MoARcPSD|38936972

l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97

❑ ❑
50 = 100 %

TASK 1 - TERM 1

NAME AND SURNAME: _____________________________________________

Subject: History

Grade: 8
Date of task: _____________
Total marks: 50

Duration: 60 minutes
Number of pages in paper: 7

This is a write on assessment and consists of 7 pages including the cover

page.

1|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

QUESTION 1:

1.1 Write a short paragraph in which you explain the type of industry you (5)
see in Source A and what happened to this type of industry during
the Industrial Revolution.

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

1.2 Does Source B show life before or after the Industrial Revolution? (1)

_______________________________________________________

1.3 Do you think the person who created this image has portrayed what (4)
life was like very accurately? Explain your answer with reference to
the lifestyle of the people who lived at the time.

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

2|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

1.4 What was the Industrial Revolution? (2)

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

1.5 Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain when it did? (2)

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

1.6 Discuss two positive effects and two negative effects of the Industrial (8)
Revolution on the British people.

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

Source C:

The letter reads (in old English)

“The college that thou holdest shalt
be fired very shortly. Thou shalt
hear further from me when it is in
flames. Swing”

3|Page

Downloaded by Pavithra Naidoo (pavithranaidoo@gmail.com)

 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

1.7 Identify the image in Source C. (2)

______________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________
_

1.8 Explain the events that led up to the writing of this letter. (4)

______________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________
_

1.9 Who was “Swing”? (2)

______________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________
_

[30]

QUESTION 2:

Study sources D and E.

4|Page

Downloaded by Pavithra Naidoo (pavithranaidoo@gmail.com)

 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

Source E

At that time, many Indians were crippled by debt or gridlocked by poverty due to
India’s caste system, so coming to South Africa seemed to offer better prospects.

But it was not all that sweet for the sugar plantation workers once they arrived.
They laboured from sunrise to sunset, six days a week, and reports of rations and
wages being withheld were common. PhD scholar Duncan Du Bois, author of
Sugar and Settlers: The colonisation of the Natal South Coast 1850-1910, writes:
“Accommodation was shocking. The houses these people were expected to stay
in you wouldn’t keep a pig in it.”

https://goo.gl/3wFkQe

2.1 Write a short essay in which you discuss the following: [20]

• The time in South African history shown in the sources

• The definition of an indentured labourer

• Reasons for this part of history

• What it was like.

You may reference the sources, but the essay should be

written in your own words.

_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________

5|Page

Downloaded by Pavithra Naidoo (pavithranaidoo@gmail.com)

 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
6|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
7|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
8|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
9|Page
 l OMo ARcPSD|38 936 97 2

_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_
_________________________________________________________________
_

GRAND TOTAL: 50

10 | P a g e

Downloaded by Pavithra Naidoo (pavithranaidoo@gmail.com)