CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATES EXAMINATION CARIBBEAN HISTORY Paper 01 — General Proficiency I hour ]5 minutes 4 E2 9 ) READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 1. This test consists of 60 items. You will have 1 hour and 15 minutes to answer them. 2. In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet. 3. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best. 4. On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below. Samole Item Which of the following was used by early navigators to determine the position of the ship in relation to the stars? Sample Answer (A) (B) (C) (D) A map A compass A lodestone An astrolabe The best answer to this item is “An astrolabe”, so (D) has been shaded. 5. If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice. 6. When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may return to that item later. -21. Which of the following BEST explains why the indigenous peoples migrated to the Americas from their original homelands? (A) (B) (C) (D) 2. (C) (D) 3. Nature worship and animal sacrifice Nature worship and ancestor worship Protective magic and animal sacrifice Long periods of fasting and ancestor worship The Maya wrote using a type of writing called (A) (B) (C) (D) 4. They were following herds of deer that they hunted. They were searching for grasslands to feed their livestock. They were driven out of their homelands by warlike people. Their populations had grown too large to survive in their homelands. Which of the following BEST describe the religious practices of the Tainos? (A) (B) Cuneiform Epi-Olmec Indus Script Hieroglyphic Which of the foLowing did the Maya use as money? (A) (B) (C) (D) 5. Cocoa beans Copper bars Gold nuggets Cowrie shells Which ofthe following BEST explains why many Kalinago women spoke the Taino language? (A) (B) (C) (D) 6. Which of the following islands was the FIRST to be settled by the English? (A) (B) (C) (D) 7. They worked in the fields with the Taino women. Kalinago women often traded with the Taino women. Taino women were often captured by Kalinago warriors. Kalinago girls were taught the language of the Taino by their elders. St Kitts Antigua Grenada Barbados In which century were the English MOST successful in establishing settlements in the Caribbean? (A) (B) Fourteenth Fifteenth (C) Sixteenth (D) Seventeenth Item 8 refers to the following map of the Caribbean. IH 8. On which of the following islands was the first Spanish settlement established? (A) I (B) II (C) III (D) IV Item 9 refers to the following statement. “The authorities began the practice of allowing the Spaniards to extract labour and collect tribute from the Indians. In return, the Spaniards were to see that the Indians were ‘protected’ and converted to Christianity.” 9. The ‘practice’ referred to in the statement was known as the (A) tB) (C) (D) 10. asiento audiencia residencia encomienda Which of the following strategies were NOT used to weaken the Spanish Monopoly in the Caribbean up to 1763? (A) (B) (C) (D) Piracy and settlement Sporadic attacks and open warfare Colonization and contests in the European courts Illegal trading and negotiation of treaty agreements -411. Which of the following groups of items did the Europeans use for the purchase of Africans on the Slave Coast? (A) (B) (C) (D) 15. Grain, mirrors, salt Grain, knives, palm oil Cutlasses, salt, palm oil Gunpowder, iron pots, beads Which of the following statements about the population of Barbados by the end of the 1600s is TRUE? (A) (B) (C) 12. Which of the following ports were British slave ships MOST likely to visit during the 1700s? (A) (B) (C) (D) 13. Havana Kingston Rio de Janeiro Port-au-Prince (D) 16. (A) (B) (C) (D) cultivation by captive persons in Africa trade of enslaved persons in the Caribbean housing of captive persons on the African coast punishment of enslaved persons in the Caribbean An enslaved African in the British Caribbean who stole from the owner was LEAST likely to be (A) (B) (C) (D) The term ‘barracoon’ is BEST associated with the 17. (A) (B) The curing house on Caribbean sugar plantations was associated with (A) (B) (C) (D) caring for sick enslaved persons on the plantation the packaging of sugar for immediate export caring for the poor whites on the plantation the removal of molasses from Muscavado sugar (D) 18. whipped mutilated charged a line placed in the stockade Toussaint L'Ouverture contributed to the success of the Haitian Revolution MAINLY by (C) 14. There were more whites than blacks. Blacks were far greater in number than whites. Coloureds were far greater in number than whites. There were equal numbers of coloureds and blacks. setting up a system of fortification develo pin g a revolutionary ideology dividing the country between blacks and mulattos organizing the enslaved into a formidable fighting force The free coloureds of st Domingue revolted in 1790 because they (A) (B) (C) (D) supported the cause of the King of France were dissatisfied with their status in society wished to assist the enslaved Africans wanted to prevent the enslaved Africans from revolting l9. In 1763, a major uprising of enslaved Africans took place in the Dutch colony of (A) (B) (C) (D) 20. 21. (A) (B) (C) Berbice Cura9ao Suriname St Eustatius The punishment MOST frequently meted out to the enslaved on eighteenth centuiy sugar estates was (A) (B) (C) (D) The Registry Bill was intended to (D) 24. flogging treadmill starvanon imprisonment (A) (B) (C) (D) To maintain the established system of enslavement To put an end to enslavement in the Briash Caribbean To introduce anew supply of cheap labour to the British Caribbean To improve the conditions of the enslaved in the British Caribbean Stipendiary magistrates were persons originally sent out from Britain to ensure that (A) (B) (C) Which of the following was the MAIN purpose of the policy of amelioration? The MAIN source of disputes between planters and formerly enslaved persons during apprenbceship was (A) (B) (C) (D) wage rate child labour Sunday work property rental the courts of the colonies were in order there were no abuses of the apprenticeship system the illegal trade in captive Africans did not continue during apprenticeship for the loss ofenslavedAfiicans 25. Most West Indian planters saw the period of apprenacesbip MAINLY as (A) (B) 22. punish stave masters register persons born into slavery prevent the illegal sale of the enslaved continuetbe excessive punishment of the enslaved (C) (D) a means ofensuring a steady labour supply a time for training the enslaved in new skills an opportunity to educate the enslaved a time to reorganize sugar production -626. Which of the following were benefits the Emancipation Act of 1833 gave enslaved Africans in the British Caribbean? I. II. III. A chance to work for wages Social equality with the whites Ass is tance from stipendiary magistrates (A) (B) (C) (D) I and II only I and III only II and III only I, II and III 29. Which ofthe following did NOTrestilt from the immigration of indentured labourers to the Caribbean after emancipation? (A) (B) (C) (D) 30. 27. Large-scale immigration to Trinidad and British Guiana between 1838 and 1870 led tO I. 11. III. cultural diversity in those territories racial aonNets among the ethnic groups economic growth in both territories (A) (B) (C) (D) I only I and II only II and III only I, II and III The majotity of the Portuguese immigrants brought to work in the British Caribbean in the years between emancipation and the First World War were employed as (A) (B) (C) (D) 31. Indian indentured labour was introduced into the British Caribbean in order to (B) (A) (C) (B) (C) (D) ease the labour problems of the planters help keep the colonies peaceful help introduce new crops into the colonies prevent the freed Africans from getting jobs shopkeepers small farmen unskilled labourers skilled factory hands There were more free villages in Jamaica than there were in Barbados MAINLY because (A) 28. The expansion of rice cultivation in Guyana The expansion of sugar production in Barbados The introduction of new religions in the Caribbean The introduction of a variety of ethnic groups in Trinidad (D) in Jamaica more land was available for settlement in Barbados the freed Africans did not want to leave the plantations the Jamaican planters encouraged the freed Africans to set up free villages freedAfricans in Jamaica had more money to buy land than freed Africans in Barbados -7Items 32—34 refer to the following information. 35. “William Knibb foresaw that planters would try to force extra work from their free labourers by increasing rent on homes on the estate.” 32. To which territory is the statement referring? (A) (B) (C) (D) Which of the following crops was MOST likely to be sold in a peasant market? (A) (B) (C) (D) 36. Guyana Jamaica Trinidad Barbados Cotton Tobacco Sugar cane Sweet potatoes “The adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in cases of wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of the international police force.” The above statement is associated with President 33. Which of the following BEST describes the response by free labourers in the Caribbean to planters' attempts to force them to remain on the plantation? (A) (B) (C) (D) Riots against the planters Payment of the increased rent Refusal to leave the plantation Establishment of homes off the plantation (A) (B) (C) (D) 37. Whic h o f the to 11 o wing was the IMMEDIATE cause of the United States declaring war against Spain in 1898? (A) 34. What action did William Kri ibh take to assist freed Africans to acquire land? (B) (A) (B) (C) (D) (C) Bribe the planters Warn the labourers Establish free villages Report to the governor (D) 38. Ulysses S. Grant Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt John Fitzgerald Kennedy The United States took o ver Panama. The U.S.S. Maine was blown up in Havana harbour. The United States was angered by the Spanish invasion of Cuba. The United States was angered by General Weyler's atrocities. By which agreement did the USA make Cuba “gravitate toward the North American Union”? (A) (B) (C) (D) Platt Amendment Teller Amendment Hay—Pauncefote Treaty Clayton—Bulwer Treaty -8The MAIN reason for the United States' interest in Panama in the first decade of the twentieth century was to (A) (B) (C) (D) 40. 44. 45. Foster Commission Deane Commission Moyne Commission Norman Commission Which of the following personalities was directly associated with the riots of the 1930s in the British Caribbean? (A) (B) (C) (D) Fidel Castro of Cuba George Price of Belize Maria Nugent of Jamaica Clement Payne of Barbados participation in the 1937 riots teachings on black nationalism deportation from the United States association with the trade union movement Which of the following territories did NOT join the British West Indies Federation? (A) (B) (C) (D) 46. obtain self-government promote social revolution promote the two-party system develop the colonies economically Marcus Garvey is BEST known for his (A) (B) (C) (D) Which of the following commissions was sent to investigate conditions in the Caribbean as a result of the 1930s riots? (A) (B) (C) (D) 42. Cuba Haiti Jamaica Dominican Republic Most of the Caribbean political leaders in the 1930s advocated constitutional changes MAINLY in order to (A) (B) (C) (D) Which of the following Caribbean territories was NOT occupied by US military forces in the early 1900s? (A) (B) (C) (D) 41. provide greater opportunities for trade provide employment for Americans in Panama improve the relationship between the two countries improve communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific 43. Guyana and Belize Grenada and Antigua St Vincent and Dominica St Kitts-Nevis and Saint Lucia In many British Caribbean territories during the 1930s, there was a strong link between political parties and (A) (B) (C) (D) trade unions plantation owners the established church stipendiary magistrates -947. Which of the following considerations MOST influenced the decision to form the British West Indies Federation of 1958? (A) (B) (C) (D) 48. Which of the following Caribbeanterritories became a free and associated state of the USA.? (A) (B) (C) (D) 50. withdraw from the federation change its federal representative change the site of the federal capital reduce its financial contribution to the federation Cuba Margarita Hispaniola Puerto Rico Which of the following Caribbean territories were assimilated by France in 1946? (A) (B) (C) (D) Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe Marie Galante, Haiti, Dominica Saint Barthelemy, Haiti, Martinique Guadeloupe, St Martin, Martinique ‘Colonialism’ may be described as the (A) (B) (C) (D) 52. By the referendum of 1961, Jamaica decided to (A) (B) (C) (D) 49. All territories would participate on an equal basis. Fe deration w o uld he Ip the independence movement. Interisland communication would be more economical. Citizens would be able to move more freely in the various territories. 51. Which of the following leaders served as the first female prime minister of a Caribbean territory? (A) (B) (C) (D) 53. spread of Roman Catholicism worldwide settlement and exploitation of one country by another assistance given to developing countries by developed ones large-scale killing of native people by a more powerful group Una Marson Muriel Greaves Eugenia Charles Gertrude Protain Which of the following laws was intended to improve the treatment of enslaved indigenous people? (A) (B) (C) (D) The Code Noir The Laws of Burgos The Deficiency Law The Amelioration Act 54 Which of the following British Caribbean territories was FIRST granted adult suffrage? (A) (B) (C) (D) Jamaica Guyana Trinidad Barbados - 10 55. Which of the following Dutch territories gained independence by 1980? (A) (B) (C) (D) 56. Aruba Cura9ao Suriname Sint Maarten What is the correct order of the abolition process? (A) (B) (C) (D) 57. 58. Apprenticeship, emancipation, amelioration, abolition of slave trade A bo lit i on o I slav e trade , amelioration, emancipation, apprenticeship Ameli oration, emancipation, ab oli ti o n of s lave trade, apprenticeship Emancipation, apprenticeship, abo1iti on o f s lave trade, amelioration 59. (B) (C) (D) I. II. III. French beet sugar Cuban slave-grown sugar St Domingue slave-grown sugar (A) (B) (C) (D) 1, II, III II, III, 1 111, II, 1 II, 1, III Which of the following persons was an important trade union leader in Guyana? (A) (B) (C) (D) 60. Which of the following statements is true of Cuba in the 1800s† (A) In which chronological order did the British Caribbean planters first face competition from the following? It had become a major sugar producing territory. Logwood production had become a major industry. Tobacco had replaced sugar as the leading product. Indigenous Indians were the major source of agricultural labour. Vere Bird Clement Payne Robert Bradshaw Hubert Critchlow In which order did the following stages in the movement towards independence in British Caribbean territories take place? I. Il. III. (A) (B) (C) (D) Full internal self-government Achievement of universal adult suffrage Electioii of a prime minister or premier I, II, lII II, III,1, III, II, I 11, 1, III END OF TEST IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS TEST.
