2024 AQA A-level HISTORY Component 1F Industrialisation and the
people: Britain, c1783–1885 MAY Question Paper and Mark Scheme
MERGED
A-level
HISTORY
Component 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Thursday 23 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/1F.
Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
In the short term, the Great Reform Act of 1832 strengthened the landed class. It
deprived the radicals of their middle-class leadership. Instead, there was now an alliance
of land and industry. In the long term, the Reform Act opened the door to more dramatic
changes. Within 30 years, politicians recognised that they would have to trust working
men with the vote. Before long, the aristocracy would have to share an influence which 5
they had been used to exercising alone. But it would be a sharing of powers, albeit
unequally and uneasily. It would not be the crude suppression of the aristocracy by the
middle classes. By 1867, Britain was well on the way to a middle-class dominated
parliament. For all its imperfections, the Great Reform Act set a modern industrial state
firmly on the path to gradual, non-violent change. This is why it deserves to be 10
remembered as a major piece of legislation with far-reaching consequences.
Adapted from E Evans, The Great Reform Act of 1832, 1983
Extract B
The political world after the Great Reform Act of 1832 was less corrupt but the change
did not take place rapidly nor did it begin in 1832. It would be wrong to use the Reform
Act to explain trends in politics that started long before this reform and needed many
years to complete. These included the development of modern parties and the rising
influence of public opinion and the press. This is not to say the Great Reform Act 5
achieved nothing, but the continuity of the political system was tough enough to survive
the Act. While many small pocket boroughs were abolished, over 40 survived into the
1860s and landlords and industrialists dominated some newly enfranchised industrial
towns in a similar way. Corrupt constituencies survived as did the sale of borough seats.
There was no limit to how much could be spent on parliamentary elections. Great peers 10
still sent their nominees to the Commons and the wealthy used their social and economic
influence for political purposes.
Adapted from N Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel, 2012
IB/M/Jun24/G4002/7042/1F
people: Britain, c1783–1885 MAY Question Paper and Mark Scheme
MERGED
A-level
HISTORY
Component 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Thursday 23 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/1F.
Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
,IB/M/Jun24/G4002/E6 7042/1F
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
In the short term, the Great Reform Act of 1832 strengthened the landed class. It
deprived the radicals of their middle-class leadership. Instead, there was now an alliance
of land and industry. In the long term, the Reform Act opened the door to more dramatic
changes. Within 30 years, politicians recognised that they would have to trust working
men with the vote. Before long, the aristocracy would have to share an influence which 5
they had been used to exercising alone. But it would be a sharing of powers, albeit
unequally and uneasily. It would not be the crude suppression of the aristocracy by the
middle classes. By 1867, Britain was well on the way to a middle-class dominated
parliament. For all its imperfections, the Great Reform Act set a modern industrial state
firmly on the path to gradual, non-violent change. This is why it deserves to be 10
remembered as a major piece of legislation with far-reaching consequences.
Adapted from E Evans, The Great Reform Act of 1832, 1983
Extract B
The political world after the Great Reform Act of 1832 was less corrupt but the change
did not take place rapidly nor did it begin in 1832. It would be wrong to use the Reform
Act to explain trends in politics that started long before this reform and needed many
years to complete. These included the development of modern parties and the rising
influence of public opinion and the press. This is not to say the Great Reform Act 5
achieved nothing, but the continuity of the political system was tough enough to survive
the Act. While many small pocket boroughs were abolished, over 40 survived into the
1860s and landlords and industrialists dominated some newly enfranchised industrial
towns in a similar way. Corrupt constituencies survived as did the sale of borough seats.
There was no limit to how much could be spent on parliamentary elections. Great peers 10
still sent their nominees to the Commons and the wealthy used their social and economic
influence for political purposes.
Adapted from N Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel, 2012
IB/M/Jun24/G4002/7042/1F
