CAPE History Unit 1 · 2006 · Paper 2

21 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)9 marksWith reference to Document I, explain THREE causes of the high mortality among enslaved Africans in Hispaniola.
2. 1(b)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document I, suggest ONE motive, other than economic, for the royal directive to "take good care of [the Negroes]".
3. 1(b)(ii)6 marksExplain TWO measures undertaken by the authorities to protect the enslaved Africans and indigenous labourers in the sixteenth century.
4. 1(c)6 marksWhat does Document II suggest about the importance of the enslaved Africans in Hispaniola by 1550?
5. 1(d)(i)2 marksWith reference to Document III, outline the conclusion that can be drawn about the author's approach to managing enslaved people.
6. 1(d)(ii)4 marksWith reference to Document III, explain the extent to which the author's approach to managing enslaved people succeeded in preventing slave resistance in the Spanish Caribbean during this period.
7. 230 marksSelect ONE of the indigenous groups in the Americas listed (Aztec, Inca, or Maya), and discuss the factors that enabled the selected group to develop an advanced society before 1492.
8. 330 marksCritically examine the evidence that there was a Nordic and a West African presence in the Americas before 1492.
9. 4(a)9 marksWhat does Document I suggest about the experiences and survival strategies of enslaved women in urban settings in the Caribbean?
10. 4(b)3 marksWith reference to Document II, identify the groups of enslaved people referred to as "the better sort of Negroes".
11. 4(c)9 marksWith reference to Documents II and III, comment on the economic activities of the enslaved, apart from plantation labour.
12. 4(d)9 marksDocuments II and III refer to the economic benefits that the enslaved gained from provision growing, livestock rearing and marketing. Outline the other ways in which these activities were important to the enslaved.
13. 530 marksSelect ONE of the specified anti-slavery rebellions (Berbice 1763, Barbados 1816, Virginia 1831, or Jamaica 1831-1832). Outline the objectives of the rebellion you selected, and explain why the rebellion was suppressed.
14. 630 marksAssess the view that the economic decline of the plantation system in the colonies which became British before 1793 was a MAJOR factor leading to the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834.
15. 7(a)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document I, identify THREE "false pretenses" which induced European immigrants to settle in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century.
16. 7(a)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document I, comment on the Portuguese immigrants' claim that their experiences were similar to African slavery.
17. 7(b)(i)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain the factors that contributed to the plight of the immigrants in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century.
18. 7(b)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain why some Portuguese and some Indian immigrants may have been satisfied with their "new position".
19. 7(c)9 marksWith reference to Document III, explain why Lord Harris eventually became a strong supporter of Indian immigration by 1852.
20. 830 marksDiscuss the factors that assisted the rise of the peasantry in the post-slavery Caribbean up to 1900.
21. 930 marksExplain why the movement towards political integration in the British Caribbean after 1945 did not achieve its objectives.