralded a new beginning for Los Angeles and positioned the American West as a modern and promising alternative to the industrial cities of the East in these video clips adapted from Flood in the Desert | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. 
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PBS Learning Media

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