AQA A Level History Depth Study: America: A Nation Divided, c1845-1877 November 2021 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 disagreements over the Constitution.

‘The 1850 Compromise was badly flawed.’

Assess the validity of this view with reference to the years 1848 to 1854.

‘Poor leadership was the Confederacy’s greatest weakness in the Civil War.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent was the Fourteenth Amendment due to Thaddeus Stevens?