Welcome to ALevel History Edexcel Route C Revolutions
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Welcome to A-Level History
Edexcel: Route C Revolutions in early modern and modern Europe Paper 1: Britain, 1625 -1701: conflict, revolution and settlement 30% A Level One exam: 2 hours 15 minutes Paper 2: Russia in revolution, 1894 -1924 20% A Level One exam: 1 hour 30 minutes Paper 3: Civil rights and race relations in the USA 1850 -2009 30% A Level One exam: 2 hours 15 minutes Paper 4: Coursework 20% A Level 3000 -4000 word essay
Paper 1: Britain, 1625 -1701: conflict, revolution and settlement Why did England go to Civil War? Why was Charles I executed? Why did the Republican rule fail? Why did James II lose his throne? How glorious, was the ‘Glorious Revolution’? • How did the economy change in the C 17 th? • Was England still a confessional state? • • •
Paper 2: Russia in revolution • How was Tsarist Russia governed? • What impact did WW 1 have on the Tsarist regime? • Why was there a revolution in Feb 1917? • Why did the Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional Govt in Oct 1917? • What was it like in Bolshevik Russia?
Paper 3: Civil rights and race relations in the USA 1850 -2009 • How successful were the 13 th, 14 th and 15 th Amendments? • Why were the Jim Crows laws introduced? • How did segregation effect black Americans? • Who was more significant – Martin Luther King or Malcolm X? • Why was Barack Obama elected US president? • How have black Americans been portrayed in literature?
Coursework Stalin, 1924 -1941 Key themes: • Stalin’s rise to power • Collectivisation and the Five Year Plans • The Terror 20 % of the total qualification 3, 000 -4, 000 word essay Internally assessed, externally moderated
2019 History results % 0 0 1 C * A 80% A*-B
Where have students gone to continue History studies… Birmingham Warwick Reading Royal Holloway Kent
