Year 10 Hsie Flashcards
Define rights
Human rights are claims that all human beings should have regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion or any other status
Define freedom
The power or right to act, seek or think as one wants, the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved
Who was Dr Herbert Evett
Dr H Evatt
-Was head of Australia’s Delegation
-Was elected
Secretary of UN in 1948
-Influential leader
True or false
Australia was 1 of the 8 nations involved in drafting the UDHR
True (1945)
Why was UDHR created
Bring hope to people of all ages around the world and for people to turn to for guidance and inspiration
What polices weren’t inline with the UDHR in Australia
White Australia policy - limit immigrants
Unfair treatment of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders
When was the UN officially formed
1945 with 50 nations meeting together and endorsed in 48
How many articles are in the UDHR
30
Name a group that attacked African Americans in America after slavery was illegal
KKK
Klu klux klan
What role for African Americans played a pivotal role in fighting for their rights
Churches
What states resisted federal changes and were still unfairly treating African Americans
Southern States
What happened in 1954 (US)
Segregation in schools need, coloured schools began
TOMAC stands for…
Type Origin Motive Audience Content
Origin (TOMAC)
- Who made it?
- When was it made?
- Where was it made?
- What is the context? (Background info) (Important as source can be influenced by context)
Type (TOMAC)
- Primary or Secondary?
- What is it? (E.g. report, photograph, artwork)
- Is it written, an image, an artefact?
Motive (TOMAC)
- Why was the source created?
Audience (TOMAC)
Who was the source intended for?
Content (TOMAC)
- What does the source say?
- What’s the message of the source?
- What’s in the source?
Primary vs Secondary source
Primary:
- Source was from the time
- Source linked directly to that event/time period
- Usually less biased
E.g. Photos, artefacts, speeches, reports
Secondary: - Not from the time - Second hand account - Likely to be more biased than primary E.g. Textbooks, encyclopaedias, websites
Name 4 famous US Civil right evens
Little Rock nine
Bus boycotts and Rosa Parks
Freedom rides
Washington march
Describe Little Rock nine event
- segregation ended in schools
- 9 African Americans went to an all white school
- governer Orval Faubus sent troops to stop the African Americans from entering
- 101st airborne sent to school to protect the African Americans
Describe the bus boycotts and Rosa parks
- Rosa park was sent off bus as she didnt move from her seat at front of bus after a white person wanted that seat
- African Americans stopped catching buses
- buses lost 4/5 of income
Describe freedom rides
- went to southern states
- exposed segregation in southern states
- protestors grabbed the attention of news spreading the segregation African Americans got in southern States
describe the Washington March
- wed 28 August 1963
- March was to bring attention to the difficulties faced by African Americans
- organised by A. Phillip Randolph
- 250 000 people attended
- was the place where they famous “i have a dream” speech was made