CSEC Caribbean History Paper 2 May/June 2018 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

Theme 4 – Metropolitan Movements Towards Emancipation

The year is 1823. You are a journalist with The London Times reporting on the tide of abolitionism sweeping Britain. Examine FIVE points you would put forward in favour of the abolition of slavery.

You are a French researcher who visited several British Caribbean territories in 1825. Victor Schoelcher subsequently sent you to Martinique to gather evidence on the workings of Amelioration in the French Antilles. It is now September 1845 and you are reporting your findings. Write a report in which you refer to the experiences of the British Caribbean and examine FIVE different reasons to support the case for immediate emancipation in the French Antilles.

Theme 5 – Adjustments to Emancipation, 1838–1876

You are a journalist who has lived in the Caribbean and are returning to England in 1866. While in the Caribbean, you had the opportunity to visit Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and Trinidad. You have concluded that employers were still attempting to control labour even after slavery had been abolished. Citing examples from the islands you visited, examine FIVE developments that justify your conclusion.

You are a missionary in the British Caribbean in 1876 giving evidence to an investigative committee set up by the parent body in London. You were sent to inquire into the development and viability of the Afro-Caribbean peasantry. Examine THREE economic and TWO social contributions of the peasantry to the economic and social life of their respective territories since 1838.

You are an agent for an investment firm that looks for financial opportunities as a result of crisis. On the firm’s behalf, you travel throughout the British Caribbean in 1910 seeking to understand what has caused the decline of the sugar industry there. Write a report to the firm in which you examine FIVE factors responsible for the crisis in the sugar industry in the British Caribbean in the late 19th century.

Imagine you are an advisor to a minister of government who needs some ideas to help her stimulate her country’s oil industry. Write the minister a report in which you examine FIVE factors that led to the establishment and growth of the oil industry in the Caribbean from 1875 to 1985.

Examine FIVE reasons why the United States had an interest in the Caribbean between 1776 and 1870.

Discuss FIVE factors that influenced the United States' decision to use embargoes as a response to the policies of the Castro revolution up to 1962.

Examine FIVE ways in which popular protests impacted political developments in the British Caribbean between 1935 and 1958.

Examine FIVE reasons why there were efforts to establish a federation of the British West Indies between 1945 and 1958.

Examine FIVE socioeconomic conditions which existed in the Caribbean between 1900 and 1935.

Your examination should focus on the following:

• Working conditions
• Cost of living.

It should consist of TWO conditions from one area and THREE from the other.

Examine the reasons for the emergence of ANY TWO of the following religious groups in the Caribbean:

• Orisha
• Revivalism
• Spiritual Baptists

Your examination should include TWO reasons for the emergence of one religion and THREE for the other.