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Book Details
Abstract
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Series Editor: Angela Leonard
This Student Book:
- covers the essential content in the new specification in an engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
- uses the 'Thinking Historically' approach and activities to help develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
- has 'Writing Historically' features that focus on the writing skills most important to historical success. This literacy support uses the proven Grammar for Writing approach used in many English departments
- includes lots of exam guidance, with practice questions, sources, sample answers and tips to support preparation for GCSE assessments.
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Timeline | 6 | ||
| Chapter 1: The early settlement of the West, c1835-c1862 | 8 | ||
| 1.1: The Plains Indians: their beliefs and way of life | 9 | ||
| Who were the Plains Indians? | 9 | ||
| Plains Indian society | 9 | ||
| Survival on the Great Plains | 12 | ||
| Beliefs about nature and land | 13 | ||
| The US government policy towards the Plains Indians | 15 | ||
| 1.2: Migration and early settlement | 18 | ||
| What factors encouraged migration west? | 18 | ||
| The process and problems of migration | 21 | ||
| The development and problems of white settlement farming | 24 | ||
| 1.3: Conflict and tension | 27 | ||
| Tension between settlers and Plains Indians | 27 | ||
| The Fort Laramie Treaty (1851) | 28 | ||
| The problems of lawlessness in early towns and settlements | 31 | ||
| Recap page | 35 | ||
| Writing Historically | 36 | ||
| Chapter 2: Development of the Plains, c1862-c1876 | 38 | ||
| 2.1: The development of settlement in the West | 39 | ||
| The significance of the American Civil War on the development of the West | 39 | ||
| The Homestead Act (1862) | 40 | ||
| The Pacific Railroad Act (1862) | 42 | ||
| Tackling the problems of homesteading | 44 | ||
| Problems of law and order | 46 | ||
| 2.2: Ranching and the cattle industry | 49 | ||
| Growth of the cattle industry after the war | 50 | ||
| Cowboys and changes in the cattle industry | 54 | ||
| Rivalry between ranchers and homesteaders | 57 | ||
| 2.3: Changes in the way of life of the Plains Indians | 59 | ||
| US government policy towards Plains Indians and its impacts | 61 | ||
| Conflict with the Plains Indians | 63 | ||
| Recap page | 67 | ||
| Writing Historically | 68 | ||
| Chapter 3: Conflicts and conquest, c1876-c1895 | 70 | ||
| 3.1: Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement | 71 | ||
| Changes in farming | 71 | ||
| Changes in the cattle industry | 73 | ||
| The continued growth of settlement | 76 | ||
| 3.2: Conflict and tension | 80 | ||
| Continued problems of law and order | 80 | ||
| The range wars, including the Johnson County War | 83 | ||
| Conflict with the Plains Indians | 86 | ||
| 3.3: The destruction of the Plains’ Indians way of life | 90 | ||
| The hunting and extermination of the buffalo | 90 | ||
| The Plains Indians’ life on the reservations | 92 | ||
| Changing government attitudes to the Plains Indians | 94 | ||
| Recap page | 97 | ||
| Writing Historically | 98 | ||
| Writing analytical narrative | 100 | ||
| The difference between a story and a narrative account that analyses | 100 | ||
| The American West, c1835-c1895: Preparing for your exam | 102 | ||
| Answers | 109 | ||
| Index | 110 |