Atlantic Settlements to 1800 · CAPE History Unit 2

37 past-paper questions on Atlantic Settlements to 1800, part of Atlantic World: Interactions, from every CAPE History Unit 2 paper on Quelpr.

1. 1(a)2 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 1Outline ONE factor in Europe that encouraged migration to the Americas up to 1763.
2. 1(b)4 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 1Outline TWO factors in the Americas that attracted European immigrants during the period up to 1763.
3. 26 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 1Explain TWO reasons why some West Africans supported the African slave trade.
4. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 2Explain how imperial rivalries in the Americas contributed to wars between European powers during the period 1702 to 1763.
5. 16 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 1Outline three effects of the Atlantic trade on West Africa up to 1800.
6. 1(a)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, explain why "the colony flourished".
7. 1(b)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 2With 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.
8. 1(c)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 2Explain how the "savages", referred to in Document II, may have retarded the growth of European settlements in the Americas in the seventeenth century.
9. 1(d)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2006 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, explain the "misfortunes" faced by the early European settlers in the Americas during the seventeenth century.
10. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2008 · Paper 2Examine the social and economic factors that influenced European settlements in North America between 1600 and 1763.
11. 1(a)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2009 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, outline THREE factors that motivated the Spanish conquest of the New World.
12. 1(b)3 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2009 · Paper 2Explain the reference to "controversy" in Document II.
13. 1(c)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2009 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, describe THREE ways in which Spain's enemies established a permanent presence in the New World.
14. 1(d)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2009 · Paper 2With reference to Documents I, II and III, explain THREE ways in which the various European powers sought to protect their interests in the New World.
15. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2009 · Paper 2Discuss the ways in which West African societies were affected by contact with Europeans between 1450 and 1800.
16. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2010 · Paper 2“Rivalry among Europeans in the Americas was MAINLY a result of conflict in Europe.” Discuss this statement with reference to the period 1492 to 1763.
17. 330 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2010 · Paper 2Discuss the extent to which the trans-Atlantic trade in Africans was a continuation of the social and economic structures that already existed in West Africa.
18. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2011 · Paper 2"Economics and nothing else." Discuss this assessment of the reasons behind European settlements in the Americas up to 1763.
19. 1(a)(i)2 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, give TWO examples of the "merchandise" that was used to support the trade in enslaved Africans.
20. 1(a)(ii)4 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, state TWO ways in which the "merchandise" was used by slave traders.
21. 1(b)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to Document II, explain THREE ways in which the gendered selection of captives for the slave trade affected West African societies.
22. 1(c)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, explain THREE other ways in which the trade in gold and slaves between Africans and Europeans altered traditional West African society prior to 1800.
23. 1(d)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2012 · Paper 2With reference to Documents I, II and III, explain TWO ways in which the nature of the trade in enslaved Africans changed over time.
24. 1(a)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2013 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, outline THREE reasons why the Treaty of Tordesillas was important.
25. 1(b)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2013 · Paper 2With reference to Document II, give TWO reasons why the Spanish fleet was attacked and the ships captured.
26. 1(c)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2013 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, describe THREE strategies used by England to “supplant” Spain in the West Indies.
27. 1(d)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2013 · Paper 2With reference to Documents I, II and III, explain THREE consequences of the rivalry among European nations in the New World.
28. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2014 · Paper 2Discuss the extent to which European settlements in the Americas up to 1800 were established primarily to achieve political supremacy.
29. 330 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2014 · Paper 2Discuss the changes that occurred in West African economies in response to European contact between 1450 and 1800.
30. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2015 · Paper 2Discuss the view that the establishment of European settlements in the Americas up to 1763 were predominantly influenced by economic considerations.
31. 330 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2016 · Paper 2Assess the view that the transatlantic trade in Africans had purely adverse effects on West African societies and economies between 1450 and 1800.
32. 1(a)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2With reference to Document I, explain TWO cultural consequences of the Atlantic Slave trade for West Africans up to 1800.
33. 1(b)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2With reference to Document II, explain TWO demographic consequences of the Atlantic slave trade for West Africa up to 1800.
34. 1(c)(i)6 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, explain TWO ways in which African participants in the trade may have experienced 'gains' or 'benefits'.
35. 1(c)(ii)3 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2With reference to Document III, give ONE explanation why a 'hierarchy of benefits' existed among African participants.
36. 1(d)9 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2With 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.
37. 230 marks· CAPE History Unit 2 · 2017 · Paper 2Assess the view that European rivalry in the Americas up to 1763 was largely the result of a desire for economic gain.