Year8OverviewSheet
EMPIREANDFREEDOM
You will be covering the following topics in your History lessons this year. Autumn Term
TheBritishEmpireandtheSlave
Trade
SlaveryintheUSA
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‐ Lifeonaplantation
‐ TheAmericanCivil
Warandaftermath
‐ Slaveryassessmenttest
TheTriangleof
Trade
Abolition(source
assessment)
Spring Term
TheBritishEmpireandIndia:
TheMughals(1526–1857)
TheBritishEmpireandIndia:
TheRaj(1857–1948)
‐ TheIndianMutiny
‐ LifeundertheRaj
‐ Independenceand
Partition
‐ Babur,Akbar,Aurangzeb
‐ LifeunderMughalrule
‐ Emperorassessment
Summer Term
TheCollapseandImpactofthe
BritishEmpire
‐ Immigration:Windrush
‐ CulturalLegacy
‐ TheCommonwealth
Project:ProtestandStruggle
acrosstheworld