someone who is not given the same rights and opportunities as other people in a society, usually because they belong to a particular group

Social and civil progress in the USA, c.1950-1973

History

Causes of the 'boom'

The role of Henry Ford in the 'boom'

Losers of the 'boom' in 1920s America

The Red Scare in 1920s America

Racial tension in early 20th century America

American society in the 1920s

Women and the 'boom' in 1920s America

American people and the 'boom' in the 1920s

The Wall Street Crash

The Great Depression

President Hoover and the 1932 presidential election

Effects of the Great Depression on American society

Roosevelt's New Deal

Opposition to the New Deal

1930s American popular culture

World War Two and the US economy

World War Two and US society

American recovery from the Great Depression

The American Dream in the 1940s and 1950s

Post-war American popular culture

McCarthyism and the second Red Scare

Change in Post-War America

Segregation in the USA

Direct action and the Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King and peaceful protest

Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights legislation in the 1960s

The New Frontier and Great Society

The US Feminist Movement in the 1960s and 1970s

In this unit pupils undergo a period study that provides an unfolding narrative which tells a story about a period that shaped the world we live in today. They look at the key events, developments, people and stories that defined the chosen period.

Period Studies

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Depiction or discussion of abortion, euthanasia, organ donation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

someone who is poorer than most other people

someone who is richer than most other people

someone who is not given the same rights and opportunities as other people

What were the segregationist laws in the US South known as?

Out of a total of 531, how many members of Congress were female in 1955?

What happened to the number of registered African American voters in the South in the years immediately after the Voting Rights Act was passed?

Phyllis Schlafly successfully led the Stop ERA campaign.

Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress in 1969.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act banned discrimination on the basis of race and sex.

Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968

Which examples best demonstrate that new laws did not always change the views of those who opposed equality?

Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

What is a drug or object that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant called?

Which of the following individuals helped to inspire the Feminist Movement?

Which Supreme Court case legalised abortion in the USA?

Which group threw products such as mops, pans, high heels and bras into 'freedom trash cans'?

In 1975, the average female income was what percentage of the average male income?

Women gained the right to vote in all parts of the USA.

Women were encouraged to work in factories during WW2.

Many women returned to housework and traditional 'female' jobs.

Starter Quiz