Year 9 History Revision Booklet

Contents1. Short Answer Questions to answer and revise

2. Active Revision Strategies

3. Dates and chronology

4. Describing the effect of an historical event

5. Explaining why historical events happened

6. The Point-Evidence-Explain structure to use in your answers

7. Linking Causes

8. Using Sources

9. Revision Checklist.

Revision Task 1: Find out the answers for these facts for Short Answer Questions and learn them for the exam!.

The Industrial Revolution

What date is given as the start of the Industrial Revolution? What could an inventor obtain from the government to stop

someone copying their idea? Name three of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s successful projects. The first railway line built in Britain in 1830 ran between which

two cities? Laws passed in 1842 and 1844 improved conditions for what type

of workers? The population of Britain was said to be 8 million in 1801 – what

had it increased to by 1901?

Protest Movements

Which protesters were famous for breaking machinery? What contribution did Olaudah Equiano make to the abolition of

slavery? What nickname was given to the unreformed political system in

the early 19th Century? What was the name of the protest that took place at St Peter’s

Fields, Manchester in 1819? How many points of the People’s Charter were there? What slogan did the Suffragettes adopt when their propaganda

campaign had little effect on attitudes in British society?

Revision Task 1 (Continued): Learn these facts for Short-Answer Questions!

World War One

Gavrilo Princep, assassin of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was a member of which nationalist organisation?

What was the name of the military alliance between Britain, France and Russia in World War One?

What is artillery? Who was commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary

Forces during the Battle of the Somme? Why did the USA enter World War One in 1917? What name is used to describe the end of the war on 11/11/18?

The Inter-War Years

The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay reparations for the war of how much?

What organisation was set up to keep international peace?

Revision Task 1: Active Revision Strategies

Why did the Schlieffen Plan

fail?

German MistakesEnemy Resistance

DistanceNew Technology

2. Create a mind-map. Start with the BIG themes. Then add details. Don’t forget key dates, names, terminology and statistics!E.g. Belgians, Artillery, Alfred Von Schlieffen, the BEF (75,000 troops), invaded on 2 August 1914, Russia took only 10 days to mobilise…

3. Create revision cards or a checklistAs above, use a BIG theme for each revision card. Then add details.

4. Get over people to test you…Write out some questions and answers on a sheet for them.

1. Start by highlighting or underlining the REALLY important information you need to know.

These are often dates, names, key terms, reasons or effects.

World War I began in 1914. There were three main causes: Empires, Alliances and the Arms Race. The war was fought all over the world, yet the trenches were in France.

The trigger cause was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th 1914. He was a Serbian who didn’t want to be ruled over by Austria-Hungary…

Why did the attack on the Somme Fail?

Theme 1: TechnologyOne third of British shells…

The barbed wire could not be…The Germans could set up their

machine guns in…

Why did the attack on the Somme fail?

Theme 2: Bad PlanningHaig told the soldiers to…

The British attacked the strongest part…

Haig was told he did not have enough artillery to…

Revision Task 2: Practice putting events into chronological (time) order

Name of the Event/Feature

Effect on who

or what?

Judgement aboutthe effect of the event (Circle 1-2

Words)

‘Whens, Wheres& Statistics’ to support your judgement

Helpful Damaging

Peaceful Violent

Beneficial Negative

Mild Extreme

Undermining Strengthening

Helpful Damaging

Peaceful Violent

Beneficial Negative

Mild Extreme

Undermining Strengthening

Helpful Damaging

Peaceful Violent

Beneficial Negative

Mild Extreme

Undermining Strengthening

Helpful Damaging

Peaceful Violent

Beneficial Negative

Mild Extreme

Undermining Strengthening

Revision Task 3: Identifying & Describing the EFFECT of an event

Life in the Trenches

WWI Propaganda

The EventCausation Question

2-3 BIG Reasons (or ‘Big Points’)

Little points (‘Whens,Wheres & Statistics’) to support your BIG points

Why wereworking

conditions in factories so terrible?

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Why did men hurry to join the

British Armyin 1914?

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2.

Why attack did the

attack on the Sommefail on July 1st 1916?

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2.

Why was the Treaty

of Versailles so harsh on Germany?

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2.

Why did Japan attack

Pearl Harbour in

1941?

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Revision Task 4: Identifying the CAUSES of events

Revision Task 5: What is a Point-Evidence-Explain Paragraph?

Bristol Grammar School (BGS) is an excellent school. For example, over 70% of pupils achieved A*s or above last year, and under 1% achieved below a Grade C. The school was set up in 1532, and builds on a long tradition of academic excellence, sporting prowess and a high level of pastoral care. The Heads of Houses and Heads of Year work very carefully together to ensure that pupils are cared for, and different departments offer a wealth of opportunities. As examples of this, the History Department takes Year 9 pupils to the Black Country Living Museum every year, House Concerts and Plays are a regular occurrence, and there are a variety of after school clubs and an Activities programme. A final example is that in the last survey completed in 2018, over 90% of students said that they enjoyed their lessons. Consequently, the evidence shows that BGS is an excellent school.

BGS is a good school, because it offers loads of Drama and Sporting stuff. Loads of kids are happy there. I really like going out with my mates after school. Teachers are OK and homework is alright I guess.

Revision Task 5: (Continued) Practicing a Point-Evidence-Explain-Link Paragraph

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Revision Task 6: Practising using sources in an exam

What impression does Source

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workers in the industrial period?

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Things I should remember to do when answering this question in the exam:

Revision ChecklistNo. Things to revise

1 Answers to Factual Knowledge Questions

2 Dates/order of the important events

3 The effects of big turning points in the period 1750-1945, such as the invention of the railways, the start or the end of WWI.

4 The causes of the major events, such as the Industrial Revolution, women winning the vote, the disastrous first day of the Somme or reasons for WWII.

5 How to write a PEE paragraph

6 How to link causes together (PEE with an L)

7 How to use sources

Are YOU as prepared as General Eisenhower?

The Peterloo Massacre

TheWater

Frame isinvented

First iron bridge built

USA drop the Atomic Bomb

The Peterloo Massacre1819

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Frame isinvented

1769 First iron bridge built1781

USA drop the Atomic Bomb

1945