CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2008 · Paper 2

43 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)12 marksState THREE features of gender relations in EITHER Taino (Arawak) OR Kalinago (Carib) society.
2. 1(b)13 marksDescribe THREE features of the social organization of the Maya.
3. 2(a)13 marksExplain FOUR ways in which the European conquest affected the lives of indigenous peoples.
4. 2(b)12 marksDescribe THREE benefits Europeans obtained from the New World.
5. 3(a)9 marksGive THREE reasons why enslaved Africans were brought to the Caribbean by Europeans during the 1500s.
6. 3(b)16 marksOutline FOUR reasons for the increased use of African labour in the Caribbean from the 1600s to the 1800s.
7. 4(a)12 marksDescribe FOUR ways in which race affected social relations on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean during the 1700s.
8. 4(b)13 marksDiscuss THREE ways in which class and gender affected family life on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
9. 5(a)5 marksOutline TWO examples of passive resistance that were used by both enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.
10. 5(b)5 marksOutline TWO examples of active resistance that were used by both enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.
11. 5(c)15 marksDescribe THREE methods of resistance to slavery that were used ONLY by enslaved women.
12. 6(a)13 marksDiscuss the effects of the Haitian Revolution UP TO 1830 on Haiti.
13. 6(b)12 marksDiscuss the effects of the Haitian Revolution UP TO 1830 on the rest of the Caribbean.
14. 7(a)10 marksState FOUR reasons for the increase in slave rebellions after the abolition of the African slave trade in 1807.
15. 7(b)10 marksOutline FOUR reasons why these slave revolts were unsuccessful.
16. 7(c)5 marksExplain TWO ways in which these revolts helped to bring about the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean.
17. 8(a)10 marksIdentify FOUR similarities between the British and French anti-slavery movements.
18. 8(b)5 marksState TWO differences between the British and French anti-slavery movements.
19. 8(c)10 marksExplain FOUR factors responsible for the success of the British anti-slavery movement.
20. 9(a)13 marksOutline FOUR reasons why some Caribbean territories imported overseas labourers after 1834.
21. 9(b)12 marksExplain FOUR ways in which Indian indentured workers strengthened the sugar industries of Guyana and Trinidad in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
22. 10(a)13 marksDescribe FOUR ways in which missionary groups and churches helped the development of the free villages after 1838.
23. 10(b)12 marksDescribe THREE other ways in which missionary groups and churches helped the freed people after Emancipation.
24. 11(a)16 marksExplain FOUR factors within the British Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1880s and early 1900s.
25. 11(b)9 marksIdentify THREE factors outside the Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1800s and early 1900s.
26. 12(a)9 marksDescribe THREE factors that encouraged diversification of Caribbean economies in the late 1800s and 1900s.
27. 12(b)16 marksOutline FOUR major factors that made possible the growth of industrial enterprises in the British Caribbean since 1945.
28. 13(a)15 marksOutline FIVE methods used by Marcus Garvey and the UNIA to improve the condition of Blacks in the Caribbean.
29. 13(b)10 marksGive THREE reasons why many people were opposed to Marcus Garvey.
30. 14(a)13 marksDescribe FOUR major factors that encouraged the growth of trade unions in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1945.
31. 14(b)12 marksOutline FOUR ways in which labour laws have benefited Caribbean workers.
32. 15(a)12 marksDescribe FOUR major steps taken by the United States to acquire land to build a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in the early 1900s.
33. 15(b)13 marksOutline FOUR reasons why the United States invaded and occupied Haiti in 1914.
34. 16(a)13 marksOutline FOUR reasons why some Cubans criticized the role of the United States in Cuba between 1898 and 1959.
35. 16(b)12 marksOutline THREE reasons why relations between the United States and Cuba worsened between 1959 and 1962.
36. 1725 marksExplain the MAIN reasons for the failure of the 1958 British Caribbean Federation.
37. 18(a)13 marksGive FOUR reasons why many Puerto Ricans showed discontent with their colonial status between 1900 and the 1940s.
38. 18(b)12 marksDescribe THREE advantages that Puerto Rico gained from becoming an Associated State of the United States after 1947.
39. 19(a)3 marksIdentify ONE Christian, ONE Hindu, and ONE Islamic festival celebrated in the Caribbean.
40. 19(b)12 marksExamine FOUR reasons why government officials of the period disapproved of non-Christian cultures in the Caribbean.
41. 19(c)10 marksOutline THREE reasons why attitudes of government officials towards Hinduism and Hindu festivals changed after the 1960s.
42. 20(a)13 marksExamine FOUR reasons why Rastafarianism was unpopular in some sections of Caribbean society between the 1920s and the 1960s.
43. 20(b)12 marksAccount for the more general acceptance of Rastafarianism in the Caribbean since the 1960s.