0470.3.4.01 — How far did slavery cause the Civil War?.: past paper questions
Real questions on 0470.3.4.01 — how far did slavery cause the civil war?.
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- 0470/12 · February/March 2026 · Q3a[4]
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1a[7]
Study Sources A and B. How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1b[8]
Study Source C. What is the cartoonist’s message? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1c[8]
Study Source D. Why was this source published in the South in 1831? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1d[8]
Study Sources E and F. Does Source E prove that Source F cannot be trusted? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1e[9]
Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that people in the South justified slavery by claiming that black Americans were not capable of looking after themselves? Use the sources to explain your answer. Option B: Twentieth century topic
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1a[8]
Study Sources A and B. How similar are these two sources? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1b[8]
Study Source C. Why was this poster published at that time? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1c[8]
Study Sources D and E. How far does Source D make Source E surprising? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1d[7]
Study Source F. How far can this source be trusted? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1e[9]
Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that people in the North sympathised with escaping slaves? Use the sources to explain your answer. Option B: Twentieth century topic
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q1d[8]
Study Source F. How reliable is this source? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q1e[9]
Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that the North was keen to fight a civil war? Use the sources to explain your answer. Option B: Twentieth century topic
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q2a[7]
Study Sources A and B. How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources.
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q2b[8]
Study Sources C and D. How similar are these two cartoons? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q2c[8]
Study Sources E and F. These two sources are accounts of the same conversation. How far does Source E make Source F surprising? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q2d[8]
Study Source G. How far can Churchill’s account be trusted? Explain your answer using details of the source and your knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 0470/23 · October/November 2025 · Q2e[9]
Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that France was to blame for lack of action over the remilitarisation of the Rhineland? Use the sources to explain your answer.
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2025 · Q3a[4]
What was the Compromise of 1850?
See it on the paper → - 0470/13 · May/June 2025 · Q3b[6]
Why did Southern states secede from the Union in 1860–61?
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What examiners said
This question focussed on two sources in which Brezhnev addresses Jaruzelski. The question asked whether one, Source B, makes the other, Source C, surprising. Many candidates were able to gain good marks by identifying points of agreement or disagreement between the sources and using these to explain surprise and/or lack of surprise. Better responses were provided by candidates that could explain...
— Examiner report, May/June 2022, 0470/23 Q2 (Cambridge)
In Question 3, candidates were asked to consider two cartoons by the same artist and conclude whether his opinion had changed between drawing them. While it was possible to contend that the cartoonist’s opinion had changed, the majority of candidates stated that his opinion had remained constant and there were many sub-messages that could be used as the basis of such an argument. For example, in b...
— Examiner report, May/June 2022, 0470/23 Q3 (Cambridge)
There were many reasonable, but few very strong, answers to this question. The question asked why Jaruzelski made the announcement to the Polish people on 25 December 1891. Questions such as this that essentially ask why a source was produced require three explanatory elements in the response. First, it is necessary to consider the context in which the source was produced, second, the message that...
— Examiner report, May/June 2022, 0470/23 Q5 (Cambridge)
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