Cycles of American History: The Four Turnings - The Cambridge International Examination Model

Cultural Highs

Awakenings

Unraveling

Crisis

Crisis and Adjustment

Minorities

Events

 

Cambridge International Examinations

2008 -2009 Syllabus: Paper #5

American History

Transcendentalists

1820s - 1840s

Sectionalism

1845 - 1860 

Section: Source Based Study

Exam Question #1

Civil War

1861 - 1865 

Section: II Civil War

Exam Question #3

Reconstruction

1865 - 1877 

Section: II Reconstruction

Exam Question #3

Segregation

1865 - 1877 

Section: II Reconstruction

Exam Question #3

Domestic

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Manifest Destiny

1820s - 1848

Section: I Westward Expansion

Exam Question #2

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Indian Wars

1867 - 1893 

Section: I Westward Expansion

Exam Question #2

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Foreign

Gilded Age

1877 - 1901

Section: III Economic Expansion

Exam Question #4

Progressive Movement

1901 - 1920 

Section: III Economic Expansion

Exam Question #4

Roaring Twenties

1920 – 1930

Section: V Boom and Bust

Exam Question #6

Great Depression

1930 -1933

Section: V Boom and Bust

Exam Question #6

New Deal

1933 - 1941

Section: V Boom and Bust

Exam Question #6

 

Segregation and Civil Rights 1890 -1968

Section: IV Civil Rights

Exam Question #5

 

 

 

 

 

Women's Movement

1941 -1968 

Section: VII Social Developments

Exam Question #8

 

Domestic

New Manifest Destiny - Imperialism

1880s - 1919

Section: VI Rise as a World Power

Exam Question #7

Isolationism

1919 - 1941 

Section: VI Rise as a World Power

Exam Question #7

World War II

[1939] 1941 - 1945 

Section: VI Rise as a World Power

Exam Question #7

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Foreign

Post War America

1946 - 1963

Section: VII Social Developments

Exam Question #8

The Consciousness Revolution

1963 - [1968]

Section: VII Social Developments

Exam Question #8

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Domestic