CSEC Caribbean History Paper 2 May/June 2007 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

Describe the MAIN features of the organisation of the triangular trade.

Explain SIX major ways in which West Africa was affected by the slave trade.

Explain why it was difficult for the enslaved Africans to practise their traditional culture on the plantation.

Explain how enslaved Africans were able to retain some aspects of their culture during the period of plantation slavery.

Explain why the slave masters found it necessary to control the enslaved Africans on the Caribbean sugar plantations.

Describe THREE methods of slave control employed by the master on a Caribbean sugar plantation.

Identify THREE ways in which Spanish slave laws differed from the English slave laws.

Identify THREE Amelioration measures introduced by EITHER the British OR the French in their Caribbean sugar colonies.

Explain why the British Government introduced Amelioration measures in the British colonies.

Explain how the planters in the British colonies responded to the Amelioration measures.

Identify TWO clauses of the 1833 Act of Abolition, other than those listed above.

Explain why a period of apprenticeship was considered necessary prior to full freedom.

Describe some of the difficulties experienced by the apprentices on the sugar plantation after 1 August 1834.

Explain why many former slaves in the British Caribbean tried to establish themselves as peasants after 1838.

Describe the difficulties which former slaves in the British Caribbean faced in establishing themselves as peasants between 1838 and 1876.

Describe the educational policies of British Caribbean governments between 1838 and 1876.

Explain the factors that led to a rebellion at Morant Bay in Jamaica in 1865.

Describe how the local government in Jamaica responded to the Morant Bay rebellion.

Describe the measures which were adopted "to breathe new life" into the British Caribbean sugar industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Explain the effects that these measures had on the sugar industry in the British Caribbean.

Explain why women became more active in public life in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1962 than they were before this period.

Describe the ways in which women's organisations and clubs helped to improve women's lives in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1962.

Outline THREE examples of improvements in working conditions introduced into the British Caribbean by labour unions up to 1962.

Name TWO Caribbean political parties and the trade unions with which they have been associated.

Explain FIVE factors that favoured the development of trade unions in the British Caribbean between 1930 and 1960.

Explain FOUR ways in which the United States' occupation affected Puerto Rico between 1898 and 1917.

Explain briefly how the United States succeeded in acquiring land in order to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama by 1914.

Explain why a large number of Cubans were discontented with the government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

Discuss FOUR factors that accounted for the worsening of relations between Cuba and the United States between 1959 and 1962.

Discuss FOUR factors that encouraged independence movements in the British Caribbean between 1935 and 1983.

Explain FOUR reasons why Caribbean leaders decided to federate the British Caribbean in 1958.

Explain briefly the attempts by the people of the Dutch Caribbean to govern themselves between the 1940s and 1986.

Discuss FOUR advantages that the French Caribbean territories hoped to gain by becoming Overseas Departments of France in 1946.

Discuss FIVE factors that led to discrimination against women in Caribbean societies between 1838 and 1945.

Explain THREE factors that accounted for an improvement in attitudes to women in Caribbean societies after 1945.

Explain how Caribbean architecture has been influenced by its colonial past.

Describe the ways in which local conditions and circumstances influenced Caribbean architecture.