CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2011 · Paper 2

32 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)(i)2 marksState the titles given to the leaders of the Taino and the Kalinago peoples.
2. 1(a)(ii)2 marksExplain how the Kalinago leader was selected.
3. 1(b)9 marksDescribe three duties or functions of the Kalinago leader.
4. 1(c)12 marksDescribe three features of the political organization of either the Taino or the Mayan people.
5. 2(a)(i)2 marksName the two systems of labor instituted by Spain in the New World.
6. 2(a)(ii)2 marksName the individual responsible for introducing each of the two labor systems.
7. 2(b)9 marksDescribe three requirements or features of these labor systems.
8. 2(c)12 marksExamine three areas in which these systems of labor impacted the Indigenous Peoples.
9. 3(a)4 marksIdentify two Caribbean territories that produced tobacco and two Caribbean territories that produced logwood during the 1600s.
10. 3(b)9 marksExplain three reasons for the transition from tobacco cultivation to sugar production in the Caribbean during the 1600s.
11. 3(c)12 marksExamine three economic consequences of the shift from tobacco to sugar cultivation.
12. 4(a)4 marksIdentify four countries from which white indentured servants were brought to the Caribbean.
13. 4(b)9 marksExplain three reasons why enslaved Africans became the preferred labor force in the Caribbean during the 1600s.
14. 4(c)12 marksExamine three reasons for the marked increase in the demand for enslaved Africans in the British and French Caribbean after 1700.
15. 5(a)4 marksList two examples of insurrectionary resistance and two examples of non-insurrectionary resistance, excluding running away.
16. 5(b)9 marksExplain three reasons why enslaved Africans ran away from Caribbean sugar plantations.
17. 5(c)12 marksExamine three effects on sugar plantations when enslaved Africans escaped or ran away.
18. 6(a)4 marksIdentify four major slave revolts that took place in the British Caribbean prior to the 1831 Jamaica revolt.
19. 6(b)9 marksExplain three causes of the 1831 Jamaica revolt.
20. 6(c)12 marksExamine three consequences of the 1831 Jamaica revolt for both the enslaved Africans and the Jamaican sugar planters.
21. 725 marksWrite an article from the perspective of a late-1840s journalist comparing the British and French anti-slavery movements, highlighting both similarities and differences in their nature, campaign organization, and key…
22. 825 marksWrite a letter as Thomas Harvey in 1837 to the London Times explaining the reasons why apprentices continue to protest against the Apprenticeship System.
23. 925 marksWrite a letter from the perspective of a Stipendiary Magistrate to the Chief Justice in Britain explaining at least three factors contributing to the large-scale importation of Indian labor into the Caribbean, and at…
24. 1025 marksWrite an essay from the perspective of a Baptist preacher in Jamaica in the 1880s explaining at least six economic contributions made by the free peasantry to Caribbean society between 1838 and 1876.
25. 1125 marksWrite a letter as a Jamaican banana grower in the late 1900s to an investor, detailing the role of markets (at least three points) and investment capital (at least three points) in the growth and survival of the…
26. 1225 marksWrite a letter to a newspaper as a Caribbean trade unionist in the 1900s explaining how industrialization affected occupations (at least three points) and the standard of living (at least three points) in the…
27. 1325 marksDiscuss three reasons why the United States intervened in Haiti in early 1915, and three measures taken by the US to resolve the situation there.
28. 1425 marksExamine three political measures and three economic measures implemented by Fidel Castro that aided the survival of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
29. 1525 marksExamine three reasons for establishing the British West Indies Federation and three steps taken between 1945 and 1958 to bring it into existence.
30. 1625 marksExamine the role of either Theophilus Albert Marryshow or Sir Grantley Adams in the formation of the 1958 British West Indies Federation, addressing their education, career, and impact on the federal movement.
31. 1725 marksExplain the factors that hindered travel around a named Caribbean country between 1900 and 1950, and why travel became substantially easier by 1985, addressing geography, transport methods, evolving demands, and…
32. 1825 marksDiscuss why Indian immigrants were reluctant to join established Christian churches in the 1900s, paying specific attention to social exclusivity, the importance of their religion, and resistance to creolization.