General
Certificate of Education
Advanced
Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level
HISTORY
Paper 5 The
History of the
October/November
2002
3 hours
READ
THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
If you have been given an Answer
Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet.
Write your Centre number,
candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen
on both sides of the paper.
You may use a soft pencil for
any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
Do not use staples, paper clips,
highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Answer four
questions.
You must answer Question
1 (Section A)
and any three questions from Section B.
At the end of the examination, fasten
all your work securely together.
All questions in this paper
carry equal marks.
SECTION A: The Road to Secession and Civil
War, 1846-61
You
must answer
Question 1.
THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN THE
1
Read the
sources and then answer the question.
Source A
A
house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot
endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the
Abraham Lincoln, speech to the
Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois, 17 June 1858.
Source B
When
a party is enthroned in
With
their control of the Government of the
If,
in our present position of power and unity, we have the raid of John Brown,
what will be the measure of insurrection and incendiarism, which must follow
our notorious and abject prostration to Abolition rule at
Source C
Do
the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration
would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves or with them, about
their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I
hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.
The
South would be in no more danger in this respect than it was in the days of
is
wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is
the only substantial difference
between
us.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Alexander H.
Stephens (later Vice-President of the Confederacy),
22 December 1860.
Source D
The
Civil War was rendered inevitable because a reconciliation between opposing
moral and social forces could not be effected. It might have been averted had
the North yielded to the South and in
‘Lectures on the American Civil War’ by
a
Source E
How
does one account for the North’s vehement refusal to acquiesce in secession,
its passionate attachment to the
From a book by a contemporary British
historian, 1990.
Now answer the following
question.
‘The slavery issue undoubtedly caused the American Civil
War.’ Use sources A-E to show how far the
evidence confirms this statement.
SECTION B
You
must answer three questions from this section.
2
Assess the main
factors involved in taming the ‘Wild West’ between 1865 and 1896.
3
‘He was
completely unfitted for the office of President.’ To what extent is this a fair
judgement on Grant during his two Presidential terms?
4
Assess the
impact of immigration on American social and economic life in the period from
1865 to the First World War.
5
Evaluate the
leadership role of Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement of the 1950s
and 1960s.
6
How far were
the 1920s in the
7
Analyse the
reasons why the
8
‘In the 1950s
and 1960s religion permeated every aspect of American life but how far there
was a genuine religious revival remains uncertain.’ Assess the accuracy of this
contention.