HISTORY

Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in

Britain and southern Africa from 1860

UNIT 4
Revision
Learner's Book • Grade 8 Term 1

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Complete the mind map summarising Unit 1: Changes during the Industrial Revolution in Britain

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Wealth from the
slave trade
Economy before
the Industrial Enclosure system
Swing riots Revolution: farming
economy, cottage
industries
Labour, resistance,
trade unions,

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working class
organisations Changes during
the Industrial
Revolution in
Luddites Britain

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Mines and factories Inventions
Social changes during
the Industrial
What the Industrial Factories
Revolution
Revolution was
Urbanisation, living Power and energy
conditions
Transport
Complete the mind map summarising Unit 2: Southern Africa by 1860

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Political settlement
Passenger Indians India as a British
1869 onwards colony

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Indentured labour
Southern Africa from India to work on
by 1860 sugar plantations in
British colony of Natal

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Conditions under Reasons why labour
which indentured was imported
labourers lived and
worked
Reasons for
demand for sugar
Complete the mind map summarising Unit 3: Diamond mining in Kimberley 1867 onwards

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Regulating supply
and price of British takeover of
diamond-rich Keate Award
diamonds Why diamond are
Griqualand West
valuable
Formation of De
Beers Consolidated

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Mines Limited
Diamond mining
in Kimberley 1867 One person one claim
onwards

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Cecil Rhodes and
Barney Barnato Problems relating
to digging deeper
Black claim holders
Formation of
companies
REVISION TASK
This task will include information from all the units covered this term.

Question 1

Source A Source B

1.1. Write a short paragraph in which you explain the type of industry you see in Source A and what
happened to this type of industry during the Industrial Revolution. (5)
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 life was like very
accurately? Explain your answer with reference to the lifestyle of the people who lived at
the time. (4)
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 Revolution on the
British people. (8)

Source C: The letter reads (in old English)

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

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 is “Swing”? (2)

Subtotal: 30

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Question 2
Study sources D and E.

Source D

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.”
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Source E

2. Write a short essay in which you discuss the following:

• The time in South African history shown in the sources
• The definition of indentured labour
• Reasons for this part of history
• The ideas people had about what their lives would be like
• What it was actually like.
You may reference the sources, but the essay should be written in your own words.

Subtotal: 20

Question 3
3.1. Near which town were diamonds discovered in 1867? (1)
3.2. Explain what the Keate Award was. (3)
3.3. Explain how the discovery of diamonds led to the establishment of a thriving town called
Kimberley. (4)
3.4. Who owned the De Beers Mining Company? (1)
3.5. Who was the De Beers Mining Company’s biggest rival? (1)
3.6. How and why was this rivalry overcome? (2)

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Source F

3.7. Refer to Source F. Explain what this image shows and what led to this situation. (4)
3.8. Discuss two reasons why diamond mining in South Africa did not benefit the
indigenous people of the area. (4)

Subtotal: 20
Task total: 70

Image reference list

• Cover images: https://goo.gl/8qms8E
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• Source A page 5: https://goo.gl/GdN82k
• Source B page 5: https://goo.gl/nvVhsZ
• Source C page 5: https://goo.gl/d2ympT
• Source D page 6: https://goo.gl/2V4y6d
• Source F page 6: https://goo.gl/MVwibM

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