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Which option separates cause and consequence?

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Topic

BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day

Question

  1. A. Pankhursts should be explained before judging consequences.
  2. B. A source comment with no provenance.
  3. C. A long-term cause treated as a result.
  4. D. A similarity presented as a difference.

Answer

Evidence check: Pankhursts should be explained before judging consequences. is the best answer. It fits Part four: Equality and rights within BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day and directly supports Study women's rights, including suffrage campaign reasons, methods and responses, the Pankhursts, franchise extension and progress towards equality in the second half. Check this by using evidence, provenance, date, event, individual, policy, consequence; do not choose a distractor simply because it sounds historical.

Explanation

The correct option is Pankhursts should be explained before judging. This MCQ is about Which option separates cause and consequence, not just general recall. The correct option works because it matches the period context of Paper 2 Section A: Thematic studies and uses the same evidence base as Study women's rights, including suffrage campaign reasons, methods and responses, the Pankhursts, franchise extension and progress towards equality in the second half. The rejected options are weaker: 1) A source comment with no provenance.; 2) A long-term cause treated as a result.; 3) A similarity presented as a difference.. To decide between them, students should identify, support, test, reject the option against chronology, evidence and the learning objective, then keep evidence separate from opinion and interpretation.

Common mistake

Avoid confusing Pankhursts

A common mistake is to write about Pankhursts as a general opinion, or to mix up cause, consequence, change and continuity in c1170 to the present day.

Anchor the answer to Part four: Equality and rights, use precise evidence, and state whether Pankhursts is a cause, consequence, change, continuity or significant development.

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