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Developments |
Britain 1500 – 1750
Students undertake a study of crowns, parliaments and the people: the
major political, religious and social changes affecting people throughout
the British Isles, including the local area where appropriate.
Unit 1: Did England become Protestant in the
sixteenth century?
Why did Henry VIII break away from the authority of the Pope?
What was wrong with the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century?
Why did Henry VIII close down the monasteries?
Did Elizabeth find a ‘middle way’ in religion?
Unit 2: Why were the English people fighting
each other in the seventeenth century?
Who or what caused the Civil War?
Why was King Charles I defeated?
Was Charles I a traitor?
How much did England change as a result of the Civil War?
Unit 3: What different problems did James I and
James II face in the seventeenth century?
Was Guy Fawkes framed?
Was the Glorious Revolution inevitable?
How ‘glorious’ was the revolution?
Unit 4: The Celtic fringe: Why were the Scots and
Irish so discontented?
What changes took place in Ireland in the 1680’s and 1690’s?
Why did a massacre take place at Glencoe?
Why did the Union of England and Scotland take place?
Doomed to failure: Could Charles Edward Stuart have won?
Unit 5: Why did British people explore and settle in
different countries in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries?
What motivates explorers?
What makes the perfect explorer?
Why did people emigrate to the colonies?
Who benefited from the colonies and the British Empire?
Unit 6: How did people live in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries?
How were people divided in society?
How did people enjoy their leisure time?
How hard was life for women?
Did people eat a healthy diet?
Britain 1750 – 1900
Students undertake a study of how expansion of trade and colonisation,
industrialisation and political changes affected the United Kingdom,
including the local area where appropriate.
Unit 1: Were the changes in agriculture a revolution?
What changes took place in farming after 1700?
What were the effects of Enclosure?
Unit 2: Were the changes in industry a revolution?
What changes took place in the cotton industry?
Were factories really bad?
How did the railways change Britain?
Unit 3: Working-class reactions: Did everyone agree
with the changes in agriculture and industry?
Who were Ned Ludd and Captain Swing?
What was Chartism and how important were the Chartists?
Unit 4: What political hurdles did people have to
overcome to gain the vote?
What was wrong with the electoral system in the 1800’s?
Why did some people believe that electoral reform was needed?
How effective were the campaigns of working-class movements for
electoral reform?
How effectively did women’s suffrage groups campaign for electoral
reform?
The French Revolution (1789)
Unit 1: France 1789 -1799: Why was there a
Revolution?
Why are the events in France 1789-1794 known as a revolution?
What causes led to the Revolution?
Why was the Bastille attacked and destroyed?
Why was the king executed?
Did the Revolution make France fairer
Why did Robespierre lead a Reign of Terror?
The Black peoples of the Americas
Unit 1: From slavery to Civil Rights: What was the black
persons experience of the USA?
What was the slave trade?
What was life like for slaves on a plantation?
Fighting for their freedom: How did slaves resist enslavement?
Abolition and emancipation: What were the results?
How successful was the campaign for Civil Rights in the twentieth
century?
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