Edexcel A Level History Paper 3 options: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780-1928 / Ireland and the Union, c1774-1923 November 2021 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 tactics used by the Chartists in 1839 and the threat that Chartism posed to the authorities.

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 reasons for the success of industrialisation in Ulster and the consequences of that industrialisation in the 1830s.

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

3 ‘The Contagious Diseases Acts were passed principally to enable Britain’s armed forces to operate more efficiently.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How accurate is it to say that the WSPU had achieved significant successes by 1914?

5 ‘The most significant reason for the changes to the Penal Laws, in the years 1774–93, was British concern for the security of Ireland.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How accurate is it to say that the response of the British Government to the Irish Famine in the 1840s was both timely and effective?

How accurate is it to say that the principal reason for parliamentary reform, in the years c1780–1928, was to eliminate corruption?

8 ‘In the years c1780–1928, there were dramatic changes in the organisation of political parties.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1798–1922, Irish nationalists completely failed to achieve their aims?

‘Concession was always a more effective method than coercion in pursuing British government policy in Ireland in the years 1798–1922.’

How far do you agree with this statement?