A-level HISTORY Component 2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801

A-level HISTORY Component 2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801 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 7042/2G. • 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. 2 IB/M/Jun21/7042/2G Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From the private diary of John Adams, a lawyer and political activist, 17 December 1773. It is amazing that last night three cargoes of Boston Tea were emptied into the sea, ending the evil taxation inflicted on our patriots by Governor Hutchinson and the customs officers. There is a dignity in this last effort by the patriots that I much admire. The destruction of the tea is so bold and so daring that it must have significant consequences that will be noted in history. What measures will the British take in consequence of this? Will they resent it? Will they punish us? How? The question is whether the destruction of the tea was necessary. I believe it was so. They could not send it back. There was no alternative but to destroy it or let it be landed. To allow it to be landed would be giving up the principle of taxation by parliamentary authority, against which we have struggled for ten years. It would be subjecting ourselves forever to misery, oppression, poverty, and servitude