Date: Friday June 15th 2012 Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes 60 marks (37.5% of your GCSE grade) Revision help * This guide and the guide you were given for your mock exam on the Roaring Twenties * Your exercise book * Textbook Unit 2 Twentieth Century Depth Studies isbn 978 1 4085 0321 8 * CGP revision guide (purchased last year) * Useful sites www.johndclare.net/ and www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history and www.schoolshistory.co.uk * Your teacher * Revision
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Violence as Propaganda: Late 19th Century Terrorism This short essay will compare the use of terrorism in the late 19th century. What do the terrorist campaigns share in common and why some were more successful than others. I will also attempt to define what is meant by success in a terrorist campaign. First I will define “success” for the purpose of this essay. I define success as achieving the desired and stated purpose of the individual or group using terror as a method to achieve change.
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American Fashion Fads of the Twentieth Century A fad‚ or craze‚ becomes popular in a culture relatively quickly‚ but also loses its popularity dramatically. A fad that remains for a significant amount of time typically loses its significance in current popular culture as it evolves and becomes accepted into a society ’s everyday culture. In the past hundred years‚ fashion fads have been characterized by politics‚ popular movies‚ music and famous celebrities. Most fads just wither and quickly fad
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The late nineteenth century was a very difficult time for farmers to make a substantial living. Because of the economy‚ many farmers found themselves going into large amounts of debt that they were not able to pay‚ and as a result they were treated unfairly and being taken advantage of. There were many threats to farmers during the late nineteenth century‚ the most common were railroads‚ trusts‚ monopolies‚ banks‚ and a great deal of money problems‚ but not all of these were valid. In the belief
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Muckrakers were early twentieth-century reformers whose 1 mission was to look for and uncover political and business corruption. The term muckraker‚ which referred to the "man with a muckrake" in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ was first used in a pejorative sense by Theodore Roosevelt‚ whose opinion of the muckrakers was that they were biased and overreacting. The movement began about 1902 and died down by 1917. Despite its brief duration‚ however‚ it had a significant
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corruption thrived as political bosses ran the city for their own personal gain and power. It appeared as if the nation was modernizing too fast because they were unable to deal with problems of urbanization. The changes in urban America in the late nineteenth century therefore are viewed to be mostly negative. The rapid increase of urbanization was partly due to the number of immigrants that flooded America. People from rural America also migrated to the cities during this period. They gave up farms to
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In various points in history‚ governments have made regulations which many of the people refused to follow. During the late 18th century‚ prohibition of trade amongst separately colonized islands caused smuggling between these islands to become quite popular. Islands owned by the French‚ English‚ and Spanish each had different goods that were sought after‚ and thus‚ illegal trade commenced and was very successful. Supply and demand continued as it did because the smugglers stood to gain economically
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Overview The 20th century brought many of the modern arts that we are used to see and enjoy every day. Ones of these are painting‚ literature‚ film and music. Painting 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh‚ who were essential for the development of modern art. By 1903 the impetus of Symbolism was expended and a new and enigmatic mood was forming. The new attitude drew on a vein that was comic‚ poetic‚ and fantastic‚ exploring an irrational quality
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was the new center for the Roman Empire‚ but did it directly inherit the art traditions from the Roman Empire? Give examples in your response. The Byzantine people considered themselves as the heirs to the Roman Empire (Online Lecture) so this also meant that they inherited the art traditions of the Roman Empire. Their sculptures stayed with the classical style of the ancient Greek art but a new aesthetic and iconic type art began to develop. The new aesthetic art was created by the Christians
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W.E.B. DuBois made an argument that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” After only covering the first third of the twentieth century it is a problem but not this main problem. The problem that was larger was the class disparity revolving around wages and working conditions. The color line was mainly a problem in the south where there was the most diversity. The labor dispute spanned coast to coast and was in the North and the South. The main points are the great steel strike
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