Year 9 History practice questions

Lock in’s Year 9 History course has 5 units with 92 flashcards and 89 practice questions, plus timed exams built fresh each time.

• The Industrial RevolutionCauses: why Britain, why then?; Inventions and the factory system; Working conditions and reform; Impacts: cities, society, environment and Australia
• Movement of peoplesConvicts and transportation; Free settlers, assisted migrants and the gold rushes; Slavery and abolition; Indentured labour and First Nations experiences
• Making a nationFederation: reasons, people and process; The White Australia Policy; Rights and freedoms to 1914; First Nations peoples in the new nation
• World War ICauses of World War I; Enlistment and Gallipoli; The Western Front; The home front; Commemoration and the Anzac legend
• Historical skillsPrimary and secondary sources; Perspective, reliability and usefulness; Chronology and timelines; Historical concepts and writing

Try each question before you open the answer. Written answers show what a full-marks response needs to include.

1. Question 1. The Industrial RevolutionMultiple choice

   The domestic system was replaced by…

   1. AThe feudal system
   2. BThe assignment system
   3. CThe factory system
   4. DThe convict system
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   C. The factory system

   Production moved from homes into factories.

2. Question 2. Movement of peoplesMultiple choice

   Which colony was founded with no convicts?

   1. AVan Diemen’s Land
   2. BWestern Australia
   3. CNew South Wales
   4. DSouth Australia
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   D. South Australia

   South Australia (1836) was planned as a free colony.

3. Question 3. Movement of peoples: slavery and abolition3 marks

   Outline the triangular trade.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. Ships left European ports with manufactured goods such as cloth, guns and alcohol, which were traded in West Africa for enslaved people. The enslaved Africans were then shipped across the Atlantic on the Middle Passage and sold in the Americas. The ships returned to Europe carrying plantation goods such as sugar, cotton and tobacco.

   A full-marks answer:

   • Leg 1: manufactured goods (cloth, guns) from Europe to Africa
   • Leg 2: enslaved Africans shipped to the Americas (the Middle Passage)
   • Leg 3: plantation goods (sugar, cotton, tobacco) shipped back to Europe
4. Question 4. Making a nationMultiple choice

   Before federation, Australia was made up of…

   1. AOne colony
   2. BEight states
   3. CSix separate colonies
   4. DTwo dominions
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   C. Six separate colonies

5. Question 5. Making a nation: The White Australia Policy2 marks

   Outline how the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 worked.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. Migrants could be given a dictation test of 50 words in any European language. Because the officer chose the language, it could be set in one the person did not know, so non-Europeans could be made to fail and refused entry.

   A full-marks answer:

   • A dictation test of 50 words in any European language
   • The officer chose the language, so non-European migrants could be made to fail and be excluded
6. Question 6. World War IMultiple choice

   What does the “A” in the MAIN causes of World War I stand for?

   1. AAlliances
   2. BAnnexation
   3. CArmistice
   4. DAnzac
   Show answer

   A. Alliances

   Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.

History answers earn marks for specific evidence: names, dates, places and numbers. For “explain” questions, give the cause or effect and then say why it mattered. For source questions, say who made the source, when and why, before you judge how useful it is.

In Lock in, every History topic has short notes, then flashcards that use spaced repetition: rate each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy and it comes back just before you would forget it. Practice questions come in three levels, Foundation, Standard and Complex. Three right in a row moves you up a level, and two wrong moves you back.

Press Study for me and the app builds a 15 to 20 minute session from the cards that are due, the mistakes that are due and questions on your weakest topics. Anything you get wrong comes back 1, 3 and 7 days later until you get it right. When an exam is close, sit a timed practice exam with AI marking.

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