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Effects on New Zealand society · Part 1 of 3
6 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 8 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 2 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
Describe what it means for an event to have affected New Zealand society, and describe the two definitions that fix what counts.
Explain in depth why an event with only a weak connection to New Zealand is hard to explain as an effect on New Zealand society, however important the event itself was.
Comprehensively examine the boundary between a historical effect and a personal impact, and explain why an account of how people felt is not yet an account of what changed.
Explain how you would choose two effects of an event on New Zealand society, and how you would keep them distinct from each other.
Explain in depth why two effects drawn from the same category tend to be one effect in disguise, and how to tell before you commit to them.
Comprehensively examine what it can mean for an overseas event to have affected New Zealand society, and explain how a historian should establish that connection.