Edexcel A Level History Paper 3 options: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780-1928 / Ireland and the Union, c1774-1923 June 2017 question paper 9HI0/36

Study Source 1 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

Assess the value of the source for revealing the reasons for the opposition to the Contagious Diseases Acts by the Ladies’ Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the nature of the responses to the publication of its manifesto.

Explain your answer, using the source, the information given about its origin and your own knowledge about the historical context.

Study Source 2 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

Assess the value of the source for revealing the severity of the conditions experienced by unskilled urban workers in Ireland and the reasons for the 1913–14 Dublin general strike.

Explain your answer, using the source, the information given about its origin and your own knowledge about the historical context.

How accurate is it to say that the threat posed to government by radical reformers, in the years 1792–1819, was extremely serious?

4 ‘The key reason for the failure of the General Strike of 1926 was the strength of the government response.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

5 ‘In the years c1774–1830, the rights of Irish Catholics were substantially improved.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How accurate is it to say that the role of leading individuals was crucial to the passing of the 1870 and 1881 Land Acts?

How far do you agree that the passing of the 1832 Representation of the People Act was the key turning point in the development of parliamentary democracy in the years 1819–1928?

8 ‘The most dramatic changes in the organisation of political parties, in the years c1780–1928, took place as a result of the passing of the 1867 Representation of the People Act.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

9 ‘Rebellion and violence achieved little for Irish nationalists in the years c1774–1923.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How far do you agree that the passing of the Act of Union (1801) was the key turning point in the evolution of British government policy towards Ireland in the years c1774–1914?