What will I study?
Topic 1 – The Industrial Revolution
- Overview of what changed 1750-1900
- Focus on how Britain became industrialised – Josiah Wedgewood, Richard Arkwright
- Child Labour in Factories and Mines
- The transport revolution
- The role of the navvies
- The building of the Settle to Carlisle railway
- Industrial towns
Topic 2 – The British Empire
- Britain’s early colonies in America and the Caribbean
- The ‘pirates of the Caribbean’
- The British Rule in India
- The benefits and problems of the Empire
- India’s Struggle for Independence
Topic 3 – Black immigration and the Slave trade
- Overview of Britain’s first black immigrants
- What is slavery?
- What are the origins of the transatlantic slave trade?
- The triangle of trade
- The Middle Passage
- Slave Auctions
- Life on the plantations
- Slave Resistance
- The Abolition Movement
- Slave Trade – legacy in the UK
Topic 4 – The Slave owning states in the USA and the reasons why slaves were emancipated
- The role of the abolitions in changing attitudes
- The role of the American civil war
Topic 5 – The situation for ex slaves in the USA
- Jim Crow Laws
- Restrictions on voting
- Violence and the KKK
Topic 6 – The fight for Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s
- Campaigns in the 1950s
- Montgomery Bus boycott
- Little Rock
- Campaigns in the 1960s
- Sit ins
- Freedom Rides
- Birmingham
- Washington
- Selma
Topic 7 – Martin Luther King
- Main Ideas, approaches and campaign
Topic 8 – Malcolm X
- Main ideas, approaches and campaigns
Topic 9 – The situation in America today for Black Americans
- Positive role models
- Negative aspects, for example, race, riots and ghettos
For more information, please contact Rachel Steels, Subject Leader for History.
