AQA A Level History Depth Study: America: A Nation Divided, c1845-1877 June 2019 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 reasons for the defeat of the Confederacy.

‘Westward expansion before 1854 was totally disastrous for the relations between slave and non-slave states.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How important was the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in the rise of the Republican Party in the years 1854 to 1860?

How far had Radical Republicans achieved their aims by 1877?