History A Level Edexcel America (UNIT
2) Test Papers with Solved Solutions
2026 Updated.
How many lynchings took place between 1915 and 1930? - Answer 579 (black men)
By 1925 how many members did the KKK claim to have? - Answer 5 million
When and what was Plessy vs Ferguson? - Answer 1896- Supreme Court rule races can be
'separate but equal' allowing segregation despite the 14th amendment
Why and when was the great northern migration? - Answer 1917-32
- need for factory workers in the north due to WW1
- housing and wages provided were inadequate in many cases
-southern labour force sank and farming areas struggled to survive
How did the population of New York change as a result of the northern migration? - Answer
1920-150,000
1930-320,000
By 1920, what proportion of the black American population had moved north? - Answer 40%
What was the positive impact(s) of the northern migration? - Answer - Pay was almost
double that in the south
- 1919 Chicago elections ~ black vote could keep a mayor in power/ black business influence
- 'Voting with their feet'
What were negative impacts of the Northern migration? - Answer - Bad working conditions
- poor farmers and agriculture in the south struggled
Why did so many people vote for FDR (democrat)? - Answer For his 'new deal'
, - 1/3 of low income housing was for black Americans BUT they were not built due to cut
spenditure
- Roosevelt wanted to maintain the support of those against civil rights so did very little on this
front
Who opposed their treatment in the new Deal? - Answer NAACP - ( 1919 ) national
association for the advancement of coloured people
What was the slogan for the housewives league? - Answer 'Don't buy where you can't work'
What did black Americans sign in 1939 and why? - Answer 2 million sign petition for federal
aid to go back to Africa during the US depression, demonstrates how little they were helped by
the New Deal
(Marcus Garvey separatist movement)
What did Phillip Randolph threaten in 1941? - Answer Railworks protest - 100,000 march on
Washington to stop discrimination in defence factories
What stopped this from happening? - Answer FDR executive order 8802 in 1941
- non discrimination in defence work
What did Truman propose in 1954? - Answer (He supported civil rights)
1954 - proposed anti lynching/segregation and fair employment (was ignored by Congress)
What was NAACP membership in 1917, 1919, 1946? - Answer 1917 - 9,000
1919 - 90,000
1946 -600,000
Who was Thurgood Marshall? - Answer - NAACP member
- 1940 chief of legal council
- first black American in Supreme Court
- 50's and 60's - 32 cases/ won 29
2) Test Papers with Solved Solutions
2026 Updated.
How many lynchings took place between 1915 and 1930? - Answer 579 (black men)
By 1925 how many members did the KKK claim to have? - Answer 5 million
When and what was Plessy vs Ferguson? - Answer 1896- Supreme Court rule races can be
'separate but equal' allowing segregation despite the 14th amendment
Why and when was the great northern migration? - Answer 1917-32
- need for factory workers in the north due to WW1
- housing and wages provided were inadequate in many cases
-southern labour force sank and farming areas struggled to survive
How did the population of New York change as a result of the northern migration? - Answer
1920-150,000
1930-320,000
By 1920, what proportion of the black American population had moved north? - Answer 40%
What was the positive impact(s) of the northern migration? - Answer - Pay was almost
double that in the south
- 1919 Chicago elections ~ black vote could keep a mayor in power/ black business influence
- 'Voting with their feet'
What were negative impacts of the Northern migration? - Answer - Bad working conditions
- poor farmers and agriculture in the south struggled
Why did so many people vote for FDR (democrat)? - Answer For his 'new deal'
, - 1/3 of low income housing was for black Americans BUT they were not built due to cut
spenditure
- Roosevelt wanted to maintain the support of those against civil rights so did very little on this
front
Who opposed their treatment in the new Deal? - Answer NAACP - ( 1919 ) national
association for the advancement of coloured people
What was the slogan for the housewives league? - Answer 'Don't buy where you can't work'
What did black Americans sign in 1939 and why? - Answer 2 million sign petition for federal
aid to go back to Africa during the US depression, demonstrates how little they were helped by
the New Deal
(Marcus Garvey separatist movement)
What did Phillip Randolph threaten in 1941? - Answer Railworks protest - 100,000 march on
Washington to stop discrimination in defence factories
What stopped this from happening? - Answer FDR executive order 8802 in 1941
- non discrimination in defence work
What did Truman propose in 1954? - Answer (He supported civil rights)
1954 - proposed anti lynching/segregation and fair employment (was ignored by Congress)
What was NAACP membership in 1917, 1919, 1946? - Answer 1917 - 9,000
1919 - 90,000
1946 -600,000
Who was Thurgood Marshall? - Answer - NAACP member
- 1940 chief of legal council
- first black American in Supreme Court
- 50's and 60's - 32 cases/ won 29
