CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2005 · Paper 2

51 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)4 marksExplain why Mayan technology is considered more advanced than the technology of the Taino (Arawaks) and Kalinago (Caribs).
2. 1(b)9 marksOutline the ways in which the technology of the Taino (Arawaks) and Kalinago (Caribs) were similar.
3. 1(c)12 marksDescribe FOUR ways in which the political organisation of the Taino (Arawaks) was different from the political organisation of the Kalinago (Caribs).
4. 2(a)15 marksExplain the aspects of the Spanish presence in your island that pose a problem to your people.
5. 2(b)10 marksDescribe the features of your culture that have most impressed the Spaniards.
6. 3(a)6 marksWhat steps do you take in England before the beginning of a slave trading voyage?
7. 3(b)9 marksIn what ways do some African states and African people benefit economically from the Atlantic slave trade?
8. 3(c)10 marksExplain why so many slaves die during the voyage from Africa to the Caribbean.
9. 4(a)3 marksIdentify THREE jobs on a sugar plantation that were considered "particularly hard".
10. 4(b)3 marksName THREE jobs on a sugar plantation which were usually given to men.
11. 4(c)9 marksExplain why so many field workers were women.
12. 4(d)10 marksDescribe the various uses made of land on a sugar plantation, apart from the growing of sugar cane.
13. 5(a)3 marksOutline the MAIN cause of the rebellion in Barbados in 1816.
14. 5(b)9 marksIn what ways were the causes of the 1763 rebellion in Berbice different from the causes of the 1831 revolt in Jamaica?
15. 5(c)6 marksExplain why the slaves in Berbice in 1763 were able to gain success in the early months of the rebellion.
16. 5(d)7 marksExplain why the rebellion in Jamaica in 1831 collapsed so quickly.
17. 6(a)15 marksDescribe FIVE ways in which the Haitian economy was affected by the Haitian Revolution.
18. 6(b)10 marksExplain FOUR ways in which the wider Caribbean benefitted from the Haitian Revolution.
19. 7(a)6 marksDiscuss THREE arguments used by both the French and the British abolitionists against Caribbean slavery.
20. 7(b)9 marksOutline THREE ways in which the French anti-slavery movement differed from the British anti-slavery movement.
21. 7(c)10 marksExplain the factors that accounted for the success of the British anti-slavery movement.
22. 8(a)3 marksList THREE provisions of the 1833 Act of Abolition.
23. 8(b)10 marksIdentify THREE factors that were responsible for the planters' opposition to some of the terms of the 1833 Act of Abolition.
24. 8(c)12 marksOutline some of the difficulties that were experienced by the Apprentices between 1834 and 1838.
25. 925 marksDiscuss the different ways in which Indian immigrants contributed to Caribbean society up to 1876.
26. 10(a)15 marksExamine the factors that encouraged the growth of free villages in Jamaica and Guyana after 1838.
27. 10(b)10 marksOutline THREE effects that the establishment of the peasantry had on the supply of estate labour in the British Caribbean between 1838 and 1876.
28. 11(a)15 marksOutline the MAJOR problems faced by the British Caribbean sugar industry from the 1880s to 1914.
29. 11(b)10 marksDescribe FOUR policies used by planters to overcome problems in the sugar industry from the 1880s to 1914.
30. 12(a)16 marksOutline FOUR reasons why manufacturing industries increased in the British Caribbean after 1940.
31. 12(b)9 marksDiscuss the extent to which the growth of manufacturing industries affected women's occupations in the British Caribbean after 1940.
32. 13(a)15 marksExplain why wages were so low in the British Caribbean and in the Spanish Caribbean in the 1930s.
33. 13(b)10 marksExplain why unemployment increased in the British Caribbean in the 1930s.
34. 14(a)13 marksDescribe FOUR actions taken by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to improve the situation of blacks in the Caribbean and internationally.
35. 14(b)12 marksOutline the reasons why Marcus Garvey was persecuted.
36. 15(a)4 marksExplain briefly why the United States had an interest in a canal across Panama in 1903.
37. 15(b)12 marksExplain how the United States succeeded in obtaining rights to construct a canal across Panama in 1903.
38. 15(c)9 marksOutline THREE reasons for the United States' intervention in Haiti in 1915.
39. 16(a)4 marksIdentify the sentiments towards the United States that are conveyed by these placards.
40. 16(b)9 marksOutline THREE factors that affected the relations between Cuba and the United States between 1898 and 1959.
41. 16(c)12 marksExplain the reasons for the expression of such sentiments in Cuba after 1959.
42. 17(a)5 marksDescribe TWO contributions that were made by José Martí to the independence movement in Cuba.
43. 17(b)8 marksOutline THREE contributions of Norman Manley to the integration movement in the British Caribbean.
44. 17(c)12 marksOutline THREE contributions made by Sir Grantley Adams to the unification process in the British Caribbean.
45. 1825 marksDiscuss the arrangements that were made for the administration of the French and Dutch colonies after World War II.
46. 19(a)3 marksIdentify THREE means, other than by foot, by which travel was possible in the mid-nineteenth century Caribbean.
47. 19(b)10 marksOutline THREE difficulties encountered in transportation in the Caribbean in the mid-nineteenth century.
48. 19(c)12 marksOutline the reasons for the changes in the means of transportation in the Caribbean between 1850 and 1962.
49. 20(a)4 marksDescribe the different roles performed by men and women in the Caribbean during the period 1838–1962.
50. 20(b)15 marksDiscuss the factors that affected the position of women in Caribbean society between 1838 and 1962.
51. 20(c)6 marksOutline TWO ways in which the roles of working-class women differed from those of upper-class women in Caribbean society, between 1838 and 1962.