CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2017 · 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)4 marksList FOUR materials used by the Taino to construct their houses.
2. 1(b)9 marksOutline THREE ways in which Taino and Kalinago technologies were similar.
3. 1(c)12 marksDescribe THREE achievements of the Maya in science and technology.
4. 2(a)4 marksState FOUR ways in which Europeans used the forced labour of the indigenous peoples.
5. 2(b)9 marksExplain THREE reasons why Europeans became dependent on the food of indigenous peoples.
6. 2(c)12 marksExplain THREE reasons why there was 'withdrawal or loss' of indigenous labour.
7. 3(a)(i)2 marksIdentify TWO of the territories labelled A, B and C on the map.
8. 3(a)(ii)2 marksFor EACH of the two territories identified, give ONE nonsugar agricultural pursuit for which African labour was used.
9. 3(b)9 marksExplain THREE reasons why African labour was used for nonsugar agricultural pursuits.
10. 3(c)12 marksExamine THREE social effects of the shift to mahogany as the main economic activity in Belize.
11. 4(a)(i)2 marksList TWO aspects of African culture that may be supported by the extract provided.
12. 4(a)(ii)2 marksName TWO other aspects of African culture practised by enslaved Africans.
13. 4(b)9 marksDescribe THREE measures or methods used to suppress African cultural expression during slavery.
14. 4(c)12 marksExamine THREE reasons for the persistence of African cultural forms in the Caribbean up to 1838.
15. 5(a)4 marksName FOUR forms of resistance used by enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.
16. 5(b)9 marksOutline THREE causes of resistance by enslaved Africans and give ONE example of EACH.
17. 5(c)12 marksExamine THREE factors that usually prevented the enslaved from overthrowing the system of slavery.
18. 6(a)4 marksIdentify ONE male and ONE female leader of major nineteenth-century slave revolts in the British Caribbean, and the territories with which these leaders were associated.
19. 6(b)9 marksExplain THREE main causes of the Demerara Revolt of 1823.
20. 6(c)12 marksExamine THREE major consequences of the Demerara Revolt of 1823.
21. 725 marksAs an abolitionist writer in 1848 writing an article for a pamphlet, examine FIVE factors that influenced the course of the French anti-slavery movements.
22. 825 marksAs a nonconformist missionary in the British Caribbean in 1837, assess FIVE reasons why you think the Apprenticeship System has failed to achieve its objectives.
23. 925 marksAs a Member of Parliament in 1897 advocating for imported contract labour in a speech to the House of Commons, analyse FIVE reasons for your continued support of the importation of Indian indentured workers.
24. 1025 marksAs Colonial Secretary in 1866 writing to the British Caribbean Governors, examine FIVE reasons which justify Britain's replacement of the Old Representative System of Government with the Crown Colony System.
25. 1125 marksAs a journalist in early twentieth-century Cuba writing a book on the Cuban sugar industry, explain FIVE factors responsible for the growth of this industry between 1875 and the end of the nineteenth century.
26. 1225 marksAs a merchant in the Caribbean shipping goods to Britain writing a report to investors in London, explain FIVE reasons for the growth of nonsugar agricultural industries in the British Caribbean up to 1935.
27. 1325 marksExamine FIVE reasons for the USA's invasion of Grenada in 1983.
28. 1425 marksExamine FIVE ways in which the USA responded to Castro's revolution between 1959 and 1962.
29. 1525 marksExamine FIVE of the ways in which popular protest in the 1930s affected political development in the British Caribbean up to 1958.
30. 1625 marksAssess FIVE reasons why the French territories retained DOM status in preference to independence following the 1962 referendum.
31. 1725 marksExamine THREE housing and TWO unemployment conditions that existed in the Caribbean between 1900 and 1935.
32. 1825 marksChoose EITHER cricket OR transportation. Examine THREE ways in which the upper class experienced that aspect of social life in the Caribbean from 1945 to 1985, and TWO ways in which the working class experienced that…