CAPE History Unit 1 · 2009 · Paper 2

18 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)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline THREE factors that led to contact between Europeans and West Africans up to 1492.
2. 1(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, outline THREE consequences of Spanish settlements up to 1600 for the indigenous population of the Caribbean.
3. 1(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, suggest TWO possible reasons for the request for "heathen [bozales] negroes" to be taken to "this island" in the Caribbean.
4. 1(d)9 marksExplain what Documents I, II and III indicate about the attitudes of the Europeans towards Amerindians and Africans.
5. 230 marksExamine the view that the technological superiority of the Spaniards does NOT fully explain the conquest of the Aztecs and Incas between 1519 and 1533.
6. 330 marksSelect TWO indigenous groups, ONE from Category 1 (Aztec, Inca, Maya) and ONE from Category 2 (Kalinago, Taino, Tupi), and compare their political organization.
7. 4(a)6 marksExamine Document I and explain how the form of resistance it describes impacted negatively on the plantation system.
8. 4(b)9 marksWhat evidence does Document II provide of the successful challenge that the Haitian Revolution posed for the French Government under Napoleon Bonaparte?
9. 4(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain how the responses of the colonial government to slave insurrections contributed to the disintegration of the slave system.
10. 4(d)9 marks"Atlantic slavery was a system fraught with violence. The enslaved tried to resist this system by any means they could". To what extent is this view supported by the evidence provided in Documents I, II and III?
11. 530 marksDiscuss the similarities and differences between chattel slavery and European indentureship in the Caribbean.
12. 630 marksDiscuss the view that the disintegration of the system of enslavement was the result of forces from within as well as from outside the Caribbean.
13. 7(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, account for the success of the revolutionary army in defeating "an army vastly superior in numbers". Include TWO reasons in your response.
14. 7(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, explain why Cubans were assumed to be under foreign domination and not free to choose "their own system".
15. 7(c)6 marksExplain TWO negative effects of socialism on Cuban society as implied in Document III.
16. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, discuss THREE challenges faced by Cuba in the early years of the revolution.
17. 830 marks"The challenges faced by Haiti in creating a free society after independence were due mainly to external factors." Discuss this statement with reference to the period 1804 to 1825.
18. 930 marksDiscuss the movements towards regional integration in the British Caribbean between 1947 and 1974.