CAPE History Unit 1 · 2015 · 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, discuss THREE reasons why Las Casas used the term "unjustly put to death".
2. 1(b)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document II, give ONE explanation for the devastating effects of European diseases on the indigenous people.
3. 1(b)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document II, discuss TWO effects, other than death, which these diseases had on the native population.
4. 1(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO means by which the indigenous peoples demonstrated their resistance to Spanish domination.
5. 1(d)6 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain TWO causes of death, other than diseases, among the indigenous people of the Caribbean, after the arrival of the Spaniards.
6. 230 marksSelect ONE of the mainland indigenous groups: (i) Aztec, (ii) Inca, (iii) Maya. Assess the view that the selected group displayed advanced levels of political and economic organization in the pre-Columbian period.
7. 330 marksAssess the merits of the Van Sertima thesis for a pre-Columbian African presence in the Americas.
8. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline THREE ways in which European indentured servants were obtained to work in the Caribbean.
9. 4(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, explain THREE features of the conditions under which European indentured servants worked.
10. 4(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, give THREE examples of how indentured servants responded to or resisted the conditions under which they laboured.
11. 4(d)(i)3 marksEuropean indentured servants were generally treated as chattel by their master. With reference to Documents I, II and III, suggest ONE possible reason why they were so treated.
12. 4(d)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, give TWO explanations for the ending of European indentureship.
13. 530 marksAssess the impact of slavery on the demographic structure, and the family in Caribbean slave plantation society.
14. 630 marksEvaluate the decline thesis of Eric Williams and the debate which it has generated.
15. 7(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, briefly discuss THREE reasons for the move towards federation by the British West Indies in the 1940s.
16. 7(b)(i)6 marksWith reference to Document II, outline THREE steps taken by the people of the French-colonized Caribbean to become 'fully French' in the twentieth century.
17. 7(b)(ii)3 marksWith reference to Document II, explain ONE step taken by opponents in the French-colonized Caribbean to become 'fully French' in the 1940s.
18. 7(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO 'benefits' which the people of Départment d'Outre-Mer gained from belonging to the French Community since 1946.
19. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain why the British-colonized and the French-colonized Caribbean took different political paths in the 1940s.
20. 830 marksDiscuss the view that the international community was hostile to Haiti between 1804 and 1825.
21. 930 marksDiscuss the reasons for Cuba's international influence by 1983.