CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 2

19 questions and parts from this paper. Open one to see it in full, then practise it on Quelpr and get it marked against the mark scheme.

1. 1(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, explain why "the colony flourished".
2. 1(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, briefly explain TWO methods, apart from government-founded companies, by which European settlements were established in the Americas in the seventeenth century.
3. 1(c)9 marksExplain how the "savages", referred to in Document II, may have retarded the growth of European settlements in the Americas in the seventeenth century.
4. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Document III, explain the "misfortunes" faced by the early European settlers in the Americas during the seventeenth century.
5. 230 marksExamine the significance for the Atlantic World of the political ideas of the European Enlightenment.
6. 330 marksDiscuss the view that severe social and economic crises led to the French Revolution in 1789.
7. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, comment on TWO significant features of the Industrial Revolution in the United States of America.
8. 4(b)6 marksWhat does Document II suggest about working conditions during the period of industrialization in the United States of America in the late nineteenth century?
9. 4(c)12 marksWith reference to Document III, explain how the Knights of Labour attempted to put a "check" on the power of the industrialists.
10. 4(d)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain the phrase "aggression of aggregated wealth" and its implications for labour relations in the United States of America in the nineteenth century.
11. 530 marksDiscuss the view that some of the important causes of the Industrial Revolution in England can be traced to the Atlantic economy.
12. 630 marksDiscuss the factors that influenced the pace of economic development in EITHER Brazil OR Venezuela in the post-independence period up to 1900.
13. 7(a)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document I, explain why the door was "closed and barred" to black South Africans after 1948.
14. 7(a)(ii)3 marksWith reference to Document I, explain, with an example, how the door was "closed and barred".
15. 7(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, explain the developments in South Africa that required the adoption of "new forms of struggle".
16. 7(c)6 marksWith reference to Documents II and III, describe TWO "new forms of struggle" that were used by the African National Congress in South Africa after 1960.
17. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents II and III, describe THREE developments outside of South Africa which contributed to South African "freedom" (end of Apartheid).
18. 830 marksDiscuss the ways in which Adolf Hitler's administration was characterized by repression and anti-semitism.
19. 930 marksTo what extent was World War II caused by the aggressive policies of Germany, Italy and Japan?