ACSI 2025 HIST PRELIM P1 MS

1 ACS INDEPENDENT 2025 Y4 HISTORY P1 PRELIM Suggested Answers 1a) Study Source A. What does the advertisement’s message reveal about British attitude and its role in the world? Explain your answer. 5m L1 Misunderstands/paraphrase with no inference/describes source. 1m L2 Inference unsupported. I can infer that the British were condescending and prejudiced towards the non- Europeans. 2m L3 Inference/s supported and explained. Award 3m for 1 inference and 4m for 2 inferences. Attitude: I can infer that the British had a negative attitude as they were condescending and prejudiced towards the non- Europeans. This is evident in Source A where the British perceived the people in ‘the dark corners of the earth’ as backward and unrefined as they lacked the “virtues of cleanliness”. Role in the world: The fact that the British saw it as their White Man’s burden/moral duty to bring civilisation (bring ‘lightening’) to ‘the dark corners of the earth’ / to reform/teach the non-Europeans meant that they perceived the people there to be inferior/undeveloped and viewed them with disdain. 3- 4m L4 Inference supported and explained with source evidence and in context. Award 5m only if inferences address both attitude and role in the world. L3 + This was the common attitude of the British at the time as the fact that the soap manufacturers used the British’s heightened sense of superiority to promote their brand of soap must mean that this was how the British must have felt and thus reflective of the British attitudes towards the people in dark corners of the world/SEA/the colonies. 4- 5m

2 b) Study Sources B and C. How similar are these two sources? Explain your answer. 6m L1 Mismatch 1m L2 No BOC, Valid comparison but with no evidence/Difference in provenance only. Source B is by a Singaporean historian while Source C was by a British historian hence, they have different viewpoints. 2m L3 Similarity and/or difference in content explained. (Award 3m max if only evidence provided but no explanation, 4m for 1 analysis and 5m for both Sim and Diff) Both sources are similar in showing that the British foreign policy changed from non-intervention to intervention in the 1870s. Source B: British foreign policy had long been based on non-commitment… Several forces were at work, both in Southeast Asia and in Britain itself to bring about a change in British foreign policy .” This shows that that the British was shifting towards a forward movement to expand its influence. Source C: “The decision made by Lord Kimberly in 1873 to take some action in Malaya, and if necessary to intervene in the affairs of the states...” This means that due to circumstances, the British non-intervention policy changed. Both sources are different is showing the reasons for the change in British foreign policy. Source B: “… In Britain was growing the imperial idea that it was the role of the British empir