OCR A2 History - Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1980

I think its mainly trade unions I hope - the New Deal
and African Americans I really want a non-speicfic question on this one. Unless it wants leaders or presidents.

Reply 62

sammyrj

OP

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Uuugh this is going to be so bad. My only saving grace is that I've got maths C4 in the morning so I've got lunchtime isolation to do some last minute cramming.

I know nothing of labour rights, so if that crops up then I have no choice over question. I'm feeling pretty confident about AA turning points, activities of Feds n States, Asians... gotta look over Natives and Hispanics.

And learn maths...

Before tomorrow morning :P

I'm jealous. My school is making me sit Civil Rights and Core 4 one after the other.

Reply 63

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sammyrj

I'm jealous. My school is making me sit Civil Rights and Core 4 one after the other.

That's unlucky. Did you do physics yesterday as well? I had to... I've had like no time to revise at all.

My school were going to make me sit them consecutively too, but I kicked up a fuss when it turned out that a medieval historian sitting the exam same exam times as me had got some isolation.

I feel for you dude... hope you dont need both of them for uni.

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gd luck people for tomo. Ive done all i can now. Hopefully its a gd paper with no natives cos i didnt revise em.

Reply 65

so how did every one find it.

When i saw question 29 my eyes lit up. Really good trade unions questions and i am sure i did good on that. But i was gutted when i saw question 28 and 30. I took the risk of not revising natives and it kinda cost me cos i knew Hispanics really well. O well but question 28 i think i did it alrite in. I dropped in MLK then compared him to Booker T/Du Bois then with Randoplh and then finally with Garvey/Malcolm X. I was able to cover the whole period and came to a good judgement. Its just i had no markscheme cos it was from June 2004 so i had to rely on my teachers notes so i'm not sure i had the right points. Im not too pissed off tho cos question 29 was great and i think it warrants full marks.

just hoping i get my A overall. Could be scrape

its my first exam this year that hasnt gone as well as i would have liked

Reply 66

Dom1989

steve2006

so how did every one find it.

When i saw question 29 my eyes lit up. Really good trade unions questions and i am sure i did good on that. But i was gutted when i saw question 28 and 30. I took the risk of not revising natives and it kinda cost me cos i knew Hispanics really well. O well but question 28 i think i did it alrite in. I dropped in MLK then compared him to Booker T/Du Bois then with Randoplh and then finally with Garvey/Malcolm X. I was able to cover the whole period and came to a good judgement. Its just i had no markscheme cos it was from June 2004 so i had to rely on my teachers notes so i'm not sure i had the right points. Im not too pissed off tho cos question 29 was great and i think it warrants full marks.

just hoping i get my A overall. Could be scrape

its my first exam this year that hasnt gone as well as i would have liked

Why didn't you go for teh African-American and Trade Union question? Why did you even consider doing the other one on ethinic minorities?

Reply 67

i did do African Americans and Trade Unions questions...?

sorry if i wasnt clear but i was tryin to say i would have been much more comfortable with question 30 as if u know the turning points it would have been easy but as i didnt revise natives i couldnt do it.

Reply 68

shimmyjimmy

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Did the first two, 28 and 29. Under prepared for Martin Luther Question, but Trade Unions went ok. Really annoyed at my timing though, I am not sure if I covered the whole period during my Union question. I will be so pleased if I can scrape an A.

Reply 69

Shuky

I did 28 and 19 however i thought i doen better in the MLK question than the trade union one. i got a little confused because i thought that as they said the development of their rights i did not think they meant bad bit as well. But i compared it with the 1890s and said it made them more aware they needed to unite and i compared it with the 1920s and added a little about the situation later on.

Reply 70

LieDown

Did 28 and 30. MLk one great, ethnic minorities not to much! Oh dear....oh well

Reply 71

..Northern Soul

I did 29 and 30 everyone else I spoke to however did 28 as one of there 2.

Reply 72

oh_wow_lovely

i did the native americans and hispanic americans question first, ran over time and then really had to rush my trade unions answer :frown:

Reply 73

pidgeonpoo

i did 29 and 30. the mlk one threw me a bit because i didn't really know enough about the other leaders so just chose to ignore it. trade union was was ok, compare was nasty.

Reply 74

sammyrj

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I'm surprised at how well it went. If you'd told me a week ago I'd be smiling coming out of my Civil Rights exam I'd have laughed in your face!

Luckily I'd planned a question on individuals last night! MLK, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, William DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Phillip Randolph, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Louis Farrakhan... managed to get them all in. Might have got a bit carried away but I think I wrote a really good essay.

Labour rights question was also good, though I was a bit strapped for time. Compared the New Deal era with all the other eras. Looked at the crap times up to 1900; compared WWI and WWII as a before-and-after in terms of union activity (concluded that the New Deal gave unions more confidence); only just managed to get in all the 1960s stuff; and wrote a bare-bones conclusion.

Went well. Much better than the Core 4 exam that followed. AQA... I hate you for that! :p:

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