Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Usa, 1850-2009 | Edexcel A-Level History (9HI0)

Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Usa, 1850-2009

189 questions
19 subtopics
Paper 3: themes in breadth with aspects in depth, one option of sixteen
Paper 3

A Paper 3 option combining aspects in breadth on black migration, segregation and cultural representation with aspects in depth on Reconstruction and its collapse, the failure to address grievances before 1941, the civil rights movement, and the election of Barack Obama..

It covers the changing geographical distribution of black Americans, 1850–2009, changing settlement and segregation, 1850-2009, literature and perceptions of race relations, visual portrayals and perceptions of race, the Thirteenth Amendment and its importance, radical Reconstruction, 1867–77, the backlash: the Klan and lynching, the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the spread of Jim Crow Laws, plessy v. Ferguson and the segregation cases, southern whites in the Democrat Party, the failure to address black grievances, impact of the New Deal, civil rights activities, 1954–63, civil rights 1964-68, increasing divisions, barack Obama's political career to 2006, winning the Democratic nomination and reasons for victory in November 2008.

Sample questions from Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Usa, 1850-2009

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

The changing geographical distribution of black Americans, 1850–2009

Where did black Americans live in 1850?

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Overwhelmingly in the South, where around 3.2 million were enslaved and about 250,000 were free, with small free communities in northern cities.
Literature and perceptions of race relations

Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin so influential?

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It sold 300,000 copies in a year, put the human cost of slavery before a mass northern readership, and Lincoln reputedly called Stowe the little woman who started the war.
The Thirteenth Amendment and its importance

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Lincoln's 1863 order freeing slaves in the rebelling states, which turned the war into a war against slavery and allowed black enlistment in the Union army.
The backlash: the Klan and lynching

How common was lynching?

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Around 4,700 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1968, some three-quarters of the victims black, most in the South and often publicly attended.
The spread of Jim Crow Laws

How did Mississippi exclude black voters from 1890?

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Through literacy tests, poll taxes and 'understanding' clauses (the Mississippi Plan).
Southern whites in the Democrat Party

Why did the Democratic Party protect segregation?

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It could not win national elections without the South, so northern Democrats accepted southern control of race policy as the price of the coalition.
Impact of the New Deal

How did black voting patterns change under the New Deal?

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Many black voters shifted their allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party.
Civil rights 1964-68

How was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed?

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After Kennedy's assassination Johnson used his mastery of the Senate to break a 60-day filibuster, invoking cloture for the first time on a civil rights bill.

The 19 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
The changing geographical distribution of black Americans, 1850–2009	Recall questions on where black Americans lived in 1850, what drove the two Great Migrations, the cities that received them, and the return south after 1970.	10
Changing settlement and segregation, 1850-2009	Recall questions on how Harlem became a black neighbourhood, redlining and restrictive covenants, federal housing policy, white flight, and segregation by 2009.	10
Literature and perceptions of race relations	Recall questions on Uncle Tom's Cabin and the criticism of it, the Harlem Renaissance, Native Son and Invisible Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Toni Morrison.	10
Visual portrayals and perceptions of race	Recall questions on The Birth of a Nation, early photography and caricature, photojournalism in the movement, In the Heat of the Night, Roots, and The Help.	10
The Thirteenth Amendment and its importance	Recall questions on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Black Codes, the Freedmen's Bureau, the broken promise of land, sharecropping, and Johnson's obstruction.	10
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–77	Recall questions on the Reconstruction Acts, black officeholding, scalawags and carpetbaggers, the Enforcement Acts, the 1875 Act, and why northern support faded.	10
The backlash: the Klan and lynching	Recall questions on the scale of the violence, the incidence of lynching, Ida B. Wells, the White League, the Compromise of 1877, and why federal protection was withdrawn.	10
The Civil Rights Cases of 1883	Recall questions on what the Court decided, why it was so damaging, Harlan's dissent, the state action doctrine, and how the movement eventually got round it.	10
The spread of Jim Crow Laws	Recall questions on where the name comes from, what the laws covered, the Florida rail law of 1887, poll taxes and literacy tests, and the white primary.	10
Plessy v. Ferguson and the segregation cases	Recall questions on the background to Plessy, the separate but equal doctrine, Harlan's dissent, Cumming and Williams, and how the NAACP eventually overturned it.	10
Southern whites in the Democrat Party	Recall questions on the Solid South, seniority and the filibuster, why the party protected segregation, the Dixiecrat revolt, the Southern Manifesto, and massive resistance.	10
The failure to address black grievances	Recall questions on why anti-lynching bills failed, what black organisations did, Randolph's threatened march and the FEPC, and how the war and the Cold War changed the argument.	10
Impact of the New Deal	Recall questions on the effect of the AAA on black farmers, discrimination in the CCC and NRA, the black cabinet, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shift in black voting.	10
Civil rights activities, 1954–63	Recall questions on the Warren Court and Brown, all deliberate speed, Little Rock, the sit-ins and Freedom Rides, Birmingham, and the March on Washington.	10
Civil rights 1964-68	Recall questions on how the 1964 Act was passed and why it used the commerce clause, Freedom Summer, Selma, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act.	10
Increasing divisions	Recall questions on why SNCC and CORE expelled their white members, what Black Power meant, the Panthers, COINTELPRO, King's later campaigns, and the riots after his death.	9
Barack Obama's political career to 2006	Recall questions on his background and community organising, the Illinois State Senate, the 2000 defeat, the 2002 Iraq speech, and the 2004 Senate election.	10
Winning the Democratic nomination	Recall questions on the 2004 convention speech, why Clinton was the favourite, the caucus strategy, online fundraising, Iowa, and the Jeremiah Wright controversy.	10
Reasons for victory in November 2008	Recall questions on the result, the effect of the financial crisis, the states he took, how different groups voted, and what a post-racial America was said to mean.	10

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How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.