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GCSE History

20th Century Depth Studies

Section A


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There are three parts to each

question

1. An Explain how question (6 marks)

2. A Usefulness question (10 marks)

3. An Inference Question (4 marks)


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How to answer an Inference

questionWhat does Source A suggest about? (4 marks)

Find at least TWO facts in the source.

Draw an inference . What does the author of

the source want you to think about the event, or

to believe about the event?

What is going on under the surface?


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What does Source A suggest about

American attitudes towards immigrants?

(4 marks ) Source A Immigration and the quota

system of 1921

The quota system was set up in 1921. It

was a victory for the WASPs. They had

little respect for the southern and eastern

Europeans who were most of theimmigrants between 1900 and 1920.


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How marks are awarded

Level 1 Answer that takes information from the source

(1-2)

e.g. there was a quota system; this was a victory for the

WASPs who didnt like southern and eastern Europeans.

Level 2 Answer shows understanding and is able to

make inference(s) from source (3-4)

e.g. many Americans were racist and wanted to control

which European races came to the USA;

American attitudes had become less tolerant following the

influx of southern and eastern European immigrants

before, during and immediately after the First World War.


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What does the source tell

us?Mark Scheme Marks

Writes nothing of relevance 0

Level 1 Identifies 1 or 2 facts

1-2Level 2 Identifies 1 or 2 inferences

3-4


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How to answer an Explain

how question For a WHY question give reasons.

For a HOW question give ways.

For a CONSEQUENCES question give

results

You must give at least TWO reasons.

You must explain how one thing led to

another.


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An Explain how questionMark Scheme Marks


Level 1 General comments or simple statements.

1-2

Level 2 Simple explanationgives one reasonsupported by facts

Or Offers a number of reasons but limitedexplanation or facts.

3-4

Level 3 Developed explanation

Explains two or more reasons in detail.5-6


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Examples of Explain how

questions.

Why was Henry Ford successful?

Why was there a Red Scare in the 1920s?

Why did the US government impose

Prohibition in 1919?

Why were the 1920s called the Roaring

Twenties?

Why did Wall Street crash in 1929?


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Explain the consequences of

Prohibition for the USA in the 1920s.

(6 marks) Level 1: Simple descriptive comment and/or

indentifies one consequence (1-2)

e.g. many people were arrested.

Level 2: EITHER Identifies several consequences(3-4)

e.g. the creation of speakeasies; moonshine; raids onillegal drinking clubs;

arrests; the development of gangsterism; the impacton daily lives.

OR

Explains one consequence

e.g. detailed explanation of gangsters such as AlCapone and Bugs Malone.


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Level 3 Explains two or more

consequences

e.g. two or more from the list above.


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How to answer a Usefulness

question Deal with the CONTENT

What is the message of the source?

How is the information useful?Deal with the PROVENANCE

Who wrote it?, When? And Why?

What was the purpose and motive of the author? What

are they trying to achieve? How do these factors make the source useful, or less

useful.


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How useful is the source..?Mark Scheme Marks


Level 1 Basic or limited information 1-2

Level 2Simple comment

Sees how the content is relevant

Source is useful because of origin, context or purpose 3-5

Level 3 Developed explanationExplains how the content illustrates important aspects

of topic.

Or explains how origin, context, purpose of source

make it useful.

6-8

Level 4 Explanation of usefulness using both content andprovenance

9-10


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(c) How useful is Source B to an historian studying attitudes towards the

stock market in the USA in the 1920s? Use Source B and your

knowledge to

explain your answer. (10 marks) Source B The importance in peoples lives of the American stock market This cartoon comes from the New York Magazine in 1927. It shows a man in

hospital about to have an operation but still worrying about his investments.


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Level 1: EITHER

Accepts the content of the source at face value

e.g. the source shows a man in hospital being

interested in the stock market.

OR

Generalised or learned response which couldapply to any source

e.g. it is a cartoon; cartoons always exaggerate, so itis of limited use.

1-2


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Level 2: EITHER

Simple comments on the usefulness or the

limitations of the source based oninformation in the source and/or ownknowledge

e.g. the source is useful for showing how the

stock market was important to many Americans,even when they were ill and about to have anoperation.

OR Simple comments on the usefulness or

the limitations of the source in terms ofprovenance or reliability or bias.

e.g. the source is of limited use, because it is abiased cartoon which ridicules the excessive

interest in the stock market in the USA.


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Level 3: EITHER

Developed explanation about the utility/limitations of thesource using the source and own knowledge

e.g. the source is useful for showing how some Americannewspapers assumed that their readers were familiar withstock market activities as indeed they were in many sections ofsociety during the boom of the 1920s, with many people

tempted to invest their money, even mortgaging their homes.OR Developed explanation about the utility/limitations of the sourcefocusing on the provenance of the source in relation to the contentand/or own knowledge.

e.g. the source is useful for showing how some Americans were prepared

to ridicule the American preoccupation with the stock market, and suggestthat there might be other priorities in life such as health. By 1927 there weresignificant criticisms of the stock market developing.

6-8


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Level 4: Both strands above, one at Level 3, the other at

Level 2 (9 marks)

Both strands above at Level 3 (10 marks)

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