Pearson Edexcel International A Level · History (YHI01)

Unit 3 option 1D: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1865–2009: Practice Questions

5 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 5 written questions with worked solutions. All on Unit 3 option 1D: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1865–2009.

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Question 1

1 mark

What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau established by Congress in March 1865?

Question 2

1 mark

How did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of the New Deal period often negatively affect African American sharecroppers in the South?

Question 3

1 mark

During the New Deal, why was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) often detrimental to the interests of black farmers in the South?

Question 4

1 mark

Which legal change in 1865 formally ended the institution of slavery across the entire United States?

Question 5

1 mark

Which of the following was a primary provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Question 6

3 marks

Explain how the system of sharecropping affected the economic independence of ex-slaves in the South following the Thirteenth Amendment.

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Question 7

6 marks

Explain how the emergence of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s reflected a shift in the civil rights movement away from the integrationist goals of the SCLC.

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Question 8

3 marks

Identify the significance of Eleanor Roosevelt’s actions within the federal bureaucracy for the representation of African Americans during the New Deal era.

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Question 9

4 marks

In the late nineteenth century, the legal consolidation of the 'Jim Crow' system in the American South was supported by several landmark Supreme Court decisions.

(a) Explain the significance of the 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson for the development of the 'separate but equal' doctrine in public facilities.
(b) Describe how the 1898 ruling in Williams v. Mississippi affected the ability of African Americans to exercise their voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.

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Question 10

6 marks

By the late 19th century, the legal and social status of African Americans faced new systemic challenges.

(a) Explain the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education (1899) for the development of educational segregation.
(b) Evaluate Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accommodation in the context of the black response to Jim Crow laws.

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