The Shot Heard Around the World and Elbow Room

The episode Elbow Room is about Manifest Destiny and presents the expansion of America from coast to coast as a foregone conclusion. The Transcontinental Railroad is mentioned in one line with white men and top hats hammering the final connecting spike without a Chinese indentured servant anywhere inside. It ends with the final straw for the colonists, the tax on tea, which causes such a temper tantrum among them that they simply break with England,. elect a president who cares about the people and live happily ever after.