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EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
CARIBBEAN
CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE@
EXAMINATION
CARIBBEAN HISTORY
Paper 02
- General Proficiency
2 hours 10 minutes
READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
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This paper consists of l8 questions in three sections
Questions I to 6
Questions 7 to 12
Questions l3 to l8
Section A:
Section B:
Section C:
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Answer THREE questions; choose ONE from EACH section
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Write your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.
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You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan
your answers.
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-4SECTION A
This section has six questions.
Answer ONE question from this section.
Write the answer to the question you choose on pages 8-11.
Wherc questions require an example, explanation or description, your answer must be well developed
and supportd by historical details.
Theme 1 - The Indigenous Peoples and the Europeans
Question
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(a)
List FOUR materials used by the Taino to construct their houses.
(4 marks)
(b)
Outline THREE ways in which Taino and Kalinago technologies were similar.
(9 marks)
(c)
Describe THREE achievements of the Maya in science and technology.
(12 marks)
Total25 marks
Question 2
With the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, life changed for both Europeans and indigenous peoples.
Europeans became dependent on indigenous foods while benefiting from the use of indigenous labour.
Therefore, the Europeans were hard-hit by any withdrawal or loss of that labour.
(a)
State FOUR ways in which Europeans used the forced labour of the indigenous peoples.
(b)
Explain THREE reasons why Europeans became dependent on the food of indigenous peoples.
(9 marks)
(c)
Explain THREE reasons why there was 'withdrawal or loss' of indigenous labour.
(4 marks)
(12 marks)
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Question 3
Study the map of the Caribbean below, which has four territories labelled, and then answer the questions
which follow.
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Identify TWO of the territories labelled A, B and C
For EACH of the two territories identified, give ONE nonsugar agricultural pursuit for
which African labour was used.
(4 marks)
(b)
Explain THREE reasons why African labour was used for nonsugar agricultural pursuits.
(9 marks)
(c)
Examine THREE social effects of the shift to mahogany as the main economic activity in
(12 marks)
Belize.
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Study the Vodun hymn and the translation given below and then answer the questions which follow
Eh! Eh! Bomba! Eh! Eh!
Canga, bafio td!
Canga, moussd deld!
Canga, do ki la!
Canga,li!
Translation:
"Eh Eh! Rainbow Spirit!
Tie up the BaFioti
Tie up the whites
Tie up the whites
Tie them."
Vodun hymn takenfrom Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of
Haiti:
The Saint Domingue Revolutionfrom Below.
Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990, p. 266.
(i)
(a)
(ii)
List TWO aspects of African culture that may be supported by the extract above.
(2 marks)
Name TWO other aspects ofAfrican culture practised by enslaved
Africans. (2 marks)
(b)
Describe THREE measures or methods used to suppress African cultural expression during
(9 marks)
slavery.
(c)
Examine THREE reasons for the persistence ofAfrican cultural forms in the Caribbean up to 1838.
(12 marks)
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Theme 3 - Resistance and Revolt
Question 5
There was no natural subservience here. Nobody didn't bow down to nobody just so. To get a man to
follow your instructions you had to pen him and beat him and cut off his ears or his foot when he run
away. You had was to take away his woman and his child. And stillthat fellow stand up and oppose you ...
And it wasn't just men alone. It had women there that was even more terrible.
Earl Lovelace, SsA.New York: Persea Books, 1996, p.6-7.
(a)
Name FOUR forms of resistance used by enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.
(4 marks)
(b)
Outline THREE causes of resistance by enslaved Africans and give ONE example of EACH.
(9 marks)
(c)
Examine THREE factors that usually prevented the enslaved from overthrowing the system
slavery.
of
(12 marks)
Total25 marks
Question 6
(a)
Identify ONE male and ONE female leaderof major nineteenth-century slave revolts in the British
(4 marks)
Caribbean, and the territories with which these leaders were
(b)
Explain THREE main causes of the Demerara Revolt of
(c)
Examine THREE major consequences of the Demerara Revolt
associated.
1823.
of
(9 marks)
1823.
(12 marks)
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This section has six questions
Answer ONE question from this section.
Write the answer to the question you choose on pages 14-17.
All
essays in this section must be well developed with a clear introduction and conclusion. Points
must be supported with relevant details and examples. Marks will be awarded for good organization
and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Theme 4 - Metropolitan Movements Towards Emancipation
Question 7
The year is 1848. You are an abolitionist writer who has been covering the movements in the Caribbean.
Imagine you are writing an article for a pamphlet. In your article, examine FIVE factors that influenced
the course of the French anti-slavery movements.
Total25 marks
Question 8
As stated in the Abolition of Slavery Act of 1833, the Apprenticeship System in the British Caribbean
colonies was intended, among other things,
'for promoting the industry of the manumitted slaves"
ER. Augier and S.C. Gordon ed., Sources of West Indian History.
Trinidad and Jamaica: Longman Caribbean Limited, 1962, 141.
As a nonconformist missionary in the British Caribbean in 1837, assess FIVE reasons why you think the
Apprenticeship System has failed to achieve its objectives.
Total25 marks
Theme 5 -Adjustments to Emancipation, 1E38-1876
Question 9
The year is I 897. You are a Member of Parliament and a die-hard advocate of imported contract labour in
the British Caribbean, giving a speech on this topic to the House of Commons. In your speech, analyse
FIVE reasons for your continued support of the importation of Indian indentured workers.
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Question 10
You are the Colonial Secretary for the British Caribbean territories in 1866. Write a letter to the British
Caribbean Govemors examining FIVE reasons which justify Britain's replacement ofthe Old Representative
System of Government with the Crown Colony System.
Total25 marks
Theme 6
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Economy' 187!19E5
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Cuban sugar industry. Explain FIVE factors responsible for the growth of this industry between 1875
and the end of the nineteenth
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Question 12
You are a merchant in the Caribbean, shipping goods to Britain. Write a report to a group of potential
investors in London in which you explain FIVE reasons for the growth of nonsugar agricultural industries
in the British caribbean up to 1935'
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This section has six questions.
Answer ONE question from this section.
Write the answer to the question you choose on pages 20-23.
All
in this section must be well developed with a clear introduction and conclusion. Points
must be logically sequenced and should be supported with relevant details and examples. Marks
will be awarded for good organization and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
essays
Theme 7 - The United States in the Caribbean,1776-1985
Question 13
Examine FIVE reasons for the USA's invasion of Grenada in 1983
Total25 marks
Question 14
Examine FIVE ways in which the USA responded to Castro's revolution between 1959 and 1962.
Total25 marks
Theme 8 - Caribbean Political Development up to 1985
Question 15
Examine FIVE of the ways in which popular protest in the 1930s affected political development in the
British Caribbean up to 1958.
Total25 marks
Question 16
In a 1962 referendum, the French Caribbean territories chose to remain departments of France (DOMs).
Assess FIVE reasons why the French territories retained DOM status in preference to independence.
Total25 marks
Theme 9
- Caribbean
Society, 1900-1985
Question 17
Examine THREE housing and TWO unemployment conditions that existed in the Caribbean between
1900 and 1935.
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Choose 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 same aspect of social life from 1945 to 1985.
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