the deliberate act of ending a human pregnancy

The US Feminist Movement in the 1960s and 1970s

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

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

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Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.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 sexual or domestic abuse or violence, including  threats of or the aftermath of.

Depiction or discussion of sexual violence

Depiction or discussion of abortion, euthanasia, organ donation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of sex or sexual body parts, including sex education.

Depiction or discussion of sexual content

What is a medical operation to end a pregnancy called?

What was the name of the author of 'The Feminine Mystique'?

What did the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case legalise?

Write the missing word. Libbers described products such as high heels, mops, bras and make-up as "instruments of female {{}}".

Which statement about opposition to the ERA is most accurate?

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women set up

Libbers protest outside the Miss America beauty pageant

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

What was the name of the benefits system which provided payments to vulnerable groups such as the elderly or unemployed in the USA?

Match each set of reforms to the president who introduced them.

Which American president successfully introduced Medicare?

They focused on many areas including civil rights, poverty and the environment.

They only focused on poverty and civil rights.

They only focused on military investment.

Which statement about the New Frontier and Great Society is most accurate?

Starter Quiz