SOCIAL SCIENCE

HISTORY EXAM
JUNE 2021
GRADE 8

Time: 1½ hours Marks: 50

Read all the questions carefully and look at the mark allocation in order to give
you an idea of how many facts you need to write.

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SECTION 1: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. What was the industrial revolution? (2)
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2. What was the enclosure system? Who did it affect? (2)

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3. Discuss some of the social changes that occurred during the industrial revolution.
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4. Give two changes in transportation that happened during the Industrial Revolution.
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5. What is urbanisation? (1)

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6. Describe how peoples living conditions changed because of urbanisation. (2)

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7. Give two examples of how the Industrial Revolution improved workers lives. (2)
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Look carefully at the picture below and answer the questions that follow.

8. What is being grown in these fields? (1)

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9. Where do these workers come from? (1)

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10. Who do you think the man standing up is? (1)

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11. Why did the British farmers need indentured labourers? (1)
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12. Describe the kind of life these indentured labourers had in South Africa. (3)
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DIAMOND MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA

13. List 3 reasons why diamonds are valuable: (3)

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14. How was Cecil John Rhodes? What did he do in Kimberley to become so well-known
and powerful? (2)
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SECTION 2: THE MINERAL REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Look at the map below and answer the questions that follow.

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 1. Give the number on the map of the town where diamonds were discovered. (1)
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2. What is the name of this town? (1)

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3. Give the number on the map of the town where gold was discovered. (1)
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4. What is the name of this town? (1)

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5. Where diamonds discovered before or after gold? (1)

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6. How did these discoveries affect the urbanisation of South Africa? (1)
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Look at the picture below and answer the questions that follow

Source A

7. Who lived in closed compounds on the mines? (1)

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 8. What do you notice about the conditions of the compound? Write down a list of the
things that you notice (look at the picture). (2)
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Read Source B below and then answer the questions that follow:

9. Does the author have a positive or negative point of view of the closed compounds?
Circle the correct word that is underlined. (1)

10. Explain your answer. Why do you say positive or negative? (2)
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11. Pretend you are a man in the centre of the photograph in Source A. Write a short
letter to the author of Source B explaining why you disagree with him, and tell him
how life in the compound really is for you. (4)
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12. State why the mine owners used this closed compound system. (1)
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13. List 4 Reasons why Gold is valuable: (½ x 4 =2)

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14. Identify two illnesses that miners could get from working in the gold mines.
(1)
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15. Describe what the Land Act was about. (2)

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16. Explain how white politicians justified this law. (What did they say their reason for the law
was?) (1)
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17. What was the real reason for this law (who benefited from this law?). (1)
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18. Who were the Randlords? (1)

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Total: 50