CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2007 · Paper 2

44 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)3 marksExplain what is meant by 'slash and burn' agriculture.
2. 1(b)12 marksExplain why the Arawak system of agriculture can be regarded as efficient.
3. 1(c)10 marksDescribe THREE methods, apart from agriculture, used by the Arawaks/Tainos to obtain food.
4. 2(a)10 marksExplain why articles made by Arawaks for everyday use have been described as highly artistic.
5. 2(b)15 marksExplain the ways in which the Mayan civilization showed evidence of great intellectual ability and engineering skills.
6. 3(a)10 marksDescribe the MAIN features of the organisation of the triangular trade.
7. 3(b)15 marksExplain SIX major ways in which West Africa was affected by the slave trade.
8. 4(a)12 marksExplain why it was difficult for the enslaved Africans to practise their traditional culture on the plantation.
9. 4(b)13 marksExplain how enslaved Africans were able to retain some aspects of their culture during the period of plantation slavery.
10. 5(a)6 marksExplain why the slave masters found it necessary to control the enslaved Africans on the Caribbean sugar plantations.
11. 5(b)10 marksDescribe THREE methods of slave control employed by the master on a Caribbean sugar plantation.
12. 5(c)9 marksIdentify THREE ways in which Spanish slave laws differed from the English slave laws.
13. 625 marksEITHER: Write a report explaining the factors that were responsible for the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution. OR: Write a report accounting for the success of the Haitian Revolution up to 1804.
14. 7(a)6 marksIdentify THREE Amelioration measures introduced by EITHER the British OR the French in their Caribbean sugar colonies.
15. 7(b)9 marksExplain why the British Government introduced Amelioration measures in the British colonies.
16. 7(c)10 marksExplain how the planters in the British colonies responded to the Amelioration measures.
17. 8(a)4 marksIdentify TWO clauses of the 1833 Act of Abolition, other than the promise of freedom, the payment of compensation, and apprenticeship.
18. 8(b)9 marksExplain why a period of apprenticeship was considered necessary prior to full freedom.
19. 8(c)12 marksDescribe some of the difficulties experienced by the apprentices on the sugar plantation after 1 August 1834.
20. 9(a)10 marksExplain why many former slaves in the British Caribbean tried to establish themselves as peasants after 1838.
21. 9(b)15 marksDescribe the difficulties which former slaves in the British Caribbean faced in establishing themselves as peasants between 1838 and 1876.
22. 10(a)9 marksDescribe the educational policies of British Caribbean governments between 1838 and 1876.
23. 10(b)10 marksExplain the factors that led to a rebellion at Morant Bay in Jamaica in 1865.
24. 10(c)6 marksDescribe how the local government in Jamaica responded to the Morant Bay rebellion.
25. 11(a)13 marksDescribe the measures which were adopted 'to breathe new life' into the British Caribbean sugar industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
26. 11(b)12 marksExplain the effects that these measures had on the sugar industry in the British Caribbean.
27. 1225 marksExplain why many British Caribbean farmers expanded their cultivation of crops, other than sugar cane, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
28. 13(a)10 marksExplain why women became more active in public life in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1962 than they were before this period.
29. 13(b)15 marksDescribe the ways in which women's organisations and clubs helped to improve women's lives in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1962.
30. 14(a)6 marksOutline THREE examples of improvements in working conditions introduced into the British Caribbean by labour unions up to 1962.
31. 14(b)2 marksName TWO Caribbean political parties and the trade unions with which they have been associated.
32. 14(c)17 marksExplain FIVE factors that favoured the development of trade unions in the British Caribbean between 1930 and 1960.
33. 15(a)13 marksExplain FOUR ways in which the United States' occupation affected Puerto Rico between 1898 and 1917.
34. 15(b)12 marksExplain briefly how the United States succeeded in acquiring land in order to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama by 1914.
35. 16(a)12 marksExplain why a large number of Cubans were discontented with the government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
36. 16(b)13 marksDiscuss FOUR factors that accounted for the worsening of relations between Cuba and the United States between 1959 and 1962.
37. 17(a)13 marksDiscuss FOUR factors that encouraged independence movements in the British Caribbean between 1935 and 1983.
38. 17(b)12 marksExplain FOUR reasons why Caribbean leaders decided to federate the British Caribbean in 1958.
39. 18(a)10 marksExplain briefly the attempts by the people of the Dutch Caribbean to govern themselves between the 1940s and 1986.
40. 18(b)15 marksDiscuss FOUR advantages that the French Caribbean territories hoped to gain by becoming Overseas Departments of France in 1946.
41. 19(a)15 marksDiscuss FIVE factors that led to discrimination against women in Caribbean societies between 1838 and 1945.
42. 19(b)10 marksExplain THREE factors that accounted for an improvement in attitudes to women in Caribbean societies after 1945.
43. 20(a)12 marksExplain how Caribbean architecture has been influenced by its colonial past.
44. 20(b)13 marksDescribe the ways in which local conditions and circumstances influenced Caribbean architecture.