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New Higher History: The USA 1918-68, Paperback / softback Book

New Higher History: The USA 1918-68 Paperback / softback

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Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2014First Exam: June 2015The only textbook to offer support for the CfE Higher History topic The USA 1918-1968The New Higher History series offers a full-colour, topic-based approach to the CfE Higher History syllabus.

Covering all of the main issues within each topic area, this series includes investigative techniques, use of evidence and a variety of activities to enable students to develop the necessary skills to tackle both extended-response and source-based questions successfully. New Higher History: The USA 1918-1968 provides comprehensive coverage of this topic offered in Section 3 of the course.

The core issues within the topic are fully explored, preparing students for the extended-response questions in the external examination.

This book investigates the growing tensions in American society, looking at:- the changing nature of immigration, the effects of the First World War and their impact on attitudes in society- racial divisions in the 1920s and 1930s, the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and why it was so difficult for black Americans to gain civil rights- economic difficulties, Laissez Faire, capitalism and the Wall Street Crash- the growth of federal powers, the Great Depression and the New Deal- the growth of the Civil Rights Movement, its leaders and organisations, and the struggle towards the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

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