Teach any OCR B module : The Making of America, 1789–1900, no prep needed!
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Component 3: Period study, The Making of America, 1789–1900
What students need to learn:
- America’s expansion 1789–1838
- How and why the USA expanded, from 1789 to 1838
- The expansion of southern cotton plantations and of slavery, 1793–1838
- The removal of indigenous people from the east, 1830–1838
- The West 1839–1860
- The culture of the Plains Indians including a case study of the Lakota Sioux
- The journeys of the early migrants to California and Oregon; the Mormon settlement of Utah
- The nature and impact of the Californian Gold Rush (1848–1849) and the consequences of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1858–1859)
- Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877
- Divisions over slavery and the causes of the Civil War
- The African American experience of the Civil War, 1861–1865
- Reconstruction and continuing limitations to African American liberty
- Settlement and conflict on the Plains 1861–1877
- The causes and nature of white American exploitation of the Plains: railroads, ranches and cow towns
- Homesteaders: living and farming on the Plains
- The Indian Wars including Little Crow’s War (1862), Red Cloud’s War (1865–1868) and the Great Sioux War (1876–1877)
- American cultures 1877–1900
- Changes to the Plains Indians’ way of life including the impact of reservations and the destruction of the buffalo
- The impact of economic, social and political change on the lives of African Americans
- The growth of big business, cities and mass migration
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