CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2

20 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 TWO cultural consequences of the Atlantic Slave trade for West Africans up to 1800.
2. 1(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO demographic consequences of the Atlantic slave trade for West Africa up to 1800.
3. 1(c)(i)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO ways in which African participants in the trade may have experienced 'gains' or 'benefits'.
4. 1(c)(ii)3 marksWith reference to Document III, give ONE explanation why a 'hierarchy of benefits' existed among African participants.
5. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, examine THREE factors that influenced the EXTENT to which the Atlantic slave trade affected West Africans over time.
6. 230 marksAssess the view that European rivalry in the Americas up to 1763 was largely the result of a desire for economic gain.
7. 330 marksDiscuss the extent to which British attempts to gain increased revenue from the Thirteen Colonies was the MAIN factor that led to the outbreak of the American War of Independence.
8. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline TWO ways in which the notion of Manifest Destiny informed US imperial policy up to 1917.
9. 4(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO events which led to Texas' acquisition of statehood within the United States of America.
10. 4(c)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document III, name THREE countries where the US identified chronic wrongdoing by 1917.
11. 4(c)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain how the US addressed the chronic wrongdoing in ANY TWO of the countries identified.
12. 4(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, discuss THREE views held by the US of the peoples in countries where the US intervened up to 1917.
13. 530 marksExamine the role of the railroads in the second half of the nineteenth century in the emergence of the United States as an industrial power.
14. 630 marksDiscuss the extent to which the achievement of independence of Brazil by 1822 OR Venezuela by 1823 can be attributed to external factors.
15. 7(a)9 marksExplain THREE ways in which Document I supports the view that Germany was chiefly responsible for the outbreak of World War I.
16. 7(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, suggest TWO reasons for Sir Edward Grey's view that it was in Britain's interest to support France in the event of a war.
17. 7(c)6 marksElaborate on TWO concerns raised by Sir Edward Grey in Document III which suggest that Britain's foreign policy was indecisive and contributed to the outbreak of World War I.
18. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain THREE ways in which it could be argued that the outbreak of World War I was the collective responsibility of the major European powers.
19. 830 marksCritically assess the factors which contributed to the rise of Hitler from "the nobody of Vienna into the leader of Greater Germany" up to 1945.
20. 930 marksAssess the view that the armed phase of the struggle (from 1961) for national liberation in South Africa succeeded largely because of international factors.