CSEC Caribbean History Paper 2 May/June 2008 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

Describe FOUR ways in which race affected social relations on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean during the 1700s.

Discuss THREE ways in which class and gender affected family life on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean.

Outline TWO examples of passive resistance that were used by both enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.

Outline TWO examples of active resistance that were used by both enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.

Describe THREE methods of resistance to slavery that were used ONLY by enslaved women.

State FOUR reasons for the increase in slave rebellions after the abolition of the African slave trade in 1807.

Outline FOUR reasons why these slave revolts were unsuccessful.

Explain TWO ways in which these revolts helped to bring about the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean.

Identify FOUR similarities between the British and French anti-slavery movements.

State TWO differences between the British and French anti-slavery movements.

Explain FOUR factors responsible for the success of the British anti-slavery movement.

Outline FOUR reasons why some Caribbean territories imported overseas labourers after 1834.

Explain FOUR ways in which Indian indentured workers strengthened the sugar industries of Guyana and Trinidad in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Describe FOUR ways in which missionary groups and churches helped the development of the free villages after 1838.

Describe THREE other ways in which missionary groups and churches helped the freed people after Emancipation.

Explain FOUR factors within the British Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1880s and early 1900s.

Identify THREE factors outside the Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1800s and early 1900s.

Describe THREE factors that encouraged diversification of Caribbean economies in the late 1800s and 1900s.

Outline FOUR major factors that made possible the growth of industrial enterprises in the British Caribbean since 1945.

Outline FIVE methods used by Marcus Garvey and the UNIA to improve the condition of Blacks in the Caribbean.

Give THREE reasons why many people were opposed to Marcus Garvey.

Describe FOUR major factors that encouraged the growth of trade unions in the British Caribbean between 1900 and 1945.

Outline FOUR ways in which labour laws have benefited Caribbean workers.

Describe FOUR major steps taken by the United States to acquire land to build a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in the early 1900s.

Outline FOUR reasons why the United States invaded and occupied Haiti in 1914.

Outline FOUR reasons why some Cubans criticized the role of the United States in Cuba between 1898 and 1959.

Outline THREE reasons why relations between the United States and Cuba worsened between 1959 and 1962.

Give FOUR reasons why many Puerto Ricans showed discontent with their colonial status between 1900 and the 1940s.

Describe THREE advantages that Puerto Rico gained from becoming an Associated State of the United States after 1947.

Identify ONE Christian, ONE Hindu, and ONE Islamic festival celebrated in the Caribbean.

Examine FOUR reasons why government officials of the period disapproved of non-Christian cultures in the Caribbean.

Outline THREE reasons why attitudes of government officials towards Hinduism and Hindu festivals changed after the 1960s.

Examine FOUR reasons why Rastafarianism was unpopular in some sections of Caribbean society between the 1920s and the 1960s.

Account for the more general acceptance of Rastafarianism in the Caribbean since the 1960s.