Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 23 May 2025 – Morning
A Level History A
Y319/01 Civil Rights in the USA 1865–1992
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark Scheme
Combined June 2025)
,INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer the question in Section A and any two questions in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk
(*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
Read the two passages and answer Question 1.
1 Evaluate the interpretations in both of the two passages.
Explain which you think is more convincing as an explanation of how far the New
Deal improved the position of African Americans. [30]
Passage A
© Zinn Howard, A People's History of the United States, p392, 397 and 404-5, Harper, 1980. From first line " The Roosevelt reforms went far beyond previous legislation." to last line "Harlem was a place that bred crime." Item removed due to third
party copyright restrictions.
Passage B
© Vivienne Saunders, Race Relations in the USA 1863-1980, p71-3, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. From first line "Before 1933 the federal government had appeared uninterested in black Americans." to last line "While it was sometimes hard for them to make effective protests
about unfairness in the administration
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Section B
Answer any two questions.
2* To what extent did the aims of the campaigners for African American civil rights
remain the same in the period from 1865 to 1992? [25]
3* ‘The Federal Government was the most important factor limiting the development
of trade union and labour rights in the period from 1865 to 1992.’
How far do you agree? [25]
4* ‘Women in America gained greater gender equality in the period before the end
of the Second World War than after it.‘
How far do you agree with this view of the period from 1865 to 1992? [25]
END OF QUESTION PAPER
© OCR Y319/01
2025 Jun25
Friday 23 May 2025 – Morning
A Level History A
Y319/01 Civil Rights in the USA 1865–1992
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark Scheme
Combined June 2025)
,INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer the question in Section A and any two questions in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk
(*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025
OCR is an exempt
[Y/506/4306] DC (SL)
Charity Turn over
355285/1
, 2
Section A
Read the two passages and answer Question 1.
1 Evaluate the interpretations in both of the two passages.
Explain which you think is more convincing as an explanation of how far the New
Deal improved the position of African Americans. [30]
Passage A
© Zinn Howard, A People's History of the United States, p392, 397 and 404-5, Harper, 1980. From first line " The Roosevelt reforms went far beyond previous legislation." to last line "Harlem was a place that bred crime." Item removed due to third
party copyright restrictions.
Passage B
© Vivienne Saunders, Race Relations in the USA 1863-1980, p71-3, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. From first line "Before 1933 the federal government had appeared uninterested in black Americans." to last line "While it was sometimes hard for them to make effective protests
about unfairness in the administration
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Section B
Answer any two questions.
2* To what extent did the aims of the campaigners for African American civil rights
remain the same in the period from 1865 to 1992? [25]
3* ‘The Federal Government was the most important factor limiting the development
of trade union and labour rights in the period from 1865 to 1992.’
How far do you agree? [25]
4* ‘Women in America gained greater gender equality in the period before the end
of the Second World War than after it.‘
How far do you agree with this view of the period from 1865 to 1992? [25]
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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