GRADE 11 IEB HISTORY

INDIVIDUAL SOURCE ANALYSIS & EXTENDED WRITING

Examiner: G. Sutton Date: 8 May 2023

Moderator: S. Grové Time: 50 mins

Marks: 50

Learner name & surname:

Educator: School:

QUESTION MARKS MARK ACHIEVED

QUESTION

1 20

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2 20

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3 30

TOTAL 50 %

INSTRUCTION AND INFORMATION:

1. This Question Paper comprises of TWO Individual Source Analysis questions and
an Extended Writing Question.
2. You are required to answer EITHER Question 1 OR Question 2. You MUST
write Question 3 the Extended Writing Essay.
3. Ensure that you set your answers out neatly.
4. Leave a line between questions.
5. Write and express your ideas clearly.
6. Enjoy the test.
SECTION A: INDIVIDUAL SOURCE ANALYSIS

NB: You are required to answer EITHER QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2

QUESTION 1: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

The article below is written by Frederick Lewis Allen entitled Only Yesterday: An
Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties, in which he explains the impact of the
automobile [motor car] on American society in the 1920s.
If any sign had been needed of the central place which the automobile had come to
occupy in the mind and heart of the average American, it was furnished [provided]
when the Model A Ford was brought out in December 1927. Since the previous spring,
when Henry Ford shut down his gigantic plant, scrapped his Model T and the
thousands of machines which brought it into being, and announced that he was going
to put a new car on the market, the country had been in a state of suspense.
.... On December 2, 1927, when Model A was unveiled, one million people⎯so the
Herald-Tribune figured⎯tried to get into the Ford headquarters in New York to catch
a glimpse of it; as Charles Merz later reported in his life of Ford, “one hundred
thousand people flocked into the showrooms of the Ford Company in Detroit; mounted
police were called out to patrol the crowds in Cleveland, in Kansas City so great a mob
stormed the Convention Hall that platforms had to be built to lift the new car high
enough for everyone to see it.” So it went from one end of the United States to the
other.
And as it came, it changed the face of America. Villages which had once prospered
because they were “on the railroad” languished with economic anaemia; villages of
Route 61 bloomed with garages, filling stations, hot-dog stands, chicken-dinner
restaurants, tearooms, tourists’ rests, camping sites, and affluence. The interurban
trolley perished, or survived only as a pathetic anachronism. Railroad after railroad
gave up its branch lines, or saw its revenues slowly dwindling under the competition
of mammoth interurban busses and trucks snorting along six- lane concrete highways.
The whole country was covered with a network of passenger bus lines. In thousands
of towns, at the beginning of the decade a single traffic officer at the junction of Main
Street and Central Street had been sufficient for the control of traffic. By the end of the
decade, what a difference!⎯red and green lights, blinkers, one-way streets, boulevard
stops, stringent and yet more stringent parking ordinances⎯and still a shining flow of
traffic that backed up for blocks along Main Street every Saturday and Sunday
afternoon. Slowly but surely the age of steam was yielding to the gasoline age.
Reference: National Humanities Centre, The Twenties in Contemporary Commentary: The
Automobile

1.1 Briefly explain what the interest in the Model A Ford car reveals about America
society in the 1920s. [4]

1.2 Identify ONE ‘spin-offs’ of the mass production of the car in the 1920s. [2]

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1.3 Use evidence from the source to explain how the motor industry had a negative
effect on the railways. [4]

1.4 Explain what the author means by “Slowly but surely the age of steam was
yielding to the gasoline age”. [4]

1.5 Discuss the usefulness of this source to an historian studying the changes in
American society in the 1920s. [6]

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NB: You if you have answered QUESTION 1 you MUST NOT answer QUESTION 2.

QUESTION 2: VISUAL ANALYSIS

Below is a cartoon published in the Los Angeles Times on 20th October 1927, by
cartoonist Edmund Gale.

“Sound as a Dollar”

Calvin Coolidge

Reference: National Humanities Center Political Cartoons of the 1920s: Prosperity, page 12.

(Regular surveys of business “health” were conducted by the U.S. Dept. of

Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover.)

2.1 What role did Calvin Coolidge have in 1927 in America? [2]

2.2 Briefly explain what Dr Calvin Coolidge is checking with this stethoscope. [4]

2.3 Who does the robust [healthy] figure represent? [2]

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2.4 Explain the meaning of the caption ‘Sound as a Dollar’. [4]

2.5 This cartoon is biased in favour of the ‘Age of Prosperity’ in America. Do you
agree? Use visual evidence, from the source, to support your answer. [6]

2.6 What symbol does the cartoonist use to suggest that American Business may
not always be healthy? [2]

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NB: You MUST answer this question.

SECTION B: EXTENDED WRITING

Your extended writing response should be approximately 350 to 400 words long.
You should use your own knowledge and you may also refer to the stimulus to
answer the questions. (You do not need to include a word count.)

Flapper women drink in unison, ca. 1925

Reference: gettyimages.com

Explain how the role of women changed in America society in the 1920 by answering
the following questions:
a. Why did the role of American women change in the 1920s?

b. What were the responses of America women to their new-found confidence?

c. How did the changes in women’s roles impact America society?

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