Exam Skills: The American West, c1835–c1895 (Edexcel GCSE History)

Exam Questions

3 hours18 questions
18 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the developments in the spread of the railroad network in the years c1862-75.

You may use the following in your answer: 

  • Pacific Railroad Act (1862)

  • immigration 

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28 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the ways in which the cattle industry changed in the years c1876-c1890.

You may use the following in your answer: 

  • overstocking 

  • winter of 1886-87

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38 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the range wars between cattle ranchers and homesteaders.

You may use the following in your answer: 

  • rustling 

  • Johnson County War (1892) 

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48 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the continuing attempts to establish law and order in the years c1876–c1895.

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  • sheriffs and marshals 

  • OK Corral (1881) 

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58 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Mormon migration in the years 1846–47.

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  • attitudes towards Mormons 

  • Great Salt Lake 

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68 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the conflict with the Indigenous peoples (Plains Indians) in the years 1862-64.

You may use the following in your answer:

  • Little Crow 

  • Colonel Chivington 

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