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Umm...wondering if somebody could help me. I seriously can't seem to get anything to do with the 50's 60's Civil Rights stuff and I'm starting to panic atm. If somebody could like very, very briefly just tell me a couple of things it would be much appreciated and rep'd-
Why did support for Civil Rights movement increase?

How far were improvements in the lives of black Americans by 1968 due to the Civil
Rights movement? - How do you do that?!?!?!

I don't know why I can't do it....I think I neeed to go drug myself with rescue remedy...

Is there always a question on either 1920's immigration or 1920's problems for Black americans because I don't need to panic if that is the case lol

Reply 82

blaugrana

1

Immigration comes up most years, worded one way or another.

I also need help with the same things as Dentino, +rep from me also for a good answer.

Reply 83

Henry JW

8

Okay for growth of Civil Rights in the 1950s and 60s my essay is as follows.

- Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks refusing to give up seat to a white man, and the bus companies losing plenty of profit. Bus companies eventually bow down after District Court rules segregation on buses is illegal, Supreme Court upholds the decision. Showed that with persistence Blacks could achieve victory etc etc.

Freedom Rides - 13 Black and White students ride across the Southern United States to demonstrate that it can't be done without segregation and violence. Sure enough their bus is attacked by armed mobs and several students are beaten. Federal Guard called into protect them. Images of violence appared in the media and gave publicity to civil rights movement. Justice department began to enforce segregation law more strictly after this. A pyrrhic victory.

Little Rock Crisis - Nine Black students try to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. White mob gathers to shout abuse and block their entrance. Governor of Arkansas rules they cannot join school. President Eisenhower intervenes and states they can, backed up by a Supreme Court decision. 101st Airborne Division of the Army escorts the students to school. Again, lots of TV footage brought cause to wider attention

KKK - Argument that the deplorable actions of the KKK ensured people did not want to be associated with the campaign for enforced segregation. KKK had lost significant power after 1930, and only a small incarnation had survived, with numbers at 30,000 and dropping. KKK firebomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama and kill four young Black girls. Public opinion turns against them. Although it can be argued they were already declining.

Hope that helps. This question hasn't been in the paper for the last 3 years, so it's overdue.

Reply 84

francescayeah

I am absolutely bricking it. I was supposed to revise yesterday but spent all day sunbathing..

AHHHHH!!!!

Reply 85

blaugrana

1

Thanks Henry...

Heres a list of what is in my textbook :

# Brown vs Topeka board of education.
# Montgomery Bus boycott
# MLK and civil rights movement
# Little rock high school
# Sit-in campaign
# Freedom rides
# James meredith and mississippi
# Events in birmingham, alabama
# President kennedy and civil rights
# The march on washington

# Civil rights act 1964
# Selma, Alabama and the right to vote
# Selma to montgomery march....

Hope that helps someone...

Reply 86

Gordon_pk

_summer09_

Really? Our teacher told us that quotes were absolutely necessary if you wanted an A or even a good B. And at least one per paragraph...

Hmm.

Well, I've learnt some anyway. It shouldn't do any harm sticking em in.

Has anybody ever got full marks for an essay?

My teacher said quotes just deepen ur analysis, so if everything else is good, then u can still get a good mark (an A) cause they do positive marking and only give u marks for stuff u've done good :smile:

My teacher reckons i should get full marks on my extended essay, but as for my normal essays in timed conditions, the highest i've had is 19/20

Reply 87

Gordon_pk

The topics im revising are:
Britain:
Woman and the Vote
Liberals - Motive for Reforms
- Reforms and how effective they were
Labour - Reforms and how effective they were

USA
Boom and the Bust
The New Deal

Reckon that'd be enough for paper 1?

Reply 88

blaugrana

1

Yeh, seems alright Gordon.

I've done :

Britain -

Liberals - motive for reforms, reforms, and how effective.
Urbanisation - changes in education, religion, leisure.

USA -

Immigration
New Deal
Civil rights 50s/60s

Reply 89

NinjaBread

4

What's a historiography? =s

Reply 90

ryan92

in the 2005 question,
" Explain why Parliament gave the right to vote to increasing numbers of people between 1967 and 1928? "

What sort of stuff do you need to talk about.
I know it's to do with the democratic state of the country at those times, but how do you go about answering it ?

Reply 91

mikka_09

Does anyone know what you need to get an A? i got 13/20- is that a B or an A? i never get A's! its impossible for me! :frown:

Reply 92

_summer09_

5

ryan92

in the 2005 question,
" Explain why Parliament gave the right to vote to increasing numbers of people between 1967 and 1928? "

What sort of stuff do you need to talk about.
I know it's to do with the democratic state of the country at those times, but how do you go about answering it ?

I'd do paragraphs on:

social change as a result of the industrial revolution (railways, greater political awareness, more power to workers)

changing attitudes to working classes (skilled working classes supported North American in US civil war, showed themselves to be respectable etc.)

political advantage (party that introduced them would get advantage from working class votes, reduced electoral spending reduced Conservative advantage)

protest movements (Chartists, Suffragettes, Hyde Park riots in 1866)

and WW1 (gave vote to conscripted soldiers, women, scrapped residency qualification as people had moved around a lot)

Reply 93

_summer09_

5

Do you think it's alright just to know stuff for WHY there was a growth in democracy and WHY the Liberal reforms took place.

Neither was in the specimen question paper.... I'm worried. That's all i know for the British topic

Reply 94

blaugrana

1

_summer09_ : I would be very tempted to go and read over/learn what the reforms where, and why they were introduced...

PS : Am I the only one here doing urbanisation - it comes up every year too!

Reply 95

truthandtragedy

16

I'm absolutely crapping myself right now.
I started my revision yesterday, and all I've done is write an essay on how effective labour's reforms were, and how democratic Britain was by 1914.
I've skim-read a nationalism essay for Germany, but that's pretty much it. I'm screwed if none of them come up.
Also, not happy with my sourcework either because my recall is always lacking.

Reply 96

ryan92

_summer09_

I'd do paragraphs on:

social change as a result of the industrial revolution (railways, greater political awareness, more power to workers)

changing attitudes to working classes (skilled working classes supported North American in US civil war, showed themselves to be respectable etc.)

political advantage (party that introduced them would get advantage from working class votes, reduced electoral spending reduced Conservative advantage)

protest movements (Chartists, Suffragettes, Hyde Park riots in 1866)

and WW1 (gave vote to conscripted soldiers, women, scrapped residency qualification as people had moved around a lot)

I can't ever rememebr reading about railways e.t.c

Reply 97

_summer09_

5

blaugrana

_summer09_ : I would be very tempted to go and read over/learn what the reforms where, and why they were introduced...

PS : Am I the only one here doing urbanisation - it comes up every year too!

I guess I kinda know what the reforms did, and the dates, but I have no idea how to write a whole essay on 'How democratic was Britain by 1914?'

Has anyone done that essay? And mind posting it on here?

Reply 98

Amzzz

Absoluteley bricking it
Ive revised;
Britain
-Labour Reforms
-Liberals; what prompted and effectiveness
Gonna Miss Out Women :s-smilie:

For Germany
-Rise of Nazis
-Hitlers Germany

For paper 2 we done appeasement and the road to war - stil to revise the stuff for this.

Looks like itll be a late night. Good Luck

what essays have youze revised? (the people doing britain and growth of nationalism)?

Reply 99

Parma_Violet

OP

This is my wee list.

Britain
- Liberal Reforms
- Women's Suffrage
- Wee bit of democracy

USA
- 1920's economic boom and Wall Street Crash
- Civil Rights

I've just finished doing a past paper on source questions. Developed a better knack for it now :smile:

I've adapted a style...thats a weight off my head. Could never answer them properly.

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