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C A R I B B E A N E X A M I NA TIO N S C O U NCIL
CARIBBEAN SECONDARY E DUCATION CERTIFICATE"'
EXAMINATION
CARIBBEAN HISTORY
Paper 01 - General Proficiency
1 hour 15 minutes
( 04 JUNE 2015 (p,m.))
READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
I.
This test consists of 60 items. You will have I 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 hav­
ing the same letter as the answer you have chosen.
Sample Item
Which of the following was used by early navigators
to determine the position of the ship in relation to the stars?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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Amap
A compass
A lodestone
An astrolabe
Sa mple An swer
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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.
DO NOT TURN Tms PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO so.
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1.
Which of the following statements is TRUE
of BOTH Jamaica und C uba at the time of
Columbus' arrival in the Caribbean?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
2.
3.
They were not inhabited.
They were inhabited by Tainos.
They were inhabited by Mayas.
They were inhabited by Kalinagos.
Which of the following BEST describes
the religious practices ofthe Kalinagos and
Tainos?
(A)
( B)
(C)
(D)
Which of the following statements are
TRUE of the Kalinagos?
I.
II.
Ill.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
They adopted many Tai no customs.
They were skilled sailors and
fishermen.
They fiercely resisted the Spanish
invaders.
1 and II only
I and Ill only
II and Ill only
1, II and Ill
Nature worship and animal sacrifice
Protective m a g i c and animal
sacrifice
Nature worship and ancestor
worship
Long p e r i o d s o f fasting and
ancestor worship
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ATLANTIC OCEAN
4.
The area where the Kalinagos lived before they migrated to the Caribbean islands is labelled
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
II
Ill
IV
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s.
Which of the following did the Maya use
as money?
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
6.
7.
Cocoa beans
Copper bars
Gold nuggets
Cowrie shells
Which is the correct order of the 15th
century European social groups from
MOST to LEAST powerful?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Merchants, priests, peasants, kings
Kings, priests, peasants, merchants
Priests, kings, merchants, peasants
Kings, priests, merchants, peasants
Christopher Columbus sailed w e s t
MAINLY because h e wanted t o
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
discover the Americas
find a passage to the East
compete with the English
prove that the world was round
Item 8 refers to the following map of the Caribbean.
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8.
On which of the following islands was the first Spanish settlement established?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
I
II
Ill
IV
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9.
In which century were the English most
successful in establishing settlements in
the Caribbean?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(0)
10.
(0)
11.
(B)
(C)
(D}
14.
(8)
(C)
(D)
the European demand for tobacco
declined
there was not enough labour for
growing tobacco
there was a decline in the quality
of Caribbean tobacco
Caribbean tobacco could not
compete on the European market
I.
15.
(A}
(B)
(C)
(D)
Grain, mirrors, sail
Grain, knives, palm oil
Cutlasses, sail, palm oil
Gunpowder, iron pots, beads
II I.
Attacking the crew
Committing suicide
Complaining to the captain
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
I and II only
I and III only
II and III only
I, JI and III
Which of the following is TRUE of
enslaved persons in the British Caribbean?
(A)
(B)
(C)
Which of the following groups of items
was used by Europeans for the purchase
of Africans on the Slave Coast?
(0)
16.
cultivation by captive persons in
Africa
trade in captive persons on the
African coast
housing of enslaved persons in the
Caribbean
punishment of enslaved persons in
the Caribbean
Which of the following means of protest
were used by captive Africans during the
Middle Passage?
II.
Tobacco ceased to be the staple crop of the
early English colonists in the Caribbean
MAINLY because
(A)
12.
mine gold and precious minerals
convert the natives of the Caribbean
produce tropical crops for the
mother country
relieve the mother country of
excess population
The term 'barracoon' is BEST associated
with lhe
(A)
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
The MAIN aim of the English and French
in establishing colonies in the Caribbean
was to
(A)
(B)
(C)
13.
They were encouraged by their
owners to educate themselves.
They were allowed to raise a family
without the owner's permission.
They were allowed to own small
properties without the owner's
permission.
They were encouraged by their
masters t o farm on small
provision grounds.
An enslaved African in the British
Caribbean who stole from the owner was
LEAST likely to be
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
whipped
mutilated
charged a fine
placed in the stockade
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•517.
A MAJOR cause of the 'Bussa Revolt' of
1816 in Barbados was the
(A )
(B)
(C)
(D)
18.
I.
111.
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
19.
(C)
(D)
22.
(B)
(C)
(D)
23.
(B)
(C)
(D)
(8)
Which of the following enslaved persons
were MOST likely to use poisoning of
owners as a means of resistance?
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
Artisans
Domestics
Field hands
Factory workers
(C)
(D)
24.
The Humanitarians
The Anglican Church
The West India Lobby
The British Government
Which of the following was NOT a
requirement ofthe Apprenticeship System?
(A)
wanted t o prevent the enslaved
Africans from revolting
were dissatisfied with their status
in society
wished t o assist the enslaved
Africans
supported the King of France
To maintain the established system
of enslavement
To put an end to enslavement in the
British Caribbean
To introduce a new supply ofcheap
labour to the British Caribbean
To improve the conditions of the
enslaved in the British Caribbean
Which of the following groups was the
FIRST to amend the policy of Amelioration?
(A)
The free coloureds of St Domingue
revolted in 1790 because they
(A)
20.
( B)
Large size of the two territories
Nearness of difficult and remote
terrain
ooperation
of free coloureds
C
I and II only
I and 111 only
II and Ill only
I, II and Ill
Which of the following was the MAIN
purpose of the policy ofAmelioration?
(A )
activity of free blacks and coloureds
belief that emancipation was being
delayed
influence of Sam Sharpe's revolt in
Jamaica
shortage of provisions for the
enslaved Africans
Which of the following factors contributed
to the success of the Maroons in Jamaica
and Suriname in their resistance to slavery?
II.
21.
Apprentices were to be trained to
become skilled labourers.
Planters were to provide food and
clothing for the apprentices.
Apprentices were to work the first
forty hours of the week for no
wages.
Praedials were to continue working
for their former masters for six
years.
Stipendiary Magistrates were persons
originally sent out from Britain to ensure
that
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
the courts of the colonies were in
order
there were n o abuses of the
Apprenticeship System
the illegal trade in captive Africans
was brought to an end
planters werecorrectlycompensatcd
for the loss of their enslaved
Africans
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-625.
Which of the following organizations did
NOT support the abolition of slavery?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
26.
(D)
27.
(B)
(C)
(D)
(B)
(C)
(D)
29.
31.
32.
help keep the colonies peaceful
ease the labour problems of the
planters
help introduce new crops into the
colonies
prevent the freed Africans from
getting jobs
Indian
African
Chinese
Portuguese
The MOST significant contribution of the
Portuguese immigrants to the economy of
the British Caribbean in the ! 800s was in
the
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
provision of estate labour
introduction of rice growing
development of the retail trade
formation of Portuguese
associations
planters
missionaries
local assemblies
Stipendiary Magistrates
There were more free villages in Jamaica
than there were in Barbados MAINLY
because
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
33.
labourers
shopkeepers
small farmers
factory hands
Help in the formation of free villages in
Jamaica came MAINLY from
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Which cultural elements did indentured
workers from Madeira bring to the British
Caribbean?
(A)
The majority of 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)
Indians
Africans
Chinese
Europeans
Indian indentured labour was introduced
into the British Caribbean in order to
(A)
28.
The Quakers
Amis des Noirs
The Clapham Sect
The Colonial Church Union
Which of the following groups was
MAINLY used by British Caribbean
planters as immigrant workers in the period
after 1833?
(A)
(B)
(C)
30.
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
freed Africans in Jamaica had more
money to buy land than freed
Africans in Barbados
Which group of territories contained the
MOST Crown land?
{A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
Antigua, Grenada, Guyana
Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad
Antigua, Guyana, Jamaica
Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad
. 7.
34.
Which of the following BEST describes a
British Caribbean peasant proprietor in the
period after emancipation?
( A)
r
(8)
(C)
l
(D)
35.
(8)
(C)
(D)
36.
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
37,
i
wages.
(C)
(0)
39.
Cotton
Tobacco
Sweet potatoes
Sugar cane
(D)
40.
(8)
(C)
(D)
The United States took over
Panama.
The U.S.S. Maine was blown up in
Havana harbour.
The United States was angered by
General Weyler's atrocities.
The United States was angered by
Spanish invasion of Cuba.
( B)
(C)
(D)
41,
Cuba
Haiti
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
The MAIN r eason for United States'
interest in Panama in the first decade of the
20th century was to
(A)
Dollar Diplomacy
Operation Bootstrap
the Big Stick Policy
the Good Neighbour Policy
All enslaved persons in Cuba
would be freed.
Puerto Rico would be protected by
the United States.
The United States would oppose
European intervention i n the
'New World'.
The United States would uphold
the independence of Caribbean
territories.
Which of the following Caribbean territories
was NOT occupied by the United States
military forces in the early 1900s?
(A )
(B)
(C)
W h i c h o f t h e fo l l o w i n g w a s t h e
IMMEDIATE cause of the United States
declaration of war against Spain in 1898?
(A )
I
(B)
So m e o n e w h o s o l d g r o u n d
provisions in the market.
Someone who cultivated plots of
land on his/her own account.
The policy by which the United States
government was actively involved in
directing the financial affairs of the
Caribbean between 1905 and 1930 was
known as
Which of the following was the aim of the
Monroe Doctrine of 1823?
(A)
Someone who worked on a large
farm.
Someone who worked for very low
Which of the following crops was MOST
likely to be sold in a peasant market?
(A)
38.
provide greater opportunities for
trade
provide employment forAmeri cans
in Panama
improve the relationship between
the two countries
improve communication between
the Atlantic and the Pacific
In their efforts to improve working
conditions around 1900, workers in the
British Caribbean MOST often resorted to
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
strikes
rioting
arson
picketing
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Which commission was sent to investigate
conditions in the Caribbean as a result of
the 1930s disturbances?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
43.
II.
111.
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
Opportunities for education were
limited because they were poor.
Very few blacks were allowed
admission to the best schools.
Their education followed the
pattern of the British system.
I and II only
I and Ill only
II and Ill only
1, 11 and Ill
(B )
(C)
(D)
Before the I930s, no trade union
existed in the British Caribbean.
By 1910, trade unions in the British
Caribbean had gained legal
recognition.
fter
the 1930s, trade unions in
A
the British Caribbean became
stronger and more numerous.
Trade unions were formed in the
British Caribbean only after
legislation recognizing them was
passed.
Which of the following trade union leaders
is NOT correctly matched with the territory
he worked for?
(A )
(8)
(C)
(0)
Clement Payne-Barbados
Alexander Bustamante-Jamaica
Nathaniel Critchlow-Belize
Uriah 'Buzz' Butler-Trinidad
In what order did the following countries
gain political independence?
I.
Guyana
Jamaica
Grenada
(A)
(B )
I, IJ, Ill
II, I, Ill
II, Ill, I
Ill, 11, I
II.
Ill.
(C)
(D)
47.
B y the referendum of 196 I, Jamaica
decided to
(A)
(B)
( C)
(D)
48.
Which of the following statements is TRUE
of trade unions in the British Caribbean?
(A)
45.
Foster Commission
Moyne Commission
Norman Commission
D eane Commission
Which of the following statements are
TRUE of education for MOST Caribbean
blacks in the early 20th century?
I.
44.
46.
In which order did the following stages in
the movement towards independence in
British Caribbean territories take place?
I.
II.
111.
IV.
(A)
(8)
(C )
(D)
49.
withdraw from the federation
change its federal representative
change the site of the federal capital
reduce its financial contribution to
the federation
Introduction of the party system
Election of a prime minister or
premier
chievement
of universal adult
A
suffrage
Full internal self-government
I, II, 111, IV
I, Ill, 11, IV
JI, IV, 111, I
IV, II, Ill, I
One feature of the 1958 Federation was that
the government of each individual territory
would
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
cease to exist
continue as before
share power with the federal
government
hand over power to the federal
government
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so.
The British West Indies Federation of 1958
was established because
(A)
(8)
-
I•
(C)
(D)
SJ.
French Caribbean colonies had
begun to federate
the old representative system
proved to be useless
the crown colony government had
given West Indians experience
in running their affairs
West Indian leaders felt that
independence would be achieved
faster through federation
Which o f the following statements
correctly compares indentured labourers
and enslaved persons?
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
51.
'Colonialism' may be described as the
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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
Item 52 refers to the following quotation.
"Tell me by what right and justice do
you keep these Indians in such cruel and
humble servitude?"
52.
Which of the following was passed to
ensure that the Indians were NOT kept in
"cruel and humble servitude"?
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
The Asiento
The Code Noir
The Laws of Burgos
The Deficiency Laws
54.
Which of the following countries have
NEVER been colonized by Spain?
(A )
(B)
(C)
(D)
55.
Neither indentured labourers nor
enslaved persons could legally
own property.
Neither indentured labourers nor
enslaved persons were paid
wages by the estate owners.
Enslaved persons could not give
evidence against their owners;
indentured labourers could.
Children of indentured labourers,
like children ofenslaved persons,
were the property of the estate
owner.
Cuba and Jamaica
St Kitts and Antigua
Trinidad and Hispaniola
Panama and Puerto Rico
In which order were the following groups
introduced as the MAIN source, of labour
in the British Caribbean?
II.
Ill.
I.
Africans
Indians
Chinese
(A)
(8)
(C)
(D)
I, II, Ill
I, Ill, II
II, Ill, I
Ill, II, I
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56.
What is the CORRECT order of the
abolition process?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(0)
57.
(8)
(C)
(D)
In which chronological order did the
following industries develop in the
Caribbean?
I.
11.
Ill.
IV.
(A)
(8)
(C)
(0)
60.
Which ofthe following statements is TRUE
of Cuba in the I 800s?
(A)
58.
Apprenticeship, emancipation,
amelioration, abolition of slave
trade
Emancipation, apprenticeship,
abolit ion of s l a v e trade,
amelioration
Ame lioration, emancipation,
abolition of s l a v e trade,
apprenticeship
Abo l i t ion o f s l a v e tr a d e ,
amelioration, emancipation,
apprenticeship
59.
I t 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.
Petroleum
Tobacco
Sugar
Banana
I, II, rII, JV
II, Ill, I, IV
II, III, IV, I
Ill, 11, I, IV
In which chronological order did the
following disturbances take place?
I.
11.
111.
IV.
The Morant Bay Rebellion
The Haitian Revolution
The Oemerara Revolt
The Christmas Rebellion
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
TI, Ill, IV, I
III, 11, l, IV
IV, JI, HI, I
I, II, Ill, IV
Which of the following statements
describes universal adult suffrage?
(A)
(8)
(C)
(0)
The right of all citizens of a
specified age to vote
The right of educated people to
govern a country
The right of blacks and non-blacks
to share political power
The right of people with a given
amount of property to run for
elections
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