AQA AS HISTORY 7041/1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 Component 1C Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England, 1485–1547 Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E3 7042/2Q A-level HISTORY

AQA AS HISTORY 7041/1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 Component 1C Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England, 1485–1547 Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E3 7042/2Q A-level HISTORY Component 2Q The American Dream: reality and illusion, 1945–1980 Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon 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 7042/2Q. • 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/Jun23/7042/2Q Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a report of a speech by Jesse Jackson to the Republican Party, in the New York Times, 21 January 1978. This left-leaning newspaper is renowned for high journalistic standards. ‘Blacks will vote Republican if Republicans will go after their votes and look after their interests’, the Rev Jesse L Jackson told the Republican National Committee today. A standing ovation greeted the message from the Chicago‐based civil rights leader, who had been invited before the committee as part of an effort by the Republican national chairman, Bill Brock, to reverse the devastating decline in the party’s share of black votes. Mr Jackson preached self‐help and warned of moral decay, even as he invited Republican competition for black votes and argued that blacks should register as Republicans so they could, ‘broaden our political options and avoid being taken for granted by the Democrats’. Mr Jackson said that the Republicans had lost some black votes in 1976, perhaps enough to cost them the election, ‘because they simply did not go after them’. He warned, ‘The Republican Party needs black people if it is to ever compete for national office – or, in fact, to keep it from becoming an extinct party’. 5 10 Source B From an article in the Christian Science Monitor, 26 August 1980. This newspaper had a reputation for being non-religious and non-sensationalist. It won five Pulitzer prizes between 1945 and 1980. It is extraordinary that the Ku Klux Klan has resurfaced to the point that America’s main political parties have had to reject it. Klan membership has risen from 6 500 to 10 500 in the past five years and, in June, over 32 300 southern Californians voted for Klansman, Tom Metzger, who campaigned to aid ‘white working people’, as the Democratic nominee for the 43rd congressional district. Local Democrat officials renounced their support saying, ‘he is against everything the Democratic Party stands for’. Next it was the Republicans’ turn to try to avoid guilt by association with the Klan. The problem arose when the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the biggest, most militant Klan group, endorsed Ronald Reagan declaring ‘the Republican platform reads as if it were written by a Klansman’, citing such points as Reagan’s opposition to gun control, generous welfare payments and to ‘forced busing’. Mr Reagan rejected the endorsement, saying, ‘I have no tolerance for the Klan and I want nothing to do with it’.