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Year 8 History Quiz
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Year 8 History Quiz
Use the sources and timeline on this sheet to answer the questions. Choose one option for each multiple-choice question. For written answers, use evidence from the sheet and explain your thinking.
A quick timeline
Use the timeline to help with questions 1 and 2.
1.The timeline marks 1840 and 1893. Which event happened first?
- The Treaty of Waitangi was signed
- Women gained the right to vote in general elections
- Both happened in the same year
2.How many years separate the two dates on the timeline? Show or describe how you worked it out.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and many Māori chiefs. The Māori-language text and the English text did not express every idea in the same way. For example, they differed over how to describe authority and the rights of Māori to keep control of their lands and treasured possessions. The Treaty remains important in discussions about the relationship between Māori and the Crown.
3.According to Source A, why is it too simple to say that the two versions of the Treaty meant exactly the same thing?
- They were written in different places
- They did not express every idea about authority and Māori rights in the same way
- Only one version was signed
- The Treaty was written after 1893
4.Give one reason, using Source A, why the Treaty of Waitangi is still important today.
In 1893, a petition signed by nearly 32,000 people was presented to New Zealand's Parliament. It asked Parliament to give women the right to vote. On 19 September 1893, the Electoral Act became law. New Zealand became the first self-governing country to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
5.Which piece of evidence in Source B shows that the campaign for women's voting rights involved many people?
6.True or false: In 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
TrueFalse
7.Put these events in order from earliest to latest: the 1893 Electoral Act; the Treaty of Waitangi signing in 1840; the petition presented to Parliament in 1893.
8.A historian says, “The petition helped make change possible, but Parliament made the new voting law.” Which detail from Source B supports this interpretation?
9.Compare the two sources. Name one difference between the historical changes they describe: the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and women's voting rights in 1893.
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