OCR GCSE History B: World period study — The Making of America, 1789–1900

What is included

What this course covers

• Section 1 — America’s expansion 1789–1838

  • 1.1 – How and why the USA expanded, from 1789 to 1838
  • 1.2 – The expansion of southern cotton plantations and of slavery, 1793–1838
  • 1.3 – The removal of indigenous people from the east, 1830–1838

• Section 2 — The West 1839–1860

  • 2.1 – The culture of the Native Americans of the Plains: a case study of the Lakota Sioux
  • 2.2 – The journeys of the early migrants to California and Oregon; the Mormon settlement of Utah
  • 2.3 – The Californian Gold Rush (1848–1849) and the Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1858–1859)

• Section 3 — Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877

  • 3.1 – Divisions over slavery and the causes of the Civil War
  • 3.2 – The African American experience of the Civil War, 1861–1865
  • 3.3 – Reconstruction and continuing limitations to African American liberty

• Section 4 — Settlement and conflict on the Plains 1861–1877

  • 4.1 – White American exploitation of the Plains: railroads, ranches and cow towns
  • 4.2 – Homesteaders: living and farming on the Plains
  • 4.3 – The Indian Wars: Little Crow’s War, Red Cloud’s War and the Great Sioux War

• Section 5 — American cultures 1877–1900

  • 5.1 – Changes to Native Americans’ way of life: reservations and the destruction of the buffalo
  • 5.2 – The impact of economic, social and political change on the lives of African Americans
  • 5.3 – The growth of big business, cities and mass migration

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