AQA A Level History Depth Study: America: A Nation Divided, c1845-1877 June 2018 question paper 7042/2J

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the outbreak of the Civil War.

How accurately did popular literature and the press in the South represent Southern attitudes to abolitionism, in the years 1850 to 1854?

‘Lincoln’s planning for the future of the Union after the Civil War was too favourable towards the South.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The ‘Redeemers’ were motivated by the desire to remove corruption from politics in the South, in the years 1868 to 1877.’

Assess the validity of this view.