OCR GCSE History: America Land of the Free? Hispanic and Native American Civil Rights 1945 - 1975

This outstanding resource has been tried and tested over a number of years and has played a significant role in helping to improve not only results but also in educating our students by looking at the important issue of Native American and Hispanic Civil Rights. This booklet includes a wide range of revision notes, tasks, activities and assessment for learning that are suitable for the full ability spectrum at GCSE History. It is aimed at helping students studying Native American and Hispanic civil rights as part of the OCR GCSE Modern World History: USA Land of the Free 1945 - 1975.

This booklet comes in two sections. The first resource is a study guide which includes revision notes and sources on Native American and Hispanic history from 1945 - 1980. ’ Accompanying each section are a range of interactive activities and tasks from pro and con organisers, Venn diagrams, thinking skills triangles to various mind map activities to help reinforce and check students knowledge and understanding.

The second section, is made up of a series of past paper questions from OCR’s GCSE on this topic. Accompanying these questions are student guides on how to answer each type of question as well as a student mark scheme for self / peer assessment. If you do a different exam board, you can easily drop in your own mark schemes into the table format and adapt this resource.

The full contents for each section are listen below:

1. Background: Hispanic Americans 1800 – 1945
2. Discrimination against Hispanic Americans
3. The struggle for equal rights
4. How did the Chicano movement develop in the 1960s?
5. What methods did Hispanic Americans use?
6. The struggle for education
7. The struggle for land grants
8. The struggle for struggle in the fields
9. Crusade for Justice
10. Problems faced by Native Americans 1485 – 1945
11. Position & Status of Native Americans in 1970
12. Why did Native Americans begin to protest?
13. Why did some Native Americans turn to radical protest methods?
14. Revision Activities
15. OCR Style Exam Questions
16. Pupil Mark Schemes

I’ve also included my Smart Notes to accompany teaching this unit with aims, objectives, learning outcomes and bank thinking skills templates as an extra bonus.

If you like this resource then why not check out my other resources on this topic in my TES shop or stay in touch via: I’ve also produced some similar paid resources on civil rights issues surrounding McCarthyism, Black and Women’s Civil rights in the same period. Please check them out if you teach or study OCR GCSE America the land of the free?

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Roy