Eduqas GCSE History: Component 1 Option 1H — The USA: A Nation of Contrasts, 1910-1929

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Immigration

  • 1.1 – The Open Door and demands for restriction
  • 1.2 – Government legislation and xenophobia
  • 1.3 – Anarchists – the Red Scare; Palmer Raids; Sacco and Vanzetti case

• Topic 2 — Religion and race

  • 2.1 – Religious fundamentalism – the Bible Belt and the Monkey Trial
  • 2.2 – Treatment of Native Americans
  • 2.3 – Segregation, Jim Crow, KKK; black reaction, migration, NAACP, UNIA

• Topic 3 — Crime and corruption

  • 3.1 – Reasons for, life under and enforcement of prohibition
  • 3.2 – Organised crime – Al Capone, St Valentine’s Day Massacre
  • 3.3 – Corruption – Harding, ‘Ohio Gang’, Tea Pot Dome scandal

• Topic 4 — Economic boom

  • 4.1 – America’s economic position in 1910 and the economic impact of the First World War
  • 4.2 – Hire purchase, electrification and mass production
  • 4.3 – Laissez faire; individualism and protectionism

• Topic 5 — The end of prosperity

  • 5.1 – Overproduction and falling consumer demand
  • 5.2 – Boom in land and property values; over speculation
  • 5.3 – The Wall Street Crash – panic selling, Black Thursday, market crash

• Topic 6 — Popular entertainment

  • 6.1 – Silent movies, the cinema and movie stars, and the advent of the talkies
  • 6.2 – Popular music and jazz
  • 6.3 – Impact of radio and gramophone; dancing and speakeasy culture

• Topic 7 — Role of women

  • 7.1 – Role of women in the pre-war years, impact of the First World War and changing attitudes
  • 7.2 – Influence of Jazz culture; flapper lifestyle and feminism
  • 7.3 – New fashions and opposition to the flapper lifestyle

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