History · Edexcel 9HI0 · Paper 2 options: The USA, c1920-55: boom, bust and recovery / The USA, 1955-92: conformity and challenge · June 2018
Study Sources 1 and 2 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.
How far could the historian make use of Sources 1 and 2 together to investigate Ku Klux Klan influence on American society in the 1920s?
Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.
(20)
Study Sources 3 and 4 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.
How far could the historian make use of Sources 3 and 4 together to investigate the impact of Black Power on the struggle for black American civil rights in the years 1966-72?
Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.
(20)
3 ‘The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was the most damaging of the attempts to deal with the economic downturn during the Presidency of Hoover.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
How significant was the role of television in transforming popular culture in the years 1945-55?
(20)
5 ‘The Peace Corps was the only major achievement of Kennedy’s New Frontier programme.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
6 ‘Campaigns for traditional values were most responsible for political divisions in the USA in the years 1981-92.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
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