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Subject: Grade 8 Social Sciences (History)

Topic: Social Sciences (History): Exam Term 2
Total: 112 Marks

1. Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union | Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union | Industrial 3 marks
and Commercial Workers Union | Industrial & Commercial Workers Union
Explanation:
The ICU was the first black and coloured workers' union within South Africa.

2. 1919 | was able to respond to important issues that affected black workers | well organised 6 marks
and the leaders couldn't agree on important decisions
Explanation:
Sometimes the ICU was nationalist, sometimes it was radical and sometimes it was very
moderate. It spoke of strikes, but did not organise many. Many ICU leaders were corrupt.

3. D: This way the migrant workers had no way to bargain for better working conditions or better 4 marks
wages.
Explanation:
A trade union is a group of workers who band together to protect the rights of the worker, often
gaining better working conditions or better wages.

The trade union will bargain with the company owner for these things and strike if their
demands are not met.

By not allowing black people to form a trade union they took away the possibility of bettering
their circumstances.

4. true 2 marks
Explanation:
A primary source is something produced by an eye-witness to an event. By "eye-witness" it is
meant that the person who produced it was around during the time.

5. the South African Republic (ZAR) | the Cape Colony 4 marks

Explanation:
The ZAR claimed the area based on the Bloemfontein Convention, which had stated that the
British were not interested in the areas north of the Vaal River.

6. Griqua Land West | Griqualand West 3 marks

Explanation:
The Griqua, a group of mixed people as a result of intermarriage, left the Cape Colony and
moved north to establish Griqualand West.

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7. the Orange Free State | the Transvaal 4 marks
Explanation:
Groups of Trekkers (Boers) went to the Transvaal and the Orange Free State as part of the
Great Trek in the late 1850's.

8. true 2 marks
Explanation:
They signed the land over to the Boers.

9. A: hospitals 4 marks
Explanation:
This law was not adhered to. There was one hospital at the receiving depot and the conditions
there were bad. Men, women and children were placed together, regardless of the infectious
diseases they may have had.

10. Chamber of Mines 3 marks

Explanation:
The Chamber of Mines of South Africa is a mining industry employers’ organisation that
supports and promotes the South African mining industry.

11. indentured 3 marks

Explanation:
An indentured labourer is a person who is under contract to work for another person for a
definite period of time, usually without pay, but in exchange for a free passage to a new
country.

12. false 2 marks

Explanation:
Boys under the age of ten were not allowed to work in the mines. Later it became illegal for a
boy under the age of twelve to work in the mine.

13. false 2 marks

Explanation:
The Whig government, a liberal party and opposition to the Tory government, gave the farmers
some representation in the House of Commons. They also set up workhouses in the country, to
which the poor, old, sick and unemployed could go if they wanted help.

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14. A: A and B 4 marks
Explanation:
He flooded the market with diamonds so that the price dropped and The Syndicate lost a lot of
money.

He also stockpiled (stored up for later use) diamonds, which made the availability thereof scare.

The Syndicate lost even more money as they had no diamonds to sell. Rhodes' tactics worked.

15. false 2 marks

Explanation:
There were nine wars in total that dispossessed the Xhosa.

16. 1991 3 marks

Explanation:
Repealed means cancelled. The 1913 Native Land Act was repealed only three years before the
first real democratic elections in South Africa.

17. written 3 marks

Explanation:
A written source is one that has been written down.

An oral source is spoken and copied verbatim.

A visual is a picture.

An archaelogical source is one that shows the structure of a building or a person (like bones).

18. C: The source shows us that the government had to make sure that white people were 4 marks
dissuaded from allowing black people to live and work on their farms.
Explanation:
This is a threat to people who disagree with the 1913 Land Act. This threat of a fine and jail
would dissuade white people to lease or sell land that is considered "white" to black people.

19. black African | 7% (seven percent) | segregated | poor white farm labourers 8 marks
Explanation:
(1) Those considered "native" to Africa.

(2) A small percentage of the land for a very large population.

(3) Another word for separated.

(4) Those who had to compete with "native" tenant farmers for work on the farms.

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20. 20% | 50 - 100% 4 marks
Explanation:
The slaves were captured and traded in West Africa and then taken to America to work on
cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar plantations. The raw materials were shipped to Britain, made
into goods and sold to the rest of the world.

21. C: Migrant labourers were forced onto smaller pieces of land so they could not afford to 4 marks
live with their families.
Explanation:
Being forced onto a small area of land was not the result of migrant labour, but rather a way to
enforce it. This became known as the Land Act of 1913 where black people were forced onto
the small homelands - land that was too small to support all those people in terms of
agriculture.

22. make as much profit as possible | land and placed them on "homelands" | pay a hut tax or 6 marks
household tax
Explanation:
This was of great importance to the mine owners. The labourers could not survive where they
lived. They could not pay the taxes in cattle and so had to earn money.

23. factories, schools and universities | law courts and civil services | shops 8 marks
Explanation:
The British gained much wealth from the Indian farmers. In return India did benefit from the
British government as well by obtaining important services like law courts, shops and schools.

24. lodging house 3 marks

Explanation:
Most of the houses were crowded with four or five people living in one room. Even the cellars
were full. Houses that were built were crammed close together, with very narrow streets
between them.

25. A: factories 4 marks

Explanation:
The enclosure system left the peasant farmers poor and homeless. They moved to the growing
industrial towns and cities to find work as factory workers and miners.

26. true 2 marks

Explanation:
Britain gradually took over more and more states in India. In 1858, all of these states together
became known as the colony of "British India" and Queen Victoria of Britain became "Empress
of India".

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27. A: dried fish 4 marks
Explanation:
This was their only luxury.

28. false 2 marks

Explanation:
No duty was charged on British goods going into India. However, high duties were charged on
Indian exports to Britain.

29. were paid the same for any gold they sold | machinery and tools | labour wages 6 marks
Explanation:
The Gold Standard meant that gold was the same price everywhere. By keeping labour costs
low, the owner of the mines made more profit.

30. compounds 3 marks

Explanation:
A compound is a cluster of buildings in an enclosure (eg. wall or fence).

Total: 112 Marks

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