The Industrial Revolution in Britain, 1750–1850: past paper questions
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- 9489/12 · May/June 2026 · Q1a[15]
Read Source B and Source C. Compare and contrast these sources as evidence about food requisitioning by the Bolsheviks.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q2a[10]
Explain why the development of roads was important to the early Industrial Revolution.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q2b[20]
To what extent was mechanisation the main cause of popular protest?
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q6a[10]
Explain why opposition to the New Deal from the Supreme Court created a crisis.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q6b[20]
‘Structural weaknesses in the US economy were the main cause of the Great Crash.’ To what extent do you agree? Section C: International option International history, 1870–1945
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q7a[10]
Explain why the USA did not join the world war until 1917.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q7b[20]
How strong was popular support in European countries for imperial expansion?
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q8a[10]
Explain why the League of Nations was successful in solving the Silesian Coalfields dispute.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q8b[20]
How important was the role of the USA in the improvement in relations between European powers in the 1920s?
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q9a[10]
Explain why Chamberlain thought the Munich Conference of September 1938 was a success.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · May/June 2026 · Q9b[20]
‘The Non-intervention Agreement of 1936 was ineffective in preventing foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War.’ How far do you agree?
See it on the paper → - 9489/22 · May/June 2026 · Q2a[10]
Explain why free trade was important to the development of industrialisation.
See it on the paper → - 9489/22 · May/June 2026 · Q2b[20]
‘Efforts by Parliament to improve working conditions had made little progress by 1850.’ How far do you agree?
See it on the paper → - 9489/22 · May/June 2026 · Q4a[10]
Explain why support for abolitionism grew in the 1850s.
See it on the paper → - 9489/23 · May/June 2026 · Q2a[10]
Explain why Chartism achieved none of the Six Points by 1850.
See it on the paper → - 9489/23 · May/June 2026 · Q2b[20]
To what extent was it the willingness to invest in new enterprises that led to the rapid growth of industrialisation?
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · October/November 2025 · Q2a[10]
Explain why the factory system developed.
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‘By 1850 industrialisation had undermined aristocratic influence.’ How far do you agree?
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · October/November 2025 · Q5a[10]
Explain why late-nineteenth-century cities were unhealthy and unsafe.
See it on the paper → - 9489/21 · October/November 2025 · Q5b[20]
How far do you agree with the view that trusts and corporations were beneficial to the USA?
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What examiners said
Explain why the slave trade was important to the growth of industry. Effective responses provided a very creditable account of the triangular trade and how it worked. The link between the production of goods to take to Africa, the demand for slaves to work on plantations in the Americas and the provision of basic raw materials to facilitate the growth of production in the cotton mills of Lancashi...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/22 Q1(a) (Cambridge)
‘The middle classes benefited the most from industrialisation.’ How far do you agree? There were some very good answers to this question. These had a good understanding of who the middle class were and provided clear analysis of entrepreneurship and investment and the benefits gained from the promotion of new processes (with appropriate examples like Richard Arkwright and James Watt). Candidates...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/22 Q1(b) (Cambridge)
Explain why Roosevelt established the Alphabet Agencies. Insufficient responses for meaningful comment
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9489/22 Q6(a) (Cambridge)
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