CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2012 · Paper 2

31 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 marksName FOUR materials used by the Tainos of the Caribbean to construct their homes.
2. 1(b)9 marksOutline THREE ways in which sculptures were used in religious practices of the Tainos.
3. 1(c)12 marksDescribe THREE ways in which indigenous art forms were used in the buildings and craftsmanship of the Tainos.
4. 2(a)4 marksIdentify FOUR ways in which the Indigenous Peoples were required to provide labour for the Europeans.
5. 2(b)9 marksGive THREE reasons why this labour was required.
6. 2(c)12 marksExplain THREE factors which were responsible for the withdrawal of this labour.
7. 3(a)4 marksOutline TWO reasons for the changeover from the production of tobacco to sugar.
8. 3(b)9 marksDescribe THREE economic outcomes of the changeover to sugar.
9. 3(c)12 marksExplain THREE social changes that resulted from the introduction of sugar.
10. 4(a)4 marksOutline TWO reasons why the Spaniards first imported captive Africans into the Caribbean.
11. 4(b)9 marksGive THREE reasons why there was only a small number of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean in the early 1500s.
12. 4(c)12 marksExamine THREE factors responsible for the rapid increase in the number of enslaved Africans in the British Caribbean by the end of the 1600s.
13. 5(a)4 marksList FOUR different types of methods, other than those dictated by law, used by sugar planters to control enslaved Africans on a typical sugar plantation in the 1700s.
14. 5(b)9 marksDescribe any THREE of the methods used by sugar planters to control enslaved Africans on a typical sugar plantation in the 1700s.
15. 5(c)12 marksExplain THREE reasons why these methods of control did not always succeed.
16. 6(a)4 marksIdentify FOUR territories in which major revolts were staged by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean.
17. 6(b)9 marksGive THREE reasons for the early success of the 1816 revolt.
18. 6(c)12 marksExamine THREE factors which were responsible for the failure of the 1816 revolt.
19. 725 marksImagine you are a Jamaican sugar planter in 1825. Write a letter to your banker in Britain explaining the amelioration policy and why most planters are unhappy with it, mentioning reasons for introducing amelioration…
20. 825 marksImagine you are a member of the London Missionary Society visiting the Caribbean in 1837. Prepare a report explaining what the apprenticeship period was intended to achieve and why it was failing, identifying at least…
21. 925 marksImagine you are a planter in a named English-speaking Caribbean territory. Write a letter to the Governor discussing problems facing the sugarcane industry between 1838 and 1854.
22. 1025 marksImagine you are the Colonial Secretary in Jamaica in the 1860s. Write a letter to the Colonial Office arguing the case for adopting Crown Colony Government on the island instead of the Old Representative System.
23. 1125 marksImagine you are living in Barbados in 1980 and the island has experienced growth in the tourist industry. Examine the reasons for, and the consequences of, the development of the tourist industry in Barbados.
24. 1225 marksAs a US investor in Cuba in the second half of the 1800s, examine the factors which led to the growth of the Cuban sugar industry between 1850 and 1890.
25. 1325 marksDiscuss at least SIX factors that caused the United States of America to invade Grenada and remove the Revolutionary Military Council (RMC) in 1983.
26. 14(a)13 marksDiscuss at least THREE effects regarding the spread of US political and economic influence.
27. 14(b)12 marksDiscuss at least THREE effects regarding the Cold War.
28. 1525 marksExamine THREE arguments used to promote the unification of the Leeward Islands in 1871 and THREE reasons why this attempt at unification ended in failure.
29. 1625 marksExamine the economic, political, and social factors which contributed to the collapse of the British West Indies Federation in 1962, discussing at least TWO factors for EACH area.
30. 1725 marksExamine the employment problems in the British Caribbean during the 1930s and the measures adopted by colonial governments to deal with them, discussing at least THREE problems and THREE measures adopted.
31. 1825 marksExamine the reasons why young women in the British Caribbean tended to move from rural districts to towns between the 1920s and 1930s, and the ways in which women's organizations tried to assist them, discussing at…